Private Track Day

My trusty (dead stock) DC2R.

The best time I could manage. I really wanted a 1.16. I was confident I could do it, glad I did it (last session too).

Yonas let me drive his supercharged EG Civic. I think I lost 5kg in sweat driving it, what a beast!!!!!

Mark Pakula let me drive his NA (again) and yes, fell in love with it (again). Found it harder to drive than last time, got caught up in some traffic too just when I thought I was on a flyer. I’m so rusty though (need more balls!).

Howie brought his 911 along, he was going hard all day too. Still the best car I’ve ever driven to date. Love it, lots.

Rad dudes. Ex-Autosalon staff Herman and Mark :)

Check the fucking hammock! So pimp right?! My Zen Garage work buddy John Lor lost his license a month ago, being driven to the track, driving on the circuit all day long, then being driven home = winning at life!

Awesome day at the track again today. Zi from JDMyard organised another private track day, where we basically own the track, to ourselves, for the entire day. 20 cars, so much track time it’s ridiculous.

The VWGolf.netg.au crew made up some numbers and tracked in style with an audio/speaker set-up at the pits, and a BBQ lunch. The west side boys (John lol) brought a cars made out of 5 cars, and a hammock too (which I admit was pretty damn pimp!).

I got to fang Yonas’ JDMyard Civic and damn fucking shit it was hard to drive. I even came off on the last lap… what a beast! Crazy responsive, no power steering made you fight with the wheel all the time, get the line right and it powers out in a nice slide, get it wrong and understeer fucks you up hard. It’s so fast it hits the rev limiter before you’re ready (it whips into high rpm’s!) and getting all that shifting and braking done from 5th to 3rd is so hard… what a challenging car to drive.

I also got to drive Mark Pakula’s NA MX5. I’ve been in love with this car for ages and I’m still in love with it (last time Mark let me drive it I refused to pitt!). I’m just so rusty with a rear wheel drive car though, and Mark’s new 6-Speed gearbox had me mis-shifting a few times too. I thought I absolutely nailed some corners, only to stuff up in other corners on the same lap, or come across some traffic so I failed to stitch together a clean lap unfortunately.

And finally my own car, my stock DC2R with a massive 170,000kms (still going so hard!). I aimed to get a 1.16. I started with 1.22’s. Staying in 3rd gear in turn 2, the hairpin and the last corner just didn’t work, tyres were too shit. I ended up having to shift into 2nd for all these corners and I finally got my 1.16 on my last session. Wasn’t easy… been way too spoilt with modified cars with semi-slicks for way too long!!!

Anyways I’m home now and still soooo fucking pumped! SO PUMPED! Damn I needed that, so pumped!!!!!!!