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Conventions 2006 Oran Park and Drags

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ozvette:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by stingray YOU COULD HAVE AS MANY RUNS AS YOU LIKE THE MARSHALL JUST PUT A SMALL YELLOW MARK ON YOUR WINDSCREEN AS TO HOW MANY RUNS EACH CAR DOES.
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I did 17 runs on the day ;46

Cameron 77C3:
And if ya wanna see a couple of pics that sum up that day CLICK ME

reserved:
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Plenty of feedback on the Drags wish I had been there, but what about Oran Park not 1 word on the Forum about this event how was it?

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RHD.68.l89:
You want to know about Oran Park?
Ian Luff was very entertaining in his presentation before we got onto the track. informative as well. BTW, he drives a C1500 extra cab with BIG rims, about 22" I think.
30 cars were divided into 3 groups for the track exercises. they call them Super slalom, Hill climb and clover leaf but basically the events were very similar. A rolling start though the gate, round some witches hats and either a stop or rolling finish. you got three runs at each event, a practice and then 2 timed runs.
The instructor rode along with you to give guidance and time you. Absolute speed was not the criteria to win. The object was to be consistent and the difference between your 2 runs was your time, Smallest difference wins. To be consistent you needed to push it about 8/10ths, any faster and a lose was imminent as demonstrated by my second timed run on the hillclimb. The instructor is sitting next to me saying GO! GO!GO! so I tried that little bit harder and scored the trophy for the first spin of the day. (I seem to have to left that one in Sydney, could you mail it to me.) I did pretty well on the other events with splits of 0.02 and 0.04 seconds (good enough for first place C3:):):):)) and there were others doing similar splits as well. We had some free runs on the Super slalom after every one had done their timed runs so I hit it harder and improved my time by about 2 seconds but it was messy and would have been hard to duplicate

There were a couple of big loses, HT in his C5 with slicks came off through the end gates on the hillclimb ending on the grass and DP in in his autocross C4 did a similar thing. DP was fast on the "cloverleaf" cutting 14 seconds when everyone else was doing 18 but stuffed up his second run.

After we had finished the events we were led on a couple of parade laps and then let loose for free time on the track in groups of 10. passing was allowed. DP was V fast again and provided some entertainment on turn 1 when he came in too hot and lost it, lots of tyre smoke later he has heading in the right direction. I have pics. there was another lose on T1 with three cars in the vicinity, only pride was hurt though. I tried to hit T1 too fast and decided an exit down the run off was the smartest thing.
In the last session GW rode along with HT in the C5 and they had a big lose on the back of the track and ended up banging the wall. GW has some cracked ribs and HT has a bit of damage to repair, the car was trailered out of the circuit as it looked like there was rear suspension damage.
Luffy's team did a great job teaching and entertaining us. I was apprehensive about what we were actually going to do at Oran with all the cutting and changing of the driving events but I am very happy with what we got. Can't vote for everyone but it was the sort of driving I enjoy.
I would have liked to see only one venue for the driving events  so that everyone is together but that wasn't the case and I hope all the dragsters had as much fun as we did at Oran.;42

BOSCHVETTE:
WELL WELL WELL
YOU BLOODY BEAUTY 12.0 @ 117MPH  GO THE MIGHTY 85
what a great weekend to meet the boys from the forum and to have most of them around at the drags on the sunday was orsom. to VO THANK YOU because without the drag radials the 12.0 would not have been possible.thanks to all the boys that helped with the wheel swaps.
  thanks to SC,jo ,peter,mick,ozvette,mj427,cam,madlt1,vo, dr,gary,bill, damo,harry and harry(cuss) and anyone else i missed it was great to meet all and finally put faces to names.
what a great weekend matt  and andy those rats just look and sound orsom great job they really are trick.
i had a blast
now let the bulls@#t begin.;43;laugh;laugh;laugh
 p.s thanks for the birthday wishes i had a great day

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