Well said, Derek! wonder what Mitsubishi thought when the rocked up to work this
morning :)
I came out pretty impressed with my car's overall capabilities. Above average
I think, but the chassis/suspension setup is now way underpowered! The slalom
was the best fun by far, pity I hit a cone on every run :) Locked up my fronts
a few times flying back into the end of the slalom!
The video camera ran out of batteries too early :( disappointing, I wanted my
slalom runs on the camera so bad.
Next: Mallala!!
zac
>Just a short rundown on yesterday's antics -
>
>The Adelaide 1600 Club hired the mitsu test track at Tailem Bend ( 100k out
>of Adelaide ) and commandeered the services of Tony Hastings and friends. It
>turned out to be pretty much the first day of the advanced driver training
course
>they run for various groups from the 'celebrity' drivers at GPs to corporations
>wanting less 'incidents' in their company cars.
>
>First up, a bit of a talk - tyres, driving, accidents, etc., but all done in
>a humorous and non-preaching way, then out to the tarmac for some braking and
>avoidance exercises.
>Later on some 'oversteer' work, with a 50m circle, half of it wet - idea was
>to hang it out sideways for half the circle, then a bit of a slalom for the
>dry half. Now, those who think 1600s don't need rear swaybars - EVERY 1600
bar
>one was a pig understeerer until the driver used the throttle to unsettle the
>rear. The exception was fitted with a rear swaybar - QED.
>Having unsettled the rear, circlework prevailed for many leaving our learned
>instructor shaking his head ( but trying to hide the grin, I'm sure ).
>Next, a slalom - 10 witches' hats at 20m intervals, start and finish in an
8m
>zone. Still can't get the cheeks to drop thinking about the slalom, it was
a
>total blast - 'nuff said.
>After all the serious stuff was out of the way ( yeah, I know, burnouts and
>circlework aren't exactly serious ) there was still time for some drag racing
>( full 1/4 mi ) for those with gas and rubber left to burn.
>Some carnage was wreaked - 1 locker diff uh..locked, a wagon lost a rear spring
>hanger and a witches' hat found its way into a radiator, but no panel damage
>apart from smacking into the hats and markers.
>
>Anyway, if someone offers you this for $35 ( full day, 10am 'til dusk ) - don't
>think twice, I had a freakin' ball - and I didn't even get into the circlework
>( much ). The only downer was that we had room for 45 1600s and had to settle
>for 22 - can't believe anyone would have passed up that opportunity to have
>a legal fang and learn some useful driving technique along the way - way cool.
>
>
>Hopefully will have some piccys soon.
>
>Seeya,
>DF
>
>
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