BP midland sprint! new PB!!! :P 1:41.0

BP Midland, Pedders No Bull Winton Sprints Round 3 - 1/7/07



*thx to jason / Unco and celicaJim for the photos...

First i would like to thank Jason for standing in front of my door 5am in the morning and keep ringing my door bell till 5.30am, on 2degree C winter morning.... lol... i love you man... thx for the great photos, the 'V', and to help me carry 2 of my wheels and tools. and finally thx for sleeping in your car when i did my 'wet' run and going full sideway, thus resulting in me having no photo of sideways! *slap!* jk man

secondly, thx to kenny for the support, the bottle of water, helping me changing the wheels, and also for sleeping in jason car when i was having my 'wet' run.... (ToT) how dare you!!!

anyway... this is my first sprint day, i didnt know the rule till the end of the day... lol... basically they pick the fastest 'standing lap' of the day (start from grid) and the fastest 'flying lap' (your normal running lap) and they add 2 of them together. whoever got the fastest total won...

johnny (On the run motorsport) and me have the 1st and 2nd fastest flying lap (well... i was just hundredth of second faster than the porsche, while johnny is waaay ahead of anyone in our group) in our group.

we have been playing around on the standing lap.... *coz we never knew that they will take the standing lap into consideration... o_O

not until after the 3rd session, a marshall told me that the standing lap is actually counted... so then the 4th session, i told johnny about it, and we tried to push right from the start... but its still cant get good standing lap... maybe coz both of the porsche and the typhoon have better acceleration times from standing start.... anyway... the most important thing is that i got to fun on the 5th session!!! WET SESSION!!!!! only did 2 minute on the rain lol, but man!!! i slide on every corner... yeeeehaaaaaa....

here is the result of the day... my group is "Improved Production" / Group 2
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/07/2007.WIN.S5.Y

UPDATE:
Lap Record for: Silas B. Andrianto - [MERAH] AKA Flameboy
350Z track -
wheels + tyres: Front - 245/40/18 RE55s, Rays 18x8.5 +33
performance mods: APS catback, Megan race pipe, 37kg weight reduction, Ti2000 spring
brake: RBF600, Project Mu HC+
other: DIY oil cooler

Winton 3KM
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01/07/2007: 1:41.0680 sec *New PB*
16/04/2007: 1:41.4970 sec
11/03/2007: 1:41.3410 sec
26/01/2007: 1:42.2420 sec
11/12/2006: 1:43.9470 sec

Evaluation:
this time, i managed to do 3rd gear on all of the corners (except on the long left sweeper, i did 4th). doing it on 3rd gear felt alot slower than doing it on 2nd then shift to 3rd... but as i found on wakefield few weeks ago, it sometimes give better exit speed... in result, i beat my PB by almost half a second, with no change in performance mods... (that could be coz i use the 3rd gear, or could be something else )

and i brake alot earlier this time, coz of the track wasnt fully dried... and some wet patch here and there... i used to brake just after i passed the '1' marker.... this time i brake before the '2' marker lol.... next time, if its completely dry, i will try brake like i used to...


oooooo santa come early this year... lol...

i set new PB at winton last sunday.... so its time for me to put new mods... a little reward for my self

Here it is!!! Cusco Front Upper 'A' Arm... i'm a very very happy man ^____^


coz i havent got coilover, this arm will allow me to put extra negative camber at the front without lowering the car's suspension... i'll put it on this weekend... -2.5 front here i come...