Improved Production Racing in Australia

[ballast]

yes bro it's an evo8 and that is the snot bucket in question just had a quik look at the in car the spin is a little wild but the rest of it is not too bad i'll burn it to disc for you if you want

[charged]

heres some video footage of Mallala from Chris Porters AE86 with a 4age in it.
he's only just started and is coming to grips with the track and car.

It has Qualifying and Race 1

Qualifying, check out the difference in speeds between the under 2 litre and over 2 litre cars http://www.plebeians.net/movies/cars...ualifying1.asf


Race 1

http://www.plebeians.net/movies/cars...ght_Race_1.asf

[clutch-monkey]

just a heads up guys on the 11th is a porsche trackday at QR. i'll probably be there to learn a few things

[Cyco]

That qualifing spin must have felt embarasing......

[charged]

Originally Posted by clutch-monkey

just a heads up guys on the 11th is a porsche trackday at QR. i'll probably be there to learn a few things

have fun and post some times up, also beware of blackhondas

[charged]

Mates taking his sr20det(600+ HP ) powered clubman out to Mallala for its first run, will take the camera for some pics. Should do good skids

[clutch-monkey]

Originally Posted by charged

have fun and post some times up, also beware of blackhondas

lol, no way in hell will i be racing i'm just going for a look around

[blackhonda]

State Championships Queensland Raceway 04/05Nov
All classes, but most importantly Improved Production has a 29 car field! So get out there you UCP motorsport fans...
PS clutch-monkey...don't spend the weekend dissecting small furry animals...get out there with ya mates and see some club-level stuff on the National Track...You won't be sorry

[clutch-monkey]

i'll take a few hours off and go there for one of those days - which day will be best?

[blackhonda]

Originally Posted by clutch-monkey

i'll take a few hours off and go there for one of those days - which day will be best?

There's always more racing on the Sunday, Saturday is taken up with scrutineering from about 0700, then straight into qualifying. The racing on Saturday usually starts around 1300. Sunday they get into it fairly early around 0830-0900 depending on how the Drivers Briefing goes etc...if you get hold of Queensland Raceway either on the website or by phone they can tell you how much to get in ...but the beauty of a club level meeting is there are few spectators, you can easily access the cars and people are always willing to chat....there are no downsides ...oh except there are no grid-girls

[clutch-monkey]

Originally Posted by blackhonda

except there are no grid-girls

i'll bring my own then rofl
ok, i'll probably take a an hour or two off on sunday and head down mid morning then.

[ballast]

why is it the night before a race meeting everything turns to s@#t get home tonite go to put the honda on the trailer and the bloody fuel pump relay craps itself ok no probs down to supercrap get a new one get car on the trailer phone rings "dad its Ian" say's #1boy whats up says i, have you got a m10 bolt 180mm long i've just been under the race car and the rear main seal is leaking i've fixed that but the lower control arm bolt is f^%$KED . i dunno so ive just turned the shed upside down and found one got to take it round to him tonight god only knows what next

[blackhonda]

Well smack in the middle of the worst drought in South East Queensland in 100 years, Nature decides to rain on our race weekend We haven't had a lot of rain here for months, today we got over and 36mm (inch and a half) in about 2 hours, you can guess the results. Qualifying was constantly stopped by red flags due to cars buried in gravel traps, and the racing started late ballast had a bit of a shocker, the Honda mis-firing badly in qualifying, resulting in a 22nd out of about 29 cars. A bit disappointing after last weekends efforts. Fortunately in the scratch race he finished 14th, which salvaged something for his efforts
Some photos:
#1 ballast showing his best side while he cleans the fuel filters, this is club motorsport at it's best, laying on a soaking wet piece of road, in the pissing rain, working on your car
#2 & 3 Some of the diversity of Improved Production in qualifying
#3-6 Ferrari, Porsche and Cobra replica in qualifying for the Sports car 1 Hour Race.

[ballast]

they's a new sport in town front wheel drive drift racing natsoft say's track was damp crap it was like driving on ice i've never had a car that sideway's that often since my rally day's any way closest racing for somtime i think at one stage the laser,sprinter and myself swaped posision's 4 times in one lap dude it was crazy anyway it was great fun but but it got pretty close at times the video is good if we can figger out how to post it i will anyhow it time for bed i'm stuffed

[blackhonda]

Sunday didn't get any better!...Race 1 couldn't clear the mis-fire, but did have a good battle with a couple of other cars Race 2 was a dead-loss, having replaced the distributor and cured the mis-fire, ballast blasted off, missed the stalled Escort in front of him, rounded up the V8 Commodore into turn one got overtaken by an RX3, which promptly spun under brakes in turn 3 and ballast hit him straight in the side end of race, end of meeting, end of weekend. Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed
# 1 & 2 The damage, not bad, but we could do without it.
#3 The Honda goes under an RX7 into turn 1
#4 The RX7 gets the place back
#5 & 6 The lead pack in Race 2.