Big day at Wakefield for the Club’s 20th Anniversary track day yesterday. Perfect conditions, being cool and dry all day and good rubber on the track from a Supersprint meeting the day before meant that most bettered their previous best times.
I managed to get a
1:10.83 , which I’m absolutely wrapped about.
It’s a time that if you’d asked me 2 years ago if it was possible to get into the 1:10s in a daily drive NC I would have said no, that’s something dreams are made of.
The day was cold to start with and I found it quite slippery for the first two laps. Getting the tyres warm took longer than normal. The other thing I found was that the car “jumped” up and down coming out of the fish hook. It was like the old axel tramp of days gone by with the car struggling for traction. The back straight it was all over the places, bouncing of the tops of the bumps in the road.
I had the shocks set to the same hardness as I had run previously at Eastern Creek but obviously Wakefield has a lot of bumps that I didn’t realise when I ran the stock shocks. I backed the shocks off a few clicks for the next run and that almost solved the problem. Another click came off for the third run and with this set up managed the 1:10 time.
Mark Hellman broke into the 1:09s
in his modified NB, a fantastic effort and something he wanted to do before fitting a turbo but had not been able to do despite many attempts. Congratulations to everyone else who set PBs and new class records on the day. I think it may be some time before we see conditions like this again, but who cares? The runs are now on the board for others to catch.
. I was happy with a "daylight" second place in the class. 
. Very difficult to get the speedo out of the tacho scan - should have covered it. Then there were the silly things happening in my head with being on the wrong side of the single line on blind right handers. Gee I enjoyed it though. 
Probably doing 70kph on Grand Pde Brighton.
