Brilliant footage!  I particularly like from about 5m20secs when a grey 90 and red Alfasud come through - never seen my car from outside like that before (not when I'm driving anyway).  I'll upload the matching video from my perspective when I get a chance tonight.

Really nice driving for a novice (watch out everybody) - much quicker than I was on my first few trips around.  Well done.  I'm still looking forward to seeing the final times for the day.

I was playing around with TrackVision getting my data overlaid onto the video, but I'm still having trouble outputting it in a good format, so here's the unadorned video of run 2 for amusement.



Matt - if you fast forward to 7min55secs that's the matching bit of footage from my perspective.

Oh and just out of curiosity, does anybody driving a 116 series car (4 cylinder) use second gear at all at Sandown? i think i was about 50% of the time out of Dandenong Road, and although the car felt like it was pulling harder obviously, i have a feeling it would of been slower. Any thoughts?

was that when the car was stock as such jim, or after the extensive modifications? all the running gear in my car is out of a 1.8 Alfetta, and i have a feeling the gear ratio's are slightly different? i found that by the time i was just off the ripple strip on dandenong road i had run up about 5000, and i'm changing at about 5500 to try and preserve a somewhat elderly engine. hence my use of third gear. am i doing something wrong here? 

Does your car have an LSD?  This could make a big difference to which gear is most effective.

Sheldon, the car has an open diff and is likely to stay that way for quite some time.
I'll correct myself, the 1.8 gearbox has exactly the same ratios as the 2L ones, according to the workshop manuals. Another thing to consider here is the tyres. The manual states that 2nd gear is good to 74km/h, which i presume is running the standard tyres, as the car came off the factory floor. which were 185/70/14's, again says the manual. For track days i am running a set of 195/60/14's, which to my understanding would reduce the top speed available to me in each gear. So i might (?) of just answered my own question there, in that third gear is probably the way to go if i try and stick to Jim's guide of 65k+ for the corners?

Justin, who are you suggesting is the slower traffic, huh? 

Your words should be listened to as you did win the competition trophy in 06/07 in your first full year.