What a great day for car racing - except for all the oil. I took lots of videos - but only one bit where I pass Ray Pignataro..
Thanks to Neil and all the officials..
.. and the 155 Q4 did nearly 30 laps!! (before it broke a disk rotor...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTpULYlgADM
FAST that is the only way I can describe your car
Amazing video - love the sound of that car - always cool to get under 1:30..
Jim, you know your going really fast when you start breaking brake rotors!
Mick, grouse lap time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZS16rJatLc
better luck with this one
Second run of the day
Thats more like it Ray. That little camera that looks like a telephone has a clear picture and sound. The old Sud still sounds strong, and keeps going up the back straight in 5th! Awesome!
Great video Ray - very smooth! I am impressed that you have got this whole video business sorted now! Your camera seems to take much smoother video than mine even though it is the exact same camera!!
Quote from: Choderboy on September 19, 2011, 10:09:56 PM
Here's my video from the first sprint session for Group 2.
Best time for the day was 1.29.2
Enjoy!
Well done Mick - some great driving there and a great way to spend 10 minutes in the morning with a cuppa!
Great videos guys,
My video didn't work. :( Had the exposure set to read the inside gauges for practice but didn't quite get it right to see the outside for the later runs...so everything outside looks like a snowstorm!
Mick, u dah man around corners! Must be the Samson hair! ;D
A couple of laps from the weekend. Sorry about the expletives at the end, i must stop talking to myself in the car . I have been watching to many Frank Musco video's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGECUYbNKXg
gully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5w_1Pw-0u8&feature=youtube_gdata
third run of the day
Couple of laps behind Ray.
I was so smooth you would almost think it was Susan driving lol
Nice driving Mick, but you may need to try a different camera positioning.
QuoteA cautionary tale for turn 9 & road tyres
Regular AROCA sprinter , Brendan Beavis from the MX5 club just posted this on his you tube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lurSWhHBwo&feature=digest_wed
Interesting. Now it is clear, David did speak to me describing what had happened. I always thought people go off to the right into Dandy Road.
I am not that brave in that sector.
Neil
QuoteI always thought people go off to the right into Dandy Road.
A couple of things
1. I think there are plenty of ways to go off up there. I had been told to stay of any of the painted bits at that speed even when it was dry.
2. Watching the vision again getting a long way over to the right at the top of the hill ( possibly onto the ripple strip ) really looks like it unsettles the car.
3. I have only been sprinting for a few years but the track surface at Sandown has really slipped over that time. On the weekend just gone V8 supercar guys were having a bitch about it saying its the worse track surface they go to. Maybe after they finish re surfacing Philip Island next year they can move on to Sandown.
On a positive note after watching &
listening to hours of replays of Choderboys exploits it appears the best course of action is to pull it down into 4th at the top of the hill and accelerate in a straight line to Dandenong Rd Corner
He was on road tyres.
When I mean off to the right at Dandy Road, I mean crushing into the armco on the right, usually under brakes or lack of.
It's not getting resurfaced until Lindsay Fox buys it ;)
If you think Sandown's surface is bad try Calder.
I want the V8Supercab suspension, they mount every curve at Sandown.
Hughy and Chodderboy will tell me off if I get any where near ridding on the ripple strips.
Chodderboy: did you mount the ripple strip, I think you did that's why the extractors and exhaust are broken.
Me: whistling innocently ...
Resurfacing is when they start subdividing and surfacing residential roads.
Just looking at the in car data. It looks like it happened half way through his first full lap . You wonder how warm the tyres were.
Quote from: hmd on November 24, 2011, 04:17:13 PM
Chodderboy: did you mount the ripple strip, I think you did that's why the extractors and exhaust are broken.
Me: whistling innocently ...
You need to take Chode's example, and get all 4 wheels on the ripple strip.... He's very entertaining to follow through those corners. I wouldn't do it on standard suspension and road tyres though.
Quote from: Paul Gulliver on November 24, 2011, 03:38:11 PM
2. Watching the vision again getting a long way over to the right at the top of the hill ( possibly onto the ripple strip ) really looks like it unsettles the car.
Possibly, but you only need a dab of brakes, then a downshift (or not, depending on your car, but you need to be in the meat of the power). Turn it in and apply the power, and the car is settled again. I can only speak from my experience of course. And granted, I haven't been there for a year.
My opinion, the MX-5 turned in too early there, doesn't have power on (although hard to tell from the video, he may have), didn't catch the slide early enough, so should have just let it turn around rather than try to correct. I've come off there when I went in at my regular speed, but was passing someone, so was 2 metres off line but still trying to get the same apex. The back end came around, but luckily it came round so fast that I had no chance of catching it, so I just stood on the brakes and let it spin off into the generous run-off on the inside. I did a graceful 720, selected second, and drove off. Then went and changed my pants; it's not a nice corner to come off on.
Sandown demands a lot of respect.
Especially on road tyres and standard suspension. Bloody fun track once you work it out though. So I've heard.
Quote from: Paul Gulliver on November 24, 2011, 05:04:32 PM
You wonder how warm the tyres were.
Yes, he did mention cold tyres to me.
QuoteI did a graceful 720, selected second, and drove off. Then went and changed my pants; it's not a nice corner to come off on.
We have missed you over the last year Sheldon. Hopefully you can get Ironsides out again before next years Shit Box Rally