Winton Raceway Open Track Day
I was pretty hype up waking up at 4am even I have only 2 hours sleep. Today the Dorifto Neko it’s going to join some Chasers Evolution boys on a convoy to Winton Raceway for an open track day.
The convoy was usual nothing drastic we were all good boys following the speed limit, but the only set back is the weather that day. The sky wasn’t really merciful as it rained during our entire journey all we can do is hope the rain will stop when we reach the track. Something I felt during the convoy is the bond within racers, we only started off with 5cars and as we drive down the road the convoy got larger and larger as we pass other cars heading the same direction without speaking a word everyone kind of understand each other and know where each other is going and we just drove together happily, its like a mutual understanding and respect for fellow drivers.
As we arrive at the track things wasn’t looking very good as it was still cloudy and the rain was still pouring down on and off, it’s like 20min sunlight and 15min rain, it’s like the sky wanted to train all the drivers to drive on dry, semi-wet and wet track all in one day.
Upon arrival and during the driver sign in I found that there were a lot of different between Australian open track day and Malaysia open track day. First thing is definitely the most important of all is the scrutinize of every car which is participating in the open day, everything is check, lose component in the engine bay, interior, tires, helmet, fire extinguisher and so on.
The next thing I notice different is the participants are group in different class so that first timer would not be nervous with all the pros go zooming by, which I personally think is very good and it keep the environment safe and every driver will have a satisfying amount of time on track doing what they came to do and in pit talking cock and singing songs with their mates. Opposite to that Malaysia open track day is like free for all when to track day starts everyone just go in amateur or pro just go in and race making some amateur drivers very nervous and sometimes kind of dangerous.
And the final thing I notice which is very very good that which we were never provided in Malaysia track day is the lap times. Here in Winton they provide lap times for each cars. So for ever end of your session you can check your lap time of each lap you make and that could help a driver improve drastically.
This track day was a bit ironic to me as it looks like an Evolution only day cause there were so many Evos on the track ranging from VI to X bloody Evos’. But lucky the rear wheel driven cars wasn’t slow as well on the track even on wet kudos FR drivers. But I’m kind of disappointed as there were no rotary powered cars and there were only 1 Impreza on the track that day.
Bottom line it was a very fun track day even with the rain pouring down, and I promise myself and my D.Neko 180sx that by mid this year I will put my car in the track for the first shakedown.
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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Dorifto Neko
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