So headed off to auto heros on monday. Landed there before half 8, fine and early. So early in fact that I missed the sign inside the gate telling me to turn right for grip practice. So anyways I turned left as normal and headed into the paddock. Unloaded the car, had a stroll around. Thinking to myself, jaysus tis all drift cars here. I'll have the grip track to myself!!! Up I went to sign on at 9.15. track opening at 9.30 and she tells me im in the wrong place!!! well the panic! all the drift cars were at this stage lining up in the pit lane, and I needed to get across the track. Thank god I had a mate with me who drove the van and I hopped into the Celica. barely got across before the opened they track!
Landed over then in the right car park and went to sign on there. I have to say I was shocking disappointed with this bit. Track opened at 9.30 which was when I joined the queue to sign on. 45 minutes later I eventually got signed on. Only one girl there and she was flat out. But loosing 45 minutes of track time was a joke. I know it was my own fault for being late but still, 45 minutes is way too long.
Headed straight out on track and as Keith had said it was so busy. lines of 10 plus cars and no one going anywhere quick! Eventually it lightened off and I got a few good runs. I'll post the video below.
The car again was fantastic. The LSD made a huge difference. HUGE!!!! Couldn't actually believe how it transformed the car. It nearly felt like a 4wd. I did destroy a set of tyres though! The extra weight shed too im sure made a difference too.
Anyway cant wait for the trackdays.ie day now on the 18th November on the full international track.
Would I do an auto hero's day again.... Not sure really. Maybe if I was bursting for a bit of track time and it was my only option for a while then I suppose. But for sure its more focused towards the drifting. Felt like we were kinda forgotten about!