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What a day!
Great craic on track, nice and busy in the morning, not so much after lunch,
Some of the ITCC cars (Irish Touring Cars) out in the morning, I was hearing about a great bit of dicing between Barry Rabbit and Brian Sexton, both in DC2 Integra type R's
Shame I didn't see it! Hopefully Noeler has a few pics?? He was out most of the day getting something like 600 pics!! fair play, I look forward to seeing them!!
Ciaran and myself had some brake issues, He had a worn wheel bearing that meant he could never have convidence in brakes, but still feckin flying, his little Uno race car looked like a bit of craic as well!
I had 3 year old fluid in the car! I changed everything in the car, Discs, pads, brake ducts , But stupidly never thought to change fluid!
So I got a couple of laps in and then pretty suddenly no feckin brakes at all! pedal to the floor, of course approaching a bend when I hit the brakes, no brakes there so dropped to second (at 140kph) grabbing the hand brake, pumping the pedal! I got away with it, So got back to the pits, bled the brakes, and back out,
In the middle of the pack, from the pits, fought my way up through the pack to the front 2 cars, It took 4-5 laps of hard driving, thinking I had good brakes, then as I dived into a small gap between them approaching Tarzan 1 (coming down the hill from the fastest part of the track to a tight right angle right hander) had a bit of a spongey pedal, It will be grand I thought,
Back up the hill towards the S bends, and went for brakes, Nothing there at all! top end of 3rd gear, dropped to second, tried to take the bend, not a hope, straight off the track backwards into the gravel, In a RWD skyline with no towing eye on the front
Buried to the axles, every body driving past waving, f**kers, so really gently with the clutch and slowly managed to work her out of the gravel,
Otherwise She ran great, I had the boost turned down to 0.9bar (she's mapped to 1.1) but fresh engine and everything, I wanted to take her handy! she was still spinning the wheel half way down the main straight!
(delighted)
I'm still Buzzing! Great to see so many ISDC heads down there, Myself and Noeler got the Flag flying,
Can't wait for the next one!
Dan
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Haha fair play dan!! i can drift the whole main stright most times theses days (great feelin!!)
Wats the spec on ur skyline??