Advanced driving course (looking at the 1st march -SAT)

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:03 pm

by myself. just kidding, obviously (hopefully) be other cars there too. do you know if the first two stages have to be done in order to do the third 'racing' stage?

Post by **aza013** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:24 pm

the way I read it if you pass the stage 1 you can go and do stage 3
thats the one I really want to do

Post by **aza013** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:21 pm

here is some vidio I took today sorry about the quality of it as it was taken with my phone

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XsbzZJT6X-Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rzNGeuVqHVQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r1MDgOXiIEk

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:49 am

hahaha thats me! it was a good day, cant wait for stage 2- the art of controlling the uncontrollable (not drifting)

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:25 am

man it looked like you were having a ball and all I could do is look and

lol
your little beast sounds and looks great to

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:36 pm

yeah, its unfortunate but at least you got to postpone it, rather than lose your money altogether.

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:45 pm

yep and now I just hope the car is back on the road in time

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:24 pm

i'm doing stage 2 of the course on the 13th of oct- loss and gain of control. in short, learning to drift a FWD! yay

FTO99R · Post by **FTO99R** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:16 pm

I just did one with Peter Finlay's at Oran Park (not actually on the circuit). Most of it seemed pretty tame until the end of the day they set up a track and said 'you can test some oversteer and understeer around corners' and there was plenty of run off. So in other words go nuts. The track was big enough for me to get up to bout 120km/h and i spun it out going round a bend at bout 70-80, scary but fun. I would recommend it to everyone and yeh I'm keen for a similiar stage 2 or 3 course.
P.S. I dont think they're allowed to let us go crazy like that so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones.

Post by **aza013** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:17 pm

dam I still have to do stage 1

I had to move it again to the 10th of november

I will have to try to get out and have a look

if I get out there I will bring the vid cam

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:52 pm

i'll be doing stage 3 after i get back from townsville. oran park is being destroyed next year, so no more courses.

Post by **aza013** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:30 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they cant do that

I think they will move it all out to eastern creek I hope

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:35 pm

i did stage 2 today, and was quickest on slalom course by nearly a second, over an S14 with 220kw atw. thankyou coilovers! i'll try to upload videos soon, noy as boring as the other ones!

Post by **aza013** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:39 pm

lol welldone.
are you looking at doing stage 3

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:02 pm

maybe, its just a racing component, learning how to take the best lines, riding the apex, stuff like that.

Post by **aza013** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:17 pm

yep all the fun stuff

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:30 pm

yeah but you can pay half that for a track day at most tracks anyway

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:07 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffjqCA-pCJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sobnTuvCA3M

FTO99R · Post by **FTO99R** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:29 am

manofwood wrote:i'll be doing stage 3 after i get back from townsville. oran park is being destroyed next year, so no more courses.

I've heard talk of that but the V8's are still scheduled to run there next year so its not gonna happen any time soon.
Who'd you do you stage 2 with?

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:43 pm

did stage 2 with strangers, Ian Luff motorvation courses. I was wrong about the track being destroyed, the v8's last race is next year, but other stuff like drifting and karts, and the courses will continue til around 2009 they reckon.