FTO AUSTRALIA

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Great day at SMP! The organizers were fantastic. 3 instructors were available to help out by hopping into our cars and guide us along. I even offered one of the guys to take over the wheels and he gave no mercy to my ride. Drove like its stolen!

There are a mixed of slow, medium and fast cars. From Hyundai excel, stripped out mazda2, mx5, old classic cars, old porsche, commodores, rexes, to a couple of evos.
We splitted into 3groups and take turns to run.
interestingly i always found myself locked into battle with a new HSV GTS Walkinshaw. Hes a noob like i am, 1st time at the South Circuit. Will upload the video and pic soon!

http://youtu.be/pHuqMdprve0

Im sitting up in suite #7 having lunch there right now haha. Doing the defensive drivers course and theres a couple of supercheap auto V8s doing hot laps with passengers.

Would be fun to have a go in the FTO thats for sure!

Really, the V8 were practicing yesterday too.
Seriously, the South circuit is fun!

how was the defensive drivers course like? share your experience with us please.

zuihoujueding wrote: how was the defensive drivers course like? share your experience with us please.

I've been to one it's great one of the best things i have ever do and personally it's paid for itself many times had some close calls they went only close because I didn't crash which I probably would have with out it if anyone gets the chance do it

zuihoujueding wrote:Really, the V8 were practicing yesterday too.
Seriously, the South circuit is fun!

how was the defensive drivers course like? share your experience with us please.

The course is awesome fun but at the same time is also really helpful in both breaking bad habits and learning new techniques or just overall control of the car in an emergency situation.

I only did stage 1 which is basic awareness, clarification on some sketchy road rules and learning to brake in hazardous situations (I was the only one without ABS that didnt hit a cone and most people with it still hit them) as well as fields of vision and looking at where you want to drive, not where youre driving.

I highly recommend doing the course and to be honest I think it should be compulsory for all drivers on their Ls before moving to Ps.

I'll be doing stage 2 when I get the new car

sounds useful....might go for it next year

zuihoujueding wrote:sounds useful....might go for it next year

U should its great fun
Daniel would u go and do stage 2 by any chance when I went they asked me to go back and do stage 2 just haven't got there yet

ZFL45H1 wrote:

zuihoujueding wrote:sounds useful....might go for it next year

U should its great fun
Daniel would u go and do stage 2 by any chance when I went they asked me to go back and do stage 2 just haven't got there yet

Yeah im definitely doing stage 2 sometime. Just waiting on the new car and money. I think they only run stage 2 from December through to Feb. If you wanted to we could both go and do it

If its only Dec to Feb then Id be shooting for next years.

how much did you pay for the defensive driving course?

zuihoujueding wrote:http://contour.com/stories/fto-at-sydne ... th-circuit

Not a bad job there mate well done

Handy when they have the cones out like that, makes it much easier to get up to speed

[quote="zuihoujueding"]how much did you pay for the defensive drioveing course?

Was a gift voucher from Dad, but I think it was $295ish.

I didnt do it through those guys. Didnt have Ian.

A bloke called Scott hosted it and it was sponsored by Volvo. Its on the SMP website.

Shane001 wrote:

zuihoujueding wrote:http://contour.com/stories/fto-at-sydne ... th-circuit

Not a bad job there mate well done

Handy when they have the cones out like that, makes it much easier to get up to speed

That video was driven by my mate, i let him give it a go in my slow ride and hes a much better driver than i. Unfortunately there were no chasing going on in that video. I will put up a few more, featuring me up against a Holden GTS walkinshaw! thats a must see!

uploading video is a pain!

Daniel2019 wrote:

ZFL45H1 wrote:

zuihoujueding wrote:sounds useful....might go for it next year

U should its great fun
Daniel would u go and do stage 2 by any chance when I went they asked me to go back and do stage 2 just haven't got there yet

Yeah im definitely doing stage 2 sometime. Just waiting on the new car and money. I think they only run stage 2 from December through to Feb. If you wanted to we could both go and do it

If its only Dec to Feb then Id be shooting for next years.

Done I'm locked it for that mate would be even better to go with someone I know haha and mine was a gift voucher as well

http://youtu.be/pHuqMdprve0

enjoy!!!

How much was this. after watching this I'm keen to get my fto out on the track

No idea. It was a complimentary track day for new ardc numbers. Membership was $70 annually if I'm not wrong.
Check out the Sydney motorsport park website for track rates.

Nice work
Specs on your FTO?