Friday was Vic Time Attack, which I was on the fence about entering until they said they had a cheapskate demo class, so I was keen to get out there and support this event, even if I'm not in one of the 'main' classes.
Other than dropping the gearbox oil, nothing had changed with the car since Winton, so preparation was very easy for me.
I drove the car up on NT01s again to reduce my prep time on the Friday morning.
The weather was perfect on Friday, I didn't even need to wear a jumper at 7am in the morning!
Lots of cars on trailers with wild aero was the flavour of the day, with a definite increase in competitors over last year's event which is great. I hope to see this event grow each year, maybe there will be international competitors in the future!
As I had not been to PI in a year, I wanted to get some time in the morning to get the lines and required pace back to at least meet and then beat my previous 1:58.5127 lap from last year. The difference in outright speeds between Winton/Wakefield/Haunted Hills and Phillip Island is pretty ridiculous, requiring much more commitment, though once I was back out there it all came back pretty quickly
I had the car setup the same as Winton, which suffered from understeer, though here it was absolutely perfect. Turn in was perfect, no excessive understeer and the car moved around as I expected. The car felt GREAT all day.
The times below are all that were recorded on Natsoft, which are the first two sessions, but some laps are combined?! I don't know, I've never had dorian issues before but it looks like I was this day!
What are missing are two sessions after lunch, and even looking at the laps that are on Natsoft, they aren't the same amount that I had completed via Racechrono. I'm not sure if the real classes had issues with timing, but I'm glad I wasn't gunning for a place and relying on it!
A few other friends commented on the timing issues also.
2:30.4251 2:04.4022 2:01.2245
2:17.2237 1:59.6197 4:04.0884 2:10.6807 6:12.7191
2:02.4618p
The other laps from my Racechrono.
2:17.13 1:58.38 1:57.71
2:16.94 1:57.77 1:57.48
The laps from Natsoft that worked match up to my Racechrono laps, so I'm pretty confident in these being real deal times, which is nice! #NONATSOFTNOPB though
I never went to PI with my 'new' gearbox and the 4.9FD, but with the 4.4FD it was very very good. I did sit just over 8000rpm from the bridge down to T1 to stay off the rev limiter, but other than that I felt pretty good with it all. If I went too slow over Lukey in 5th it would drop below 5500rpm, so the obvious answer to that is to go faster over Lukey!
If I had run an event with the 4.9fd, it would have been an absolute waste of time, so thank you M-Factory final drive for failing!
I did seem to have some trouble with my footwork at times, particularly with so many down changes (5th to 2nd into Honda and MG), but I'll blame that on being out of practice. I still think I can get through T1 without any braking despite the car being a few km faster down the straight. Maybe a slightly later turn in would help that. I didn't really get enough laps to play around with entries.
Other than that, I was pretty happy with it all and had an absolute ball. All my friends had fun, ran quick laps and all drove home (some trailered!) to run another day.
A couple of photos.
Standard SDPICS.
And one from Folks.
This is my quickest lap for the day, a 1:57.48 (Racechrono).
If I can put it all together, there is definitely a low 1:56 in there, if I can sneak that into a 1:55, I'd be very happy. Plenty of PI time to do that this year!
The car is tucked away at the moment and won't come out for a track day until Haunted Hills with Nug Nats on the 6th May and I will also do Sale Sprints on the 7th. Might come out for a run through Reefton actually, before the weather gets too bad up in the hills.
Before then I'll need to change the front pads and rotors, bleed the brakes and I'll wait until after Sale to change the engine oil.
I felt the second hand NT01s I bought last year weren't up to the task, though after Friday I see no issue with them. Maybe its just the terrible Winton surface!? That is the difference between an international circuit I suppose.
Thanks.
Other than dropping the gearbox oil, nothing had changed with the car since Winton, so preparation was very easy for me.
I drove the car up on NT01s again to reduce my prep time on the Friday morning.
The weather was perfect on Friday, I didn't even need to wear a jumper at 7am in the morning!
Lots of cars on trailers with wild aero was the flavour of the day, with a definite increase in competitors over last year's event which is great. I hope to see this event grow each year, maybe there will be international competitors in the future!
As I had not been to PI in a year, I wanted to get some time in the morning to get the lines and required pace back to at least meet and then beat my previous 1:58.5127 lap from last year. The difference in outright speeds between Winton/Wakefield/Haunted Hills and Phillip Island is pretty ridiculous, requiring much more commitment, though once I was back out there it all came back pretty quickly
I had the car setup the same as Winton, which suffered from understeer, though here it was absolutely perfect. Turn in was perfect, no excessive understeer and the car moved around as I expected. The car felt GREAT all day.
The times below are all that were recorded on Natsoft, which are the first two sessions, but some laps are combined?! I don't know, I've never had dorian issues before but it looks like I was this day!
What are missing are two sessions after lunch, and even looking at the laps that are on Natsoft, they aren't the same amount that I had completed via Racechrono. I'm not sure if the real classes had issues with timing, but I'm glad I wasn't gunning for a place and relying on it!
A few other friends commented on the timing issues also.
2:30.4251 2:04.4022 2:01.2245
2:17.2237 1:59.6197 4:04.0884 2:10.6807 6:12.7191
2:02.4618p
The other laps from my Racechrono.
2:17.13 1:58.38 1:57.71
2:16.94 1:57.77 1:57.48
The laps from Natsoft that worked match up to my Racechrono laps, so I'm pretty confident in these being real deal times, which is nice! #NONATSOFTNOPB though
I never went to PI with my 'new' gearbox and the 4.9FD, but with the 4.4FD it was very very good. I did sit just over 8000rpm from the bridge down to T1 to stay off the rev limiter, but other than that I felt pretty good with it all. If I went too slow over Lukey in 5th it would drop below 5500rpm, so the obvious answer to that is to go faster over Lukey!
If I had run an event with the 4.9fd, it would have been an absolute waste of time, so thank you M-Factory final drive for failing!
I did seem to have some trouble with my footwork at times, particularly with so many down changes (5th to 2nd into Honda and MG), but I'll blame that on being out of practice. I still think I can get through T1 without any braking despite the car being a few km faster down the straight. Maybe a slightly later turn in would help that. I didn't really get enough laps to play around with entries.
Other than that, I was pretty happy with it all and had an absolute ball. All my friends had fun, ran quick laps and all drove home (some trailered!) to run another day.
A couple of photos.
Standard SDPICS.
And one from Folks.
This is my quickest lap for the day, a 1:57.48 (Racechrono).
If I can put it all together, there is definitely a low 1:56 in there, if I can sneak that into a 1:55, I'd be very happy. Plenty of PI time to do that this year!
The car is tucked away at the moment and won't come out for a track day until Haunted Hills with Nug Nats on the 6th May and I will also do Sale Sprints on the 7th. Might come out for a run through Reefton actually, before the weather gets too bad up in the hills.
Before then I'll need to change the front pads and rotors, bleed the brakes and I'll wait until after Sale to change the engine oil.
I felt the second hand NT01s I bought last year weren't up to the task, though after Friday I see no issue with them. Maybe its just the terrible Winton surface!? That is the difference between an international circuit I suppose.
Thanks.
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