A Day At The Races - 1st Time Wakey [Photos]

Drove down to Goulburn yesterday and had a crack at wakefield park for the first time. I learnt alot of new things about my car, parts, my driving and my balls!
Started off the day on my street 17" Kumho SPT tyres and Delphi street pads.
Had about 40psi in all tyres and Flex shocks all on Max.
I was taking it pretty easy in this setup as i didnt have alot of faith in it.
I had my mate timing me with a stopwatch and this first session was pulling times around 1:24.5, and managed to bring it down to 1:22.8 just by having a bit more balls round the corners!

After this session, swapped my pads over for Ferodo DS2500, lowered the front tyre pressure abit and wound down front shocks 6 clicks. This setup, i managed to get down to the 1:20's, i think alot of that was just due to practise and confidence though. These Brakes were so much better and didnt lose any bite at all. tyres turned to mush by now though so thought time to pull out the semi's!

By lunch i had an old set of 16" V700 semis on the car running about 34 psi in all tyres and the same brake and sussy settings. The slicks were amazing. so much more fun! i felt like i was hammering round the track by now, heart was racing whole way round!
The next couple of sessions i had the track pretty well figured out and the best time i managed was a 1:18.3 which i was stoked with and not expectin!
The problem is now i have become addicted...
By the way my car is 175 000km EJ8 Civic Vti running 80kw atw, so pretty happy with her effortsand mine!
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1:18...very very good effort for a 1st timer Sam :)
Well done!!

Good effort. Tyres, brakes and suspension is where its at! :thumbsup:

so you find it better with the front dampers being lower/softer than the rear?

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Originally Posted by EK4R

so you find it better with the front dampers being lower/softer than the rear?

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well i couldnt quite feel much difference with this setting, except for the back end coming out a fair bit more and being a little unpredicatable at times. But it did allow me to be a bit quicker? so i guess yeah, was better.

wat times have other people got? like first time? improvements? PB's?
just curious to know...

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Originally Posted by supersamEK

wat times have other people got? like first time? improvements? PB's?
just curious to know...

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Wakefield? First time, done maybe 15 laps as part of the Cams Supersprint
- 1:14 in a 1.6l EG....Actually just today...LOL

I believe that's a 1:14 with 220,000+ kms on the clock :)

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Originally Posted by Tones

I believe that's a 1:14 with 220,000+ kms on the clock :)

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Wakefield is soooo far away....glad to see you got home safe.
Rob just rocketed off, i followed a bit and then gave up, just settled on the speed limit and cruised home.

and a clarification, thats 220,000 on the chassis but with new suspensions
and C Pillar bars...LOL .. :-p

1:18 for a Ej8 and a first timer is an awesome time.

Dude thats a awesome time u did!!!

hope u had alot of fun and especialy it is good as it wakes alot of ppl up realising that driving on the street fast is not needed as u can just go 2 the track and do it safely and legally :D

First time out for me at wakefield (was a couple of yrs ago now)

in my old civic ek vti sedan (cvt auto :(, 17" falken (bald) tyres, pod filter and muffler) did a 1:21 Lol... pritty slow :(

caint wait 2 take my dc2r

1.18 is a great laptime. Join the Supersprints to get some official timing! :D