Went to winton on saturday.....

[brendan1990]

hey guys just thought i would share with you the story of my first track day at Winton on Saturday, and some info on 2, s2000's there.
I went with a mate that owns a 99 model wrx that's been stripped bare of anything it doesn't need (no mods yet though except bucket seats, roll cage, and esparco steering wheel) and boy was it mad i honestly cant remember the last time i had this much fun in my life, flatting footing round corners with not a thing to worry about and so much space you have plenty of time to react, was an amazing feeling i don't believe i have ever pushed a car that hard before and felt so comfortable about it, and proper bucket seats and harnesses hold so well i want them all the time lol.
Now the rexy had woeful tires, i was getting tire squeal round almost every corner and did much powersliding which was fun but annoying when trying to overtake the occasional ss, or skyline, but we pretty much where able to maneuver through the whole course overtaking everything bar the occasional evo or pimped out wrx so all in all.....i want a track car! lol.

Now there where 2 s2000's at winton a black one and silver one both ap1's now the guy with the silver one recently set a record at a track recently for the fastest n/a non modified 4cyl car so i was expecting big things from this guy when i was watching him and was not dissapointed, from the very last corner on his first lap he was getting sideways due to lack of warming up the tires but from then on he was overtaking commodore, skyline, wrx, etc. until he was overtaking a guy from the outside, kicked the car out sideways and snapped his lower control arm on the ripple strip and almost ripped his rear left wheel off with the pads, calipers, and rotors all being completely destroyed, i was going round kitome corner when i swear i saw broken brake pads scattered all over the road and was thinking 'oh o some idiot has stuffed up' and then i saw a sad sad site, of which was a silver s2000 about 15m's off the course just sitting therein the grass, i was so deprest i really did feel for the guy =(.

But of course i must not forget to tell you about the other s2000, a black ap1 s2000 that my mate could not shake off his tail at all pushing the car to its absolute limit, until he thought 'its ok the s2 isnt built for straights and ill brake off on the main straight' and boy was i stunned, amazed, baffled i dunno what, but when we pulled out of one of the final corners and planted it at 6500rpm nearly red lining it this s2 flew past like we where nothing else, all that me n my mate where sayin in the car was......wtf? about an hour later i found out that the car was apparently turbo charged so instantly i was like 'of course' after that i wanted it to overtake me just to hear it roar lol so if anyone knows this guy who owns a black ap1 s2 that is turbo/supercharged with black no. plates, black wheels and duel cannons on the rear please let me know cause i would love to talk to him as i never got the chance on Saturday, anyway that concludes my little write up so please feel free to leave any comments =)

[LEWD]

Nice right up...I really need to get down there.

[vyets]

wow sounds nasty for just hitting the ripples? How the hell does your pads fall out on the track lol.
Did he hit the SS he was overtaking or something because the ripples shouldn't do that to the car, I hit the ripples all day lol.

Sounds like you have fun man good shiet, too bad there wasn't a timer did you guys do some manual timing just for fun?

[dc2r-0636]

lol i know him. his name is rob.

its turbocharged not supercharged.. not sure if he wants me to talk about his set up..

[euromandeluxe]

could it be because he hit the ripples going sideways? kind of like hitting a gutter with the rear outside wheel while going sideways, except the ripple ridges are shorter of course

sounds like you had a mad time Brendan, I wanted to head to winton too but had commitments

[brendan1990]

yeah could of been cause he was going sideways but i know for a fact he diddnt hit the guy he was trying to overtake, but as the control arm snapped the rotor hit the ripple strip and i was told by the guy i work with who went with him that it practically exploded which is pretty insane.
and dc2r if you know the guy is there any chance i could contact him through msn, fb or something? i dont expect you to describe his set up, cause i would probably feel the same if i was him.

Ummm yeah it was a bit of a bummer there was know timing, and my phone was dead which would of been the only real timing device i had, but oh well maybe next time, i think the next fun day is at sandown possibly, unless i get my cams liscence sooner and decide to go proper tracking. I have been thinking about getting a second car for a while now, just some cheap thing to get me to and from work, and then i could stop clocking up k's on my s2 so quickly and do some serious mods to it, unless its more reasonable selling the s2 and getting something turbocharged (quicker) which i have been also thinking about, but every time i look at my s2 i have a sort of.....(aaaww your so awsome, how could i ever sell you?' approach lol

[vyets]

Wow, so he hit the ripple, and rim pretty much fell off, rotor hits ripple, snaps, calipers snap and pads fall out. I don't know man but it seems pretty extreme just from going on the ripples. I don't doubt the fact that he copped some damage from hitting the ripples but for the brake pads to fall out, I mean there has to be some SERIOUS damage. To get to the pads you have to first demolish the rims and get them out of the way then the rotor would hit the concrete, but cracking the rotor alone still wouldn't make the pads fall out. You would have to basically rip off a chunk off the rotor big enough for the pad to fall through OR manage somehow to brake the calipers. The rear calipers are on the top side of the disc so I wouldn't see how they would manage to get in contact with concrete. Maybe what you saw was just crap on the track I mean you would have to have some serious vision to be able to tell it's brake pads hehe.

Anyway, I've been over the ripples plenty of times sideways as well. Ask the drifters they live on the ripples sideways LOL, but yea that guy must be running plastic rims or someshit to explode when he hits some ripples.

I think you need a good few more years of experience before you do some "proper" Track Racing, AASA License will be more then enough for now.

Anyway, I was reading through the thread again... you.. ain't talking about the S2000 are you? You took your mate's wrx?

[brendan1990]

well the info might not be right but i got it off the guy that traveled in the s2 with the owner up to winton so im jsut going off what he says.
And i dont think i mean 'proper' as in full racing shave every milisecond you can, more what my mate does with his wrx and just goes to track days to go fast and have fun, and yeah i went in my mates wrx not my s2, i wanted to get a rough idea of how things work before i even consider taking my lifes savings on track with no insurance.

[vyets]

Wow you shouldn't be driving without insurance dude.. wth are you thinking lol.
Also... no insurance covers accidents on the track anyway so your insurance is useless.

[brendan1990]

lol i have full comprehensive, i ment i would have no insurance if i took it on the track.

[stevo716]

yeh i was there too, with a few mates, I was in the grey da, the black s2000 was super quick, killed me on the straights quite easily
the other s2000 happened right infront of my mate, he was the car being overtaken.

[brendan1990]

wow serious? describe your car a bit more, i was drving a blue 99 wrx with gold rims (of course) would of looked stock from the outside except for the bonnet latches.