Had to "answer the call of duty" yesterday and fill in a last minute vacancy at the Driftking Motorsports skidpan session yesterday, geez it was a blast :D And I'm sure Pinky is happier now with another coat of "anti-rust diesel coating" :D

 

Hadn't been in awhile, and wow did it show! First session out was absolutely attrocious, I must've spun at least once every lap I did... But got the hang of it again soon enough, by the end of it could quite consistantly link the two big-radius corners (after the back straight, going clockwise), something I've never been able to do before... Strange considering Pinky is running a fair bit less power compared to last time... Could also reasonably link the two small radius corners (going counter-clockwise), and even position the car in the correctly to take on the S-bend at full speed (which meant I hit the last corner much faster than ever before, that was tricky, ended up the hill a few times :no:

 

As expected (being Driftking Motorsports) there were the dohrifto Sprinter boys out there, they reasonably well and truly annoyed the instructors with their "synchronised drifting" and "arms out the window" etc, there goes "safety first" out the window. And to top if off one of them broke at the end of the night (spring mount on the diff broke or something) so they had to stay back late to wait for him to fix it...

 

Anyways, here are some pics (I didn't take many, the light was attrocious):

 

 

 

Lucky bugger, I can't wait for the next pan session, did pinky still show them up?

We didn't have any timed runs, so I don't know. But every session I was catching up to the other person so I think I was doing okay. I'd probably be comfortable to say that I was one of the quicker cars on the pan, probably didn't look half as good as some of the rest (who were pulling massive huge drifts and linking ALL the corners etc), but definately wasn't the fastest out there. There was an R32 GTR that was just flying, even with heaps of diesel on the pan...

Yes he is, yes he is indeed :D Had some cooling issues though...

i went to a skidpan day once near the coast. Off whatever exit yatla pies is on...in norwell somewhere....can anyone remember what this place is called? Its not the holden performance driving center. I always thought it was called Donnington but have never been able to find info on it and i lost the flyer from the day

 

Its before the HPDC...about 5 or so min...all you see when you drive past are big creamy gates and a big roundabout with lots of flowers. Reasonably hilly area...big square ashphalt area for a skidpan thats kinda set in a bit of a valley.

 

ringing any bells?

mt cotton? I thought that was around the redland bay area...does it stretch that far down?