Had another go on the track today what a buzzzzz!!
Had another go on the track today what a buzzzzz!!
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Kylie

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4,391 posts

281 months

Sunday 27th July 2003
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We got a group of mates together and hired one of the largest tracks in NZ (Pukekohe)for an hour. We mixed it up with two Esprits (89SE and 89 non SE) a Porsche GT2 (rocket ship), several hotrods (500 plus bhp) and a early 90's Honda racing car. Was brilliant. I finally found my limits on hard braking going into corners (serious brake fade) spun out did a full 360+, landed safely in the grass - phew!! I still can't beleive the amazing performance all round it has. There were a couple of times I thought I am not going to make this corner and the car just goes around no worries even on worn tires. The handling on these things are surpurb!! I want bigger brakes though a definate weakness. Tried looking at the speedo on the straights, think I had it up to 210/220km, perhaps more but don't trust my brakes to bring me in on time before the hair-pin oh well maybey next time not to be such a chicken



Skerd

384 posts

291 months

Sunday 27th July 2003
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Look out for the new Danica Patrick!

southenddc

135 posts

275 months

Sunday 27th July 2003
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Kylie...good pics...looks like u had a fun time....on a sidetrack, can you tell me how you got your photos to show here???

cheers

Brett

kylie

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4,391 posts

281 months

Monday 28th July 2003
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Cheers Brett, you need to get some free web hosting from somewhere. I decided to keep all this stuff seperate from my art site at the moment, so have uploaded a whole bunch of photos to webshots its free.
When your in webshots and uploaded pics, copy the whole web link to here. put this around the whole link: [pic]..... [/pic] and preview it before posting, if you cant preview the pic dont post it. Seems to work for me anyway. Best of luck.
regards
Kylie

lotusguy

1,798 posts

281 months

Monday 28th July 2003
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Kylie,

That's great!! The most fun you can have with your clothes on...lol ... Jim'85TE

solar

262 posts

275 months

Monday 28th July 2003
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sweeeeet... somebody running the esprit hard and safe!!!

southenddc

135 posts

275 months

Monday 28th July 2003
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Thanks Kylie...i liked your site by the way..

benfell100

9,601 posts

284 months

Monday 28th July 2003
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Good to hear you had fun. I intend, one day to uprate the brakes. Biggest limiting factor is the driver though ;-)

kylie

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4,391 posts

281 months

Tuesday 29th July 2003
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Yeah am doing a driver training day on the track in a months time with instructors, so will hopefully get better at drifting on those hairy corners and not end up in the grass