6:10am..my mobile alarm wakes me. Ok. Time to get out of bed for a quick shower. It's 6:20 and i just recieve a call from Edi to enter on the rose st entrance at our meeting point of punchbowl park. I enter the street and see the Mazda 2 noted from the forum and there i saw edi's evo9. It was very subtle..it must be coz of its dark blue colour.
We head onto the motorway for our 2hr drive to goulburn.. i dont think ive ever driven so far in my life! The drive was a bit tiring, mainly just holding the wheel and we end up gettin to Goulburn and having maccas for breaky. We get out of maccas and it starts drizzling.. o crap! Racing in the rain = slippery race tack = no good = no fun! Anyways we keep driving.. the rain does get a bit heavy and having to turn on the wipers on the 3rd lvl (strongest/quickest setting) means trouble. We keep driving and the rain eases a bit.. i turn down the wipers to lvl 2.. hope
A bit more driving.. i turn the wipers down again to lvl 1.. now its getting better. We turn onto the entrance of the track and we get there around 9.. theres only 3 of us and an actual race car..looks something of late 60s.. i find out it some Fiat car.
So we set off onto the track, its still a bit wet.. and the amaze of street tires on a race track is horrendous...*EeeerrrrRRRRrrrr* goes the tires and im there sliding through every bend! The car is badly struggling. I must've spun out 5 times on the track in the first 20min session. Was still getting used to the track. Scariest thing of the day was on the straight, coming into the 1st bend somehow the car just slid and i was going sideways into the sandbank/tires. CRAAAAAP, lock on the brakes...NOOOOO...rumble doof rumble.. i shred the grass and land in the sandbank..my car has now turned into a rally car!
it was good later to see more cars on the track being a , wrx, levin, camry, clio, worked 350, s2000 and civic. The day did get better. The sun came out and the track was dry. I really enjoy driving when the sunlight is out. Yes..ive got a love for sunlight! Best moment of the day was riding in edi's evo9. The rush of the torque (torque - the pushing feeling you get when riding in something e.g. a powerful or aeroplane) in the turbocharged car was amazing! Your insides just feeling as if they're being burnt.. that tingling sensation!
the day ended around 3:30..we had our fun and i was bored of my car. It just wasnt fun being in automatic and with street tires. I was running on near empty.. about 2 clicks from the E (empty) line. I saw the signs passing by... 100km till Sydney and thought id be able to make it before having to fill up again at my local petrol station. And then the empty fuel light lit up! What made it worse there were cars piling up! TRAFFIC! i was panicking in my head.. would i be stuck in this traffic and have the fuel drain away.. would i be stuck out here.. i needed to find the nearest exit and look for the closest petrol station.. rolling, rolling at 10km/h coz of the traffic i found the nearest exit being the Ingleburn exit.
I wondered how long it would take to find a petrol station... driving, driving...going uphill.. *thinking more petrol is going away!*..and there in the distance i saw a green sign...and there was BP...*saved*. I filled up half as they only had standard and 98 octane (1337 petrol) so i went for the uber petrol. I ended up getting home around 6..i was buggered...my car had turned into a rally car and i came to a conclusion that im never taking my car to Wakefield ever again!
Photos to come soon..
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