This weekend me and a bunch of mates competed in the annual phillip island regularity relay.

It was a great event with heavy rain to sunshine alternating all day. We ended up finishing in 44th position out of 50 cars due to not paying much attention to how the scoring worked. The best part was that all 6 cars made it through the day unscathed. It was officially the first track day the 1200 has come home from ready for the next which Im' rapped about.

I can't speak highly enough of the landcruiser brakes and QFM pads.

For anybody interested I ended up doing a 2:06 flat for a best time but that was with heavy traffic all day and short shifting to keep it cool for the long stints at the wheel. It felt like it probably had a 2:02 in it but we'll find out next sprint down there.

Sorry about cluttering the photo gallery with non-1200's but I just thought I'd give the team a bit of a plug for a top effort.
Here's me!





troy's SR 1600




The LAG510



Mark's "b"



Ryan's sil80



Matt's Corona

awesome work Dave, Leigh, Mark and the others ... i had a thought of doing this with some of the wrx/liberty guys but in the end didnt even come close !!
fantastic to hear that you got home incident free and all still driving !!
what amount of time on the track did you end up getting total ? should've been plenty of laps to learn the track

how'd you come by the sponsorship from firebase ?

Good on you Dave, if you come out unscathed and with some experience thats the main thing!

I was going to ask how the avons were in the wet but looks like 15's on your car?

nice work, meanwhile i was taking the L18 out of troysbros car i think

they look good, would have been a great day and driving in all the weather down there will help out on that next sprint day,, nice run offs too not like sandown

Cool - I'll have to hurry up and finish mine so you can have another 1200 to race with!

Boof - The bloke with the corona's old man is mates with the firebase owner. The couple of sponsors were found just through friends etc.

whitesedan - I stopped using avon's because they were becoming quite expensive. While they could be had for ~ $50 a corner in reasonable condition, I was ripping them to shreds on the rear through overheating and too much power.

I ended up running RE55's on the front and Dunlop djo1's on the rear. The RE55's were new and are great. They are a 195/50/15 which improved front end feel a lot.

How many laps did you end up driving Dave? - and for what sort of $$$?

I got about 35 laps.

about 15 saturday and 20 sunday. Entry was $1500 per team.

There was compulsary practice on saturday where each driver had to qualify for the race by completing atleast 3 laps.

It's great fun but not so great for getting a solid routine for the track because you never get a full clean lap.

THere were old mini's doing 2:50+ laps as well as a supra doing low 1:50's, it was a bit chaotic at times!

Hmm that's not too bad, by my calculations that was $125 a day, and about 6 x 3 laps a day...actually a bit cheaper than a normal track day, but I guess more traffic too.

Does look cool with the sponsorship stickers on it too - looks like a 'real' race car.

Fantastic Daveman! I've always wanted to do one of these events.
So what did you not understand about the scoring?
Any bingles during the day?
Matty