Your final score was the product of 2 factors. Factor 1 was you estimated laps divided by completed laps where most teams came out with a factor between 2 and 3. Then factor 2 was the average over all your cars of the difference between their fastest and slowest lap for the whole day. The problem with that was that it was wet half the day. My quickest time was a 2:06 in the dry and somewhere around 2:40 slowest in the wet giving me a factor 2 of 34. Because we just cycled through drivers in the same order all day all 6 of us did wet and dry laps meaning our average factor 2 was really high!

The winning tactic was to have cars dedicated to dry laps and other cars for wet laps. That way each car's variance was much smaller. Duh!

Because we never planned on winning, we never even read the scoring system properly and in a way I'm glad we didn't because all drivers got equal track time and just had a good time rather than stressing about tactics.

Matty: No big bingles but HEAPS of offs resulting in cars bogged in mud. There was one bloke in a HQ cup spec car that must have caused about 3 safety cars! Quite a few seemed to lose their brains a bit once it got wet.

yeah i was going to ask about the scoring... should have paid more attention to when this was on so i could come have a look

sounds like you all had fun and no major dramas

i'd love to do something like that

one day.....

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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?