I towed my sedan down to Philip Island this weekend gone to compete in the Australian supersprint titles. It was a two day event, which was probably the main reason I decided to do it, not much point driving all that way for just one day.

Perfect weather both days, cool temperatures, some clouds but mainly sunny. The saturday was kicked off with a 20 minutes practice session for all 6 colour groups, I was put in the slowest group due to an estimated lap time of 2:10. First impressions of the circuit were, WOW. You melbourne blokes are very lucky to have such an awesome piece of tarmac within 2 hours drive.

The A-series was really stretching it's legs down the straight with the 4.875 diff, but I had bumped the rev limiter to 8250 in anticipation and came close to hitting it in top gear before turning into turn 1. Due to having to share the track with the superkarts (they had been displaced by the V8's from last weekend), which are absolutely mental by the way, each group then recieved only 4 timed runs for the day, but at 5 flying laps each time, plenty of fuel was used. Ended saturday with a best time of 2:00.03. There was plenty of banter amongst the group of blokes I had come down with as I was three tenths ahead of one of them who was driving a well sorted torana running an Holden 6 liter V8. The others were in the 1:52's in other V8 holdens and the last bloke had a 1:37 in his radical SR3.

Sunday morning felt a bit worse for wear after a few too many schooners at the Philip Island RSL. Anyway got out on the track and concentrated mostly on holding the car flat through turn 1 and across the back towards Lukey heights. Came in and checked my times. A 1:59.8, pretty happy with that. Suddenly the Torana's up on the jack and the semi-slicks are coming off and the full slicks are being bolted on, I guess he just couldn't face being beaten by the 1.6 litre datto.

Anyway he ended up with a 1:53.8 and I got down to a 1:58.56, first in class by 12 seconds. Ended up getting 6 runs on the sunday so ended up totalling over 200 full noise kilometres on the 1200 without the slightest hiccup. I couldn't be happier with the way the weekend went.