FoSC Event at Oran Park - 24TH, 25TH, 26TH JULY 2009

[Andrew B]

For those that are interested. Another Historic Type round.

http://www.fosc.com.au/

Mr Curnick and some of the other usual culprits are running.

Private practice is on Friday. Most of the action will be on Saturday and Sunday as usual. Hope to see some of you out there.

[reedminor]

see you out there Andy... not sure which day yet.

[Andrew B]

tickets at the door.

[OBRUT]

congrats to tiger for an excellent wheel-to-wheel racing debut.

lots of fun was had by all - except for one suicidal duck...

[Fishcop]

Pictures?

[Andrew B]

Thanks Mr C. A great day. Very sporting gentlemen and I still have clean undies. It leaves sprints for dead, add a car in front and one chasing youre you, and it's just too much fun. I must learn how to shut the gate though, pesky MX5's and MG's !

The vegetarian got his fair share of ensuing bad humour:

1. Duck !
2. F*** a Duck !
3. Well Duck me !
4. When racing get all your ducks in a row.

etc etc etc

One less ugly light !

John, Mr C may have some videos tonight.

As for stills, we'll have to rely on John or Justin to pop out today. Tickets at the gate boys !

[timp]

Well done for the weekend Andrew. Kept it on the black stuff and did some great times. Beware it's addictive!!

[Andrew B]

Thanks Tim. RC held my hand like a gentleman that he is.

Also did a wet last race. So a weekend of firsts. Very very wet and skatie. Very, very gently......

John S took a couple of nice snaps. RC will have some very interesting footage.

[OBRUT]

Also did a wet last race. So a weekend of firsts. Very very wet and skatie. Very, very gently......

the last race was just nuts. people spinning everywhere - including whilst still on the warm up lap!


i may have had a little spin too...

[OBRUT]

Here is my video of the last race (its split into 2 parts due to the length).

part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n09Sm...e=channel_page

part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2qFd...e=channel_page

as you will see i had some serious traction issues pretty much everywhere on the track - including the main straight!

i was running kuhmo tarmac rally tyres that have done classic adelaide and about 4 other track events (including driving to and fro). they have been brave little soldiers and were still pretty good in the dry (did a 1.23 in qualifying which i think is my best time at OP GP) however they surrendered when the rain started falling.

got a great start though!

[Fishcop]

Very nice!

[alexwebster]

ncie work! Love the spin!!!

Well done Me B, now you have to come and play with the Group S boys!

[OBRUT]

it was a great event - over 500 cars entered. they had 3 separate groups running regularity alone.

we were put in marque sports which had a little bit of everything - including the world's fastest mg midget and several slick shod supercharged mx5's. to put the midget into perspective - he qualified 2 seconds under the group S lap record.

great comraderie also with everybody offering advice and assistance - although in retrospect maybe i shouldn't have adjusted tiger's suspension for that last race... ;-)

[OBRUT]

ncie work! Love the spin!!!

thanks mate - perfect 360! grab first gear and away.

there is a bump in the track just where you turn into that corner. it was unsettling the car a bit in the dry and i underestimated the effect it would have in the wet.

[John S]

Good show Andy and Ryan. It was entertaining, in a slightly nerve wracking kind of way, to watch you slip'n slide your way around a wet Oran Park yesterday. Did well to keep out of trouble, save for the poor duck...

Here are a few pics: