Up dated my first post with my latest, and sadly the last time for Oran Park.
Sunday 17 January was the last day that a CAMS approved meeting was held at Oran Park, being Round 1 of the State Supersprint Championships. The circuit has been sold for housing and coming down the straight all you see now is roofs of freshly built houses.
The day started fine and I put in a time that nearly ended up being my best on the first run of the day. As the day progressed and the temperature both air and track went up to “hot”, times went down for everyone and cars were sliding around.
In the end I couldn’t get close to Mark Hellman time. On checking my times against what happened in practice the day before for the iRace day, I found Joe Macare in his track only NC was about a second slower, which gave me a thrill knowing that I was “on the money” and Mark was putting down similar times.
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/resul ... 10.ORGP.P4So my time for the GP Circuit, never to be improved, was
1:25.7837, three seconds faster than my first appearance there two years ago.
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/resul ... 10.ORGP.S1This event was my first on a new set of Kumho V70A tyres. They are different from the D01’s I was running in that they warm up very quickly where the D01’s required 2 laps to get to operating temperature. They hang on well but looking at the tread at the end of the day, I don’t think they will last all that long compared to the D01’s.
Next meeting will be at the "Creek" and it will be interesting to see if I can improve on my time there with the V70A's.
