Mx5 Mania Skid Pan Day - 26th June - Eastern Creek

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:12 pm

Ajay wrote:come on craigy!! you know you want too..

I do...but the $$$! :oops:

Mr_Q · Postby **Mr_Q** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:18 pm

What time is this starting/finishing? I can't make it to the event

but might be able to drop in for a look.

mmx005 · Postby **mmx005** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:05 pm

its a shame you cannot make it for the whole day mr _Q :cry:

but its on from 830am till about 430pm so im told if you decide to drop in

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:36 am

Wow, i'm really looking forward to this now. It's been about 2 years since i've been on a skid pan, and have been itching to have some 'non-road-legal' entertainment in my new toy.

AJ, a friend of my Glenn may call today to book for tomorrow. Hope he can make it, he has quite a cool car to bring along

See you all tomorrow then. Mine will be the car with the plate holder on the front that doubles as a cricket net. Haven't gotten around to riveting in the new MX5plus holder yet.

Alex · Postby **Alex** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:54 pm

Was lots of fun, I'll try and get the photo's up soon but it might be a week

-alex · Postby **-alex** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:04 pm

Agreed..!
Was a great day for it too

Nice to meet new people and catch up with others too.

Ajay · Postby **Ajay** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:04 pm

thanks to everyone for coming!.. was a great day.. hopefully those who missed out will come to the next one..

Mr_Q · Postby **Mr_Q** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:20 pm

Ajay wrote:thanks to everyone for coming!.. was a great day.. hopefully those who missed out will come to the next one..

Stoopid work stuff getting in the way ...

When's the next one?

-alex · Postby **-alex** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:24 pm

Mr_Q wrote:
Ajay wrote:thanks to everyone for coming!.. was a great day.. hopefully those who missed out will come to the next one..

Stoopid work stuff getting in the way ...

When's the next one?

another..??
awesome

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:36 pm

Greetings all,

it was good to put connect some names to nicknames finally

And my new toy got to make some friends to which was good.

For those who don't know, it was only towards the end of the day when James jumped in my car with me that we figured out why it wasn'y quite right - disabling DSC means simply stabbing the DSC off button, which i had been doing, but you have to hold it down for 8 seconds to get traction control (ie) everything off. Come on Mazda, off should mean off! Rather upset with Mazda about this, haven't read or seen this anywhere. James, the instructor from the UK, worked with Prodrive so he already knew about it as he has worked with the NC before. He said it was not common knowledge even amongst dealerships.

That aside, still had great fun, particularly with the cars lift-off oversteer characteristics. The NC really does have alot of grip though, and the softer setup makes it more difficult to feel what is going on compared with NB/NA. Still very fun and chuckable though. And the body roll is not as bad as it appears, the car just leans on its tires and you get more grip. Great road setup, but needs to be a bit stiffer/sharper for this sort of thing.

Got plenty of pics, will post up some of the better ones when i get time.

idb000 · Postby **idb000** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:39 am

Big thanks to the instructors and the guys from Mania for organising. It was a fantastic day!!! I had heaps of fun :mrgreen:

It was good to meet some new people. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the photos from the day

Ian

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:44 am

Some pics, more here

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:44 pm

I actually had a few errands to run before I went to the snow on Thursday and showed up at Mania in the hopes of getting my FM brace lowered a bit so it wouldn't rattle. Completely forgot this was on until Simone mentioned it

Assuming I'm not on a snow trip, I'll endeavour to make the next one

mmx005 · Postby **mmx005** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:33 pm

idb000 wrote:Big thanks to the instructors and the guys from Mania for organising. It was a fantastic day!!! I had heaps of fun :D

What ian said

im putting together a disk of photo's from the day, but im attempting some serious editing (ie cone removal) on some photo's using my canon software. i hope it wont be too long before a finished product is at mania for you guys to pick up.

also looking forward to the next one. :mrgreen:

Ben

Alex · Postby **Alex** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:29 pm

alright my photo's are up now in the multimedia section but here are some links there anyway

Mx5 Mania Skidpan 1
Mx5 Mania Skidpan 2
Mx5 Mania Skidpan 3