11/06/2017 - Lakeside BMW Club QLD Annual Interclub

[Magpie]

Anybody interested in making a team of 4 to attend this event?

Cost is $190 per car.

[JBT]

I'm a starter Mark. We could show these BMW blokes a thing or two eh?

[Magpie]

Have 3 now! If it helps people make a decision there could be BAP's up for grabs...

Being fast is not as important as being consistent in reliability races. It is based on your nominated time and being as close as possible to that.

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[Magpie]

MX-5 Club QLD

1. John Tait
2. Jeffrey Moo
3. Mark Fry
4. Mark Collingwood

MX-5 Club QLD (2)

[Magpie]

Received a response to an inquiry I made

Gates will be open at 7:00 am.

Sign in will be from 7:30am.

There is no Scrutineering at Lakeside. A condition of entry to anything at Lakeside is that you accept the responsibility that your car is in sufficient mechanical condition for the event you have entered and the car has suitable, well serviced brakes and Tyres. Attached is a copy of the rules for the day.

An email will be sent to all competitors on Friday with all paperwork and more information attached, including Team details and car number.

There will be a compulsory Drivers briefing at 8:45 am. First cars on track is planned for 9:30.

We will continue till app 4:00pm when the trophy presentation and cheque hand over to beyondblue will take place.

We will have a lunch break, after which, we will run some passenger rides before commencing the afternoon session.

[JBT]

The event has been run and team MX-5 Club Qld did well.

The day started with pouring rain for the sighting laps and then dried up around lunch. Running on a dry track with times nominated in the very wet made it difficult. I had to go into the bus stop to remove my door number that was half detached and flapping about and making me think I had shredded the rear tyre on that side....big points lost on 2 laps for that. Jeff had an off on a warm up lap and had to come in with wheels full of stones and kitty litter....more big points lost. Still, we pressed on and came in a creditable 5th out of 15 teams. Next time....

And the best news is that Magpie took out the trophy for Outright Winner. Outstanding result!

[Magpie]

Was a fun day, very challenging to set a dial in time of 1:25 based on wet then have if fine up. A Porsche driver suggested not using the brakes, so armed with this advice, put the car into 4th and tried not to have the shift lights come on (above 5,500 RPM). However on the main straight I did let it red line in 4th before backing off.

Best news of all was the $26k raised for Beyond Blue

This saw me fined by Doug for unauthorized mowing


Somebody was not fined for this


Off at Hungry (again), no forward vision from today...

[Custardtart]

Nice to meet you Magpie. My little boy was over the moon to get to sit in a proper race car!

[Magpie]

He was happy, hope his mum liked the photo(s)

Love this photo


This summed up the day