MG Car Club Sprints - Sandown Motor Circuit

Today was my first time at Sandown as I had finally plucked up the courage to try this track. It was a great day - the weather was kind to us, MG Car Club are a great bunch of people who run events very well and lots of fun was had by all.

Thank you to Ray, Ying, Dan, Tran, Mugsee and Charger for coming to watch and support. Big thanks to Ray for doing the lunch run, that chicken rice was great. Thanks Ying, Jas and Mugsee for taking pics too! Also thanks to Jason, Shaun, Drew, Laura, Adrian and JimJim for the moral support. Without you guys participating, I doubt I'd be out there alone having a go.

Circuit map:

Speed vs Distance graph for lap where I reached 197kph and my best lap:



Thoughts:
- I still need to figure out the line to take as well as braking and acceleration points for turns 6, 7 and 8.
- I need to work on braking from close to 200kph while downshifting two gears.
- I need more power to keep up on the straights with the Exe counterparts who have turbos.
- The proximity of the walls scare me.

Session 1
1:40.1700
1:45.0500
1:37.3600
1:36.6300

Session 2
1:37.1000
1:34.9200
1:34.3700
1:34.9500

Session 3
1:35.4400
1:38.2300
1:34.0700
1:33.9600

Session 4
1:33.5700 PB
1:34.9000
1:33.7800
1:40.4800

More results:
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?12/10/2008.SAND.Q1.I

Photos courtesy of Mugsee, wokstar, senk9 and UnCo.