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10-17-2005, 06:45 PM
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How about getting PML to organise something different? Can we try to enlist Keith and Vincent for 1 day at Pasir Gudang using the PML cars just doing laps, much like a track day? We can all proceed there in our own cars. I wonder if this is at all possible and how much they will charge us? Frankly I wouldn't mind driving in my own car if it came to that.
10-17-2005, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by eggz' date='Oct 18 2005, 10:38 AM
Hah hah toto, I'm feeling the same.
The biggest IDT revelation for me was how fun it is to drive in the wet, and on the limit. My only regret, I didn't have the guts to try a lap of PG with DTC off in the rain, now THAT would have been awesome. I'm still on a high....on my 2nd full lap following Keith, I was never more than 1/2 a car length behind him. On the back straight, we hit 180km/h, all I could see was his brake lights into turn 2, there was just so much water?
Toto did you see at the end of that lap, the other two cars were like 15 car lengths behind?
Keith was unusually silent throughout, think he was really pushing, I could see him catching slides in the turns.? 
Imagine, 3.89km track length, we were over half tank of fuel going in, at the end of 14 laps (6 drivers, 2 orientation laps, + 12 flying laps), our tank was almost empty? plus we manged to add 3 more stress cracks to the front windscreen? .? Fun or what.....bring on Australia!
The biggest IDT revelation for me was how fun it is to drive in the wet, and on the limit. My only regret, I didn't have the guts to try a lap of PG with DTC off in the rain, now THAT would have been awesome. I'm still on a high....on my 2nd full lap following Keith, I was never more than 1/2 a car length behind him. On the back straight, we hit 180km/h, all I could see was his brake lights into turn 2, there was just so much water?
Toto did you see at the end of that lap, the other two cars were like 15 car lengths behind?
Keith was unusually silent throughout, think he was really pushing, I could see him catching slides in the turns.? Imagine, 3.89km track length, we were over half tank of fuel going in, at the end of 14 laps (6 drivers, 2 orientation laps, + 12 flying laps), our tank was almost empty?
plus we manged to add 3 more stress cracks to the front windscreen? .? Fun or what.....bring on Australia![snapback]185485[/snapback]
i did mine years back in Aussie, i don't mind joining. they got M3's!
i love it and till now, still in my mind.
bring your swimming gears, jan and feb are just perfect on the gold coast.
10-17-2005, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by eggz' date='Oct 17 2005, 08:38 PM
Hah hah toto, I'm feeling the same.
The biggest IDT revelation for me was how fun it is to drive in the wet, and on the limit. My only regret, I didn't have the guts to try a lap of PG with DTC off in the rain, now THAT would have been awesome. I'm still on a high....on my 2nd full lap following Keith, I was never more than 1/2 a car length behind him. On the back straight, we hit 180km/h, all I could see was his brake lights into turn 2, there was just so much water?
Toto did you see at the end of that lap, the other two cars were like 15 car lengths behind? Keith was unusually silent throughout, think he was really pushing, I could see him catching slides in the turns.?
Imagine, 3.89km track length, we were over half tank of fuel going in, at the end of 14 laps (6 drivers, 2 orientation laps, + 12 flying laps), our tank was almost empty? plus we manged to add 3 more stress cracks to the front windscreen? .? Fun or what.....bring on Australia!
The biggest IDT revelation for me was how fun it is to drive in the wet, and on the limit. My only regret, I didn't have the guts to try a lap of PG with DTC off in the rain, now THAT would have been awesome. I'm still on a high....on my 2nd full lap following Keith, I was never more than 1/2 a car length behind him. On the back straight, we hit 180km/h, all I could see was his brake lights into turn 2, there was just so much water?
Toto did you see at the end of that lap, the other two cars were like 15 car lengths behind?
Keith was unusually silent throughout, think he was really pushing, I could see him catching slides in the turns.? Imagine, 3.89km track length, we were over half tank of fuel going in, at the end of 14 laps (6 drivers, 2 orientation laps, + 12 flying laps), our tank was almost empty?
plus we manged to add 3 more stress cracks to the front windscreen? .? Fun or what.....bring on Australia![snapback]185485[/snapback]
10-17-2005, 09:16 PM
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Zag, see how much we have missed out! Let fix tentatively next Jan/Feb for our IDT.
So guys, wet is good or dry is better? Edlee said the session was spoilt by the wet weather, but from Toto's and Eggz' posts, it seems wet is more fun.
So guys, wet is good or dry is better? Edlee said the session was spoilt by the wet weather, but from Toto's and Eggz' posts, it seems wet is more fun.
10-17-2005, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by tategoi' date='Oct 18 2005, 01:16 PM
Zag, see how much we have missed out! Let fix tentatively next Jan/Feb for our IDT.
So guys, wet is good or dry is better? Edlee said the session was spoilt by the wet weather, but from Toto's and Eggz' posts, it seems wet is more fun.
So guys, wet is good or dry is better? Edlee said the session was spoilt by the wet weather, but from Toto's and Eggz' posts, it seems wet is more fun.
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Jan/Feb sounds good, but need to know which dates. Jan seems OK but not too close to CNY. Mid Feb I'll be away to land of Kiwis climbing/cycling thru the mountains.
10-17-2005, 09:55 PM
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u can definitely go faster in the dry. but after experiencing lapping a track in swimming pool conditions, we r definitely better equipped to do it in the dry. we had more opportunities to control a sliding car. quite a few others spun even with traction control n dsc on. we learned different lines to avoid the water ponds which happened to collect at the apexes etc..
gimme the wet anytime....ayrtons senna's dad used to only send him to the go-kart tracks when it storms....one story i heard at IDT....
gimme the wet anytime....ayrtons senna's dad used to only send him to the go-kart tracks when it storms....one story i heard at IDT....
10-17-2005, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by zag' date='Oct 17 2005, 11:54 PM
toto, you got e-mail!
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
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not game anymore...idt instructor told me..if i hv DD i better dun screw around wif other suspensions....but he recommended a lot of other stuff to me...hehe.
10-17-2005, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by totoseow' date='Oct 18 2005, 02:11 PM
[quote name='zag' date='Oct 17 2005, 11:54 PM']toto, you got e-mail!
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
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not game anymore...idt instructor told me..if i hv DD i better dun screw around wif other suspensions....but he recommended a lot of other stuff to me...hehe.
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[/quote]i can't live with the current susp with the 19" wheel.. so what is the stuff he recommended?
10-17-2005, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by zag' date='Oct 18 2005, 12:17 AM
[quote name='totoseow' date='Oct 18 2005, 02:11 PM'][quote name='zag' date='Oct 17 2005, 11:54 PM']toto, you got e-mail!
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
PSS9 or H&R.. are you game?
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not game anymore...idt instructor told me..if i hv DD i better dun screw around wif other suspensions....but he recommended a lot of other stuff to me...hehe.
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[/quote]i can't live with the current susp with the 19" wheel.. so what is the stuff he recommended?
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[/quote]stock bmw sports suspension. wid DD u cant hv the m-sports too. too low ur DD will screw up the camber.