South Coast Motor Show 17 / 18 May

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:33 am

VC would you believe me if I told you I can run a 13.3 1/4mile?? NO... numbers are only good for yourself, no one believes them.

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:54 pm

veecee wrote:
no

short and sweet

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Fri May 09, 2008 8:07 pm

Gary57 wrote:VC would you believe me if I told you I can run a 13.3 1/4mile?? NO... numbers are only good for yourself, no one believes them.

actually i would...

but then again i'm not a complete tjop!

the best part of the racing, is being behind the wheel - not all that other crap that happens afterwards...

and i know you take care of your car so a couple of hours on a track wouldn't hurt that much!

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:52 pm

Ok guys what the plan for going to the Speed Festival? You guys still keen?

Rat you are already in margate so I guess we will meet u there? i think Saturday would be the best day to go.

Gary and who ever else wants to come along from Durban (RBSX?) should we meet at the pav and make a run to margate? I know the bunker racing guys are having a breakfast run to margate on Saturday morning. They meeting up at 8am at the pav and they leave for margate at 8:30. Are you keen to join them for the run.

Me and a mate or 2 are going 2 be traveling there in my sx.

EDIT: We must't forget camping chairs and stuff, there may not be set out places to sit

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:37 am

Yeah I might go down, not 100% sure yet though.

I will let you though, if I do go then ja Saturday will be good.

rat · Post by **rat** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:28 am

at the airport or somewhere else and then to airport?

Saturday or Sunday is good, just let me know

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:45 am

I might be going down to margate on saturday as well to watch. I missed out on entering though, left it too late.

Gary, you should give an autocross a try sometime, its great fun. And trust me when you're behind the wheel waiting your turn you don't even realise the spectators are there.
The satisfaction of beating more powerful cars is incredible 'cause with an autocross its down to the cars handling and your driving.
(My combined times this last weekend at suncoast was 171 seconds, the fastest BMW was 177 seconds. Drifting around corners looks exciting but is slow.)
Trackdays are even better though, and thats the reason I'm looking at getting a 200sx, to use for autocross', trackdays, to tinker with, etc.

I did 5 trackdays and a couple of autocross' last year, including the A1 supercar parade, and my car (Ford Focus ST170) is none the worse for it after all that.

I was also a bit hesitant at first and worried about damaging my car, but a guy thats been doing club racing for over 10 years told me that you'll always reach your internal limit before you reach the car's limit, and so far he's been right.

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:06 am

rat wrote:at the airport or somewhere else and then to airport?

Saturday or Sunday is good, just let me know

Well, i don't know margate so maybe its best to meet at the airport. Unless you wanna meet somewhere before, I don't mind.

Saturday would be best i think. I got lots of work to do on sunday.

rat · Post by **rat** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:07 am

Welcome to the club

Great one more to join us

So far:
Me
Trance + friends
Gary (maybe)
Guy (maybe)

There are quiet a few dbn guys on the forum, no one else, Stolen1zn, rbsx, dizzy

rat · Post by **rat** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:08 am

Trance101 wrote:
rat wrote:at the airport or somewhere else and then to airport?

Saturday or Sunday is good, just let me know
Well, i don't know margate so maybe its best to meet at the airport. Unless you wanna meet somewhere before, I don't mind.

Saturday would be best i think. I got lots of work to do on sunday.

Ok Saturday then, it starts early. a time?

You know how to get to the airport?

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » Wed May 14, 2008 11:35 am

rat wrote:Ok Saturday then, it starts early. a time?

You know how to get to the airport?

Well, if ppl want to join me for a run down to margate we'l leave at 8:30. So we should be there around 10:00 I think.

I don't know how to get there but my friend has a gps phone so we will figure it out.

rat · Post by **rat** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:44 pm

if you want can meet you somewhere like:
south coast mall (which is right off the freeway)
shelly centre
uvongo/margate off ramp about 3 km from the airport
and can follow me.

I think the show starts like 8:30. i am good from anytime anyplace just let me know

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:55 pm

What is on on Saturday??

rat · Post by **rat** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:06 pm

Gary57 wrote:What is on on Saturday??

What this thread is about???

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Wed May 14, 2008 3:22 pm

No man I mean what racing is on on Saturday?? Is it just 800m or 1/4mile or what??