Whittie

There you go then, I guess I'll have to go faster. Damn

Hi all, Well back in the land of the real today and got some new footage up of my 2:55.3 lap. I believe this is the fastest lap around Bathurst of any road registered zed of the weekend. This does exclude "Targa" cars and is restricted to R-comp tyres. This 'historic class' is pretty popular and is what I base all my mods on for eligibility. Hope to do Philip Island AND Bathurst next year. Dave (260DET) my car (Dadson) has the swan on the rear fenders and you can see in the vid down conrod just how much air gets under the zed. I do believe that the bonnet vents (Hybridz thread) made a difference compared to last time as well as helping cooling. There will be a few mods before next time though so it will be interesting to compare to next year! To be honest, that trip through the esses and the dipper was too fast. I alsmost kissed the wall into McPhilamy (spelling??) park too... I am in the process of putting up some photos too, I'll post a link when I'm done. Tom. **EDIT** My dad beat me to the punch, the photos are here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v621/Tommo560/Bathurst%202010/ Also look on the left hand side of the page for the sub albums in the folder with the photos broken up by day. A few highlights for me:

I'm only on 3G internet here till I get home so it's too hard (and expensive) to get youtube videos going but I did get this good one of Vince and Myself taking the silver bullets bush bashing. More coming once I'm back in Perth, probably over the weekend. This was a wholly fantastic weekend and it was great to chat to a few new zed faces. If anyone is considering doing this then I say just bite the bullet and enter! The organisers are accepting ANYTHING that moves and they seem to like the zeds, given the success rate of getting a start in one, so if you put an entry form in it's fairly likely that you will get a spot.

Looks good mate! Looking forward to this more than a little. Although they say the events are 30min each, you have to allow the warm-up and cool-down times, probably 10mins or so, maybe more. Should still get some good laps in with any luck

I just bought another battery for the camera so should be able to hot swap them and make sure the in-car footage is going the entire weekend. Good vids will make youtube for sure. Hopefully can catch some tussle's with other zeds. Just gotta make sure everyone knows the story "We weren't racing, we were regularly lapping at the same speed as each other" Anyone who needs motivation to enter their zed for next year check out my '08 incar zed and '09 incar Supra footage at http://www.youtube.com/user/whittie260 Tom.

Well this is on this weekend fellas! So, who is racing and who is coming to watch? I did this in 2008 in my Datto and missed last year so am very much looking forward to going to bathurst again! This is a great event to watch for anyone who is even midly interested, hopefully the weather holds out though, dipper in the wet sliding towards the then green VB wall was not so much fun... My name is Tom by the way, My dad, John, and I will be competing in my silver 260z coming over from WA for anyone that is wandering around and wants to say hi, would be great to meet some new people. We are double entered in the weekend and sharing a drive in the 6-hour follow-the-leader.... All things considered the car is up for about 1000k's around bathurst plus the drive up and back from Sydney. The car has recieved new exhaust (extra 10Hp, 30Nm torque at wheels) and 3.9diff instead of the 3.5 in '08 so I'm pegging at mid 2:50's since we did 3:02s all weekend in '08. Also wanna crack 245kph down the hill Can't wait for a great weekend!