Hopefully my spider will be ready for the next event.

Non MR2 vehicles only qualify for "outright" hence Dirk my E30 makes a appearance in the outright standings due to consistently being mid top 10 in every event and winning the regularity event outright by pushing the red EVO around the track :) 
 
(non MR2's are not eligible for the other classes and i agree with this completely, otherwise i would have had a modified street plaque too, and the EVO's would have had plenty as well)
 
I think everyone over thought the regularity event and that is why i was so shocked i won it. However if the Celica with 4AGZE was not held up on one of his laps he would have won it easily, as his lap times bar one were perfect!
 
But that is just the way the cookie crumbles, makes me laugh when people get upset about not winning things.....
 
 
 
 
 
That being said i was cut up about being 4th in 2013 instead of 3rd because i did not do the special stage ;)
 
 
Thanks to Steve for holding the event and at least bringing his "LAMP" 

 
I am broker than i have ever been before but thats ok, i had a great time. Tired as though after 1,600 kays of driving.... 300 of which were WOT on the track. Work today was a killer!
 
If anyone has any images i would love to see them.

... just thought Marlin would have got top spot. From memory, there were 8 timed sessions and he won 5 of them.
Tuesday's times aren't on Natsoft though, so my memory may be failing me.

Nice to catch up with you all!
 
I had a depressing time ha ha, hard to sit and watch everyone and not wish my car was there!
 
My car was the heaviest car we had on the scales 2.2Tonne! (well my work ute. That was with all my weight reduction i did before i left by taking ladders off, tools, most stock out ect)
 
Was a tad heavier when i was towing the supra and trailer at 1AM back to the track, boy did i have no brakes!
 
 

The scoring was done on a time accumulation calculation (except for regularity) which means, even in the events where the EVO was top dog, he might have only been 0.5 - 1 second ahead of the next car, leaving him with very little lead. So even winning 5 events in a row could only be ahead 5 second lead at best. This advantage lead is easily taken away in something like the regularity where a couple of bum laps could see you down 5 - 10 points.

There is definitely a trick to regularity. Not from my experience but via others who do quite a bit in the Regularity Series at Marulan. Looks like most of the EVOs nominated times quite off their pace because it would be "easy " to achieve. Harder to do than to drive at probably 95% of your best.  My gut feel just says Travis was just using regularity as 9 extra track laps chasing the red EVO. WOT ...Does Trav know any other way? I think we had a quick chat at the back of the garages with the red EVO driver who said his mirrors were full of red BMW for most of the time turns 4 through 8/9 till the EVO disappeared down the straight each lap. Ironic that the red EVO "pace car" helped Trav to do so well in the regularity.

So a good result in regularity can make you win outright irrespective of performance in the other events? Sounds heavily weighted towards the regularity result. I accept the result though don't like it. It's not fair. Each event should be weighted equally.

Dumping some photos!
 
AW11 working

AW11 not working

View from the cabins

Cranking the BBQ

Travis with demon eyes
Victor getting his super chef on

HMAS Impreza pulling out of the dry docks to take up slack from the AW11 not making it

Ken's secret to making a fast AW11, Googlie Eyes! (Take note EVO's ;)  )
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn kids trying to steal cars!
Tree thinks it's a VL Commodore.
Let the Chilli Burger Challenge Begin!
Collecting the broken AW11 ;.;
Home at last!

WIDEMR
Nice to catch up with you all!
 
I had a depressing time ha ha, hard to sit and watch everyone and not wish my car was there!
 
My car was the heaviest car we had on the scales 2.2Tonne! (well my work ute. That was with all my weight reduction i did before i left by taking ladders off, tools, most stock out ect)
 
Was a tad heavier when i was towing the supra and trailer at 1AM back to the track, boy did i have no brakes!
 
 

Definitely a finalist for the "Good Samaritan" class, along with B24 who donated his shifter cables so the SA car could get home to Adelaide in time for work on Thursday. Hard though to take it away from Asimovy (Iain) who had offered to drive home to Sydney to get a set of cables from his car, drive back to Wakefield and then home to Sydney to start work on Wednesday morning. Would have meant 660km and around 6.5 hours driving. Don't think the Adelaide guys quite appreciated what this gesture involved. More than half the time and distance of their one way Wakefield -Adelaide trip. Longer than a trip from Adelaide to Rennmark and return. Not all that sure that Iain did eiher. If Iain's attitude doesn't exemplify the spirit of the MR2 Track Day Challenge and the MR2 community in general, I don't know what does.

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So a good result in regularity can make you win outright irrespective of performance in the other events? Sounds heavily weighted towards the regularity result. I accept the result though don't like it. It's not fair. Each event should be weighted equally.

Chill and bathe in the glory that Ken's AW11 was quickest by a good margin on the main circuit. Well deserved in a car that I would perceive to be considerably harder to drive well than most EVOs.  In no way take this as an attack on the robot cars or taking anything away from the EVO drivers. They still have to be driven well but you personally told many of us how easy you thought they were to drive quickly. Weighting is always going to be a problem when we have such disparite cars. We all achieved what we went there for. We all had fun.
 
Perhaps we could give 2 wheel drive cars a 0.4 sec handicap over the 4WD brigade. That would have put a different slant on the friendly rivalry between two good mates -- just joking Joyce before I get totally flamed.