WINTON: EXE – Tart shakedown v4.0

After a hiatus from driving the Starlet, it wasn’t the easiest lead up to this event with the car only starting again at 2:15AM on Friday morning (a few hours before I was set to drive off to Winton). Running a slightly revised set up with less power, a new swirl pot, new intake (thanks […]

HAUNTED HILLS: Nugget Nationals 2017 Round 2 Pt.2

During the second half of the day, we ran the figure 8 configuration. After a 6 month break from track, Simo is back with a vengeance narrowly missing out on first place in this layout. Andrew’s parents were kind enough to lend him their Camry for the day. And he couldn’t be more pleased! For […]

HAUNTED HILLS: Nugget Nationals 2017 Round 2 Pt.1

Feeling sick and snotty, I dosed up on some cold and flu tablets and dragged myself out of bed early Saturday morning to head down to Bryant Park for round two of Nugget Nationals at the infamous Haunted Hills hill climb track. As per my last post, I’m not competing in Nugget Nationals this year […]

WAKEFIELD: EXE x Nugget Nationals Round 4

Due to the paper thin walls and the creakiest floor boards known to man kind, most of our cabin was up well before we needed to be at the track, which was only a few metres from our accommodation. Thankfully the Mexican GP was playing on free to air. Remnants from the wild party we […]

PERRY: Nugget Nationals track prep and roadtrip

Saturday 31st of October, 2015 After my last excursion to Winton where my car was ejected off the tarmac due to unforeseen (I didn’t check) brake pad failure, it was time to assess the actual damage and replace my pads and rotors. Yeah this isn’t going to be pretty. Rotors completely scoured… …due to lack […]

WINTON: EXE x Nugget Nationals Round 3

On Sunday the 13th of September, we tagged along to the EXE track day to hold round 3 of Nugget Nationals. As Perry had stayed over night at the track and I had swapped over to my Nugget compliant AD08r’s the night before, there was little prep to do. A quick walk around the pits […]

WINTON: EXE – Perry PB’s

I sat down tonight to write up a blog post about the entire track weekend but the whole exercise seemed just beyond my current energy levels. Instead I’m going to tell you a little story about my little Perry. On Friday, I left work at lunch time to come home and get Perry ready for […]

Cake, Carts and half a CRX

After picking Peter up on Saturday night from the airport, we made plans to arrive early the next day in Brunswick for Day of the Donut. We were greeted to this ridiculous line at 9am and after refusing to wait, headed over to help the other half of Team Rattlesnake. Tom required assistance lifting his […]

WINTON: EXE crew, a truck and a track

The afternoon before track day, we drove up to Benalla to meet up with Pete who was coming down from Sydney. Pete was excellent enough to leave his spare wheel behind and bring my new MX5 diff down from Sydney in the back of his MX5! As the temperature dropped quickly after the sun went […]

SINGAPORE: An EXE wedding and more go karting.

After Legoland, we caught a taxi from Malaysia to Singapore. The actual reason we had all come on this overseas trip was for Kenny’s wedding in Singapore. In the 5 hours we had to kill between the lunch time ceremony and the reception, I went shopping and managed to score this lot. JP was pretty […]