Minimum speed through turn 1 at Phillip Island

[Ray Pignataro]

Sheldon are you kidding ? have you seen the way she drives? she is NUTS.

[jimnielsen]

Brent.. Top speed was constrained to 187 kph because the car was using the 4.555 diff at that stage combined with the 4 1/2th gear that Vin had made in place of 5th gear. After checking, I found that the run was made on the dunlop slicks - that were a little smaller in diameter than the pirelli ones..

Great to here that the Giulietta is going to get a "refresh" - that head gasket must have seen a few laps by now!

jim..

[Evan Bottcher]

Here's an update from Sunday.  I managed to convince myself not to brake at turn 1 

Here's a grab from the one session I bothered to put the logger in - max speed is only 157kmh (head wind).  A little lift off drops the speed to 152kmh, then I feed in the SUD POWER once I'm turned in.  Unfortunately SUD POWER is not enough to keep the pace through the corner, which drops off gradually.  Mid-corner speed is 148kmh at 1.075G. 

[Paul Gulliver]

I managed to convince myself not to brake at turn 1

Evan, at least you won't die wondering.

[Evan Bottcher]

Lend me your car Paul, and I'll see if you need to brake for turn 1. 

[Paul Gulliver]

Evan,

Have some good video from the weekend but having trouble uploading.

Someone kindly got this vision of me at turn 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCxdlZ7G18

[aggie57]

Gee Paul - nice to see you got your act together finally and got some speed on!!