Attention: The Honourable Joseph Tripodi

Minister for Finance, Infrastructure,

Parliament House
Macquarie Street
Sydney 2000

Dear Mister Tripodi

RE: Funding V8 Super Cars at Homebush

I am writing to you as a concerned member of the public and as an active motor sport enthusiast regarding the proposed $30m funding of a temporary motor sport event in Homebush. I am requesting that prior to such funding; the NSW Government adequately considers the longer term needs of Sydney, and its motor racing fraternity.

Permanent motor racing circuits such as Eastern Creek Raceway host motor car and motorbike racing; cycling club racing; cross country and foot races; vintage and veteran car shows; provide driver training and launch products, cars and motor cycles. ECR will become Australia’s only remaining Internationally (FIA) recognised track and the only race track available to residents in the Sydney Basin with Oran Park closing in 2009/10. The recent proposal by the Australian Racing Driver’s Club to invest $93m in upgrading ECR, is in part, an effort by the ARDC to address the impacts of Oran Park’s closure, but this will do little to address Sydney’s growing professional and grass roots motor sport needs. As a relevant case study, please review the demise of Sydney’s Drag Racing scene between Castlereagh’s closure in 1984 to Western Sydney International Dragway’s opening in 2004. It seems that Sydney has once again decided to take the “back seat” as far as motor sport activities and Sydney’s long term economic prosperity.

The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy forecasts 40% of Sydney population growth to occur in Western Sydney over the next 25 years. In order to meet the western regions infrastructure and motor sport needs, the planning, design and construction of ECR and a second race track for the Sydney basin needs to be accelerated ahead of short term options such as street racing at Homebush. The motor racing fraternity and the people of Sydney want permanent motor racing infrastructure, which in contrast to annual races at Homebush will deliver far reaching, long term benefits for Sydney.

Excluding television viewers, there are over 500 thousand active motor sport participants in NSW , a majority of these in western Sydney. Grass roots motor sport provides the entry level for driver training and awareness; economic benefits for National and International businesses; sporting ambassadors such as Jack Branham, Allan Jones and Mark Weber and healthy social and sporting activities for Greater Sydney. By funding V8 Super Cars, the NSW Government would be choosing to support an affluent corporation over the delivery of Sydney’s long term infrastructure needs. With the threat to the Sydney Metro rail link and Sydney’s expansion in the north and south west growth areas, the NSW Government proposes that the greater motor sport contingent of Sydney will be satisfied commuting and spectating at Homebush once a year. The NSW Government needs to consider Sydney’s motor sport needs for the other 364 days of each year. Both Sydney race circuits are currently fully booked in advance and as a consequence Eastern Creek is now loosing business (such as car launches) to Melbourne . Imagine the impact on Motorsport and local businesses when Oran Park finally closes its doors?

Please re consider the long term benefits that could be delivered through re investing the $30m proposed for Homebush into a second long term race track in Sydney’s west. Such action will fulfil the long term needs of Sydney’s motor racing fraternity; deliver long term tourism opportunities and a much needed boost to Sydney’s economic development.

Yours Sincerely
Jessica Nicholson

The day started off with Brad, Jay and I getting up at 5:30am to head down to Wakefield Park for the HSV Super Sprint. Got down there and signed on and got scrutineered. Brads favourite scrutineer was on duty which always good for a laugh for me and Jay, as the questions he asks Brad have happen every sprint so far and good for a bit of a giggle. Jay also received his race number which is now, No # 450 and he doesn’t have magnetic ones yet so proceeded to duct tape them on and you could not of missed them as they took up the whole door width on either side, All the entrants proceeded to let him know that his numbers would of been able to be read from MARS. But we were all excited and ready for a big day and to tackle our times and hopefully beat our Personal Best from the previous Track day.
The track was damp and it was extremely cold down in Goulburn, it was 8 degrees all day. We all got out having our first session and were Brad’s first time out at Wakie on full slicks so he wanted to get out before the rain as it wasn’t looking very good in the morning with the dark clouds looming over head. The track was very slippery and took a few sessions to get used too. I found for me that it was most slippery after the fishhook and that didn’t change all day, had lots of trouble putting the power down after that turn. Plus nearly every session for blue group we got a light drizzle, John Street and I we were thinking the gods were against us as quite uncanny how it was our session (blue group) that kept copping the rain.
But all in all was a very enjoyable day, Brad loved the slicks and they worked well for him and he did a 1:07, Jay was having a few off’s as he found he couldn’t pull up the car on the last session for the day and he did a 1:13 and I was very happy with myself as my car ran excellent all day and the fresh engine loved going around the track and didn’t miss a beat all day and I just made it into the (11’s) with a 1:11:89.
We had 24 SSCC members entered in the sprint, Warren Weldon put down the fastest time for the club in his Evo 9 with a 1:06 and Steve Berry and John Street were very happy on the day as Steve did a 1:14 and John got his 1:11. HSV car club put on a great day and was happy how smooth the day ran.

Introduction:
To start the story off I think I need to tell you some background information. I have wanted to get into Rallying for a few years now ever since I brought my first GTR. I like the “Targa Tasmania” event and this is the ultimate goal for me to achieve while I am alive! So to do that sort of event you need to either drive or navigate! I decided on navigating as would be too much work for me to build a “Targa” car on my own and I can handle sitting in a passenger seat while yelling things at a driver. I have had boyfriends that are just as car mad as me so a bit of a pro…So thought navigating would be the perfect role for me.
So with selling my GTR (I do miss her) I thought to myself this is the perfect opportunity to start my rally career. I started putting the feelers out and it’s not an easy task trying to find someone willing to take you on and teach you to be a co driver/navigator especially as I am coming from a circuit racing background and don’t know any rally guys here in NSW. I didn’t want to spend $1600 on a co-driving course either. Cause the vital thing I have learnt is. That it all comes down to the driver and how he/she wants the notes read. So I started emailing around to rally organisation and motorsport group that I could think of and found on Google to see if anyone would take me on and I found one. Mark Butcher from Driver Skills Australia was happy to help me out and teach me the ropes.
So now my story begins!!
Now most people think I am either completely crazy or a pretty brave female as the Rally Series I am doing is held in Tasmania. So to fly over to Tassie and meet complete strangers and then get in a Rally car with the complete strangers and go driving through a forest at warped speed having no idea what to do would be classed as fun? Well I think so and I love adventure!!

Day 1: Wednesday 10th June
I flew over to Tasmania before my event to meet up with my team and start trying to get the feel for navigating. I flew from Sydney to Melbourne then Melbourne to Devonport as Qantas only fly’s there and Hobart. Amy met me at the airport and before I had even set foot on Tasmania soil I had put my foot in it hehe. I thought and have no reason why that Amy was Marks daughter (think cause she looked young in a photo I saw of her). So I told her this and she came back with the response “No, I am his wife!” Well I felt horrible and thought to myself what a brilliant start Jess…Well done! She thought it was quite funny and took it as a compliment. Mark wasn’t too impressed when Amy told him because that was basically telling him I thought he was old. So I didn’t live that comment down all weekend! Never assume anything or if you do, don’t open your mouth and tell them ha-ha. With my bags in tow we headed off from Devonport to a quaint little town on the North side of Tassie called Burnie. I got to the workshop to finally see firsthand the rally car that I would be navigating for! Very excitedly I looked it over intensely. It is a Black Subaru WRX Imprezer, 2000 model the bug eye looking ones and has the awesome mud flaps that rally cars have to have. It has just been overhauled with fresh engine internals, new bigger turbo and 3inch exhaust. The gearbox and diffs had been freshened up also. Mark told me to jump in the Rally Car and would take me the rest of the way to their place in style. The WRX is road registered so was cool driving along in the quiet town in the race seat and harness and you could hear the car coming a mile away with the exhaust on it. I was starting to realise exactly what I was getting myself in for and thought this is fantastic!
Reached my final destination Mark and Amy’s house and after going through some twisty roads. I was starting to see that Tassie scenery is all lovely rolling hills, bush and nice twisty roads that don’t have massive pot holes in them. At this point is when I found out that Tasmania has limited phone reception especially with Vodafone so I was cut off from the world for most of the day in Sisters Beach until we went out into town. I found this hard to deal with as wanted to share my excitement with friends and family. But like everyone tells me “Harden up Princess”. I will say one thing I am so glad I packed warm cause it was bloody freezing. It got down to some ridiculous temperature at night had 2 heaters plus an open fire going just to keep the house toasty warm and a electric blanket on the bed only just warms up the sheets on the highest setting so I slept in my clothes most nights plus the covers but I was “hardening up” so dealt with it.

Day 2: Thursday 11th June
Next day Mark took me out for some Navigating Training. This was the first time I laid eyes on a Rally road book and a TERRATRIP! Why am I yelling about the TERRATRIP because I have a love/ hate relationship with this new machine and will take me awhile to like it and get use to it! I can see where the “TERRA” part comes in to it. That machine definitely makes you feel that way at times. I found out there and then that the Rally I would be doing on Saturday was not what I had hoped. This Rally series is not done with pace notes as such. More a road book with safety notes that you read out to the driver and the TERRATRIP assists you with the completing of KMs of the stage and then gives you another number which is the distance to your next call but the tricky part is the TERRATRIP counts up and you need to count down in your head how many meters are left to your next note/call. That’s the confusing part because this is all happening so fast 100 meters is gone in less than a second. So Mark tells me it’s really easy and you need to just be ok with Maths and we will be great! Well I started to panic a bit and I got pins and needles throughout my body and started to go a bit numb from the shock of all this information. Started thinking “What have I got myself into, I am not sure if I can do this after all” I tend to be a bit of a stressor and second guess myself constantly, again need to “harden up”. So we set off on a Tarmac stage of the rally road book that was close to his house so I could get some practice in. We only got up to 60km an hour and I wasn’t doing too well as it’s a lot of information to take in and the roles of a navigator in the car can be quite a lot. You need to set the TERRATRIP at the start of each stage. Relay the first pace note to the driver then work out in your brain when you need to give the driver the countdown of the remaining meters and then reset the TERRATRIP when you’re just on the corner or that note. You also need to be thinking about the next note that needs to be said as some can be only 100 meter apart. Due to all this information I have found my weakness which is resetting that bloody TERRATRIP so what do you think my Tasmanian nick name is now “RESET”!!!!! So we took a break after doing two stages in the road book. At this point I was not feeling my body at all had pins and needles all over and starting to clam up and felt a bit nausea. I jump out of the car to try and stretch myself out and shake off the horrible feeling of dread. I told Mark that “I was afraid of letting him down and this is all completely new for me so taking a bit to adjust.” He was understanding and wasn’t expecting me to pick it up over night. So we jumped back in the car and I was feeling a bit better after my stretch and Mark thought it was a good idea to take me off road and show me what the car is built for. Going fast on dirt! Found a dirt forest road and we were off. This is all at night by the way and there are animals out and surrounded by forests and farm land. First time off road in a Rally car and it was insane. The car loves to go sideways and jumping over crests and considering the ordeal I had just been through I was enjoying the thrashing through the forest at night with tree branches wiping past us. It’s a hard feeling to describe unless you have tried it. It feels like you are out of control constantly but you’re in control of the car “most” of the time. So with my feeling of dread a distant memory we went back home for a well deserved dinner and a few too many beverages to calm my nerves.

Day 3: Friday 12th June
Woke up to a freezing cold morning if I haven’t already explained Tasmania is bloody freezing this time of year. I had anticipated that it would be, but couldn’t believe how cold it really was and next time won’t be listening to my flat mate about packing too many clothes. I was right and was kicking myself half way through my stay when I was running low on warm clothes. But this story isn’t going to turn girly and I have learnt my lesson. So we went into town with car cause he drives it everywhere which is just so cool and I finally got sms coming through of being wished well for my event the next day and it made me feel a lot better to have that support cause its hard doing this on your own first time around but I have made some excellent friends and my Rally Team have made me feel so welcome I can’t fault them! We rushed around Friday morning getting last minute parts and wheel alignment and spare tyres all to be ready to leave for Hobart at 3pm. On the map of Tassie from top to bottom doesn’t seem like a great distant but it is. Hobart was about 400km away from us so we were in for a long trip. I kept razzing my team mates up asking how far away all the towns where. Thought it was funny how it’s just a big island surrounded by water but I find simple thing amusing. Mark and I went out for some last minute training again on the same stages we did the night before and my dreaded pins and needles where back. Don’t know why I stress so much but think it’s to do with someone else being involved and if I get the notes wrong can be very costly and painful to both of us, enough of the dismal stuff though. I went better in this practice run and I was improving with every time we went out so all positive. Got back to pick up the rest of the team and we headed off to Hobart. I was a little bit disappointed that it was dark and wouldn’t get to see the country side on the way to Hobart but there is always next time. I was just trying to relax and not send myself into a spin with what was going to happen the next day. The one thing I found I love about Tassie was they have my favourite drink Farmers Union Iced Coffee!! This stuff is liquid gold and tastes so good. The lady was surprised how excited I got over seeing it lined up on the shelf in the fridge (for all that don’t know me I am originally from South Australia and this drink is very popular and SA made). I told her the story that it’s very hard to find in Sydney and I got the funny look from her” like it’s just milk lady”. We finally got into Hobart and unpacked. Turned the electric blanket on in my bed to try and warm it up and I had a few beverages to calm my nerves before jumping into bed and try and get some sleep for my massive day ahead.

Day 4: Saturday 13th June
Woke up to my alarm at 5:30am with sense of excitement and nerviness of my big day ahead. I got showered and dressed in my thermals, racing suit and boots and was ready to take on the challenge of first time navigating. I had brought a Balaclava for the event and a new open face helmet that I think I look hilarious in. I attached my intercom and was trying to keep busy so I didn’t have to think of what was about to unfold. We found the Rally base for the Styx Valley Rally and got unpacked and ready to roll. I went to suss out the other cars and was so happy to see a Mazda RX3 there in all its glory with the big spot lights on the front. There were Rally cars from all over Tasmania and one came over on the boat from Melbourne .You could tell the most popular choice of car was the Subaru’s. There were 5 of them that I saw and an Evo and a few other interesting choices of cars. So it was time to go over and gather my road book and sign on and see what I was in store for. I got too met up with a friend that I know off a car forum and he tried to give me some tip about navigating he was in a Toyota Sprinter. I took a glance at the roadbook and couldn’t believe how thick it was. But they put a lot of information that you don’t actually use for the rally. I started to glance through and everything is abbreviated. R.G.R and R.G.L and R.G.V.H.R and so on. So I scribbled franticly through the book for the first 3 stages putting in exactly what the abbreviations where. Which are Road Goes Right, Road Goes Left, Road Goes Very Hard Right. There is so much information to take in you can be very overwhelmed. We had the drivers briefing and noting serious points in the book and the extreme cautions. This is when my pins and needles set in again. I fumbled around and got my balaclava and helmet on. Locked myself in nice and tight in the 5 point harness and for a girl with my assets can be a little difficult (hehe) I made a joke of it to Mark and he said you won’t be laughing if we hit something and those straps are loose. I plugged myself into the intercom system and we waited for our call up to the start point. The dirt rallies are run with such organisation and all about time. Mark didn’t want to bombard me straight away with all of the navigating duties so he took on the timecards for the first half of the day. Basically you have a time card and they give you the time you start the stage/transport section and you have a time limit you need to get to the next section in. If you are early you get penalties if you are late you get penalties so you need to be very precise within reason throughout the rally. We headed off and I started navigating my way to the first stage. Mark was reminding me about resetting the terratrip and I learnt another weakness I have driving to the first stage. In the road book they will have points which are called “straight on” they are not are not a corner obviously but corners are easy to find and understand, Staight- ons can be a sign on the side of the road or a road connecting to your road but I found these hard to find and reset my terratrip when going full pelt through the forest and got told off a few times about it cause was just resetting for the hell of it and that’s how you lose your notes and have to drive blind until you find yourself in the book again! We got to the first stage and lined up behind the other cars the dread started to set in of what was about to happen. The dirt rallies have a procedure I have never seen before. All set by time and penalties we lines up at the time control sign and waited for the car in front to get his countdown and launch off the line. We then moved into our spot gave the timecard at the right time for out start time so I wouldn’t get a penalty. I then had to jump back in the car and strap up and plug myself in and get ready for the biggest ride of my life. We moved up to the start line and got the 1 minute board. The pins and needles in my body where going crazy and my nerves where in my throat. We got the 30 seconds board and I told Mark I apologise now for all my mistakes and I gave him the first call “300 meters road goers right”. He said “Stop stressing and hold ON!” with a big grin on his face. We got the countdown 5,4,3,2,1 – GO! And we were off I couldn’t believe how loose the car felt and how I wasn’t really worried about it. I was so focus on calling the notes and resetting the trip meter that I didn’t have time to look out the windscreen for the first half of the day. When you are going that speed and have no sighting laps of the stage it’s hard to know where you are in the book. As the book is only “safety notes” I was astounded that some of the corners where not in the book but if they all where I would be reading from a book that was as thick as the whitepages. The terratrip is not always accurate to the decimal point either. I was feeling the G- Forces pushing me around in my seat and the car sideways and loose but the ride was fantastic. The first stage was over in 20 minutes and was so relieved at the end to still be in one piece and the pins and needles had subsided a bit by the end. Mark looked over at me and said what do you think. I told him that was “incredible” I can see how you all love it so much but this navigating business is a whole nother level! He told me I did “ok and remember this is supposed to be fun!” We then had to navigate our way to the next stage. The rest of the day went well with no major breakage except a sensor in the engine bay having a “moment” but plugged it back in tighter and then was right for rest of the day and not hitting anything i.e trees,banks,logs though we came close a few times due to slippery conditions. Navigating is the most challenging thing I have ever taken on and the rewards are outstanding. For me to sit in the passenger seat of the most exciting ride I have ever been on is a massive achievement and can only get better from here. Mark said that I improved throughout the day and it all takes practice. He had to pull the mic away from my face as couldn’t handle me yelling the notes as I get a bit excited in the car. So I need to work on reading notes calmer and clearer. I am learning one of the harder style of navigating “roadbook & Terratrip” compared to pace notes which is interesting to say the least. We came 6th outright at the end of the day which inst to bad for a team with a new navigator. I have made some fantastic new friends as the rally guys are as crazy as me! I will be going over to Tassie again on the 18th July for Round 2 so wish me luck!!! I Can’t Wait!!!!!!

Well I wanted to tell my story as we talk about driving our cars but there is more to motorsport than just that. I want to tell my story of how much fun it is being involved with the other part of motorsport which is helping run an event.
My first experience as a Race Controller was May the 2nd at the MRA day. I got thrown into the deep end by David Curry (Thank you DC) as he thought I would be perfect for the job. Being my first time in this sort of scenario I was a little nervous. It is a bit intimidating up in the Control Box with all the noise and people around that are a lot more experienced in this than you and you are nervous cause you want to do well and it’s not exactly good to stuff up as you’re the” ONE” telling everybody what to do! Plus this day was a step up from the regular super sprints as MRA is a Grid race and there is more involved in running the day. I met David the Clerk of Course and we hit it off from the start. I take orders from him and relay them over the radio to the various people. I was on Channel 1 which was in charge of Marshalling, Starter, Flaggies and Scrutineers. I had to communicate with these people throughout the day and it wasn’t a dull one. We had debry flying off cars, Cars and Karts coming off the track and a Mini rolling over which was very unfortunate and the driver was ok but messy to clean up as all fluids go everywhere. I learnt a lot from that day and was more confident by the end of it. The best part about Race Control is you have one of the prime viewing positions for the day’s events. As I went so well with the MRA day. David (Clerk of Course) asked me to be a Race Controller for the Super Trucks event at Oran Park on 14th and 15th of May. I said “YES” Immediately as love the Super Trucks and to see them first hand at OP I leaped at the chance..
I rocked up early Saturday morning and was very surprised at the level of seriousness this event was going to be. I thought it would be just like MRA but I was wrong. There was 4x Race Controllers instead of the two at MRA (which was me Channel 1 and then channel 2 for Fire/Rescue, Recovery and Medical) so you had Channel 1 doing Flaggies/Marshalling, Starter and Scrutineer. Channel 2 was Medical. Channel 3 was Fire/Rescue and Channel 4 was Recovery. Some of the controller where listening to 2 channels as well..I don’t know how they think with a person talking in each ear plus having to talk to each other in the room. Would feel like you’re crazy!!!!
I was very excited to be there and be part of a national level meeting. I was taught the ropes in the morning by an experience Controller and was on PA rounding up the next race groups for Marshalling all tough job as you want to make the day run as smooth as possible. After lunch it was my turn to get on Channel 1.. I was a little nervous again as it had been 2 weeks since doing MRA and this was a more serious event again but David (Clerk of Course) was there guiding me and telling me what to do. It came around to the 2nd to last Truck race and it was all happening. We had a Truck with a flat tyre going around the track with the rubber hitting and flapping and starting to shred the guard and I swear those guys don’t feel a thing when driving the trucks because he kept on going around lap after lap as if he hadn’t even noticed. Plus while this was happening I had another truck rear brakes catch on fire and he was going around the track lap after lap and not even notice the ploom of smoke behind him. I asked Start/Finish flaggies to put the “meatball flag” (Funny word for mechanical flag which I am still learning all the correct flags) out to call in the two trucks but only had a lap to go. I had Flaggies coming in every 1 minute with reports and when this sort of scenario is happening it can get pretty hectic in the Control box with everyone giving orders and Flaggies and other positions coming in on the radio in your ear so you definitely need a cool head to combat the task and prioritise what needs to happen. But in the end the trucks came in and the fire was put out and the tyre changed and was handled well. Was great watching and good to have this sort of thing happen as you learn a lot about yourself and the way you handle things and the way you handle others.
For a role that I have sort of fell into I can’t fault it. I love it and really do hope it continues for me and the doors keep opening which has surprised me a lot. You get to meet some great people have prime view of some awesome racing and feel achieved in helping out and being a part of something that wouldn’t work without people that are willing to put in the effort! Thank you to all the people that help run motorsport events.
I strongly urge anyone to try out different roles at motorsport events cause you might be pleasantly surprised like I was .I didn’t think I could have as much fun helping out at a motorsport event as driving in one plus you get treated pretty dam well and it’s nice getting a FREE lunch. My days are not over behind the wheel, more been put on hold as taking a passenger seat navigating in a Rally Car for the second half of this year in Tasmania and will be involved with the NSW Rally Australia round in September if all goes well and now with my love for “Race Control” just doesn’t get much better than this! (Unless Greg lets me drive the S15 again) hehe!!

This was an action packed day for me! The president of SSCC had allowed me to drive his S15 and I couldn’t wait! It didn’t get off to the best start for me though due to Greg and I being totally different heights and the driver’s seat fixed into a position suited for Greg only so I add to adjust that. I then discovered that I needed to adjust the harness strap’s which looked easy enough (NOT). First I needed to untangle the window net from the fire extinguisher and I was doing all of this sitting in the driver’s seat to get to the one of the waist straps. A felloe SSCC Member Benny saw that I was struggling with it so came over to give me a hand. Well we got the window net out of the way but the fire extinguisher was proving a hard object to move (all this to adjust a strap mind you). So as Benny and I were struggling with the fire extinguisher the pin accidentally slipped out of its hole that keeps the extinguisher lock and I went to grab the extinguisher to pull it out of its holder finally and I accidentally set it off on Benny A puff of white powder came screaming out. Well he jumped a million miles up into the air and I had the biggest shocked look on my face cause of what I had just done! Benny was a “little” white and shocked and I apologised but he was scared to come near me after that. But setting off the extinguisher had worked and it was finally out of the car so I could get to the strap to adjust it!! YAY!! I then had to tell Greg what had happened he thought it was hilarious and I now need to buy him an extinguisher. Fire Extinguisher – 1 Jessica – 0 (Greg still thinks it’s hilarious that I let the extinguisher off)
So with that ordeal over I strapped myself in finally with my pillows and was ready to rock! I was so excited to be driving the S15 it’s always been a “quick” car but being so used to driving GTR’s not sure how I was going to adapt to driving a RWD car fast…I lined up to the pit lane and was awaiting my signal to go out on the track when Brenton came over to me and asked if I could jump in with his girlfriend and give her some pointers as it was her first time on the race track with her car. I introduced myself and Erin seemed relieved to have another person in the car. I was stocked to be out there with another girl. So I gave Erin some advice before we left and she went very well for her first time around the track. I was very encouraging and she soon picked up what she needed to do to go fast!
It soon rocked around to being my turn to go out in the S15 I adjusted all the straps again found my pillow and jumper and was ready to hit the track. Got out there and the car felt insane! Was the first time I got to drive a car with a big single turbo on it as well and the thing was so loud and when it came onto boost was crazy..I was loving it lap after lap and soon found my routine of gears and where to brake as Greg’s car was so much different to the GTR I used to own. I was firing the ABS coming into the fishhook as was braking hard and late (like I am used) and Greg told me to brake earlier and squeeze the peddle on cause the systems in the S15 was so good and worked great. I went out on Full Slicks and Semi’s and the car didn’t lose grip I was amazed with it. So for my first time out in somebody else car it started off a little worrying but by the end of the day I was buggered and so happy. It was a fantastic day and Erin got a trophy for most improved driver which I was ecstatic about cause I had given her a helping hand! The day might of costed me a little extra with buying Greg a new extinguisher but was well worth it. Big Thanks to Autosports and TGS for putting on the day, Greg for letting me drive the S15 and all helpers involved with making the day run so smoothly!!!