FTO Drivers Club, Western Australia

[Guest]

We need some FTO's i dont think i have seen 1 one any of our cruises so,

Come one, Come all

The map has been written, it�s a good mix of coastal suburbia, light industrial and a touch of the foothills. We are departing from a �to be announced� location south of the river closer to the date.

Time and Date: 8.15pm the 20th November 2004.

The map is about 120km and has 2 stops with food and 1 stop with Fuel, so please have some in the tank to start with.

Please bring you CB�s (channel 16) and leave the Hoon within at home.

you front wheelers should love the twisty twisty roads that we have found.

[magic1]

sorry thats me who posted that but i had not logged in.

[magic1]

sorry thats me who posted that but i had not logged in.

[RichardH]

Thanks for the invitation!

- Rich

[magic1]

Richard,

I have the feeling you do most of the posting around here.

Anyway come and enjoy we are aiming for 120 cars plus

[RichardH]

Yeah, it's got real quiet on here in recent months! Everybody got busy...

...and speaking of being busy, that cruise date is my wife's birthday!! So I'm not able to come this time.

Seems to be the way of 2004. Perhaps 2005 will be a little easier!

- Rich

[Guest]

or, honey lt me take you for a romantic drive, shit honey look at all of these cars. maybe we should follow them. no it wont be for long,

[Zan]

Yeah real busy.. I haven't really had much time to focus on my car.
But I still do enjoy giving it a few revs now and then.

But good to know you're still around Rich. How's the current MC season
going? Not sure if you're racing in a team or not.
I hear everyone competing is now running r-comps.

-zan

[RichardH]

The track driving is going great for me right now!

I passed on joining a team this July-to-December season, and decided to just get back to driving the nuts off the car for fun.

Unfortunately, I started out with a six-week break from any performance driving, which resulted in me being seriously crap when I got back into it.

So I've been in intensive "rehab" mode for a few months now, with the usual practice days, 1-on-1 sessions every other Friday, and the individual comp days when they come up... and I'm having a blast again.

The last 1-on-1 training session was a 45 minute sideways driving extravaganza. My old r-comps were basically dead, and I was planning on going straight from the AHG Driving Centre to the tyre shop to get new ones. So any rubber left on the old Toyos would be a waste!!!!

Towards the end of the session, I was pitching the car hard left at 80km/h, and JC was yanking on the handbrake. Full opposite lock, correct it, enter corner, then another stab of handbrake, and apply power! Straighten up as the car flips the other way, then slides sideways (hello four-wheel drift), before powering out going the other way.

After 45 minutes of this, there were decent areas of bare metal on the old tyres!

I'm now on new Yokahama A032R. They are just one session old, and starting to get grippy. Can't wait to see what they are like after I've really worn them in.

So... are your palms sweaty yet? Want me to arrange an FTO MC Motorsport training day?

- Rich

[magic1]

We are departing from the large carpark near the boatramps at Point Walter in attadale off burke drive. Meet at 7.30 pm roll out at 8.15pm

[Zan]

hehehe.. yeah sweaty palms and the memories of burning rubber

Sounds like you're having great fun.. I had no idea a FWD car could get into a 4 wheel drift.

Attending the next FTO MC day would be worth it just to see you do this.


-zan

[magic1]

not 1 fto whats with that guys?

[RichardH]

Well, I got as far as "honey lt me take you for a romantic drive..." before getting smacked in the back of the head and made to clean up all the leftover birthday cake!!!!

- Rich

[aaahhhrrrggg]

had to work till 8:30 so no fun for me

[aaahhhrrrggg]

had to work till 8:30 so no fun for me