Last Friday was the Manly Warringah Sporting Car Club (MWSCC) Wakefield track day, a friend within the club has been inviting me to attend one of their days for what feels like 2yrs, however whenever they had a track day I couldn't take leave (I was casual at the time) or the car wasn't ready. I finally was able to attend one even though I knew the tyres probably wern't up to scratch, although I just said to myself "let's just send it".

It was a open pit lane day, as of my last trackday I definitely prefer OPL as you get so much more time, and it's good for testing things as today was my first day with the Intima Type D's. MWSCC is a club that's been around for 50yrs or so. They seem to do a lot of track days, going interstate for club track days as well, however this year due to COVID that obviously slowed down things.

I really enjoyed the day, probably the best Wakefield day I've ever done. I think was due to the fact that everyone has heaps of track experience, so everyone lets others go past, they don't hold people up etc, like you'd get at a normal public track day with begineers. Another factor was I was one of the slower cars of the day which meant I couldn't catch anyone anyways haha..

Started the day off with my first fast lap braking at the kink of T1, losing the rear end of the car and flying over the ripple strip of the apex on T2. No idea why this happened, the brakes did feel very hard however after doing so they seemed to return to a 'normal feel'. Throughout the first half of the day I was more so trying to get heat into the tyres and getting a feel for the new brakes, adjusting my mental braking markers as I went. I usually try to only blame myself, however these tyres are quite old, uneven wear from toe & street driving etc etc (which can be seen in the previous post)... After doing hot laps I'd come in and they'd either not be hot, or be hot but still hard/not sticky. Only about lunchtime they started to become sticky. Maybe it's just me though, but I'll be replacing these before my next track day.

I ended up getting a 1.09.96 (RaceChrono as there was no Natsoft timing). I had hoped to maybe dive a bit deeper into the 1.09s instead of only just slipping in, but I'll take it.

Also my friend Bryan blew me away.. I'm quite the coffee love, however I've never thought of taking a pod machine to the track.. I'm clearly not living life.

My mate Jack's minty fresh DC2R!

After my 1.09.96 I got a few low 1.10's like 10.0, 10.2, 10.4 etc but couldn't get that 1.09 again. I seemed to sit around 1.11.0 a fair bit. I did feel a bit thrown off with the new pads, the Type D's you have to push down more for the bite, then once you reach the bite if you imagine the biting section being 100%, the first 50% felt pretty good however once I braked harder for that second 50% the car would instantly lock up on any corner. I could feel myself not pulling up like I usually would for corners, especially T2, so then when turning into the corner I'd start to understeer. I'm not sure why this is, it's something I'll need to look in to.

With that I just started to send it and have fun for the rest of the day as I was told towards the end of the day it more so turns into door-to-door racing, everyone just ghee-ing up one another which was heaps of fun.

The day was done, packed up the trailer/ute and the MWSCC had a club meeting with free beers, I stayed around and chatted with some, a nice friendly bunch of mostly older guys than me (I'm a tad young), after that we headed home. I plan to join the MWSCC club next year once I've got my car sorted, and attend all their track days which at the moment is about 4 I think. I really enjoyed the track day, and it made me want to add all the bits I have planned to the car, whilst fixing up other areas to improve some quality of life things, as well as fix others. I really need to look into a oil cooler as well!

Within the next 2 weeks I'll pull the car out the shed and go over it from the track day, and make a post with a list of what's going to happen with the car. Enjoy a few photos from the professional photographer on the day, along with a YouTube video of my 1.09.96 lap.