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<\/a>Another set of new rotors<\/p><\/div>\n
Labour weekend.\u00a0 And that means the second of the two Port Road Street Sprint events of the year.\u00a0 This is the home event of my club, Hutt Valley Motorsport Club.\u00a0 And what a day Wellington turned on.\u00a0 Couldn’t have asked for a better start.\u00a0 Calm with clear blue skies.\u00a0 A bit chilly at 7am when I rocked up to the pit area finding a good quarter of the field already setting up. A week later and it was time to convert the car back to gravel mode and go play at Mangahao Dam Rd up near Shannon.\u00a0 This is a new piece of road for me.\u00a0 5km of very tight twisty gravel road that climbs about 300m.\u00a0 Managed to get hold of a set of notes that had been made previously and went through a video from last year a few times the night before to check them.\u00a0 Made a few adjustments and we were good to go. So after 6 weeks and nearly 4000km of driving including probably about 200 race kms with not a scratch on the car, while backing into the driveway after the last event, I managed to just miss the low bit and caught the mud flap between the kerb and wheel pulling that off the bumper and pulling the bumper partly off the car.\u00a0 Not an ideal way to finish the day, but sometimes that sort of thing happens. Maybe in the break I might be able to break out box 2 of the Lego Porsche that has been sitting unloved on the book shelf. It’s November.\u00a0 Means a break for a few weeks after 6 events in 6 weeks.\u00a0 Good for the budget.\u00a0 And the various small jobs that need doing on the car now. For example, during some of the commuting to the further away events I started noticing some shuddering from the brakes.\u00a0 Seems the new front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-race-car","7":"category-racing","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RrqC-3e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nConditions warmed up a bit during the day and times came down but overall seemed to be a bit slower than January.\u00a0 Managed 5th in class with 2nd-5th being covered by 0.95 seconds which is pretty tight.
\nFinal and fastest run of the day.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAnother chilly and very early start, departing the house at 5:30am.\u00a0 BP in Otaki for fuel and a B&E pie for breakfast.\u00a0 Found the venue and parked up to get the car sorted.\u00a0 Changed tyres over, sorted doco and awaited briefing and event start.\u00a0 Practice run and 3 officials for this one, so only really one chance to properly check the notes.\u00a0 Sarah managed to score an additional co-driver ride with Leon so she managed twice as many runs as I did.\u00a0 Good practice for note calling though.
\nAll in all, a very challenging piece of road.\u00a0 Mostly 1st and 2nd gear with occasional blips into 3rd.\u00a0 And lots of corners keeping me busy.\u00a0 Really enjoyed it and can’t wait to have another go at it next year.\u00a0 6th in class and 10th overall isn’t bad for a first look at the road against some very experienced competitors.
\nFinal, and again, fastest run of the day.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThat’s now one of the tasks that I need to deal with before the final event I’ve got on my calendar currently which is another gravel event over in the Wairarapa at the end of Nov.<\/p>\n
\nWatch this space.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"