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#1 Shiney005

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Posted 11 August 2020 - 11:07 PM

Looks like I have found my retirement village.

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Posted 12 August 2020 - 12:00 AM

Prices are not that horrific compared to other similar sports.  I know a guy who spends more than that on just a 35 foot boat.



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 06:15 AM

Interesting.....imagine laying by the pool with a cold beer, dozing off in the sun, as some dude in his triple Rotor 120db loud Sports Sedan does 100 practice/setup laps.  Oh, the serenity.



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 07:46 AM

You don't know what life's all about until you've done 200mph with dementia.



#5 Shiney005

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Posted 12 August 2020 - 08:23 AM

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.     Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car that day.  :)



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 12:00 PM

Lock me in Eddie........



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 03:25 PM

I wonder what qualifies as a “Celebrity” these days? Couple of TV gigs in one of those god awful reality shows. Prodigy sounds interesting, racing prodigy I’m assuming...not piano or violin prodigy

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Posted 12 August 2020 - 05:35 PM

wont happen in WA   

there was a bunbury racetrack that got canned just because some hippie found a orchid 

 

Albany just had its dragstrip canned , too noisy the dickheads say

 

this place is only good for thieving smack heads it seems 



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 05:58 PM

100 mil whos coughing up the money for this

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Posted 12 August 2020 - 07:10 PM

As someone else said on a page about this.
If every plan came about WA would have about 50 tracks but we dont, doubt it will happen

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Posted 12 August 2020 - 08:06 PM

kind of a good idea. but what locals would go to start with?

Don't see many speedy cars on the roads out there. It's Landcruser, Hilux, Commodore country.

W.A. could really use an international standard track. So much space. such good weather for it. cheap petrol to burn it on!
Barbagallo is really good - it feels like Brands Hatch in U.K. but with the above benefits but it's the only track in town.
I went to bike day last year and got a spot in easy so don't think there's too much interest. They do the cruise west days which would be just right for the car.

The track layout looks drag strip straight boring. Guess it would come with a 60kmh limit road with all those urban zone light posts, trees, buildings right on it.

Also for sure that there will be too much opposition - Australians like rules far too much and to say no to stuff waaaaaaaaaaaay to much.

 



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 08:48 PM

Don't forget the collie track. It is booked out every weekend of the year.



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 08:59 PM

Twill never eventuate.



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Posted 12 August 2020 - 09:08 PM

Just another country club

I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member

 

Now if it was really a retirement home... sign me up



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Posted 13 August 2020 - 02:03 PM

Don't forget the collie track. It is booked out every weekend of the year.

:) that was me being lazy not mentioning. i haven't been there. hope to get on down if i'm ever allowed back into the state. Why so popular that it's booked out or is it more of take it or leave it no other choices reason. that would make sense. i would go just to get out there. it doesn't look like most exciting track ever and was designed by someone who can't turn left or is it right?

 

Just another country club

I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member

 

Now if it was really a retirement home... sign me up

did you wash the Caddy at North Perth carwash? next to BP and MCD? There's not a lot around and was walking past a while back and walked past one black mean looking one there sometime last year.
 



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Posted 13 August 2020 - 07:33 PM

Personally i think collie is a far better “drivers” track than barbs, even the old layout.
I havent run the new extension but few mates rave about it.

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Posted 16 August 2020 - 12:21 PM

:) it doesn't look like most exciting track ever and was designed by someone who can't turn left or is it right?

It was designed to carry 120 ton dump trucks to the crusher and central services area at the Western 5 coal mine.

I haven't driven the extension yet either (at least not in its official capacity), but I have been told it is pretty fast.


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Posted 18 August 2020 - 09:48 AM

sounds interesting.
hope i'm allowed back in state and can give it a shot soon.
on the bike - not car.
don't know about how fast it could be but sure it would feel fast- looks like it's one of the smallest tracks out there if it's 1.6km and in the climate.
it would feel super fast and so would only be able to do short times on it having to be full concentration 100% no straights to take a break.

 



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Posted 18 August 2020 - 10:15 AM

The extension to the track makes it 2.5 kays long. Longer than Wanneroo.

The section inside the pink lines is the new part.

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The HDT SLR 5000 was written off on the bottom straight years ago when it was a return road for the old dragstrip.

 

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Posted 18 August 2020 - 05:14 PM

too much greenery too little road there.
another extension would be good - could easy fit a spa downhill or an aragon straight in there.

hope it's not all flat also.



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Posted 19 August 2020 - 10:31 PM

There is video footage of collie, try youtube or there facebook page.
No it is not flat, they are using the lay of the land.
From the incar i have seen its not as high speed as people think BUT it is more technical than the one left turn wanneroo, still retains some of its original characteristics of original track.
The intention was never to hold supercar events, was for club racing and state level racing.

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Posted 19 August 2020 - 11:58 PM

There is video footage of collie, try youtube or there facebook page.
No it is not flat, they are using the lay of the land.
From the incar i have seen its not as high speed as people think BUT it is more technical than the one left turn wanneroo, still retains some of its original characteristics of original track.
The intention was never to hold supercar events, was for club racing and state level racing.

Haven't been on the new track but here is a mates run on the new layout.

watch to the end of the LS1 :(

He wanted to beat the ford :-o

 

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Posted 20 August 2020 - 10:56 PM

Lj rb30, 😮bugger that doesnt sound good, hope not too serious


Another view, one of the guys in the hsv club
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Edited by ozyozyozy, 20 August 2020 - 10:57 PM.


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Posted 20 August 2020 - 11:37 PM

Lj rb30, bugger that doesnt sound good, hope not too serious


Another view, one of the guys in the hsv club
https://youtu.be/OsHp8yj0pho

Yeah dont know yet.

Its parked up atm.

Its a high k boy racer car that got a loud pipe & a cam & tune then drive like ya stole it  :spoton:

But he certainly has/d fun :rockon:

Must pull my finger out & get back down there for another squirt!






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