tazzieman Posted 7April, 2014 Report Share Posted 7April, 2014 Crosspost from Landsharks; should make all us guys in les voitures ancienne happy and content Sydney Motorsport Park ( Eastern Creek ) skid pan , yesterday ( Saturday ) , round 2 for the PCNSW Motorkhana competition 2014 Good turn out of Porsche cars / competitors , the latest and greatest Porsche's , be it GT3's , 986 /987 Boxters , Caymans , 996 / 997 911's , 993 , 964 911's , 944 / 944S2's / 951's & earlier 911's all get their turn to compete on the skid pan in the dry ( morning sessions) & afternoon wet track sessions Its mainly a test of pin point driving skill & memory driving around cones ( witches hats ) & you loose points by hitting a cone or going the wrong way ( wrong direction) around a cone at speed amongst a forrest of cones laid out in a pattern & at ground level ( looking out onto the cones ) there is no real pattern to see , each competitor receives a road map for each pattern & you get to walk the course before each session to help familiarise oneself with the course & this is where memory is vital & car control or better described as the ability to be able to get your'e car around each cone as close as possible ( milli meters if possible ) and to get the tail end of the Porsche you are driving to slide out & get the car pointed at the next cone & accelerate as hard as possible to that cone & repeat to the end of the course & to remember which direction ( be it clockwise or anti clockwise ) that each cone has to be negotiated , one wrong direction or even to touch one cone out the 30+ cones , one looses points , naturally the quicker one is around the course (without making one mistake ) the better chance one has to win the day , or you can go slower to not make a mistake , but the downside of this is you can not take out the outright win , because there will always be someone just a fraction of a second quicker who has just slightly better memory The part I particularly like is the very last bit of each session , as each competitor is going around the last cone on the return pass ( yes you have to remember cone directions on the return section ) as as they normally do in laying out the cones , they give the competitor the temptation of one last quick ( 2nd gear flat out ) straight bit of the course to entry the" garage " , naturally the garage is just a rectangle of cones , open at the entry end , but only just long enough to fit a car in , now you do not have to be a genius to figure out that if you lock up your'e brakes / loose tyre grip as you brake hard to stop in the garage " But Not Hit the cone in front , then you have to judge this very carefully , this is very tempting , because you could pick up a second if you accelerate flat & hit the brakes perfectly as you come to a stop in this garage , to make it worse , there is a laser beam that has to show that your'e car has come to a stop within the garage & not hanging out the back , naturally ABS brakes are very very very very useful for this to happen with more ease , to see competitors do this to perfection with No ABS is something to see Remember for last century Porsche's , ABS was standard only on the 928S from 1986 , not available at all on the 911 series ( including the 911 Turbo ) up to & including the 1989 year type ( meaning non 964 ) ABS was standard on the 951 ( 944 Turbo from 1987 ) = Sean's 1986 951 misses out ABS was an expensive option on the 944 series from 1987 to 1989 ( standard 1990 > ) And this is where Motorkhana is such a good driving skill & fun day out event to do , because it puts all Porsche's competing in a very very level playing field , because the car has less input than the driver , because the speeds are not high ( 2nd gear most of the time )& you can come way from one of these very inexpensive days out where you can get a better result on the day than much newer Porsche's ( great feeling ) No race helmet required , just join the club , pay the small entry fee for Motorkhana event/s & compete , most people just use their standard road tyres etc The guy's who are competing at the pointy end ( there is always plenty of them ) will compete on road legal "R" spec tyres etc . Any way at the end of yesterdays Motorkhana round 2 for the year , a last century front engined Porsche took the outright win for the day ( quickest time and least mistakes ) & yes it was Sean Buchanan ( again ) in his 1986 Porsche 951 & this time Sean won by some 21 seconds in front of 2nd place , normally the gap from 1st place to 2nd place is often 1.5 seconds or something similar , meaning it could go any which way & to show how outright mega horse power is not that important , one of our customers ( Fred D'Cruz ) won 4th outright in his 1983 944 ( very good result ) Regards Bruce Buchanan Buchanan Automotive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stardust Posted 7April, 2014 Report Share Posted 7April, 2014 My son turns 13 in a couple of weeks. I just bought him a Porsche NSW membership and a CAMS L2JNS licence for his birthday. This means he can do these Motorkhanas. He has proven his skill with stick and clutch in our 89 Cruiser on the farm. All I have to do now is let him loose in my pride and joy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simonoz Posted 7April, 2014 Report Share Posted 7April, 2014 Pull a couple of plug leads off, Dave. Maybe three..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gman993 Posted 7April, 2014 Report Share Posted 7April, 2014 Good write up Bruce and WOW a 21 second gap to 2nd place is HUGE. Did the rest of the guys hit cones or do wrong directions for the gap to be this large? Cheers Gman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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