Curly wrote:
Yep, the RAAF Auto Club of East Sale (RACES) run 2 super sprints each year on the base using taxi ways and runways to make up a tricky little circuit that must be about 1.3km in length. The back straight is long enough to reach almost 100mph in a quick Cooper 'S'. The track is marked out with cones, witches' hats and empty plastic barrels - there's plenty of run off areas and the only things that you're likely to hit are the barrels and cones. Each run consists of a standing warm-up lap followed by 3 flying laps, and 5 runs were fitted in during the day.
Entry to the base is restricted to a list entrants and their nominated crew / hangers-on, each of whom must have photo ID to get onto the premises. Everywhere on the base apart from the section of runway allocated for the event is out of bounds and we are lectured at the Drivers' Briefing about minimizing damage to the facility, not running over runway marker lights (an expensive proposition if you do) cleaning up oil spills and rubbish (something about damage to jet engines if injested) and being on our bestest behaviour.
The runways had recently been resealed and were fairly slippery to begin with (as indicated by the photograph), but after a couple of runs it rubbered in nicely.
It's always a fantastic event and great to see a Commonwealth facility being made available to those who helped pay for it.
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I work in maffra / was in sale on the weekend... if i'd known i'd have come and checked it out!! damnit..
my sister raced our hillclimb mini there once
i should've raced my fairmont !! and got flogged/broken something
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hehe
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just read where u said only certain people allowed.. i'd been out there once when there was spectators allowed!!! lame!! i go out there every couple of months for trap shooting.. god !
never would have know.. ROFL
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