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Kookinen
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Re: Ideas for up & coming events	Mon, 27 May 2002 08:44

What a coincidence - I have recently looked into a few of these events myself. 1. Go-Karts. Eastern Creek is prob the best bet - they are pretty much the fastest (100kmh)& biggest track around. Sessions are held all day in 3hr blocks, u can pretty much book for whenever u want - they're open till 7pm. Weekend is most convenient, right? It's $195 (weekday $175) for a group of 10-30. Includes qualifying heats and final race. Sounds expensive at first, but my friend who went said it was so good he was willing to lay down another $175 to go again... 2. Private track hire. Just went to Wakefield last month, and a private booking costs $2400, regardless of numbers. And that's weekday only, coz weekend is usually reserved for club races and really rich corporate clients(!) We had 30ppl @ $80 each. But they have open practice days, which are only $71.50 per head. In both cases, u need to add $27.50 clublicence fee, which is valid for a year. 3. Advanced driving. I did the Level 1 course w/ Ian Luff over a year ago. Good points mainly being the briefing with lots of tips and attitude re-adjustment for the regular driver. That being said, it was so NOT worth the $247 for me. Not saying I'm a great driver or anything, but just being smart and alert on the road meant that I was already doing most of those things anyway. The course was esp. mickey mouse if u had a late-model car w/ ABS. Just slam on the brakes, and turn. Anyone can do that. More worthwhile exercise in an older car w/out ABS, to practice brake modulation. I have been seriously considering running a course myself for our church. And I can easily do it for toymods members, given a suitable venue. What's more likely to be of interest and benefit to toymods members is the Level 2 & 3 courses in Advanced Car Control and Loss & Recovery. Level 2 is own car, while Level 3 is done in their Type-R's. But the prob is that u must have done their Level 1 course first. Still, I've spoken to Ian Luff a few times and have already worked out some group booking discount rates, depending on numbers. [Report message to a moderator]

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