The South African Feel Good Thread

[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by FT_86_SM_GP

Ahh man, Is the DirthFish Rally you going for near Seattle?

Looks awesome:

yes this is the place. i stumbled upon it after first finding out i could use some hilton hotel points to attend a rally school in france. eventually ended up finding out about this place. i think there is a rally school with fords up in the NE of the country, and out in the NW there is dirtfish. sti or brz is the same price. i signed up for brz 2-day class on 3/19 during the holiday sale, which is still quite pricey pricey. but looks like it will be a ton of fun and i'm hoping to learn a lot too.

Originally Posted by Dammod

Thanks a lot for taking the time to do those vids @sickmint79, much appreciated!
It was great meeting you and showing you a bit of the Cape. Next time come for longer, there is LOTS to see haha.

Sounds like you had an awesome trip, would love to travel and do something similar, based around motoring activities.

Looking forward to seeing the footage from the rest of your trip - have you rendered it yet?

i'm not that good with video and especially working with less common formats. i just installed premier cs6. my cat footage is 4k30 and my f3000 and karts are all 2.7k 47.95. cs5 did not seem to understand that... hoping this one does or i can at least figure it out.

i'll eventually have a few blogs and videos on ferrari world and yas marina experiences.

[Dammod]

Originally Posted by sickmint79

yes this is the place. i stumbled upon it after first finding out i could use some hilton hotel points to attend a rally school in france. eventually ended up finding out about this place. i think there is a rally school with fords up in the NE of the country, and out in the NW there is dirtfish. sti or brz is the same price. i signed up for brz 2-day class on 3/19 during the holiday sale, which is still quite pricey pricey. but looks like it will be a ton of fun and i'm hoping to learn a lot too.



i'm not that good with video and especially working with less common formats. i just installed premier cs6. my cat footage is 4k30 and my f3000 and karts are all 2.7k 47.95. cs5 did not seem to understand that... hoping this one does or i can at least figure it out.

i'll eventually have a few blogs and videos on ferrari world and yas marina experiences.

Awesome, I look forward to it.

[sickmint79]

had to borrow some shoes

[Dammod]

NO WAYS!!! Soooooo jealous!!!

[Fish Eagle]

Oh yeah!!
I'd give anything for some track time in a single seater.

Just not a left-hand drive one

[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by Fish Eagle

Oh yeah!!
I'd give anything for some track time in a single seater.

Just not a left-hand drive one

http://www.fantasticracing.co.za/tracks

[sickmint79]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MK_wQr3Msw"]Formula 3000, Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, UAE - YouTube[/ame]

[Freedom]

That looks amazing but give me my freeeeeeeedom and let me loose

[Dammod]

Originally Posted by sickmint79

http://www.fantasticracing.co.za/tracks

I've done the open-wheeler "racing" with Fantastic Racing. Its a great sensation but they are NOTHING like Formula 3000 cars. They have detuned 350Z motors, so although they are pretty quick, they are in a completely different class.

Having said this, it was still a great experience

[qbzee007]

Originally Posted by Fish Eagle

Oh yeah!!
I'd give anything for some track time in a single seater.

Just not a left-hand drive one

i see what you did there!

[Vic_RSA]

Had some fun today on the skidpan with Team ST. I tried turning my dashcam around to see my passenger and get the effect of sliding through the passenger window - worked very well!

As this clip shows - the 86 is plenty fun!
@Alang - watch out for your antics in the background!

WARNING - some colourful language towards the end!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xekj8KVzuuU"]TeamST Skidpan with Johan-passenger - YouTube[/ame]

[Alang]

Still sticking to my story that until you've done this in your 86, you haven't really had fun it.
Amazing car!

[ame]http://youtu.be/qQeFXl78p0A[/ame]

[Fish Eagle]

+ 100bhp

[Fish Eagle]

I found the scraping/grinding noise near my back wheel - thought it was either a brake or wheelbearing problem, but it was more "organic" than that. The quill was impaled right through the plastic and had been scraping on the ground. Relieved that it wasn't anything more serious.