GT86 Trackday with Toyota Sweden (From Winning Contest)
 

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Hi!

Last fall a co-worker and I entered a competition at Toyotas Facebook page.
The task where to build a car out of this:
http://i48.tinypic.com/250oy0o.jpg

After a whole weekend at the office with state of the art equipment as you can see. The end result became this:
http://i49.tinypic.com/mj97gx.jpg


A couple of weeks later we got a mail from Toyota, congratulated us for winning a trackday with the GT86. WINNING :thumbup:

They told us to go here. Trosta racing Park. Just outside Arlanda airport, Stockholm:
http://www.trostapark.se/images/flygfoto2.jpg


8pm we where on site and the first view to welcome us whas this:
http://i50.tinypic.com/34fci14.jpg

After a short debrief, a history lesson about Toyotas racing heritage and some breakfast. They told us that we got 8 hours to drive these cars like we stole them.

Im kidding you not! They actually allowed us to drive with all assists of and kill the tires.
I think it was the PR-manager of Toyota Scandinavia that told us that "Autocross them, drift them. They are built for this" :thanks:

As you may understand I spent the whole day driving, so I only took like 3 pics or so. But here they are:

http://i45.tinypic.com/211oy8i.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/r0dzwz.jpg

The lucky ones
http://i45.tinypic.com/359zrlj.jpg


This where my first track event ever. And after 4 hours of pure driving I where absolutely gased. This where without a doubt one of the funnies things I ever done. So a big thanks to Toyota Sweden.
I will for sure order a car this year. As soon I get rid of my Mustang.

Here you have the GT86 clothing line we got in the beginning of the day.
http://i50.tinypic.com/nlr5uf.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/acbkp5.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/wat1nd.jpg


This is my first tread so I hope you guys like it.
Please forgive my bad spelling and grammer. OMG its hard to write in English :mad0260:

As a gift to you for your patience I give a short video from the day
[ame]http://youtu.be/5TH8rzr_UFo[/ame]

Awesome! Love the video!

Do you have a high resolution digital copy of the car cut out available?

-Andrew

http://paperkraft.blogspot.se/2012/0...per-model.html

This is exactly the same.
Got to love the instructions in Japanes!

I recomend you to use a scalpel and fine glue.
Big paper scissors and a clumpsy gluestick aint ideal tools ;)

Thank you! I've been wanting to do just this!

This should get stickied.

Nannies off?

No Nannies at all.

What an incredible memory for life you were given, wow so jealous good for you guys!!!

Very cool, sounds like a fun experience!

That's really a fantastic opportunity! Thanks for sharing both the day and paper file with us!

What an awesome experience.

fuck. i would love to do this one day. shit, i'd do this in a POS corolla with fwd

How EPIC is that!!! Way to drive our cars!!! :respekt:

That was absolutely incredible. P.S. Not bad English.

wish i had this!! D:

Hope you enjoyed the day! A fantastic showcase of the car.

Im glad you liked it guys :)
I noticed that I got the name of the track wrong, so a small edit there.

Here´s a pic on one of the two Land Cruisers.
At the lunch break we spent 1h on off-roading with two brand new Cruisers.
Who could have known that step hills and big pools of mud could be so fun? :D
http://i46.tinypic.com/15db8l5.jpg

Interesting to know. I was one of the Swedish guys that got hit with a CEL after just 1800km. As compensation Toyota Sweden contacted me (and others with the same problems) and promised to give us a trackday event, including transportation and overnight stay in a Hotel during the spring.

However, so far they have not gotten back to any of us for a date. :/