Driver technique day - Bill's block - Sunday October 13th

[luigi]

Hi Fellas.
Got home ok. Wow, what a fun day. Once again learned a lot. Thanks Steve and Greg. Thanks Bill for letting us use his place. Thanks Greg, Kiwi, Jon, and Leigh for helping thru a difficult ( for me) track with minimal damage.
I have a lot of grouse video.( Help!, Chris)
Regards, Wayne.
Suzuki Suzuki.

[Matthew]

Geez, looks like I missed out on the best trip of the year

[lbzook]

I'll just point out that this was on the informal driving bit of the day, it wasn't part of the "technique" stuff we did.

*trying not to put anyone off*

Steve.

It was a good practical demonstration of the point a car unloads and lays down though!

[christover1]

Hi Fellas.
I have a lot of grouse video.( Help!, Chris)
Regards, Wayne.
Suzuki Suzuki.

Yep, no worries, home most of this week.

[LouisGV11]

Thanks heaps for today, learned a lot. Thank you to all who gave me pointers and now have to work out this traction control.
So much fun.
Louis.

[Greg]

Great day out Stevie.

Let's try to schedule the rain either before or after the driving next time though

[gv2010]

Thanks Steve and everyone who came. I rekon it is the best trip of the year.

[gwagensteve]

I have the time now to do a little trip report. I don't really have any photos, but it would be nice if we could get some photos up on here of the tech stuff like the hand winching, ramp etc, rather just of cars on their side (cool as that is)

Thanks to everyone that came. We had a really good turnout, and a nice range of experience and vehicles. Everyone brought a really good attitude to the day and that made it work really well.

Thanks also to the more experienced members who helped out and added their own areas of expertise.

Having access to Bill's block really made this work well. It's definitely the way to do these sort of trips - far better than driving tracks.

We covered heaps of stuff - Safety and packing, jack use, recovery and winching, stall stops/key starts, Traction control, everyone ramped their cars on Bill's 20˚ ramp (Piggles and Jonno's car both made and RTI of 1000) and then quite a bit of driving of all standards.

Obviously, there is some pretty technical driving on the property too, which a few of us drove some of while we were there.

Unfortunately Bill wasn't on the property yesterday, but I'll give him a call today to thank him and see if we can get back there for a Christmas camping weekend.

Steve.

[gwagensteve]

I just had a chat will Bill - he was away for the weekend unexpectedly. He would have liked to have met us and watch what we were up to for a while.

He was very touched that we left him a contribution for using the property, and was impressed that it looked like nobody had been there.

He's more than happy for us to come back and use the property. I don't imagine anyone is interested though

Check the member's area shortly for details of the Christmas Party.

Steve.

[Richardnclark]

Hi Steve, My thanks also to you for setting up the day, enthusiastic presentation of a broad & interesting agenda, & valuable advice etc. Thanks also to Greg, Jon & Leigh for advice on the tracks - what a lot of fun in such a small area. I had a great day without any damage to the 'stockie' (apart from a fan belt).

Thanks guys for the company!

Should be an annual event on the calendar!

Got some pics (thru Chris)

Cheers Richard