Toyspeed.org.nz Message Board

Suprafest 08 was great. Almost everyone I spoke to loved the autocross.

I'm all keen for a proper track day at Puke or Taupo, or anywhere really but the problem is a lot of people will SAY they want a track day, but won't be willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to the crunch. So who SERIOUSLY would be willing to pay $100-$120 (could be more if there isn't enough people) for a track day?

Poll will run for 14 days. If you aren't on here withing 14 days you're not dedicated enough to vote

You could always just tag along at a pukekohe open day. they happen fairly regularly and you wouldn't be hamstrung by having to find enough people to pay for itself or people pulling out.

thaphatty wrote: nothing

I'm confused. You know the crunch? Or you are the crunch?

Either way, most people cant handle the crunch, who, or whatever it may be

mjrstar wrote:You could always just tag along at a pukekohe open day. they happen fairly regularly and you wouldn't be hamstrung by having to find enough people to pay for itself or people pulling out.

That's probably what will happen to the Supra's who want a go round a track. I am VERY sceptical about SF09 having a roundy roundy track day.

People are useless - end of story lol

out of all the surveys i got back, only 2 mentioned track events.

Autocross and drags are what the majority of people enjoyed and want to see again next year.

$4500 for puke
taupo is about the same for a decent track (there short club track is cheaper, but not suited to supras) and the drags at puke are about $4k for the basic set up.

we are looking into it! believe me. But we are looking at the bigger picture which alot of you arent.

Public day was looked at, but for majority of people it will be their first time on the track and thats not a good idea when you have full on race cars out there at the same time.


Can this just die already?

having to supprt a family on an invalids benefit is rather restricting, but if i had the money, i'd rather a trackday than the drags, know dad would too, and know a few other supra owners that would as well, that weren't at suprafest. no offence intended matt, and not trying to shitstir or anything, just my opinion that when our supras are running, and win lotto to cover gas, would rather pay more for puke or taupo then go to the drags.

for instance, if you have a slow car, and are doing 15sec quarters, thats 15sec of tracktime per run. say you have 4 runs for racing, and 4-8 for grudge, thats 3 minutes of total tracktime of actually driving your car!

a very slow lap at puke at 1:30, you only have two laps to equal the total tracktime that you had on the dragstrip.

i know where i'd rather spend the money...

A track day is just like drag racing but you don't cruise down the return road

You're full noise, balls out all the way.

Maybe people are scared of their own driving skill, or lack thereof. Well harden up love, no better way to learn

Track racing isnt everyone's cup of tea

Dell'Orto wrote:Track racing isnt everyone's cup of tea

Cant please everyone. What if drag racing isn't everyone's cup of tea?

Its not, but its up to the organiser which events run.

Whatever happens will happen, Hunt if you are so eager to have a track day why not put your hand up to take over the organisation/administration part of it? Less talking about it, more actually doing something about it...

Silent Knight wrote:why not put your hand up to take over the organisation/administration part of it?

That's still not going to change the fact that Supra owners are poor and wont want to break their babies.

Track day isn't going to happen, even though people may want it to. There just isn't enough people willing to chip in

Then why this poll?

I was curious and thought, maybe, just maybe, it could be another way to encourage Supra owners to get out of their shell

cat007 wrote:I was curious and thought, maybe, just maybe, it could be another way to encourage Supra owners to get out of their shell

So you want to encourage how many people that are on SCONZ and never actually venture on to TS?

Silent Knight wrote:So you want to encourage how many people that are on SCONZ and never actually venture on to TS?

meh - the more cars the better. Supra's wont turn up - everyone that owns a supra has an excuse for it not going "oh I was replacing the thermostat at.....blah f*cking blah" - I'm reaching out to the non-supra people - you know, the guys that make the event actually happen....

cat007 wrote:meh - the more cars the better. Supra's wont turn up - everyone that owns a supra has an excuse for it not going "oh I was replacing the thermostat at.....blah f*cking blah" - I'm reaching out to the non-supra people - you know, the guys that make the event actually happen....

Thats a bit harsh, I think there was a pretty good supra turn out this year :/

Emz wrote:Thats a bit harsh, I think there was a pretty good supra turn out this year :/

Not at all.

There was a great turn out of MKIV's - but even with the large amount of you guys there if there was no "other" class - it wouldn't be able to be run without each even costing twice (or more) as much as it did!

I think we should advertise it as Suprafest but really, realistically we need to reach out to everyone else - fodder I believe they're called

BTW Emz - have you had your photo-shoot yet?

cat007 wrote:

Emz wrote:Thats a bit harsh, I think there was a pretty good supra turn out this year :/

There was a great turn out of MKIV's - but even with the large amount of you guys there if there was no "other" class - it wouldn't be able to be run without each even costing twice (or more) as much as it did!

Yeh I guess u r right there

and nope, I havnt actually heard from the photographer yet

Sorry Emma, i only just spoke to Aaron yesterday and confirmed your details.
Im sure he will be in touch this week.