1st time doing Eastern creek - advice please

[Chisholm]

Gonna be doing EC in the fagna on Nov 17 (circuitclub), after some advice/opinion.

I like to think I know Wakefield Park fairly well, but it will the 1st time doing EC. So any tips for EC would be great. Or even better, does anyone know of a written run-through?

I've done WP in the 1:10s, what sort of time should that translate to at EC? Just so I have a rough measure of progress/goals

Being FWD, I find having my car setup quite pointy with a bit of turn-in oversteer works well at Wakefield. However, I suspect at EC with fast and long corners it will be too taily running the same settings. Thoughts on this?

car info:
FWD fagna, ~1450kg, ~180wkw, torsen LSD, big brakes, bilsteins, custom springs (3 x factory rates), upped rear swaybar, adjustable strut tops. Daily driven.

At WP last time I ran:
F: -3.5 deg camber, 1mm toe out, +5 castor
R: -1 deg camber, 1mm toe out, 15mm higher ride than front (adustable)

[smellytofu]

Don't fuck up the first corner.

[Mini]

Yep, wot he sed. ^^^ If you are using the northern EC circuit the times should be roughly the same judging from the last meeting, maybe a bit slower.

[Dave75]

if youre worried about it being taily, maybe just wind in the rear toe out to 0mm or something.

[piss98]

Don't drive like this guy. :D

[itsnotagsr]

Get one of the experienced guys to take you out for a few laps in their cars to show you the lines. Work your way up to speed. Get the lines right first then get the speed.

No sense trying to set your fastest time on the first lap. Thats how someone wrote off a new 997 GT3 a couple of years back.

[Cantilever Bridge]

dont do this

[Captiva Fan]

EC is a much faster track than Wakefield, in terms of top speeds & speeds of a few of the corners, innit?
So does that mean more scope for major FUBAR action?

[Nafe]

Higher speed corners, and more concrete lining the outfield. Much higher chance of damage than Wakefield if you do something silly (like above videos).
Get an instructor to guide you around if you can, or follow a mate in a similar car to get a feel for the circuit. It will help you learn the lines much faster. Don't try and be a hero into T1 like Bimmer guy until you've done a good load of laps and have the utmost confidence going in.

[Captiva Fan]

Are there times when studying a plan view can't tell you the lines to take?
Do rises & falls make a difference to racing lines? Trying to visualise why they might, maybe corners being a bit off-camber or something?

[snavy]

dont do this

So that chick driving is you?

[bigshipengine.jpg]

Don't drive like this guy. :D

Fuck me that guy thinks hes the Enforcer!

[nevans]

Fuck me that guy thinks hes the Enforcer!

You're not wrong. I wonder how many blokes were ready to have a crack at him in the pits after that effort.

[willsy01]

DO drive like this guy

[Babalouie]

I recall that my old Corolla AE92 wasn't as fast around EC as it was on other tracks. I set it up with a biggish rear sway bar, which got a bit of tail swing happening on turn in, which really helped at Oran/Amaroo/WP. But at EC the corners are so long, that after the apex it would fall back into a strong understeer. Also you really lean on the right front in a FWD too. I reckon you can't make too many assumptions about setup until you have a go tho.