Phillip Island Track Day

[G.Irish]

Here's my blog post about my Phillip Island track day:

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Other random notes;

-There were more than a few rare/cool bikes out there. A RC30, 2-stroke 250's, a Benelli Tornado...
-Phillip Island management is way more anal than any of our tracks
-There were a SHIT TON of flies. I think there was some sort of seasonal plague in Melbourne and the surrounding areas
-Phillip Island has a popultion of Little Blue Penguins, which are a pretty big tourist attraction. They have burrows up to several hundred meters inland and you can do a tour to come see the adults when they come in from the ocean at night. There are also wallabies that live on the island.

-How many utes do you see?



After doing this I'm thinking that I might want to do more flyaway track days, albeit at tracks a lot closer than Australia. When I think about it, I've only ever driven/ridden on East Coast tracks, I'd like to at least do places like Laguna and Miller some day.

[davej]

Nice writeup, sounds like an awesome trip! Too bad you couldn't video your runs, would have loved to see that scenery from your point of view.

[G.Irish]

Yeah that was a serious bummer. I've come to sort of expect the occasional nonsensical rule at a racetrack but this was among the dumber ones. I suspect that tracks that host major international events tend to be a little indifferent to sometimes even disdainful of track day guys since track days are small potatoes for them. Circuit of the Americas is a lot like that I think (on the disdainful side).

[BLINGMW]

:thumbup:
Well the good news is, without video, and 10000 miles away, we'll just have to assume you broke the track record :dunno: