Wow Eric,
Wish I could exchange the weather with ours.
This week we've had frost and nice sunny spells, two days of heavy fog,
yesterday overcast 8 deg C and today some rain.
Anyway I've enjoyed your movie.
Would love to drive my GT on a track once like this.
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric" <eric@erickson.on.net>
To: "MGS" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: Mallala by night
> Hi guys,
>
> I am still recovering from one of my hottest days at the track ever -
> and some of you wonder why our competition season runs through Winter!
> We are just coming into Summer here in Australia and I can tell you now
> that it was almost 110F on Saturday and certainly not a day to be
> wearing a double layer racesuit, gloves and a helmet (especially sitting
> in the form-up area in the sun with no top on the car)!
>
> The cars didn't take all that well either with the older ones (cars and
> drivers) not lasting the distance during the hottest part of the day.
> Luckily this was a "twilight" event and things cooled off considerably
> (it was still very warm) after the sun set at 8:00pm.
>
> My results were down a bit on past performances but I put that down to
> being quite sick from the heat (both me and the car).
>
> Now, I haven't had a chance to process this footage and it seems I still
> haven't mastered the art of getting night time exposures correct,
> especially with the bright lights around the track, but anyway, here is
> a hot lap of Mallala Motorsport Park In South Australia... at night.
>
> The file is HUGE as you might expect (I will try to make it "skinnier"
> when I get to my work machine with the right software) so I will
> understand if you don't want to spend all day downloading the 30MB file
> :-)
>
> Virtually a solo run with guys a long way in front of me and a fair way
> behind.
>
> http://www.erickson.on.net/mgb/movies/mallala271104/mal271104lap1.mov
>
> It was hard to pick lines and braking marks first time out for the night
> (soooo different than daytime) so it wasn't the fastest lap - but hey,
> it was fun :-)
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> PS Yes, at least I got rid of the wind-noise that plagued my last in-car
> fimling effort - but I accidently aimed the camera high and you don't
> get to see windscreen or bonnet or whatever this time.
>
>
>
> --
> Eric
> '68MGB MkII
> Adelaide, South Australia
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