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loose it on corner and bamm 1 year prison term... later in the thread a guy comments about looking for a CD in a wallet, remembers the post by 10p and throws it on the passengers seat, 50m down the road a girl falls off her bike and into the road which he manages to avoid. He seriously questions his ability to avoid the girl if he hadn't put the wallet down and turned the radio on instead.

google tells me: Careless Driving Causing Injury: Penalty: The maximum penalty is imprisonment of up to 3 months or a fine of up to $4500. The Court must disqualify you from driving for 6 months or more. Dangerous Driving: The maximum penalty for dangerous driving without causing injury or death is up to 3 months in prison and/or a fine of up to $4,500 and the loss of your licence for at least 6 months. If you cause injury or death, the penalty is worse - a maximum of 5 years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $20,000, and disqualification from driving for a minimum period of 1 year. If you cause death and there are aggravating factors such as you were fooling around on the road prior to the accident or there was excess alcohol involved you may be charged with manslaughter. Imprisonment is then highly likely with the maximum being life.

Yup...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.a...ison?&mid=0 10 Pence Short's post. This is very relevant to all of us.

Tiff is a legend!

i was washing dishes at sky city to pay for gas. Shifted to portering at the hotel and was earning anywhere between $50 - $150 a night in tips...

get a 205... much better cars

If you come watch you want to make it to where these guys are (28 seconds) As you can see most of the run from there... location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...mp;t=h&z=16 I've got to be there by 9 for the drivers briefing so i'll be leaving my place around 6

SORTED! pity you can't make sundays race

My personal thoughts... No Passengers for a couple reasons: 1) Red Mist: Most people will and DO try and go faster than they are comfortable with typically with someone in the car. A lot of it comes down to the person driving and attitudes. 2) Passengers Fear: You had it, you passenger told you to slow down. Inexperienced driver will try and slow down mid-corner, i've known a few people to have crashes because of this. And know of two very scary ones - passenger pulled the handbrake on the driver, and the other was the driver lost it slightly on gravel the passenger got scared and grabbed their arm. Now i know this typically doesn't happen to those on a track but the 3) Passenger isn't strapped in properly: You can clearly see in your video particularly with your male friend how much he moves across in his seat into your area, potentially interfering with your movements driving. There is nothing to brace themselves on properly, your male friend is holding on just by your gearstick. Windows do provide a layer of protection, yes they can shatter but it's still a layer of protection your removing. Also I'm thinking more about you hitting a wall/another car than a rollover. One of the trackdays i was at a manfield a supra lost it coming onto the main straight and went cross track into the tire wall (didn't shatter the side windows), then spun and slide along the passengers side of the car (shattering the side window) thats the incidents where the windows up provide the safety. They do happen. The same arguments can be made about Fire Extinguishers - why do i need to run one at a casual trackday. It's a general rule that every trackday I've been to either racing, helped marshal, watched at has run by. It's there for your protection and the others around you. Did the trackday organisors specify who could and who couldn't run passengers? Comparing cars to bikes is just silly. I'm a cautious person when it comes to going fast with people - I've been in a few cars that have crashed, and helped pull too many friends out of ditches or out of bad wrecks (including seeing one pirouette over one of those white road marker poles on the roadside nose down then landing on it's roof) - maybe it's not required but my personal thoughts are that should be the standard. You know one of the most common injuries in car crashes for a passenger is a broken ankle?

ahhh ok i can see it now... you can hear wind noise, and the sunroof crap flapping around must be the side windows open... passengers with no cage and windows open...

WTF?? why is your sunroof open?

There are a few nice fully restored 404's floating around.

how many of these do we need?

FLOCKING?

wait till you get the car back, drive it, post up what it's doing and maybe you can fix it yourself.

thats sitting at my desk in the office... at home using vpn it's only 10Mb and 5Mb

The pug owners are already grabbing the volvo and renault leguna lips.

maybe while the dash is out have a look at getting it flocked? http://www.flockanddyers.co.nz/product_refinishing.htm or http://www.hambling.co.nz/

Now on the silver valance:

fantastic... I can pick it up this weekend if you manage to find one... I've got to take the car down to papakura anyways

Go to Mitre10 Mega you can get MSNZ certified ones there for something like $25. We got one last week there for a friend. For a 2.0ltr (non-turbo) car and under you need a 1kg fire extinguisher for clubsport racing. Figure people will read this, this is from another forum: Re: NZPCC Taupo track day by andygti » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:58 pm well after all we really needed those extingushers! nogrip had a major engine malfunction which caused #3 rod to break free from the cranck and smash a hole in the block and then BOOM caught fire!! luckily me and bevin were overtaking him at the time and had a extinguisher so stoped to help put out the flames. it took 4 of them to kill the flames! must say tho im really shocked at the organisers, not one came to check if we needed a hand or bring a spare extingusher!!

Anyone got one that they wouldn't mind passing onto me, so i can cut it up for my other bumper? Condition isn't critical - cheaper the better...

the more i look at with the bumper lip on.... the more agressive it makes the car look... hmm might have to throw it onto the silver bumper in the mean time... or see if i can get another one to cut up...