Hope you enjoy this vid as I hustle this wonderful little sports car around Hampton Downs, South of Auckland in New Zealand. Rear tires past their best and some very average down shifting in places. I omitted doing the pedal dance to fully disable traction control - such an arse having to do this in pitlane on a track day! You can see the system kicking in on the closing laps when I overdrive the car and the result is a mixed blessing - sometimes helps and sometimes hinders :-(
Car is a standard Toyota 86 RC (stripped out no aircon model) with the base 16x6.5" wheels running Dunlop Direzza Star Spec Z2 tires, Ohlins Road and Track suspension, XYZ race front brakes and Mishimoto oil cooler. The engine and exhaust are stock - anyone who says these cars need more power isn't driving hard enough ;-)
Big thanks to Toyota and the 86 BRZ Club here in NZ, especially Luka Bartholec who kindly let me drive his lovely GT86 and discover the joys of the Ohlins suspension
Evan and the boys at Speedfactor for adding the fruit and doing a fabulous job as always of making the car safe and fast.
And finally my long suffering wife and soul mate, Kim, who had the misfortune to marry a guy with a need for speed. Thanks for your love and support - just don't watch the vid honey!
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