No Drug Can Beat The Touge Feeling #blogpost

14 Jan 2018

Disclaimer
What you are about to read is highly illegal and I would not recommend doing this. However, if you choose to, only do it if you are an experienced driver, know your route well, have a well prepared car and please, please make sure you go to an abandoned location with no innocent drivers.

January 14th 2018, 10am

Outside temperature : 36 degrees celcius

Max outside temperature reached: 38 degrees celcius

THE LOCATION

Mundaring Weir Road, a 24km stretch of road in the outer eastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia that links Mundaring and Kalamunda. It is a renowned road for late night touge battles, street races and testing the limits of man and machine due to its constant changes of gradient, corners depths/angles and lack of traffic/law enforcement. Although an earlier rough track existed in a similar route, the road was developed in the late 1930s. It is the primary access route for Mundaring Weir, a dam and tourist attraction. It is a single carriageway for its entire length, with one lane in either direction. It crosses the alignment of the long since removed Mundaring Weir Railway a number of times, before crossing the Helena River just west of the first pumping station for the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. It passes east of the Beelu National Park, and north of Mount Gunjin

It is a renowned road for late night touge battles, street races and testing the limits of man and machine due to its constant changes of gradient, corners depths/angles and lack of traffic/law enforcement.

THE CARS

Our crew, Japanese Republic, limits members strictly to Japanese cars. Hence, today’s event only featured track focused JDM machines. I’ll include a gallery below if you want to check out all the cars that run the Mundaring Weir today. Excuse the Viva and Mazda3, they are our spotter cars :P

THE DRIVE

Now our touge has slightly modified rules. The style we use is a ‘cat and mouse’ style, where if the gap between you and the car in front increases considerably, you lose. If you get passed, you lose. If YOU pass someone, you win, if you maintain the gap, it is a draw and if you FINISH without spinning out or crashing, you also win. That’s how demanding this road is. Just completing it is a win.

That's how demanding this road is. Just completing it is a win.

The start order has the fastest at the front and slowest at the front based on qualifying times. Anyways, qualifying is for another story :D All I’ll say is I was started 4th behind a clubsport WRX and successfully maintained the gap and completed the course without spinning out! Sadly, the Starion’s engine overheated, the Integra’s brakes overheated and a turbo R33 spun out when his boost hit mid way through a tightening corner (was coming 2nd). It was a close call as he spun 180 degrees into oncoming with 15+ cars flying around a blind corner at 100kmh+. Fortunately no one was hurt.

It was a close call as he spun 180 degrees into oncoming with 15+ cars flying around a blind corner at 100kmh+. Fortunately no one was hurt.

To sum up today, all I will say to you is this. There is no drug that can match the feeling of flying 140kmh around a blind corner, adrenaline pumping in your veins, looking down a 20m cliff drop, with the sound of redlining engines and the raw smell of race fuel.

Thanks for reading CTzens, drive hard but stay safe!

-JM

Comments

Nice story, hope you had fun!

Thanks! Always have fun with my crew!!

If I may say, your 5th gen is stunning.
Raregliscor1 Might like this.

The Starion, Sunny and Prelude….oh my..

Stop it, I’m blushing 😊

So many allstars from the rockstar years…. epic!

Yep! Most of these cars are actually single or second owner cars, and have been with their drivers for many years

(m u f f l e d e u r o b e a t)

Running in the 90s!!

That’s fkn awesome dude wish we did things like this in Adelaide

Thanks man! You gotta start somewhere - maybe you could be the one to initiate it! Just start out with a couple of friends and watch the group grow. If Perth can do it I’m sure you can too

I wish this happened more often in my country, but there’s oversensitive drivers and eyes everywhere even on deserted roads

Ah that’s a shame mate 😕

You should do more posts like this! Very good content and very interesting to read. Could you do one on how yours and your mates cars are set up for the road?

Thank you! We are up in the mountains pretty much every weekend haha. I’ll consider writing an article on setups; no one will want to give away their exact setup respectively, but I’ll write an article on the theory behind setting up for the runs we do 👍