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Name: Queensland Raceway
Address:
City: Ipswich Australia
Phone:
Price: AUD$199
What's it like?
The speedo is already clocking 150km/h, yet a little voice in my head still screams "accelerate" as I lap my Ipswich locale, V8 engine howling.
No, I'm not participating in the time-honoured tradition of "doing laps" - the car decidedly bereft of fluffy dice - but a V8 supercar driving experience at Queensland Raceway, 20 minutes from the heart of Ipswich.
This is adrenalin - with a capital A.
Under a new tourist venture, would-be rev-heads can take the passenger seat or steering wheel in a V8-powered racecar on one of Queensland's premier race circuits.
For $199, tourists are promised five laps of pedal-to-the-metal excitement around Champions Way, including an intensive instruction session where you discuss, among other things, the dynamics of a corner.
You will learn that a corner has four points - the approach, the entry, the apex and exit - which becomes amazingly relevant when your engine is screaming almost as loud as your lungs.
So there I was: a super hero in a Super Cheap Auto jumpsuit, racer's helmet and nerves just a little less steely than the vehicle itselfbehind the steering wheel.
By lap four, I thought I could fly.and at 170km/h, I almost was.
- By Christine Retschlag
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