Gather round kiddies, while Uncle Binos tells a tale.
A certain island resort has race week for the grotty yachties every year about this time, and odd things are occasionally known to happen. Allegedly. This year Audi were a major sponsor and had a couple of dozen cars plastered all over the island.
And it came to pass that a certain V8 Supercar driver named, err, make it **** ***** happened to be on the island, and under cover of darkness and unknown to the airport owner, it was allegedly decided to test the capabilities of the high performance version on the 1760m runway. It was further allegedly discovered that the tyre pressures were a little wrong for the level of braking which allegedly occurred, but this discovery was made only at the time of applying the brakes from a speed in excess of 230kph, resulting in two blown front tyres.
Attached (I hope) is the alleged photographic evidence of what would have been an interesting ride. The skid marks start 225m from the runway end, another 30m across the sealed RESA, across the grass and the gravel road, and there is red paint on the rocks at the top of the rock wall into the sea. I suspect ****s may have been trumps.
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../Skid%20marks/