I had an awesome track day today at Winton with John Bowe. For those outsode Australia, John is a local legend. John is the only driver in motorsport history to win the Australian Drivers Championship, Australian Sports Car Championship and Australian Touring Car Championship. He has been rated by Wheels Magazine twice as the 2nd best Australian race car driver of all time. he also owns a Cayman S!

John has owned 17 Porsches over the years, and told me that right now he prefers the Cayman S to 911 and just loves his.

He drove me around the track today in my car - which was quite an experience. He hasn't driven his on the track as its one of his daily drivers so he enjoyed driving mine.

I have heard some reports about the Cayman having twitchy handling at the limit, and only today found out what people are talking about. Going around the sweeper at Winton the car became very tailly with a lot of oversteer at high speed, and he was working hard to keep it under control and change direction for the next corner. We were surfing around most corners at full tilt - and as a result my new race tyres are now more than 60% worn (2nd track day on them!). John thinks more camber and toe on the rear may help. I also had hard compund tyres on the rear and medium on the front, and this combo was probably not helping with the oversteer. Winton is a great track for the Cayman - it's got plenty of corners and I can't wait to go back. I'm going to Phillip island next weekend which should be quite daunting. Apparently the Cup Cars take turn one at 200 kph. argggh!

For those in Oz (melbourne) that have never done a track day, I highly recommend a John Bowe day at Winton. Its a very technical track and definately worth the 2 hour drive frim Melbourne. I much prefer to to Sandown, as it really does allow you to drift around those corners right at the limit, with much more run-off than Sandown in most places.