Australian Hillclimb Championship this weekend Haunted Hills VIC

bat69 There is no status

791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 27 Oct 2009, 11:10 am

#743531

The 2009 PENRITE AUSTRALIAN HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP will be held at Bryant Park, Haunted Hills over the weekend October 29 to November 1, 2009.

This event is promoted by the Gippsland Car club and is being held at their Bryant Park, Haunted Hills complex at Yallourn.

Unoffical practice starts on Thurs, Offical practice on friday and race day Sat and Sun.

I know Greg Ward and Stan Pobjoy are driving down. They are both entered in Gregs blue Beetle.

I believe Peter Gumley in his VW supercharged open wheeler is also entered. As far as any other VWs go I'm not to sure. There will be a few Fvees no doubt. That aside there will be some quick cars at this event so it would be worth while going and having a look.

Good luck to everone running

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colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 27 Oct 2009, 7:00 pm

#743601

Best of luck to Greg.

Cheers Col

johny rotten Officially Full-On Dubber

366 posts · joined Apr 2004 · 27 Oct 2009, 9:04 pm

#743638

looks a great track , Nathen are going to have a crack at this one ,
may be your no fear driving style could net some great results with that blind crest and downhill corners etc
are ther any spots left ?

PAZZAN Wolfsburg Wizard

592 posts · joined Jan 2008 · 29 Oct 2009, 6:03 am

#743841

vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?

2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 30 Oct 2009, 6:17 pm

#744157

Loved the video thanks Pazzan

Looks like a cool circuit! Hill climbs aren't all hill climb these days.

Hope everyone enjoys themselves and drives it hard 😎

bat69 There is no status

791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 30 Oct 2009, 6:31 pm

#744160

Just spoke to the boys. All is going well for Greg and Stan. Greg in practice is sitting 4th fastest 1601-2000cc imp pro and 2.7 seconds off the class record. Stan is running well, a further 2 sec behind Greg. Stan is getting use to Gregs car, having not raced a beetle for about 13 years. Greg was very happy only having 2 practice runs today. Greg thinks there is heaps of improvement to be made considering its was his first run around the track. Had a couple of problems with the tramp bar braking. They are fixing the tramp bar tonight and going for a few hard runs tomorrow. I will keep you updated.

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sander288 "Bolt-on Master"

1,404 posts · joined Aug 2008 · 30 Oct 2009, 9:43 pm

#744197

Cheers for the updates, should be a good weekend for VW hopefully! (and stan of course!!)

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5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 30 Oct 2009, 10:29 pm

#744204

wow!......awsome track, will put that one down on the must do list!

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 31 Oct 2009, 8:21 pm

#744355

I spent the afternoon there today (31/10/09) - excellent track and facilities, great views for spectators and a fine new clubhouse/grandstand.

The Ward/Pobjoy blue beetle was great to watch, buckets of power and precise handling. At the very end of the third run today the engine let go in a big way (or so it appeared from the smoke and oil trail) and the beetle didn't appear for the fourth run.

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Brian Officially Full-On Dubber

263 posts · joined Jun 2007 · 31 Oct 2009, 8:56 pm

#744371

modulus wrote:I spent the afternoon there today (31/10/09) - excellent track and facilities, great views for spectators and a fine new clubhouse/grandstand.

The Ward/Pobjoy blue beetle was great to watch, buckets of power and precise handling. At the very end of the third run today the engine let go in a big way (or so it appeared from the smoke and oil trail) and the beetle didn't appear for the fourth run.

mmm thats not good

any news on how Gumley is going ?

Brian Officially Full-On Dubber

263 posts · joined Jun 2007 · 31 Oct 2009, 8:59 pm

#744372

May be the extra stress from the double entry was too much for it🙄

bat69 There is no status

791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 1 Nov 2009, 7:34 am

#744440

Just spoke with Greg. Had a mixed bag yeterday. They missed half the morning yesterday chasing parts to fix the tramp problem. Kept snapping the gearbox strap on launch in practice. Its an unsual problem Greg has never had before. They manged to adapt parts to try and fix it. Greg did one run to see how it was and it went well. His next run out he gave it a big launch and it started to tramp again big time and just before the finished the box let go, snapping off the nose cone. Weekend finished. Apart from that the runs they did went well. Greg was 4th in class out of 10 drivers and stan was 7th.

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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 1 Nov 2009, 10:06 am

#744462

Thats a bummer.

I would have thought he would have had that problem sorted before racing........its all about good car prep😏