Round 5 NSW Hillclimb Champs vid added & report 25/5

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 13 May 2013, 6:30 pm

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Tamworth Sporting Car Club will host round 5 of the Championship at Oakburn Park this weekend the 18th and 19th of May.
Practice is on Saturday afternoon with racing all day on Sunday.
Confirmed racers are Glen Torrens in his orange Pobjoy powered Beetle. Heath and Christine Campbell, making a long awaited return in Garfield. there car has a new engine put together by Heath himself.
Heath tells me he practiced at Grafton a few weeks ago with some very encouraging results.
I will of course be racing the black bug.
Hope to see you in the pits.

Cheers Col

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 20 May 2013, 6:24 pm

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Can,t remember everyone,s times but will no more in a few days and write a race report.
Also have some footage inc GoPro in car.👍

Cheers Col

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 20 May 2013, 7:10 pm

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Looking forward to seeing the footage and hearing how the vws were on top again

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colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 22 May 2013, 9:15 pm

#956669

I,m still waiting for official time sheets, to write a race report.

However here is some footage.

Cheers Col

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1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 23 May 2013, 12:31 am

#956692

Fik yeah col,I love watching your vids.you can pedal and that engine sounds awesome

Yeh

vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?

2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 23 May 2013, 8:56 am

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Sweet Col!!

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2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 23 May 2013, 9:07 am

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Very frikken nice as always Col !!!

👍

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

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 23 May 2013, 2:16 pm

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Hi, who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd ?

Are you happy with the way the car handled ?

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 5:41 pm

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So I still can,t get any official time sheets so I will try my memory.

Last Sunday started with a very cold morning and just didn,t get much warmer all day, I reckon 14 degrees probably was the top temp, so needless to say track surface temp was cold and traction was minimal.
We all had a total of 6 timed runs and everyone enjoyed the close hard racing, with Heath and Christine making a welcome return to Hillclimb Racing.
Championship points leader in the Gemini/Apollo/Toyota, Ashley Birks broke his gearbox on the first run so he changed cars and double entered with his mate Pat Griffiths in his Torana/Apollo/Toyota.
With the track being super cold and very slippery tyre pressure and tyre condition was critical. Heath managed to get all these things right as well as a car setup change halfway through the day to come out on top with a quick time.

Memory only times are

1st in class Heath 36.03
2nd in class Pat (Torana) 36.90
3rd in class Christine 37.05
4th in class Col 37.22

Sorry in can,t remember Glens best time or any other times.

Glen and myself allways pit together and help each other out. We both struggled all day trying to get front and rear traction.
We both tried pressure and setup changes all day but just could not get it right. ( 5 year old tyres didn,t help)
Next round is at Grafton on the June long weekend.
I have a few vids and photo,s to post over the next few days.

Cheers Col

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 5:52 pm

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Heath

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

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 23 May 2013, 5:52 pm

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Cheers 👍

What's the class record for the track ?

Oh, and its great to see the Campbells are back.

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 5:52 pm

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Col

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colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 5:53 pm

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Craig Torrens wrote:Cheers 👍

Whats the class record for the track ?

Can,t remember but it was not broken, to bloody cold.

Col

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 5:54 pm

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Glen

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

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 23 May 2013, 6:11 pm

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so the yellow one is now a 76 beetle.........what happened to the old yellow car, crashed ?

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 23 May 2013, 7:55 pm

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Here is Heath pushing hard for a quick time.

Cheers Col

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2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 24 May 2013, 8:05 am

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Great pictures!!!!

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 24 May 2013, 7:13 pm

#956925

With the competition so close we all have to push hard to gain that 1/10.
Christine allways pushes hard!

Cheers Col

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

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 24 May 2013, 7:39 pm

#956926

Only 40 cars 🙁

http://racing.natsoft.com.au/636399582/object_37505776.91C/View?1

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 25 May 2013, 2:11 pm

#957001

I believe this run was my fastest of the day, until I clipped with witchs hat. 🙁 5 second penalty.

Cheers Col

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 25 May 2013, 5:49 pm

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This vid is the incar footage of the above run.
I was on a good one but clipped a witchs hat at the end, I looked back to confirm my suspicions and was not happy.
It,s a five second penalty.

Cheers Col