About a month or so ago, I competed in the "Tour De Course" Tarmac Rally - held over 4 days in SEQ at Lakeside, Mount Cotton, Willowbank, Queensland Raceway & Morgan Park.
Over 33 Timed event's, the Golf R triumphed over a big bunch of Targa prepped STI's, EVO X's, R35 Skylines and a host of other specials.
First time a VW has won one of Motoring Events Management's Rallies (in 15 years).
Needless to say, I think a lot more Jap owners will be switching to this platform in the future.
Thanks Gent's - it's great to upset the regular Japanese tarmac crowd. Lou, they did plan a drag event but the track was wet (morning with cloud cover), so they ran a giant motorkhana instead.
Isaac, we ran the WTA a2 years ago in clubsprint class, but struggled with the tyres and how much horsepower we had - the class is really built around EVO / WRX and our big issue is the lack of aerodynamics / tyre footprint to remain competitive in that environment. It was certainly fun to cut a hundred laps of Eastern Creek, but couldn't challenge for a place running 1:50's 🙂
Fair enough! I would sure love to see some aero on the golf! 🙂 my friends are running a supercharged S2k this year which should keep the AWD crowd pretty honest.
