anyone racing at MG Mattara hill climb Newcstle??

ian.mezz · 28 Sep 2005, 8:39 pm

anyone racing at MG Mattara hill climb Newcstle??
it is the final round of the NSW hill climb championship,
there should be some good action:jesus

[ Edited on 18-10-2005 by ian.mezz ]

speedster356 · 28 Sep 2005, 9:05 pm

Yeah I'll be there in the Spyder.

VWCOOL · 28 Sep 2005, 9:07 pm

When is it? I love that track - a good day out to watch. Bugger, I should enter...!

Craig Torrens · 28 Sep 2005, 10:02 pm

Greg Ward, Nathan Abbott and Stan Pobjoy will be there.

ian.mezz · 29 Sep 2005, 8:20 pm

I willl see yous there

ian.mezz · 18 Oct 2005, 8:10 pm

this week end at Newcastle

[ Edited on 18-10-2005 by ian.mezz ]

speedster356 · 19 Oct 2005, 7:37 am

See you there.

VWCOOL · 19 Oct 2005, 10:15 am

I'll probably be there watching with a nice cool drink

VDUBXTC · 19 Oct 2005, 2:09 pm

Not that many care on this forum, but Ben Durie and Grant Cook will be there.

bat69 · 19 Oct 2005, 5:37 pm

Me and the old man willl be there racing the Saturday State round. Just spoke to the organisers. 75 cars entered for both days of the event. Should be a good event.

Craig Torrens · 24 Oct 2005, 1:59 pm

Nathan, how did your budget racer go against the big $$$ fuel injected stroker of Bens ?

VDUBXTC · 24 Oct 2005, 2:08 pm

both Nathan and his oldman john 😀 ran strong on saturday.
don't think they went on sunday though.

Ben broke several CV's again.

Noth sure how Heath and his mrs went on sunday, but they where strong on saturday.

Secoh · 24 Oct 2005, 3:23 pm

all the VW's did really well on sunday! Grant broke a CV on sunday too but was fixed in time for the next run which was blistering.

bat69 · 24 Oct 2005, 7:57 pm

Craig Torrens wrote:Nathan, how did your budget racer go against the big $$$ fuel injected stroker of Bens ?

I went really well. I managed to win the class (3J Imp Pro 1601-2000cc) and the state title aswell. Very Happy!!!! The only VW's that ran were in 3J under 2L (6 in total). The competition for the class was pretty close with the next in class behind me being a datson 1200 (0.3 seconds - Steve brydie), followed by Ben (0.2 seconds behind the dato), followed by Heath (I think 0.20 secs behind ben, dont quote me) then Grant. Im not to sure what time Grant pulled, but he was over a sec behind before they blew the CV. Heaths wife (Christine) had a blinder to be fastest lady driver......well done! and my old man finished behind Christine

I dont know about the Sunday as I didnt compete (if anyone knows could they post them). To pissed celebrating.:beer. An interesting point though, while I was talking to Ben about motors he told me that the 1916 engine he built for heath in his beetle, although didnt produce as mush HP, produced more bottom end torque then his strocker 19...something which I found amazing.

Anyway. The beetles smoked them..........

johny rotten · 24 Oct 2005, 9:24 pm

bat69 wrote:
Craig Torrens wrote:Nathan, how did your budget racer go against the big $$$ fuel injected stroker of Bens ?

I went really well. I managed to win the class (3J Imp Pro 1601-2000cc) and the state title aswell. Very Happy!!!! The only VW's that ran were in 3J under 2L (6 in total). The competition for the class was pretty close with the next in class behind me being a datson 1200 (0.3 seconds - Steve brydie), followed by Ben (0.2 seconds behind the dato), followed by Heath (I think 0.20 secs behind ben, dont quote me) then Grant. Im not to sure what time Grant pulled, but he was over a sec behind before they blew the CV. Heaths wife (Christine) had a blinder to be fastest lady driver......well done! and my old man finished behind Christine

I dont know about the Sunday as I didnt compete (if anyone knows could they post them). To pissed celebrating.:beer. An interesting point though, while I was talking to Ben about motors he told me that the 1916 engine he built for heath in his beetle, although didnt produce as mush HP, produced more bottom end torque then his strocker 19...something which I found amazing.

Anyway. The beetles smoked them..........

Sunday Times ,

Ben Durie 41.5 vw

Grant Cook 42.00 vw ( another broken Cv run 2)

Paul Bolen 42.20 Datsun 1600

Tom Clemens Vw

class track record 41.22 (Ben Durie)

Secoh · 25 Oct 2005, 3:33 pm

those two commentators were the rudest pricks ever. anything that wasn't an MG was bagged out mercilessly, but even the slow MG's they gushed over.

ian.mezz · 25 Oct 2005, 7:43 pm

good weekend seen some very quick bugs.
:kiss

nice pictures Manx-xtc :beer
thats on another post.

[ Edited on 25-10-2005 by ian.mezz ]

flashman · 25 Oct 2005, 10:13 pm

Sweeeeet job Nat

and to think all from an engine with a 25,000km warranty. that's about 23500kms more warranty than some.

Makes you want to weep really ........................