R4 NSW Hillclimb Championship 7 & 8 June - Grafton - VIDEOS NOW ADDED

For all you north coast vw fans. Come and see some veedub action at round 4 of the NSW hillclimb championship held at Grafton Sporting Car Clubs Mountian View Motor Sport Complex. There will be some quick vw's going and the mountain view track is an excellent track to spectate at as you can see the who track. There as also some great facilities there as well (food drink etc)

DATE: 7th & 8th June
Sat 7th June Practice day - midday start
Sun 8th June Race day - 9am start

There are a few VW who have shown interest in going. At this stage me, Heath & Christine Campbel are petty much confirmed as going (thats 3 68 bugs). Along with the Durie beetle, Greg Ward (if he is australia) and possiblely Craig Torrens as another possible provided work/car permit. (thats another 3 bugs)

Stan the man intends on giving his supercharged open wheeler a blast as too is the supercharged vw open wheeler of peter gumpley. That along with a few Fvees should make some good dub action.

So who is thinking of going?

I'll be there. Not sure wether competing or not, but always up for some vee dub action when it's close enough to get to. Can't wait👍

Jezebel and I made the early AM trek down to from Brissie to have a run at Grafton yesterday... I'd like to say it was practice for the NSW round, but unfortunately I'm away then.

I'd never even seen the Mountain View track before, and although it looked pretty intimidating found it a total blast - talk about a big ass grin on my face !!!

Totally different feel to Mt Cotton - definitely a lot more hectic in the car with twice the number of corners for roughly the same distance. Totally loved it - I'll definitely be back down again, and with a few changes to the car... no limited slip diff is a real killer for that first turn !!!

Bummer to be missing the NSW round - with that sort of list running it would've been a great opportunity to see how a Volksy should really be driven !!!

😀

I won't be there..................my car is being converted to straight line work !!

did anyone go and have a look ?

how did the beetles go ?

Craig,

When are you racing in H/C again???

yep had a look

Nathan took the class record and win on his last run............Heath was only .50? of a second behind .

Cookie brought the Durie beetle for a run but gearbox issues saw an early departure

no show from Stan (as far as i know) and Gumley also as he is rebuilding his engine.

the hellVWnotch got stuck on the wrong side of the flooded creek.

no Toorens'z in sight either

loading some vids now

Heath was flying as usual..............

BeetleJuice wrote:Craig,

When are you racing in H/C again???

Not much "hillclimb" stuff on the beetle any more.....................it has 145's on the front now 😂❗

any times ?

they also have split times.............what did they get for the first split ?

record now at 51.02? for Nathan........which is the run i am loading to link to soon

Heath went 51.5? on that run linked above...........both last of the day (5)

track conditions poor with a shower in the middle of the day and drizzle on the runs i video'd. both teams were surprised at the good times at the end of the day and noted some lost time from a couple of sections..............i'm sure the record would have been smashed time and time again if more grip was on offer.

i might be biased, but the beetles look and sound great..............making the likes of escorts and wrx's seem quite boring

Craig Torrens wrote:any times ?

they also have split times.............what did they get for the first split ?

not sure on times there Craig, i normally take a photo of the boards but didn't bother this time around

i doubt they were as quick as you to the first mark Craig🙅.........

i think i heard Heath say Nathan pulled some time there.

to my eye, Heath was overpowering the grip level for the day

Hey Daimo

I can't get to the site to view. Could you post a direct link? Tried cutting and pasting.

Or could you explain how I can view?

regards

Craig

maybe not working because i'm loading up more at the moment?

seemed to work when i checked before.............maybe you can go out to the shed and do some whilst you wait👍

will we see you at Warrick this year?

Thanks for the vid of Heaths run Daimo, sounded great, car is making good horsepower just by ear.

Was that Nathans car you here in the background warming his tyres?

Cheers Col

yep Nathan in the background.

yes for sure heath is running good HP..............that efi is just so damn smooth too, power right thru the revs, note how quick it recovers when it bogs under the cam, out of the first hairpin

I might be wrong but just by listening he punched the clutch when it bogged?.

Cheers Col

Nah Colin...it bogged down in second, then he punched it back to first.......that's not the "efi" recovering, just a lower gear for more torque !

I love the sound of Nathan's tyre warm in the background when Heath is right on the corner !!

any video's of the faster car, the one that set the record ? 😀

i don't think it was first at all, not the same on vid.........anyways Heath will let us know soon enough.............

Nathans record run........

sounds like he punches it back to first...........then he changes into second down the straight, holds second all around the back section then changes into third for the second pass down the straight, then back to second on the last right hand corner before the finish line.

Track looks nice and dry......and the weather is cool.....perfect for records.

I wonder how Nathans car would go with the latest Haltech efi and data logging, would work well with the twin plugs ! Would have to be better than the 44 idfs he runs wouldn't it ?????

Thanks Heaps Dumone for the footage...............nearly as good as being there !!!!!

it was actually drizzling during and previous to those runs.............not much traction off the line

Bens car had box probs i was told

i thought the twin pluggs mainly got em running better down low, so woould efi be much benefit there?.......not taking anything away from Nathans efforts nor power, but the orange bug does sound a lot crisper at the track and did even before with the E6K.........i'm going E8 soon too🥷

it's a struggle for you hey Craig, being a 1916, but not a pobjoy 🥲

No struggle for me..a pobjoy 1916 won !

it must be a struggle for you knowing they're both 1916's and not strokers!😂

they both performed extremely well on the day, just one performed better to give its owner a new class record. 😎

as for the weather,they should run it in summer............always seems to rain this time of year !

did you drive your bug up ?

yes, my car,it's all i've got!

i have a sore arse and ears again..........went up past Stans as usual, nice road away from the tourists and wollopers

at least it wasn't icy cold and windy for a change

dumone wrote:maybe not working because i'm loading up more at the moment?

seemed to work when i checked before.............maybe you can go out to the shed and do some whilst you wait👍

will we see you at Warrick this year?

Thanks, It's working.

Maybe!

Thanks again Dumone for the footage of Nathans record breaking run.
The car looks nice on the track , very accurate drive from Nathan.Two quick beetles at Grafton,now that would give the locals something to talk about.
A true VW nut driving to Grafton in a beetle Daimo. I remember driving to Sydney many times in my Beetle with the constant clap of my ida,s in the back, guaranteed headache.

Cheers Col

Good one Nat, well done.

BeetleJuice wrote:

dumone wrote:maybe not working because i'm loading up more at the moment?

seemed to work when i checked before.............maybe you can go out to the shed and do some whilst you wait👍

will we see you at Warrick this year?

Maybe!

Craig WILL be racing this year.
If not in the red car, he has other VW products that need to support the event.
Unless he has broken legs or some other reasonable excuse that can be arranged.😁

Love the Vids Daimo!!

mmmvery nice!

A great w/e was had by all. There was some very stiff competition between the beetles and some local drivers, especially a very fast local driver in a neat escort. It has always been a very close event in the imp pro class here in the past years, so it was no suprise this years state event was no different.

A congrats and thankyou goes to the other drivers for a great day of racing and competition, including the vw's of Heath, Christine, Cookie as well as the other dato and escort drivers. I must say it does feel good to get the win and break the existing class record in the process. I have been developing the car during the year and my improvements I am now finding are noticible. With a number of other improvements in the pipeline, Im hoping the car can go even faster.

Craig in relation to the first split, from memory my fastest first split was a 11.8?. My split on the last run (record) run was 12.2?. From memory, one of Heath's splits to the first timer was around a 12.8?. But dont quote me on these. After the rain the start line was slippy as well as the entry/exit onto the main straight, flipflop and box. As far as adding injection.... I dont think so. Im a simple person and computers tend to fu#k with me. I like to rely on old school methods. There is no technology in my car, just simple, excellent and well proven engineering. Why change something that works well. I like to keep it a period (historic) racer and beetles were not injected in 1968.

Thanks Dumone for the videos. It is great to finally see my car run from the outside. AND FOR THE RECORD. I think my Beetle sounds way better then the others... But I may just be bias.

You can all read about it in the next issue of VWMA.

Craig WILL be racing this year.
If not in the red car, he has other VW products that need to support the event.
Unless he has broken legs or some other reasonable excuse that can be arranged.😁 [/quote]


I'll definitely be racing this year...Still a maybe for Warwick though.
It just depends on my Golf Tournament schedule!😁

I'm even putting on the rego sticker next week!

That'll be the 1st time in 9 years that my bug has had a current rego sticker on the windscreen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Craig

Haven't got a copy of the splits but as I recall it your record first split was 11.8 mine 12.5, this was certainly one of our better for the day.

The new record and recored run for Natan 51.51, my best run 51.62 and Christine's 53.34. Christine was a little frustrated by having 2 of her latter runs in pooring rain where you could have run around the track faster if you could manage to stand up on the beginning section.

I came in fairly hot and didn't find the corner to have the grip levels I expected. Due to the camera angle it doesn't look that bad but the only thing keeping me from looping right around is the favourable camber, but this drops away as you progress through the corner, so despite my best efforts I had to get off the gas to get the car back under me. I think there may even be a quick left foot stab of the brake peddle. Then flat on the accelerator no fanning of the clutch. I have got a tall first gear but it would have been a bloddy big rev to shift back. The straights are second to third.

Nathan I don't no about sounding better but it certainly is louder. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Congrats again, I'm looking forward to many more events split by bugger all.

Damo your onto it, we currently have issues with getting power to the ground, primarily on tight tracks such as this. We have recenlty increased the torque and power and like most things you do, this created another problems. Having a track thats a little greasey essentuates this problem. We had similar issues whem we changed from 60 to 50 series tyres. I do though have some changes in mind to overcome this.

Heath

POZOOM wrote:....... I had to get off the gas to get the car back under me. I think there may even be a quick left foot stab of the brake peddle. Then flat on the accelerator no fanning of the clutch. I have got a tall first gear but it would have been a bloddy big rev to shift back. The straights are second to third......

Heath

YAY!! i thought so. (as i said it was easier to tell trackside) Mabe dropped a wheel onto the painted edge or mud from where i stood?

yes overpowering. i had a ball at the rain soaked oran park with the 1776.......the hellVWrx notch scared the life out of me in the wet at Raleigh tho........uncontrolable power , or horses for courses 😎

very impressive power there Heath,

Nice to speak to both you, Christene and Nathan THANX........as usual i reccomend everyone making the effort to go see these guys when they are close enough to make it for a Sunday drive adventure.

i am going to post up a vid of one of the other non VW entrants simply to make it clear just how hard these VW freaks have their beetles going, cornering and stopping

well done to all

yeah Damo you are right. it's not just good rivalry between the Beetles; the Beetles make most other brands of cars seem LAME

heres a good one to compare, turbo sumthing for sure having some fun, but not quite the same as a flying beetle hey.

Sides wrote:... no limited slip diff is a real killer for that first turn !!!

😀

Shhhhhh!
You have pm and email David.

Well done Nathan.

That was a good clean looking run. Both car and driver look very well behaved! I expected more rally-style heroics!

I'm not sure which car sounds the best, I know it isn't the datto.

CYA CT

Well done, good to see the VW's keeping those class records. Car looks really well set-up too 😀

Bloody awesome guys....

How sweet's the sound of a singing aircooled revs.... 🙂