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?
White Knuckle Racing Team [/i] "Drive it like dirt"
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 !!!
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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
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
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 🥲
Craig Torrens6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion
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.
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.😁
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.
White Knuckle Racing Team [/i] "Drive it like dirt"
