On the 9-10/2/2013 Kempsey Sporting Car Club will host round 1 of the NSW Hillclimb Championship.
The track is located at Cooperabung approx 5k,s north of Telegraph Point, and is allways sign posted.
I believe i will be the only VW competing at this event as GT has a caravan and Camping show to attend. Nathan has family and new home committments,
and Heath is still finishing of his new engine.Not sure how Greg Ward is going.
I will be trying to get some incar footage with my new GoPro camera so cross fingers i get the camera sorted for some footage.
Due to the lack of expose to any print media, i will also post a full race report with results etc both with this event and all the other rounds
throughout the year.
Cheers Col
Cool - have fun with it Col !!!
Was thinking about doing Cooperbung but it clashes with event at Mt Cotton, so might see you at the Bathurst rounds instead....
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Good lock Col. Kick some ar$e
Damn Col, only a few days ago I agreed to run a safety boat at the Arrow Catamaran State sailing titles at Queens Lake that weekend.
I might see if I can get out of the Sunday and come & see how you go.
Jeff,
I'll Be There Come If You Can!
It's a Great Turnout!
From Dylan
I'd be disappointed if you didn't set a new class record 
Go smash em col. Remember to press the the record button on, oh and off, the latter I happen to do a lot!!!
So did you set a new record Colin ?
Yes he did but it also got broken two other times by two different drivers in their respective cars. One was a gemini and the other dato. Both of those drivers are former state imp pro champs. From all reports it sounded like competition was very close at the pointy end. Col should chim in soon with details. Congrates Col on an excellent result on your first outing with your new engine combo.
Thanks for the update......looking forward to seeing the footage and results.
Sounds like a good round 
who where the drivers of the gemini & datto, might know them
Ashley Birks in the gemini. Ash was a former state imp pro circuit champ in his gemini. He has been racing the gemi on the track for a number of years. Paul you prob would have race against him at some stage in the beetle. The dato driver was Aaron Osborn in a 1200. He has been multi state and Australian under 1600 imp pro hillclimb champ before turboing the dato and moving up a class. Aaron was last years state champ in the imp pro 1601 to 2000 class too.
Whoa was the competition fast and furious at the first round of the NSW championship at Cooperabung.
After a 4 hour tow on Saturday morning i unpacked the car and had a quick bite of lunch in the pits. Practice was on so i took advantage and had 2
runs to get a feel with the new engine. First inpressions was really good power delivery and lots more torque and pull through the gears, big smiles
on saturday evening.
Sunday morning was warm to start with, and a local told me it was going to get hot fairly early on with a chance of a storm later. 6 cars were entered
in my class, the most popular and competitve by far. Aaron in his 1200 Datto turbo, Adrian, Datto 1600, Ashley Birks, Gemini fastback with a 220 bhp
atw apollo, bottom end, toyota double overhead cam 11000rpm missile. (not sure how this car falls within the rules, New young dude in another Gemini with the same 11000rpm missile motor, a
Renault Clio, and finally yours truly in a old Beetle!
Straight away times were fast and the track record was broken many times (record 29.35).
Ashley and Aaron traded fastest times throughout the day with myself chiming in once, wish it rained after the second run 
. Eventually brute horsepower was to great, with Ashley taking the class
win and smashing the old record.
Ashley Birks 28.5
Aaron 28.9
Col 29.2
Can,t remember the others but all slower than the top 3.
Sadly Aaron had a big accident at the infamous sweeper corner, he was not hurt and walked away from the wreck, but the little 1200 has suffered major
damage, and looked from first impressions to be a total loss.
I was very pleased with the cars first outing with my new engine and a big thanks to Dylan and Jeff for popping up and saying hello on the day.
I have some in car Gopro footage to post up in the next couple of days which looks really great.
Cheers Col
Damn col top 3 all so close. Nice write up. What do u rev your engine to now?
Bring on the incar!!!!!!!
Cheers Fabo.....
Wow, Ashley slaughted it. It will be interesting to see how they go at Bathurst.
Bummer re Aarons car.
Was a Great day, Enjoyed Seeing all the cars, the people and the drivers themselfs especially Colin being the only beetle there and only VW except for
a vw powered shooting buggy.
Proud to see you got in the top 3 in your class Colin, i think you did very well considing the black datto being faster but then crashing was quite
sad. Great to hear you got the go pro footage too as i dont think we got much at all pics or vids.
Anything i do have ill put on a disc and send to you again Col.
From Dylan
OK Col, here is a bit of phone footage.
Round 3
Round 4
It was a great day, and your car certainly sounded to be running hard.
good work col
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http://youtu.be/IkgaMycgIfQ
Here is my maiden run with the new motor.
Off course you don,t win on practice day so this was a slow run and a good confidence build with the new engine.
The chicane is tricky so i took it slow to begin with.
Chris i had the shift light set at 7200rpm and the limiter at 7500rpm, no need to rev the engine any harded, it,s not making power.
More footage to come in the days ahead.
Cheers Col
PS I love my new GoPro, it,s my fav new toy.
Sounds great Col
Nice splits in the gear ratios
Nice work Col - can't wait to see the later vid's when you're fully on-it !!!
GoPro's are an awesome little bit of kit hey...
THATS YOUR WARM UP LAP,LOL,LOL....... THAT THING HOOTS.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCgk_avr1wI
With a practice run on Saturday, and my first run on race day under my belt i gave it a red hot go on run number 2.
This was my fastest run of the day.
Cheers Col
Well done, sounds great!!
cheers for sharing Colin
All over so quick
The curved lens of the go pro makes acceleration look epic!