Tamworth Sporting Car Club will host round 5 of the Championship at Oakburn Park this weekend the 18th and 19th of May.
Practice is on Saturday afternoon with racing all day on Sunday.
Confirmed racers are Glen Torrens in his orange Pobjoy powered Beetle. Heath and Christine Campbell, making a long awaited return in Garfield. there
car has a new engine put together by Heath himself.
Heath tells me he practiced at Grafton a few weeks ago with some very encouraging results.
I will of course be racing the black bug.
Hope to see you in the pits.
Cheers Col
Can,t remember everyone,s times but will no more in a few days and write a race report.
Also have some footage inc GoPro in car.
Cheers Col
Looking forward to seeing the footage and hearing how the vws were on top again
I,m still waiting for official time sheets, to write a race report.
However here is some footage.
http://youtu.be/sKjjCZNfGu4
Cheers Col
Fik yeah col,I love watching your vids.you can pedal and that engine sounds awesome
Yeh
Sweet Col!!
Very frikken nice as always Col !!!
Hi, who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd ?
Are you happy with the way the car handled ?
So I still can,t get any official time sheets so I will try my memory.
Last Sunday started with a very cold morning and just didn,t get much warmer all day, I reckon 14 degrees probably was the top temp, so needless to
say track surface temp was cold and traction was minimal.
We all had a total of 6 timed runs and everyone enjoyed the close hard racing, with Heath and Christine making a welcome return to Hillclimb
Racing.
Championship points leader in the Gemini/Apollo/Toyota, Ashley Birks broke his gearbox on the first run so he changed cars and double entered with his
mate Pat Griffiths in his Torana/Apollo/Toyota.
With the track being super cold and very slippery tyre pressure and tyre condition was critical. Heath managed to get all these things right as well
as a car setup change halfway through the day to come out on top with a quick time.
Memory only times are
1st in class Heath 36.03
2nd in class Pat (Torana) 36.90
3rd in class Christine 37.05
4th in class Col 37.22
Sorry in can,t remember Glens best time or any other times.
Glen and myself allways pit together and help each other out. We both struggled all day trying to get front and rear traction.
We both tried pressure and setup changes all day but just could not get it right. ( 5 year old tyres didn,t help)
Next round is at Grafton on the June long weekend.
I have a few vids and photo,s to post over the next few days.
Cheers Col
Heath
Cheers
What's the class record for the track ?
Oh, and its great to see the Campbells are back.
Col
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Glen
so the yellow one is now a 76 beetle.........what happened to the old yellow car, crashed ?
Here is Heath pushing hard for a quick time.
Cheers Col
http://youtu.be/McJaXq6WT2Y
Great pictures!!!!
With the competition so close we all have to push hard to gain that 1/10.
Christine allways pushes hard!
http://youtu.be/epfA54koTjg
Cheers Col
Only 40 cars 
http://racing.natsoft.com.au/636399582/object_37505776.91C/View?1
I believe this run was my fastest of the day, until I clipped with witchs hat. 5 second penalty.
Cheers Col
http://youtu.be/kAMJzbVzEUI
This vid is the incar footage of the above run.
I was on a good one but clipped a witchs hat at the end, I looked back to confirm my suspicions and was not happy.
It,s a five second penalty.
Cheers Col
http://youtu.be/YjTTBYEaRQM