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plough - June 7th, 2005 at 10:09 PM

Any VW's competing at the Winters this year?


dangerous - June 8th, 2005 at 11:21 PM

Simon Holgersons 187mph, 511ci, 7.3 sec VW is running & Wally always runs the Winternats, but check the Willowbank website for the entry list.


VWMA Editor - June 9th, 2005 at 09:44 AM

Wally is.


dangerous - June 12th, 2005 at 10:33 AM

What happened to Wally? I didn't see him in the Qualifying list.


VWMA Editor - June 12th, 2005 at 12:13 PM

Here is the short of the long.

The Winternationals runs a slightly different class structure. Wally normall runs Super Sedan. However, for the Nationals, Super Sedan must run electronics - Wally doesn't have this, so they put him into Super Street. The problem is in Super Street you can't run faster than 11secs, but they didn't tell Wally this, so the two gentle 10.6's on Friday did not qualify us. When someone did tell us on Frdiay night, we ran with one foot on the brake and qualified with a 11.45 on the last run Saturday morning.

But wait, there's more. Then this morning, Sunday, they put Wally back into Super Sedan, because although it's a Nationals, it's still and ANDRA event. They accepted Wally's 10.6 on Friday as qualifying. As we speak Wally has just won his first round against a Ford Capri.

The joys of racing.


VWMA Editor - June 12th, 2005 at 05:39 PM

Wally made it through to the 3rd round then cherried himself out. Was having a good run until then.

The crowd and commentators were right behind him.

Just goes to show that a well prepared budget racer is still good value, and great for attracting sponsors. And talking of sponsors, Wally ran under official Volkswagen colours for this event, securing himself VGA backing for the rest of the 2005 season.


h - June 12th, 2005 at 06:03 PM

yea wally go!


VWMA Editor - June 14th, 2005 at 01:09 PM

Here is a pic of Wally running under Volkswagen colours. This certainly made the team look and feel more like a VW race outfit. It was a good weekend.


vw54 - June 15th, 2005 at 12:02 PM

Go Wally great effort


OvalGlen - June 17th, 2005 at 08:27 AM

Congatulations and well done Wally.


Whitty - June 17th, 2005 at 12:32 PM

Did Wally used to race a turbo type3?? Wally Penboss *guess*was it??


VWMA Editor - June 17th, 2005 at 07:36 PM

Yep, it was called WOFTAM : Waste Of F*cking Time And Money.

Neil 'Wally' Penboss.

Also a Formula Vee racer.

p.s. When he catches up with the computer age, he can do his own Forum chit chat.