Wreck to Race.

[Peter Jones]

Did you overtake the green mazda rx7 in the end?

Don't think so, I remember him passing me though.

Remember this wasn't a race, it was a super sprint. Finishing position means very little.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Bloody hell the tails wind up the straight must have been nuts Would have been tempting to just qucik it pinned luach it at One and land in the ocean

Reckon some of the flag marshals landed up in Tassie. You should have seen them trying to hang on to the flags.

The winds were insane. I was dodging trees across the road all the way there this morning. There were sizeable bits of timber being blown about at the track.

Just as I was about to go out for the second run the rain came down so hard it was like being in a car wash. I could hear it drumming on the roof even with the helmet on. The stewards paused the racing then. I couldn't see more than two meters in front of the car with the wipers on full and I was stationary!

Pete

[Peter Jones]

I should explain too that the times I posted were from my in car system.

The official times are up on the PIARC site now http://www.piarc.com.au/

My system seems to be within 0.00.02 of the Dorians (2/100 sec).

BTW before any one asks, the thing hanging out the passenger door is a Dorian timing transponder.

Pete

[Preen59]

BTW before any one asks, the thing hanging out the passenger door is a Dorian timing transponder.

Pete

And here's me thinking it was the passenger seat belt..

Good pics, Pete. Glad to hear it was a trouble free run and if you didn't run off the track, that's gotta be a bonus, right?

[Golf Houso]

Definitely some of the most amusing head light covers I have ever seen haha! Great work mate

[Peter Jones]

Good pics, Pete. Glad to hear it was a trouble free run and if you didn't run off the track, that's gotta be a bonus, right?

The pics are down to Jodie and our amazing Panasonic camera. These were all taken hand held in gale force wind from the roof of the pit building.

Not running off the track was a challenge at times, especially when there's a car spinning out of control in front of you.

It's probably the last time I'll be faster than a 400 HP RX7. He was on full slicks and just couldn't get any traction. It's about the only benefit of my setup in that I have more traction then horsepower.

I think my conservative camber settings might have helped too. Because every one was going so slow around the bends the high camber angles weren't helping and only reducing the contact patch. I was chasing down a lot of cars mid corner only to have them pull away as soon as they could get the power down.

Pete

[velly_16v_cab]

looked like you had a great time pete...i can wait to give the mk2 a blast soon.

glad the mk1 held up ok

[five2]

saw this down atr philip island, nice

[Peter Jones]

Bit of double post but I'd like to keep the story all in this thread so it's all in the one place.

White went for a drive in the rain today at Bryant Park or "Haunted Hills" Hillclimb track.

I really need to get one of my diffs installed soon, I could have done with it today. Traction was a real problem.

Here's a link to the Haunted Hills event thread.

Here's some photos of white out on the track today.















Only one little incident where I spun the car 270° due to some mistimed application of the brakes

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Next Race - Group 5 Sprints - Melbourne cup day @ Sandown. November 3.

Josh?

Pete

[gldgti]

great work pete - btw - whats with the googly eyes ???

[Golf Houso]

great work pete - btw - whats with the googly eyes ???

I'm pretty sure he eliminates the competition by causing them to laugh hysterically when they look in the rear view mirror, leaving Pete to overtake !

[GoLfMan]

Next Race - Group 5 Sprints - Melbourne cup day @ Sandown. November 3.

Josh?

Pete

Yeh I'll be there, got plenty of time this time

I've convinced the Volkspower crew to come down aswell with the APR GTI and Bretty's VR6

[Peter Jones]

great work pete - btw - whats with the googly eyes ???

Just something different each time. You've generally got to have all glass forward of the windscreen taped off. I've got a vinyl cutter and a bad attitude so anything could happen.

Also some of these people take themselves too seriously so I'm having a bit of a poke at those with NISMO etc stickers accross their headlights.

If you go back over the old photos you'll see all sorts of designs and colours.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Yeh I'll be there, got plenty of time this time

I've convinced the Volkspower crew to come down aswell with the APR GTI and Bretty's VR6

Cool, I'll knock up matching headlight covers

Some VW company at last.

Pete