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6 May 2007, 08:18 (Ref:1907473) | #51 | ||
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You know how strange it is. I was talking to a person interstate about about carbon fibre and he told me his next door neighbour was excited because he put a new style manifold on his hillclimb car and it gave him a great boost to horsepower. When I asked his name it was Peter Gumley!
Gary West is rumoured not to be defending his title at Mt Cotton due to his budget or lack of it...two many thousand of kilometers of driving to get there! |
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7 May 2007, 08:29 (Ref:1908168) | #52 | ||
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Shame there that West wont run, but it is a very long drive so I can understand his thoughts. Costs with just getting there would be massive. We need someone over here to buy the Pilbeam and run it as well.
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One thing about each competitor you are talking about, the Gould chassis or the Aus top runners, each have tons of experience on their respective tracks thus should be expected to win there. |
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Mt Cottton has a max speed of around 100 mph and the fastest corner is 50 mph. Most of our hills are overgrown gokart tracks. The 'powers that be' would have a coronary if you could transplant the UK hills to OZ. "Too fast, no armco, etc" Yes, of course the top runners would be expected to win in their respective countrys, just that I believe the UK cars (not drivers) would have a hard time on typical OZ hills, just as the OZ cars would on UK hills. BTW I have driven outright cars on most OZ hills (quite a while ago) and would have loved to have had a go at the UK hills. |
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Have you got any links to websites or details of Aus hillclimbs? Many of us up here would be very interested in the comparison. I know over in NZ hillclimbs tend to be of the rally variety such as the Queenstown race, and I believe they also run on public roads in some places, but still for rally cars rather than single seaters - I'd be happy to be corrected if that is wrong. The impression I'd got of Aus is that it is more similar to the NZ style on the whole, but going by your post, that's clearly a misconception.
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Victorian hillclimb circuit Rob Roy in the Christmas Hills about 30 minutes from Melbourne. Hill Record is Gould GR55B with 18.09...Slowest corner is blind 3rd gear. This is the only track I have competed on personally. http://mgcc.com.au/robroy/index.shtml It is owned by the MG Car Club of Victoria The others are... -The Morwell hillclimb track was literally a Go Kart track but has been killed off as they build a new one, no corner was faster than 2nd gear and never got out of 4th. -Mt Leura is a track that goes up the side of a hill (old volcano to be correct) which had no railing on the outside on the way up. -The newest one is Phillip Island which uses the GP Circuit so it is quite wide and flowing. You can view all the Australian tracks via Google Maps on the Australian Hillclimbing site.... http://www.hillclimbracing.com/compo...aps/Itemid,20/ |
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The Victoria one looks like a mini Shelsley.
At $80 for an entry i'm thinking about doing it myself. |
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6 Jul 2007, 10:29 (Ref:1955956) | #61 | |
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I have in car and external footage of our car at the mt leura hill climb in may. Tomorrow is 5th round of the victorian hill climb championship at the DECA driver training center in shepparton, ill try and get some footage from that.
Ive seen some footage of hill climbing in europe and you guys are crazy. Id need a new pair of jocks after every run after watching some of the tracks that you guys race on. Our tracks are pretty tame in comparison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asy46w9mA1I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uYfH726Q8 |
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