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Haha! Nice work Ben.

I think the P1 guys are talking about using one of their R8's for Dutton next year as well. (They have 2 - one of each gearbox type).

Oh - and speaking to Mossy yesterday it sounds like they are going to go with a "battle" style event like I run at our club DECA days as one of the events next year. That should be some fun.

Check this link for a sample of our battles.

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Hmmm, I was thinking they'd take a huge toll on the alloy rotor carrier we're running? I didn't touch the handbrake at all for this reason, with the exception of one occasion when it just cocked and locked the inside rear, ran it wide, turned into a total f**k up. Or is this not an issue?

Haha - if you READ THIS you will see they mention a forth coming name change. That is the new name.

There has been a bit of work going on to try and take this series to the next level. Some of the plans I have been told sound pretty exciting including the desire to run a "super special" stage on the Saturday night in the form of an event like we have seen in the past for Prolog stages at George Town for Targa Tas and Marysville for Mt Buller. If they can pull it off and have a couple of "feature" events at each round I am sure the series will only go forwards.

And Gav - at this stage it looks like we'll be bringing the Blue car over west next year too. :(

Never seen the value in Dutton. Nor the attraction - far too many 'khana style events. It would bore me to tears.

QLD Challenge has 7 or 8 speed tests every year including up to 3 closed road 'special stages', normally only 1 'khana test, and the rest are on racetracks. All for around $140 entry. That's more like it!

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The appeal is in there is a wider range of driving events and the likes of Peter Fitzgerald, Luffs etc get beat becuase they can only do the track stuff. I suck at the motorkhana stuff, but do ok at the higher speed stuff. But thats the appeal, doing well where you are strong and doing the best you can where you suck.

There is no Vic challenge...so you have fun where you can

I have competed in one of the QLD rounds before and definatly would not enter another dutton. I found that the event seemed to be more a money making exercise for the organizers than about putting on a good event for participants as seems evedent by the ever increasing entry fees. And i defenatly would agree that the amount of driving for the amount of money spent is definatly not good value. I have personally found that events put on by motoring events managment (the origanal organizers of dutton before the rights were onsold) such as the indy rally and grand prix rally ect to be much better value for money and more competitor focussed and the entry fees are far more reasonable.

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Just got an email update...

2008 EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The 2008 Alphera Dutton Rally calendar has been released. Get your entries rolling in for Victoria NOW. This event is set to be a sellout with the first of only 3 HUGE events in 2008.

ROUND 1 Victoria: May 16-18th, 2008

ROUND 2 Western Australia: July 25-27th, 2008

ROUND 3 New South Wales: November 28-30th, 2008

Pricing has been announced and the expression of interest form is available here.

Team Entry Fee - $3175

Driver Only Entry Fee - $2375

We are planning 2008 to be our biggest and most exciting year ever. Be quick and confirm your expression of interest with a deposit now!

Price doesnt seem to have gone up that much for driver only.

Likewise with Ryan and myself. If we can get some sponsors on board that will cover nearly everything we will do it if not then no chance. I wanna go OS this year and cant afford to folk out my folding for a grand total of 15 minutes track time.

Indeed. $1600 each for a team entry is pretty outrageous. I enjoyed the last one, and the "social" side is good, but add flights/fuel/accomodation etc, and it's a 3k weekend for me.

son of rajab knows how many blondes that can get me in a hot tub up at Noosa for a weekend.....

Yeh, the ppl i was talking to re sponsorship are not filling me with confidence. Not returning calls etc, so it looks like i will park it. I didnt really expect anyone to pay for my motorsport, but woudl have been nice...oh well. My 44days (working days) leave is approved....so im sure i wont be worring about Dutton when drunk and hopefully skinny dipping with Eastern European girls :P

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