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I entered the Newcastle MG Club 50th Anniversary King Edward Park Hill Climb on the 20th October and had a ball, i was able to put a camera in my car with the help of Dumhead and tape my 4 runs on the Saturday and put them up onto youtube.

A big thanks must go out to Shane, Nicky and Michele for helping with the car and packing up on the Saturday afternoon i had a ball and will try and make it again next year and improve on my 42.9 second best run.

I have posted this up on a few forums to try and drum up a little interest in the event as it surely is a magnificent area to run such and hill climb and can highly recommend it to all.

Please enjoy the footage and feel free to leave your comments on youtube if you like the footage.

Matt

Run 1

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=05U9RV6zqsM

Run 2

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZxxQ-V0WI

Run 3

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rbqkVE_7Jp0

Run 4

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQqjpEfRyY

Edited by boxheadmr

well done looks like you were having fun. plenty of wheel spin and rev limiter :) love you you went thru the hairpin and chicane on the last run in particular

they take their chicanes very seriously, don't they :ninja: no idea why they put them on the exit of a hairpin corner though?

oztayyan car eh?

and I love the "your speed is sign" did you get time to read it?

it is a great little hillclimb, the narrow bit is called 'the pinch" for obvious reasons i think they use the hay bales after the pinch to slow the cars down becasue the right hander before the hairpin you can get a fair bit of speed up in a short distance and a torana actually spun out and hit the power pole on the day.

There was two speed signs, one just before the pinch - think best was 106klm/h and then i think i got as fast as 80klm/h on the second one but not sure as i was not looking just was told by friends there.

Duncan you should try and make it next year is a lot of fun and great spot to have it.

  • 4 months later...
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That course looks too tight IMO for a skyline to have fun at

It's largely ran by smaller cars although an R32 GTR with mild mods, good tires and brakes would handle it well enough. :bunny:

Guilt-Toy ran in it this year and had a good time from what I can gather.

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