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By Michele,
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Very nice choice of play thing you got there Michele. You are gonna have some mad fun with that.

I see it's sporting avons,,,is that your doing or has it been used already for hillclimbs?.

Are you going to do the NSW champs in it?.

You will need to build up your wrists as well.

Neil.

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Very nice choice of play thing you got there Michele. You are gonna have some mad fun with that.

I see it's sporting avons,,,is that your doing or has it been used already for hillclimbs?.

Are you going to do the NSW champs in it?.

Neil.

I haven't driven it yet :D the Avons were on it.

First I'm hoping to learn how to drive it and do some small events and if all goes well (and a long way down the track) I would like to have a crack at OzBOSS, but I don't want to get ahead myself as I know I have a steep learning curve to go through.

So in the meantime, Wakefield and the local hillclimb.

What are you runnning in?

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I'll be doing all the state hillclimb champ events,,,the state supersprint ones and a bunch of track days. You should do the state supersprints,,,that car of yours would be an absolute ball at O/P and E/C.

Do you have anybody to help you look after it and did you get any equipment with it. Not trying to be nosey,,,just interested.

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I'll be doing all the state hillclimb champ events,,,the state supersprint ones and a bunch of track days. You should do the state supersprints,,,that car of yours would an absolute ball at O/P and E/C.

Do you have anybody to help you look after it and did you get any equipment with it. Not trying to be nosey,,,just interested.

Neil.

Nothing with it, well, not if you don't count the wets he threw in which were perished anyway. Erol Richardson has been wonderful and is helping me set it up. He's helping me get set up with an AIM data dash/logger, seat, pedal position etc. I don't think I would have attempted it without his help. Is there a supersprint category for these things? Track days sound great, can't wait to get this girl up to OP and EC :D:):O

The person I bought it off never transferred the log book, so I'm going through all that at the moment too, stat decs, forms, photos, JP's sheesh, you know what CAMS red tape is like. I understand this car used to belong to Tony Stephens (Darlington Park Raceway) although he didn't have a log book for it either according to CAMS and the log book number stamped on the car.

If you're doing the state rounds, you're going to be here too, so look me up, there's always a bunk for friends here if you need it.

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Michele

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yeah it runs in formula libre in hillclimbs and supersprints. will be interesting to see how both the FH and the radical handle some of the bumpier hillclimb tracks

Yeah, I'm worried about the transition onto the track down here, I imagine it would be much the same at King Edward Park too where you go up through the garden and back onto the track.

If you see me looking for material to line the bottom of my car... you'll know what happened LOL

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