Mark Berry Breaks Mt Cotton Hillclimb Record

[giant]

Hey guys

just though some of you might like to know.

Mark and i were playing at QR(SAT) & MT Cotton(SUN) this weekend, and Mark managed to break the hillclimb record for a car three times in the R32 GTR,

The previous record was a 43.6 & Mark managed a 42.72 by the end of the day!

he drove really well! really does show again they are great all round cars!

I drove the R35 and was happy with the times it produced especially given it's weight & on street rubber, my best time was a 45.3.

cheers russ

[EVO Cam]

That's just insanely fast around there!

Congrats on the achievement, well done to both of you

[Duncan]

good stuff, well done Mark.

Do you know what the outright lap record is?

[Munkyb0y]

we need video

[giant]

out right lap is a 37 or 38 set by the open wheeler boys!! ....crazy fast lol

[Duncan]

yeah those things are insane...but the fact you got to within 5 sec of a purpose built open wheeler in a touring car is amazing.

4wd definately brings back a few sec in short runs like this, but its still a real acheivement to get close to a 400kg open wheeler on super soft tyres.

You guys should come down to bulladelah hillclimb in september. so you can compete against my mighty production car.

[dazmo]

Was a top effort and has set a new bench mark (pardon the pun) that i dont think will be broken for a while unless you guys decide to head back out there again soon. The few runs that i saw Mark do looked fairly effortless too. Sure didnt look like it was being pushed to hard though I am sure that this would be a different story from the drivers seat. And a 45.3 in the R35 Russ is also an awsome effort especially considering the tyres and the weight of the car wich is definatly a handicap around mt cotton puts a lot of well set up and highly modified cars to shame in a near stocker. Congrats again on yet another record you guys are definatly the benchmark for GTR's in oz in every catagory it seems bring on the R34 and set the bar even higher. I think you guys need to be to give the rest of us a chance to catch up.

[Marlin]

Well done to both of you! Fantastic effort to break to record and that's quick for a big proddy car Russ!

[Roy]

Great work, but scary is the fact the R35 is only 2.5 seconds slower!

[hrd-hr30]

great to see someone go out there and put Mike Collin's WRX in its place finally! hehe but it is an awesome car and he knows that place like the back of his hand. so it really is an awesome effort to run those times for people who aren't that familiar with the track - it is a very technical little course.

To put that time in perspective, that's not only the record for the AWD turbo class, its the fastest tin top ever around Mt Cotton if I'm not mistaken! Previous fastest I know of was Kevin Mackrell's awesome V8 sprint car engined 4WD 260Z that ran 42.8 at last year's AHC i think. And that thing is along way from being road registerable!

what tyres is the R35 on? as a comparison time against other GTR models, my old R32 GTR ran 46.24 on std turbos and std boost. Had exhaust, mines ecu, pods, buddy club coilovers, and std 16*8" wheels with 225/50*16 RE55S SR compound (hard) tyres. 9 tenths faster is alot of time out there!

well done guys! going back I hope???

[giant]

thanks guys,!

it really is a scary place there, when you have a moment there you really sh#t your pants! ( & i had a few in the 35!!)

Mark and i were really happy with that time and mark drove it reall well too, it was getting so much speed up the hill it was locking brakes up hill trying to slow down for the corners

the r35 was on the stock street dunlops, they get very squirmy when you try and put ya foot in mid corner and they have done a hundred plus laps around oran and QR NOW ! LOL

[hrd-hr30]

the r35 was on the stock street dunlops, they get very squirmy when you try and put ya foot in mid corner and they have done a hundred plus laps around oran and QR NOW ! LOL

faark - street tyres! that's a staggering time... wonder how it would go on the same rubber as the R32 beast???

[N1GTR]

Dammit i was up that way and wanted to kill a few hours on the weekend - if only i knew

[Marlin]

Russ, I'm interested to know how much time you reckon there is in the gearbox of the 35 around somewhere like Mt Cotton?

[JAS-25T]

Russ, I'm interested to know how much time you reckon there is in the gearbox of the 35 around somewhere like Mt Cotton?

As a user - A DSG would own a manual or auto no matter where.

ok maybe except doing a clutch drop.

[Snowman]

On the weekend I just did an Audi R8 day down at Phillip Island and we put the clock to a couple of laps and got a 1.50.0 and a 1.50.2 which I can tell you I found staggering in a stock prodution car on street tyres. Apparently the race dude they had there (Christian Murchison) had done a high 1.48 earlier in the week.

Now I reckon one of the factors for such a great time was the DSG gearbox - it sure was impressive to use around the track - you can even downshift midcorner without the car so much as flinching. Awesome stuff.

And yet scary to think in Top Gear the R35 was roughly 5s per lap around the test track faster than the R8.....

[giant]

there would be nearly second a lap maybe more, i reckon in time gained around mount cotton with the GTR gearbox.

it really is an amazing bit of kit, it absolutely rips you off the start line four wheels smoking tyres and with so much torque you can leave it in second for the first right hand hard turn.

there would be another half a second in it if you were willing to risk it a bit more but i did not want to scratch it ..yet! you would go quicker if you had a proper seat and harness as i was getting thrown around a bit which makes it a bit harder with the g's the thing is pulling.

like Andrew said one of the amazing things is , you can be mid corner in a full broad slide on the limiter and change gears and it will not upset the car one bit!! it will just continue in the slide based on what your doing with the throttle and steering. it is a very easy car to four wheel power slide

[Marlin]

Yes that's exactly what i was thinking, what both you and Andrew have mentioned, ie, the fact you can gearshift whenever without upsetting the car I likey!

Andrew, want an R8? Deano's selling his now, done 2500klm. It's full stick though.....

[Snowman]

I'd love an R8! Seriously they are the only car so far in the Supercar Club fleet that I've said I'd like to own. Although I haven't driven the SuperLegg yet.

And around town the manual is better than the paddles. But I'm waiting for Nissan to get their act together as they have what I really want. But I'm sure Deano won't have any issues off loading his one - there's a wait of over 12 months still on those things for a new one.

[evil_weevil]

Is there anything Mark and Russ cant do in that GTR!?!?

Well done guys, another awesome result!

Can you build my car k thanx Russ!