Phillip Island Historics March 19,20 And 21

[cazz]

This was another great event this weekend. It was also my Group A DR30's debut after sitting in Terry Ashwoods Restauraunt for the last few years in retirement. She came out kicking and screaming, but did exceptionally well on the weekend, and she looked great.

We ended up on Sunday with a 1st in class.

We qualified 14th out of 32 cars.

1st Race - FInished 10th

2nd Race - Finished 6th

3rd Race - Finished 4th

4th Race - Finished 6th

Car came home without a scracth, and some slight mechanical issues to do with a miss and we need to find the reason we can not get the right boost.

I need some R200 Diff ratios if anyone knows where I can get some.

[hrd-hr30]

good onya for getting it out there racing again! It does look great

[Roy]

GREAT to see more cars getting out there. Any news on the Sierras making a comeback this year?

[Jetwreck]

GREAT to see more cars getting out there. Any news on the Sierras making a comeback this year?

yeh there was 3 entered.....the Listerine car and Robert Ingram's 2 ANZ cars.....the later ANZ car came up with a small problem though so only one of them ran the weekend.

[Roy]

Oh cool. I would love to see the ANZ cars running. I did see some scary pics of Bonds old Caltex car, not sure how the restoration is going

Any in car footage from the weekend ?

[Jetwreck]

yeh a messy one from me in the DR30....you will have to excuse the no throttle through turns 3 and 6 and misfire down the straight......something was causing the ignition to stop and go......on top of that we only had 4:11's and 1.1bar of boost......she's a bit different to the R31

We will have it right for Lakeside though!

My shoulders a killing me!!!!

Edited March 22, 2010 by Jetwreck

[Blue]

I should have another run up on youtube late tonight. I will do the last race of the weekend next.

The Saturday footage is not as good due to camera mounting issues, too high in the car in the first race on Saturday (Great view of the mirror and your eyes but not much else) and the vibration was playing hob with the mount in race 2. On a one inch long alloy strip mount the vibration was making the camera head twist at one RPM and shake side to side at another. Gaffer tape fixes everything! I will figure out a better mount for it before it goes in the car again.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Blue

[cazz]

Do we need to get you a better seat Jetwreck?

[Jetwreck]

Do we need to get you a better seat Jetwreck?

nup.....I just need to toughen up a little.....lol

[Roy]

So if this is Terry Ashwoods DR30, does anyone know what has happened to the DR30 of John Strongman? I understand he sold it to help fund the purcahse of the GIO GTR. It was not 100% original and had some late model bits on it that woudl have needed to be removed...but it was a tidy and running car.

How different is the FJ compared to the RB20 in the power stakes?

[Jetwreck]

Gaven Strongman still has his DR30 and is probably going to bring it back to its original condition and start racing it.

Terry Ashwood's old DR30 now belongs to Caz (that was the car racing on the weekend)

Fred Uthmann still has his DR30

Robert Ingram has the Netcom one

[Blue]

Next video, this is race 4 on Sunday afternoon. I had to ditch the last lap to get it under the ten minute mark for youtube. Still processing when I posted this so the video quality should get a little better.

[Jetwreck]

at the GIO car!!!

[Blue]

at the GIO car!!!

Bit of a moment there yes! Not as hairy as the VL Walkie going off in the first corner from the other vid. It really shows that it needed a taller diff for the island given you got it into fifth gear into the first corner from a standing start.