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So here we are at the 2016 Australian Hillclimb Championships at Haunted Hills. I have to say I have never ever been to such a high quality facility in my life. This place is incredible. I'll post up some pics tomorrow.

We did lots of testing today (Thursday), on my old tyres and I think I have a handle on this very technical track. I'm running nitrogen in both sets of tyres now and quite frankly I see no advantage over normal everyday air, The temps creep up as usual and I'm continuely having to bleed air out to stay at 34 degrees hot. Cheryl is being her normal self, which is great, 1 less thing I have to worry about.

 

Here's a vid of Cheryl and I on a practice run... Vids just don't do credit for the height changes unfortunately. 

 

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Here ya go Dale,,,this one was my faster run of the weekend. I was getting very frustrated at my lack of quality times and shit traction, being in the bottom 3rd was not where we should be, So I sat down in a quiet place and starting looking at all my vids and car setup. The Hankook supplier told me I should be aiming for 34 hot, of which I was achieving. So I decided to try something different and lowered the rears to 28 cold. Instant improvement, I went from high 61s to mid 59s and as you can see I lost tons on the last corner.

 

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This is the tyre warming area as you can see and the start line is where the 2 blokes are standing.

 

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This one on the way down, the world as we know it drops rapidly.

Some more pics of this awesome place.

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And it just goes down and down. The locals call the lowest corner at the bottom "OH SHIT CORNER" and I understand why. In my vids check out the skid marks. I was told a local wrote off an R34 GTR there some time ago and then smashed his FD RX7 on the Friday practice of the event. Now that would suck balls. Sorry Pete no pics. I felt sorry for the poor bastard.

 

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Time to start actually climbing.

 

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The back straight,,, Yah I get to use 3rd gear. The braking zone was interesting, from the pit area we all comment that we are braking to early, I got to the 2nd red stripe and was locking the inside front, no way could I pull Cheryl up any later.

 

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The 2 back corners,,,very technical.20161026_161239.jpg

The control tower, my god it rivals anything I have ever seen.20161029_090453.jpg

4 NSW Cars in our pit bays,,, and all on the podium. The other 3 bastards won their classes and broke class records, I had to settle for 1st looser.

 

 

 

9 hours ago, bcozican said:

so bloody awesome !   looks fun good driving too

Thanks buddy,,,we had a great time. The Patrol towed perfectly as usual. The only incident was a dive bombing Kookaburra that hit the passenger side of the windscreen and bent the aerial mast.

 

Cheers

Neil.

 

7 hours ago, Dale FZ1 said:

That facility looks great!!

Presuming if it's hillclimb then sub 1.6km length.

What sort of max length in the straighter sections?

Mate I gotta tell ya they have their shit sorted. That control tower has it's own kitchen, the auditorium section has polished floor boards, 1/2 covered full length balcony, enough chairs and tables for over a hundred peeps and the toilets and showers were top end hotel quality.

There's 8 different versions of the track they can use and I think we were on the 1.1km clockwise one. 

Cause I'm such a lovely bloke I got an in car tour of the track on Thursday with the track designer/club president. that was very cool.

Cheers

Neil.

 

 

 

You funny buggers, that cheque is my 2nd. No shouts Mr Handley,,, Cheque shall be framed, like the $135 from Brisbane.

As if I haven't had enough for the year,,, I'm just about to enter Wollongong's last Multiclub hillclimb for the year.

http://wscc.org.au/download.shtml

Get off ya arses and keyboards and come for a play. No you cannot double enter Cheryl,,, she's not that kind of girl.

 

Cheers

Neil.

 

Cool bananas buddy, might have to put you to work though,,, not really, Cheryl will perform.

Wonder if Mr all talking, keyboard racing Fatz will enter. I bet not a chance, probably because they use timing and we all know he is frightened of timing. Bum wouldn't even have a cams licence.

Cheers

Neil.

 

 

 

52 minutes ago, Neil said:

Cool bananas buddy, might have to put you to work though,,, not really, Cheryl will perform.

Wonder if Mr all talking, keyboard racing Fatz will enter. I bet not a chance, probably because they use timing and we all know he is frightened of timing. Bum wouldn't even have a cams licence.

Cheers

Neil.

 

 

 

Not a chance he'll come down to play... He'll be too scared of all the people watching on as the clock ticks by... :P

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