Further more to my year long catch up, we have done more than a few events. I will have to look through the log book to remember them all. They have mostly been tarmac, but we have done 3 gravel events also. It is a rocket ship on tarmac, it has always handled well but the extra power and having a gear for all occasions makes it fly. It is not great on gravel as it struggles for rear end grip, still needs a lot of development here.
Here are the events and placings we have achieved over the last year or so. We mostly dual drive the car so there are usually 2 placings.
Waiti Rd (Tarmac, TVCC) 25/08/13. 3rd (Mike) and 4th (Kevin) overall. First event, a few teething issues. Car would not idle and clutch was difficult to modulate. Very wet road, . Results
Kemps Rd (Tarmac, MG Car Club) 17/11/13. 1st (K) and 2nd (M) overall. Car ran well. Kev’s favourite road. I pushed too hard and went slower. Almost came unstuck and ran off the road and through a big hole. Bending the left rear spring. Results. Videos can be seen at the bottom of the videos page.
Bright Rd (Tarmac, PCC Speed Weekend) 23/11/13. 2nd (K) overall. Kev on his own this time and with a great performance at one our car clubs oldest hillclimbs. Results.
Murray Rd (Gravel, PCC Speed Weekend) 24/11/13. 17th (K) overall, 3rd in class. Car struggles on gravel, a real handful to drive. Results
Golden Cross (Tarmac TVCC 2014 National Hillclimb Champs) 18/01/14. 8th (M) and 12th(K) overall, 1st and 2nd 2WD in the series. Great result with 45 cars in the event. New road for both of us, so still a bit more time in it for next year.
Pukewera Rd (Gravel TVCC 2014 National Hillclimb Champs) 19/01/14. 24th (M) and 25th (K) overall, 5th and 6th in class. Again the car is struggling on gravel, feels very nervous and does not inspire confidence on a slippery surface.
Lead Foot Hillclimb (Tarmac, TVCC) 1/2/14. 5th (K) and 7th (M) overall. Rod Millens driveway he holds the Lead Foot Festival at. This was a closed club event, not the actual festival. I crashed into a tree on my first run knocking the confidence a bit. Kev went fasted 2WD.
Pukekohe Raceway Bent Sprints, Round 1 (Tarmac, PCC) 5/2/14. 2nd (M), 3rd (Paul) and 4th (K) overall. My brother to triple drive the car for the first time in years, and he beat Kevin.
Pukekohe Raceway Bent Sprints, Round 2 (Tarmac, PCC) 5/3/14. 2nd (M) and 5th (K) overall. Another 2nd place for me means I won the series.
Autocross, Ardmore Aerodrome (Tarmac SACC) 5/7/14 DNF. Broken axle on the first run.
TVCC Te Tuhi Rd (Tarmac TVCC) 20/ 20/07/14 3rd (K) overall.
Taupo Classic Car club 2WD Rally 80km 10/08/14 12th (K) overall. Always a great event to get some kms under rthe belt and have a few battles with other cars on a track. Really is a horsepower game on a curcuit, which we are lacking.
Rallysprint Pukekohe Race Track (SACC 30/08/14) 8th (K) overall. Absolutly pooring down with rain for half the day. Made for some pretty reserved driving as it was like driving on ice. The course went around the race track but included some additional chicaines which were to our advantage in the wet conditions as the 4WDs could not turn in.
Quine Rd (Tarmac TVCC) 21/09/14 Cant find the results but I think 4th (K) and 20th or so (M) overall. Another wet day and a big moment in one of my firt runs put the shits up me and made for some slow times. Kevin on the other hand relished the conditions and mixed it up with the front runners.
Doctors Hill Rd (Tarmac Northland Car Club) 25/09/14 6th (K) and 7th (M) overall. Both of us beat the class hill record. Dry condition and only .01 sec between us.
Kemp Rd Hillclimb (Tarmac MGCC) 19/10/14 1st (K) and 3rd (M) overall. A good day for Kevin as for the first time ever beat 2nd placed Allen Fretwell. One of the quickest drivers around, although he is driving a 500hp? Legacy which helps.
Kemp Rd Hillclimb Championship (Tarmac PCC) 19/11/14 2nd (K) and 3rd (M) overall. At Kemps Rd twice in 2 months. This time the national hillclimb series. An awesome battle between the two of us, with 5 of our runs within .03sec of each other.
Murray Rd (Gravel PCC) 20/11/14 3rd (K) and 5th (M) in class. There is a real trend developing of Kevin beating me every time. A mixed bag of weather made for an interesting day. The car really struggles for grip. Although we checked our tyres and they were almost 10 years old, they do not age well.
Ngongotaha Hill Climb (Tarmac RCC) 1/2/15 4th (M) and 5th (K) overall. Finally I beat Kevin after a very long time, and it wet conditions. First time up this hill so there is a lot to learn. The weatehr was terrible and low cloud made visibility very difficult at times.
Bent Sprints (Tarmac PCC) 4/2/15 1st (M) and 2nd (K) overall. Some fun on a Wednesday night, same format as last year. Weather was wet which made for some big slides. Some nice tight chicaines which gives us a good advantage over the larger more powerful cars.
Hillclimb Champs Kurarau Rd (Gravel Taumarunui) 14/2/15 1st (M) and 2nd (K) in class, 2nd and 3rd 2WD. Finally the car worked on gravel, made a few small changes and used new tyres. So much fun to drive, it had grip so gave confidence to throw it into the corners. I was leading the 2WD for the first 3 runs, but could not hold on to it as my rear tyres were gone. Try as I might the time did not improve.
Hillclimb Champs Saddle Rd (Tarmac Taumarunui) 15/2/15 4th (M) and 8th (K) overall. Back on our preffered surface and trying to charge for a top overall position. Unfortunatly there was a lot of gravel pulled onto the road making it super slippery and taking away our corner speed advantage. In fact my fastest run was my practise driving the course for the very first time.
Bent Sprints (Tarmac PCC) 4/3/15 1st (M) and 2nd (K) overall. Second and final round of the Wednesday night sprints. Dry conditions meant we lost our advatage over some of the more powerful cars and it was a lot closer but for the second year in a row I won the series.
Anyway, that is it. A year or so of events summed up. I will try and keep this more up to date in the future.
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