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Well,
A fine day while it rained on the taxis in Australia. The finale of the series was a superb day that ran as any organiser would hope, no cars off the road, no work for the ambulance, and lots of very happy looking players. 44 people started the day, but we were soon reduced by a couple, Alan Smith in his Subaru Legacy again breaking his gearbox after putting in only one run that counted. Similarly, Timo Fogelberg in his Mitsubishi VR4 soon had trouble with a slipping clutch. A couple of MX5 drivers went home after one run to watch Bathurst.
Allen Fretwell turned up in his Subaru Legacy RSRA with a fresh paint job that looks pretty sharp, and a new motor and turbo that are certainly pumping out some horsepower. He laid down the gauntlet in practice with a sub 55 second run. It seemed to work as times crept down all day, with some quite remarkable improvements during the day.
At the end of competition Allen Fretwell was fastest, with Alan Smith 3 seconds behind him, and top series competitor. Fastest Junior was again David Middlemiss, followed by Bradly Martin. Fastest woman was Nakita Stevenson in her Evo 7RS, followed by Kerryn Sutherland in Dad’s Toyota Levin second just ahead of Lenare Martin. Russell Jenkins won Class A in his Suzuki Swift, Christo Strydom was fastest in Class B in his Toyota MR2, Darcy Meier won Class C in his Civic and Allen Fretwell won Class D. Fastest Fiat was Blair Wald in his Uno Turbo, a well sorted little car.
It has been a great series, so well supported by almost 130 different competitors and well over 30 who did 4 or 5 rounds. Thanks to everyone who competed, and especially to the helpers throughout the series. A big thanks to everyone who made it possible for me to compete as well as co-ordinate the series.
See you all at prize giving, I will send an email during the week as we have decided that 29th October is unsuitable with Targa in progress.
Ciao,
Campbell
Series Coordinator,
TENG TOOLS TARMAC SERIES
Hillclimb Results
October 11th, 2009
Hi,
Finally I have the results. Rick Liefting and I slaved away for a couple of hours trying to make sense of the numbers, finally got it all together and the results are attached. Wonderful what a different set of eyes and a different way of thinking brings to the data set. Think about how many numbers there were to work on, 60 cars each doing 17 laps = over 1000 lap times to check.
Where it shows MISTIME your time was either far too fast or unreasonably slow for you. Other than that a great day’s racing was had by most.
It fascinates me that despite building in an extra hour into our timetable we still had people arriving late to scrutineering and documentation at the track. Despite that Ian briefed only slightly late, and similarly we started only slightly late. Once underway with Practice the timers got into the swing of things and it became reasonable to ask them to time 8 cars at once. This is done by 2 people, and this year one had never done it before, so a great thanks to Rick and Shona, and the others who put in an appearance in the timing tower to help out.
After our wet practice the weather was basically kind to us for the rest of the day and we had the times steadily improve as the day went on.
Phil Grey showed that gradual development and plenty of seat time on the track paid dividends and he came out our overall winner. He was followed closely by Brett Perry who was fastest Series competitor. Another new to the series this year is Mike Hindmarsh in his fabulous BMW M Coupe.
Winner of Class A was Russell Jenkins in his Suzuki Swift, Class B was won by Steve Wilcock in his very rapid Toyota AE86 - don’t expect us to believe you haven’t driven since January, I have heard the Porsche thunder past home, Class C was taken by Brett Perry and Phil Grey was our Class D winner.
Fastest Lady at the track was Julie Mitchell in her Toyota Trueno, and top Junior was again David Middlemiss in the Peugeot. Second was Bradly Martin whose family do so much to support our series, it’s always great to have them do well.
There were a few youngsters who all performed magnificently on the track, in particular we had 3 first timers on the track in Hannah Lowther sharing Dad’s Mazda MX5, actually competing in our series for the 1st time, Leigh Mitchell in his shared Starlet and Jack Batchelor in the smallest car running, a 903 cc Fiat 127.
Campbell
Results of Dual Car Sprints
September 17th, 2009
Despite the wind and rain trying to spoil our day, 25 hardy souls, with about 15 even hardier helpers, spent their day having a skid on Ruapuke Road near Te Mata. After last year’s serious accident just beyond the finish line it was decided to extend the course onto a short uphill section. This met with universal approval, and for the first time in a little while our second to last competitor, disturbingly the same one who crashed heavily last year, did not fall off. In fact, despite the weather, there was only one off, and it was minor.
We promise we will try for the road in February or March next year, hopefully the weather will be better.
I must say I enjoyed my day out despite getting very wet helping with the cleanup.
TENG TOOLS Tarmac Series is not far away, regulations just need final approval of a couple of venues, then we will be into it.
Ciao,
Campbell
Results for the Day.
May 17th, 2009
After a miserable Saturday in the Waikato, cool temperatures, a hint of fog and generally fine weather greeted us at the Wintec Avalon Drive campus on Sunday morning. A total of 52 competitors turned up to take part in a lap and a half autocross on a good tar seal surface. We were again treated to a vast variety of vehicles, from the minimalistic Daihatsu Charade through to the thundering 5.8 litre Ford V8s in a couple of cars. Naturally we had all possible drive configurations and including at least one automatic transmission, and just about every form of internal combustion engine including a rotary - but no diesel unfortunately.
There were a couple of small corps of cars in the forms of 5 Mazda MX 5s and a similar number of Honda Civics in particular.
Competition was hot from the start, with Paul Harvie laying down the gauntlet with an opening run in the 50 second range. From that point on there were a couple of chargers looking to better him, but at no stage up to his finishing his last run was he bettered. However, Daryl Webster kept a final ace up his sleeve and popped a sub 49 second run to take overall honours for the day, and with it a 3/8 drive torque wrench for his troubles! Paul finished second with Alan Smith in his naturally aspirated 2.2 litre Subaru Legacy a fine 3rd.
The fastest Fiat on the day was driven by Troy Bell, ably peddling his 1500 cc Fiat 128 Coupe to a fine 14th overall, with Bevan Gray 2nd Fiat in 21st. Top Junior was David Middlemiss in his Dad’s Peugeot 106, finishing 22nd overall.
Of the groups of cars, the fastest MX 5 was driven by Nik Lowther. The fastest Civic was driven by Sam Price, finishing 4th for the day.
All in all a great day. Our next event is the Hiwi Road Bent Sprint on 17 August. This has an early entry price of $60.00, with the cost rising to $80.00 after 8 August. See the earlier posts for the portfolio and entry forms.
Autocross Results.
Series Points to Date
July 13th, 2008
Another day of fine weather, although cold, attracted an oversubscribed field to Round 2 of the Fiat Club Waikato run, Toyo Tires Tarmac Series. 68 competitors ranging in age from 13 years to “over 60″ drove allsorts of vehicles covering just about every body type available. Wintec allowed us the use of their Avalon Drive campus carpark, which enabled a course of approximately 1.8km to be set up. Times started at around the 1 minute mark, but were gradually whittled away to the low 50s as the drivers gained confidence and the surface became swept clean of a fine grit that was there at the beginning of the day.
By the end of the day everyone had been offered the opportunity to have a practice and 3 timed runs. Something must be being done right, there were lots of smiles around the place, and the pit chatter suggested we had a very happy bunch of competitors.
Autocross Results.
July 15th, 2007
Sunday 17 June 2007. The first official motorsport event to be held on the circuit to be used by the Aussie V8 Supercars in April 2008 took place at the western end of the circuit. We ran our opener for the 2007 Toyo Tires Tarmac Series, a motokhana, in a disused truck yard that adjoins the new circuit. A total of 63 competitors turned up to play on a great surface, well sealed with a dusty coating promoting (legal and acceptable) sustained loss of traction! We had everything from a 903cc Fiat 127 that revved and scrabbled its way around the 4 courses used, all the way through to a bellowing 4.9 litre V8 powered 2 door Mk 3 Cortina. Just about everything in between played on the day, with 13 newcomers to motorsport playing in their Japanese or Korean daily drivers, through cars such as a Targa prepared BMW 2002 in a shrinking violet shade of green (not) to the most unlikely motorsport vehicle, a totally unmodified (yet) Volvo 760 with 2.8 litre V6.
In the end the day belonged to a Mini, gaining his advantage on the 1st run of the final course. Prior to that there were a couple who led, a Subaru WRX losing his advantage by completing the last course incorrectly - twice.
The next round takes place on Sunday July 15, but note, the venue has changed. I will announce the new venue here as soon as possible.
Motorkhana Results
June 18th, 2007
Sunday 18 November saw 18 people turn out to John Cottle’s farm to tear up his paddock - despite the threatening weather. Unfortunately for us, lots of them were from Minis Waikato and the worsening conditions played into their hands. Unfortunately also was that it wasn’t quite wet enough to get to their electrics, Lucas of course, and stop them in their tracks.
The Autocross attracted fewer players but the competition was similarly intense.
A great precursor to the very fast Fiat at Melbourne driven by the Ice Man taking out the first F1 GP of the 2007 season.
autocross-result-march-07.xls motorkhana-result-march-07.xls
March 19th, 2007
Ruapuke Road at Te Mata again rang to the sound of ClubSport cars being tested against approximately 2 km of sealed road at the Fiat Club Waikato’s Annual Te mata Sprint.
24 cars faced the starter, with everything from a Hillman Imp through to an AWD Subaru.
A great day was had by most, unfortunately Andrew Durber didn’t finish the day being taken out with mechanical problems, and Lee Sinkinson head butted the countryside in his immaculate Fiat Tipo Sedicivalvolve. Fortunately he was unhurt and the car is fixable.
See attached results,
Campbell
Te Mata Results
March 4th, 2007
Attached are the overall results from today.
Bent Sprint Results
October 8th, 2006
I seem to have omitted to add the Toyo Taupo Results here. So, for your entertainment and edification, here they are.
Taupo Dual Sprint Results
Campbell
Toyo Tires Tarmac Series Coordinator
September 19th, 2006
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