Mallala

[Htc Motorsport]

What a great days racing....Des Wall ended the day on top, Tony and Darren had all there usual thrills and spills and coming togethers. i took my camera fully charged thought i had an hours worth of footage but got home plugged it in to the TV and nothing a blank screen. Sorry no photos. still trying to work out whats happened.

[jd yort]

Is there any update on the fallout from the clashes over the weekend?.

From what I have read Darren has been slapped with a suspended fine over the clash in Race 3.

[Topgear]

What a week and a bit :stare:

Brought a car wednesday week before the meeting, needed paint and a dyno... how bad could it be? I thought there has to be at least ONE local put the effort in...??
-Thanks to the painters for dropping everything, coming around picking up the panels, painting them, then bringing them all back.
-Thanks to the guys at THR for dynoing the car Monday before the meeting, then finding the heads leaked water! They pulled the heads off, welded, faced, reassembeld then redynoed and finished lunch time wednesday.
-Thanks to the guys at KA Eng for letting me use their factory, special thanks to Prems (Phil) for staying back till 2am thursday night to help put back together, especially changing the diff ratio...
-Then get to the track friday lunch to find the car wont run properly and splutters around and JUST does one lap, didnt know whats going on especially after all eventually went well on the dyno??? :mad:
- Then back to Ian Wilson's workshop (one and a half hours away) To cut a long story short the starter was an old Chrysler starter (emphasis on old) which had enough and called it quits! The starter pulled so many volts it would nearly flatten a brand new battery to start it once, then not have enough volts to run the Motec! Eventually after the starter died in a cloud of smoke it was time for a new one. A mate pulled a tilton replacement one off his Ipmroved production car for us to use to then find out it didnt clear the sump. We then pulled the sump off and took that around the corner to get that refabricated to clear the starter, this is about 6pm Saturday night . Now it turns over at 100mph and starts ever time!!

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[profi]

Congrats on the new buy topgear... car looks a million bucks hope you get it sorted in the future.

[Phast Phil]

Car looks great topgear. The teething problems actually seem mild for a sports sedan as they can be real testing at times.

Whats the story on the Hossack penalty, did anyone in this forum see the incident and game enough to offer an opinion?

Congratulations to Des Wall who came through with the top result for the weekend. Good to see another person on the top step for a change (sorry Tony and Darren), it is good for the sport.

[profi]

Whats the story on the Hossack penalty, did anyone in this forum see the incident and game enough to offer an opinion?

I assume this has something to do with it...

[Nadz44]

Wow that Falcon looks great.....cant wait to see the thing localy.....Great to see Des in good form and come away with the round win....Bring on the next round hopefully a few more cars turn to see some great racing

[Phast Phil]

Oh I guess it does, thanks Profi.
Absolutely fabulous images by speedshots.
Seems to be a fair bit of track available down low but it is possible that Darren was hooked into Tony at the time and unable to turn down??
Looks like they were racing hard and the outbrake at the end of the back straight just was not good enough to complete the manouvere. Then again maybe it was and Tony was on the marbles as he was way on the high side of the turn. Either way Darren was not up past the B pillar but sometimes a good intended move just does not come off as you would like.
Looks like Tony fought it all the way, pity he did not keep it to turn in as that would have made great TV.
Hey it will make fantastic TV anyway, no doubt we will see 5 replays and we can all be armchair experts.
It had to happen some day and their lap times have been very close and they both have a bit of fire in the belly. Hey, Tony served it up to Bobby Ervin at WP (unintended I am sure) so even the best make misjudgements.
In my opinion a unintended racing misjudgement with a drive through penalty for Darren should have been the total outcome.

[Htc Motorsport]

I'm not sure if this is the incident that cost Darren his 24 second penalty from race 1. I distinctively remember Ricca getting out on to the dirt and being like maybe 10-15 seconds behind. Darren copped a 24 second penalty in race 1 for the incident (not necessarily that one in the photo). Race 2 saw Ricca win the Clem Smith trophy, Darren being caught up in a lap 1 braking consetina at the right hander on the end of the back straight, ripping the left hand rear of the cars body off. In race 3 he and Ricca raced into turn 1 and exactly the same manouvre, but both spinning off down to the pit entry just an inch from the wall. Ricca's car stalled but Darren drove off to finish second behind Des. Tony circulated very slowly to bring the car home. I have'nt heard any out come from the 3rd race.

[roads]

photos pretty obvious to what happened there. :rolleyes:
Darren's doing a god job to move his competitors out of the way.

Maybe darren was feeling the pressure. trying to race SS and the Karts. Over driving in both it seems.