Dutton Rally

[Snowman]

Yeah Russ we were 6th in teams. I finished 6th in drivers and Chris 7th in Co-drivers.

Basically we made too many mistakes at the start as we were trying to do everything at 10/10th to make up for the lack of power we had. But, if we'd kept our noses clean we'd have been VERY close to the pointy end. I think in the end we made 9 mistakes in 58 events which is about 8 more than you can afford to make.

Whilst there is a lot of cones I really like the cone stuff. There is no better looking car to be handbraked around cones than a GT-R and we still get some damn good results in the tight events. And really most of the cone events are still quite fast.

Looking forwards to next year already. I reckon in my car we'd have come close this year as we'd have been able to play a little safer in the area's we made mistakes on and made up points with the extra HP in the speed events.

[Beer Baron]

bloody cone head. lol.

[Snowman]

For cone haters - you can't tell me this isn't fun!

http://skylinesaustralia.vidiac.com/video/...840001b8d5a.htm

[Roy]

Who had the camera? Did anyone get my first run at that? My secoind run i went way conservative and still lost it as i was tryign to look after the tyres for the circuit stuff. My furst run killed the tyres

[Snowman]

That video from Pete. But we have all of our runs on camera Bris. Will put together a DVD when we get it all together.

[Roy]

Cool. I was pretty happy with my first run, it was hell slow but as soon as the thing went sideways around the first cone I knew I was going to be painfully slow so just had some fun

My tyres didnt end up in near as bad a condition as yours though...i hope to get at least Calder out of them, but i doubt they are much good to anyone other then for some skids

[giant]

good job snowy! must have shit ya knowing the power of your machine!

and roy i know what ya mean the rally can become quite expensive

repairs,tyres, fuel, brakes, time and lack of sleep!!

how was the z tune???

[Roy]

The Z-Tune was nice but...its a Datsun. The Stang is where its at

[giant]

NOTHING WRONG WITH DATSUNS!!

go the 1600's

[Roy]

They are great, i want a 1200 Coupe

But, id rather your R33 and say a porn TVR rather then a Z-Tune

[Scotsman]

Hey Datsun's are cool. But I know what you mean Roy, 300k is a bit much for a nissan.

Thanks to all the SAU peeps who came down and supported us. Was great to see so many faces and then try to put on a show for you all.

That last motorkhana was cool. (above video) As soon as I finished I just wanted to go right back to the start and do it again.

Highlight for me was taking out first in four events. Was a little unexpected, but I guess all the pushing 10/10ths in the first two days at least got us something respectful.

[Roy]

...and i got beat in my class by a Golf GTI. I think the history books will remember me as the one that should have been shot into the sheets

[hrd-hr30]

They are great, i want a 1200 Coupe

But, id rather your R33 and say a porn TVR rather then a Z-Tune

I had a 1200 coupe before the GTR. I've owned a few over the years actually. This one ended up with a very strong Stewart Wilkins 1995cc L18, and weighed 851kg with 1/2 tank. I'll build another 1200 one day, with a turbo 1200cc engne (I've experimented with a couple of turbo A12/A14 engines already) for IPRA U2L...

Edited September 18, 2006 by hrd-hr30

[phunky_monkey]

Awesome Vid guys, you were great to watch on the skidpan!!