2008 Dutton Rally Dates

[Snowman]

The Provisional Calander for the Dutton Series 2008 has been released starting this year in Vic.

No QLD round for 2008 (due to lack of facilities) but there is a round in New Zealand (TBC) .

Dates are as follows:

The 2008 provisional dates are:

Rd. 1 Victoria 16-18th May

Rd. 2 Western Australia 25-27th July

Rd. 3 North Island, NZ (TBC*) 19-21st Sept

Rd. 4 New South Wales 28-30th Nov

If the NZ round goes ahead I'm keen to get over there for it if I can find the funds. Sounds like an excelent adventure.

Will mostly likely be doing Vic and W.A. again regardless.

[ferni]

You're such a Dutton whore now Snowy.

Yes i'm jealous.

[skylinegtts]

im going to really try and make it to the NSW one, cant stand watching it anymore, i want to go give it a crack looks like soo much fun

[evil_weevil]

Snowy, you think the entry fee's will be similar to last years?

I know they are having an "early bird" special rate, but dammit, my funds arent good at the moment

[Snowman]

The price I was given a few weeks ago was $3,150 per team per round.

[aza]

that up $400 on this year and $800 over the year befor so i dont think i will be doing it agen next year i have done the last 2 nsw rounds thay are good weekend a way and run very well.

a that price i will run all the state hillclimes and super sprint for the same price as i will cost me to do one weekend . this year our cost for the weekend was around $5000 thats a lot to lose if it all gos bad on the first day and theres all ways a large number that do

there was 4 to 6 evos on day 1 this year some got it going for day2

[N1GTR]

The Provisional Calander for the Dutton Series 2008 has been released starting this year in Vic.

No QLD round for 2008 (due to lack of facilities) but there is a round in New Zealand (TBC) .

Dates are as follows:

The 2008 provisional dates are:

Rd. 1 Victoria 16-18th May

Rd. 2 Western Australia 25-27th July

Rd. 3 North Island, NZ (TBC*) 19-21st Sept

Rd. 4 New South Wales 28-30th Nov

If the NZ round goes ahead I'm keen to get over there for it if I can find the funds. Sounds like an excelent adventure.

Will mostly likely be doing Vic and W.A. again regardless.

Now thats a road trip

How much would the transport cost?

Is it just me or does Dutton seem a bit pricey for the amount of driving you do.......

[KLR33]

Now thats a road trip

How much would the transport cost?

Is it just me or does Dutton seem a bit pricey for the amount of driving you do.......

not just u

if thats only entry i m scared to even start adding up the rest

[evil_weevil]

Yeah for that price, an entrant like myself where I'll be funding everything is going to make me bankrupt!

Looks like it'll be a few years now till I get to do the Dutton

Aza,

good idea, I think thats what I'll be aiming to do instead as well!

[Marlin]

Two rounds is a Targa Tasmania entry gents, or a Suncoast Rally whatever. Real tarmac rallies, with heaps of competetive kays. Heck, I think Mt Buller is about 3G. 160 odd competetive klm.

One round is more than Targa Rookie entry..... win in your class and free entry to the full event the following year....... Snowy.......

[Snowman]

Yeah but my car has issues with Targa rules. Like it's way way way too illegal And putting it to Targa Spec is a giant PITA since it pretty much means I need to change everything (oil cooler, turbo's, diffs, gearbox, exhaust, new set of rims, etc etc)

One day I will do Targa but it will be in a new car - not SMAUG.

But I figure until I have a Targa car I might as well have a crack at becoming the 1st World Tarmac Sprint Series (Duttons new name) World Champion hey. Will look good on the resume if nothing else if we can pull it off.

Unless you want to convince Dean to lend me his car next year Ben?

[Gav]

I'm in for WA again

[Marlin]

Haha, how 'bout we BOTH convince him and share driving/costs?

Yeah, I see and agree with your other points, guess I just get rail-roaded into the whole dollar v kilometre debate.

And yeah, that'd look pretty cool on the mantle

[Roy]

Still think the whole event would be better if we all go to drive GT2 Porches, and at the end of the event we give the cars back Otherwise i think they are starting to ask a bit too much money for the average punter paying all the entry out of their own pockets in their road cars....i dont think there are that many "serious" competitors and therefore not the sort of support for a more hardcore series that isnt aligned with any other regs from other tarmac events.

[Duncan]

meh not their problem. as long as they keep filling the field they will keep charging more because they can.

new name sounds like a real wank to me, hope you were joking andrew....

[Snowman]

meh not their problem. as long as they keep filling the field they will keep charging more because they can.

new name sounds like a real wank to me, hope you were joking andrew....

Haha - if you READ THIS you will see they mention a forth coming name change. That is the new name.

There has been a bit of work going on to try and take this series to the next level. Some of the plans I have been told sound pretty exciting including the desire to run a "super special" stage on the Saturday night in the form of an event like we have seen in the past for Prolog stages at George Town for Targa Tas and Marysville for Mt Buller. If they can pull it off and have a couple of "feature" events at each round I am sure the series will only go forwards.

And Gav - at this stage it looks like we'll be bringing the Blue car over west next year too.

[Roy]

Be interesting to see how it all pans out. Like the hill climb they wanted to run last year. Will be interesting to see what CAMS deem requried in the way of safety equipment.

[Scotsman]

Dutton - I hate it, and I love it.

Not sure what I will do in 2008.

[wrxkilla]

The Provisional Calander for the Dutton Series 2008 has been released starting this year in Vic.

No QLD round for 2008 (due to lack of facilities) but there is a round in New Zealand (TBC) .

Dates are as follows:

The 2008 provisional dates are:

Rd. 1 Victoria 16-18th May

Rd. 2 Western Australia 25-27th July

Rd. 3 North Island, NZ (TBC*) 19-21st Sept

Rd. 4 New South Wales 28-30th Nov

If the NZ round goes ahead I'm keen to get over there for it if I can find the funds. Sounds like an excelent adventure.

Will mostly likely be doing Vic and W.A. again regardless.

gutted. the whole goal of my new N1 was to compete in Dutton. And now there isnt one in my backyard! QLD.

sucks hard. lol and those entry costs sure are going upwards!

Edited December 11, 2007 by wrxkilla

[Marlin]

I reckon we'll be back for the Vic round. It's a few weeks after Targa so we should be able to make it.

I dunno whether we'll be in the 34 again, or running Deano's R8. For some reason he seems a little concerned with me barrel rolling it down the back fence at Sandown.... Jeff Beable Porsche style.

Hours was spent on photoshop for this proposal for prospective future sponsors. Very similar to the effort by the Donut King R35 GTR effort you'd agree?