Wheelspin July 2012 - Sporting Car Club of SA

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HILLCLIMB NEWS
Everything is on the up and up at Collingrove. After the rain the
grass is coming up and during the past two competition events
we have had close to capacity fields of 105 drivers entered and
set successive records of 607 and 633 competitive runs up the
hill – very busy. We had a wonderfully productive working bee
on May 12th with 20 willing workers who thoroughly enjoyed
getting a great deal of work done on the former Clipsal building,
the grounds and the track. Workers under the guidance of
Martin Stow included Dave Turner, Danny Larsen, George Moore,
Daryl Siggs, Daryl Warman, Serge De Luca, Geoff Vaughan,
Kym Ninnes, Scott Appleyard, Stan Ward, Andy Ford (who
became a Grandfather that Day – congratulations Melissa),
Andrew Stevens, Mike Nolan, Richard Creasy, Brian Agars, Jim
Scammell, Graham Aldous, Graham Treloar and Norm Goodall
achieved a great deal and went home tired though happy. You
too are welcome at our next working bee to be held at Collingrove
from 9:00 AM on Saturday, June 16th. Please email or phone
the Events Office to advise of your attendance so we may supply
you with a delicious lunch. Jobs are available for all – so please
be in it.
At Winter Cup 2 we had excellent weather conditions, strong
competition, a good crowd and an invitational Top 10 shoot out
(as an experimental addition to the programme) featuring a run
off between the top 5 fastest 4WD and the top 5 fastest 2WD
cars still available to run. The results included a dead heat –
the winners will be announced later. An unexpected and delightful
surprise was the arrival of Rob Black with his four day old McLaren
MP4-12c supercar that had only a couple of 100 km's on the
clock . Rob had altered his entry and it was agreed that he would
do a couple of demonstration runs up the hill using only a modest
amount of its potential performance. He thrilled the crowd with
this beautifully designed and engineered piece of automotive art,
it should be noted that these few “non” competitive speed runs
resulted in a best time of 39.04 secs and breaking the Marque
Sports 6001cc and over Class. Thank you Rob and congratulations
on the result.
The 10 fastest times of the day were:
Matthew Dreckow Mitsubishi Evo 7RS 32.06
Derek Foster Goblin Suzuki Special 32.08
Andrew Bartlett Nissan Skyline R32 GTR 32.30
Artur Niedzwiecki Mitsubishi Evo TME 32.57
Craig Van Diemen Mitsubishi Evo TME 32.78
Nick Streckeisen Mitsubishi Evo 8 32.90
Michael Willis Mitsubishi Evo 9 32.95
Martin Donnon Subaru Sti 33.19
David Coombe Nissan Skyline GTR 33.30
Geoff Vardon Nissan Skyline R32 GTR 33.51
Well done everyone.
The Club's Management Committee has approved the
establishment of a discreet Collingrove Development Fund to
receive funds to aid the development and maintenance of our
Collingrove property. Club Members are invited to contribute to
this fund simply send your donation into the Club marked for
Collingrove Development Fund and your tax deductible receipt
and acknowledgment will be sent to you.
Our next competition event is the Reynella Mazda Collingrove
Challenge Trophy meeting for Multi Club participation to be held
on Sunday, June 24th and you are all invited. Come on up to
Collingrove to see the cars go up the hill bring your friends and
show off the result of your efforts at the working bee and see the
progress being made to improve our iconic asset. If you cannot
attend that event please put July 14th and 15th in your Diary as
on that weekend we will conducting the Fitch the Rubberman