NSW Dutton Rally Starts next week

[Guy_H]

Who else is going?

We will have the Polo entered,

Eddy will be there (in a Nissan n: )

We have a sydney customer entered in a Jetta Turbo

We have our Victorian MK5 R32 running.

theres an Audi TT & RS4

Rick Bates in a new M5 :o

Would be good to catch up with any locals (if anyone lives out there!)

[gtimk5]

All the best Guy, wish I was there! The Polo should be even quicker now?
Are there any high profile spectator things for the NSW fellas to see??:?
Hope you get a good result,
Andrew :)

[dnissi]

Eddy will be there (in a Nissan n: )


not that there's anything wrong with a nissan :D
my car is nearly ready to go, really just waiting on the rims now

are you being scrutineered in sydney or goulburn?
either way, i will see you there ;)

cheers
ben

[Guy_H]

Hey Ben - straight to Goulburn for us - its like a 12 - 13 hour drive :cry:

[dnissi]

we'll be there as well, but will be scrutineered on the tuesday.

the old man is driving down on monday (the best part of 10 hours), then out to cronulla on tuesday, then the 3 hour hike to goulburn sometime on thursday.

see you thursday afternoon in goulburn. :)

dont forget to bring some ultra warm clothes. i was in goulburn a few weeks back and it was freezing, even for us sydney-siders, so you qlders are going to suffer big time :o

[Guy_H]

P.S. - have the beer cold when we get there!

[Guy_H]

Queenslander now looking for snow gear j:

[dnissi]

Queenslander now looking for snow gear j:


that reminds me, i should probably tell the old man to bring a jumper with him ;)

[FL00DY]

If I'm not in Melb I'll come down. My ex lives down there so I have accommodation covered. Really keen to catch the Polo in action :D

[phaeton]

Good Luck VWwA members :D

[Guy_H]

Good Luck VWwA members :D

Thanks Ben :cool:

[Eddy]

Hoyhoy.
That son of mine, a jumper ppppppppppppp.
He better look after me, I'm getting fragile.

[Guy_H]

Polo shakedown went well :cool: just that nice 12 or 14 hour drive now :(

[Guy_H]

Entrants: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/NSWentrylist07.pdf)

Events: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/NSWeventschedule07.pdf)

Spectator info: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/SpectatorInfo.NSW07.pdf)

[FL00DY]

Entrants: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/NSWentrylist07.pdf)

Events: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/NSWeventschedule07.pdf)

Spectator info: http://www.duttonrally.com/_as...7.pdf (http://www.duttonrally.com/_assets/SpectatorInfo.NSW07.pdf)

Thanks for the spectator info Guy. Where and when will you be with the Polo GTI?

[Flaps]

Guy. I might come out for a looky on Sunday.

Do you go down the 1/4 twice? Event 29 and 34?

[dnissi]

here's a pic of the car that myself and my vw driving dad (eddy) will be piloting in the rally this week.

http://home.exetel.com.au/dnissi/a.JPG

it is finally ready to go and just in the nick of time too, with the old man giving it the final touches before scrutineering tonight.
dont worry about the nissan badge folks, as his gti will take its place should something go wrong with my car :)

guy, have a safe trip and we will see you in goulburn in a few days time.

cheers,
ben

[Guy_H]

Guy. I might come out for a looky on Sunday.

Do you go down the 1/4 twice? Event 29 and 34?


Looks like we do! - You know we only live for drag racing :) the drags are known to kill more Dutton competitors drivetrains than the rest of the event combined but we will give it a shot :cool:

[dnissi]

a certain vw polo gti owner will be driving this in the dutton....

http://home.exetel.com.au/dnissi/0765.jpg

[gpk_gti]

anyone from here going to spectate any events???

[rayray086]

Unable to, but would love to get out of the city and spectate :(

Tell us how you guys go. Best of luck!

[Timbo]

Great day, and great to meet Guy, Eddie and a few others competing. I ran up to Wakefield first thing, only to discover the running order had reversed, and Guy was at the Sutton HillClimb. MACCAA and I decided we'd better head to Canberra, and caught all the action. Then back to Wakefield, where we caught up with FL00DY and a few others.

The Pog did respectable times at Wakefield, but I think MACCAA still holds the fastest Polo lap at WPR (hand-timed :rolleyes:)

A couple of pics, FTW

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2007/05/Image014-3.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2007/05/Image017-3.jpg

[jasn78]

Hey guys can some1 explain to me the way those results work for dutton cause to me times that are slower are getting higher on the list?

http://www.duttonrally.com/

[Timbo]

It's based on classes, events, and the total time of both drivers (actually, it's more complicated that that, but hopefully that gives you the gist)

[phaeton]

Love the wheels on the Pogo next to Guy's Pogo :D

More pics needed j:

[fuzion]

curious what the polo got down the straight? heard 15s?

[Guy_H]

curious what the polo got down the straight? heard 15s?

What straight?

At Eastern Creek we could see about 220kmph before braking & turning. On the 800m run it once topped 200kmph, but the other 3 runs were slightly slower due to bad launches.

Car went really well, the throttle body died at the end of day one and you couldnt launch the car (only at 1000 rpm or 5500rpm plus) so we lost heaps of time on the launches.

Still it outperformed lots & lots of cars & impressed many, many people.

Came 14th in crew handicap (40th outright), 17th driver handicap (60th outright), 13th co-driver handicap (34th outright)
3rd in drivers class, 1st place in co-drivers class (so a couple of trophies came home today :) )

Was a great weekend, some awesome tracks, awesome hillclimbs - next year will be great now that we have seen the circuits, we should be much quicker around there.

Fuzion, whats your best lap time at Wakefield or Eastern Creek as a benchmark for us?

[Guy_H]

My only pics:

Tyre delaminated to the canvas (little worried about this at Eastern creek - it started on the front)

http://www.ozaudi.com/projectPOLO/P5260002.jpg

Wakefield

http://www.ozaudi.com/projectPOLO/P5260003.jpg

Aston martin Vantage in the background - we were quicker than him around Wakefield (but lots were quicker than us)

http://www.ozaudi.com/projectPOLO/P5260004.jpg

Eastern Creek

http://www.ozaudi.com/projectPOLO/P5270005.jpg


The little Polo has now been around these race tracks - not bad for a car with 14,000kms on it :thumbup:

Sandown
Oran Park
Wakefield
Eastern Creek
Queensland Raceway
Morgan Park
Mt Cotton Hill Climb
Fairburn Hill Climb
Wakefield Hill Climb

[Timbo]

Good results, Guy -- all things considered. Great to meet you, too. Lots of activities in this event, so it's pretty gruelling -- on cars and drivers -- just making it to the end is a result.

Looking at that tyre, I'm glad I didn't come up to Eastern Creek! -- you were looking 'acquisitively' at my tyres on the Saturday morning!j:

[Guy_H]

Hey Timbo, thanks mate - good to catch up, shame we didnt have more time!

Both Wakefield & Eastern creek are awesome circuits - I just have to work out how to get down to NSW a bit more often!

Cheers

[gpk_gti]

congrats guy!! sounds like you had a great time!! we will organise a bit better next time and come down as a group...

[Guy_H]

Thanks fella's - it was a ball!

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/

[Guy_H]

Some official dutton pics now up:

http://www.motorsportfotos.com/gallery/v/duttonrally/2007/NewSouthWales/?g2_highlightId=8601

[DaveMack]

The Car Show showed this today (Sat. 30th) ... Sad to say, Guy ... you'll have to get further up the results charts to get a mention on TV.

Dave

[Guy_H]

The Car Show showed this today (Sat. 30th) ... Sad to say, Guy ... you'll have to get further up the results charts to get a mention on TV.

Dave

Or Break a car or roll over :D - Didn't catch it unfortunately - will have to wait for the DVD to turn up!

[gtimk5]

The coverage of the Duttons is a little poor I think. They dont show a lot of the competitors.
Dye your hair purple, wear very bright clothing and be really loud and you will get on there Guy. :D
Saw the Polo in the backgroung at times and even saw the Mk5 GTi driving through the pit area at one stage! :o
Cheers, Andrew :)