OUTSOURCE IT HILLCLIMB AUCKLAND ...

[Rick]

Outsource IT Hillclimb at the Auckland Domain

Sunday 4th May

Practice starts at 9am with the first competitive run at 10am

[tsoob]

this is a run or a car race??

[Rick]

Car race....

More than 100 cars – most of pre-1990 vintage – have entered Sunday’s event which is organised by the Historic Racing Club.

There will be some cool cars there including the one in the below article

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4505437a6469.html

[malc]

Should be good if the weather holds out,
My brother will be racing our rx3 , and I can't wait to hear it making some serious noise up the hill

Are you entering Rick?

[Rick]

Are you entering Rick?

I would love to but my car isnt ready, next year. I will still go for a look if it isnt raining too much.

[malc]

cool
I would love to enter my 86 if I ever finish it..

It's free to go and watch people, so get along and see a great range of cars racing close to the city centre

[fxgt race]

Entered the fxgt,and the flatmates ae86 is entered ,that would be 20mm spanners one,looks to be a wet and slippery one.I counted eighty cars on the entry list but im sure if the weather is bad a few will pull out

[Malcolm]

we'll be there again with the 2007 FSAE car, wearing some parts from the 2006 car and hoping to defend the title and maybe improve our record from last year (might be difficult if it's wet!)

[Rick]

The weather was crap and I didnt take many pictures, sorry.

[malc]

I took heaps of photos, and I will attempt to upload them over the next couple of days.

Was a shame about the weather, and it caused a couple of crashes, which is unfortunate. One of the cars that had an off was a mint camaro

If any one has photos of their car or any particular car then let me know, and I will happily put them up.

[barryogen]

WTF is that, and how do I buy one, make it street legal, and use it for work

[xsspeed]

malcolm will tell you, its auckland unis formula sae car.
and it looks like sex

what times were put down this year?

[Malcolm]

haha, plenty of info here www.fsae.co.nz

Not much hope of getting it street legal (or getting one generally, seeing as we've only made one), it can't even be homologated for proper motorsport use because the driver's legs are in front of the front axle.

Fastest time this year was 25.9 i think? I was down taking shelter under our tent most of the day so didn't see much racing, but I think that's what they said at the prizegiving. Mostly cleaned up by the 4wds, although Steve Neville in his porsche cup car (who came second last year) was in the top 5 overall, we were 6th overall with a fastest time of 28.5. The record is 21.67 so things were about 20% slower in the rain!

[barryogen]

thanks for that, will have a read tomorrow.

Not much hope of getting it street legal

I did realise that, but dear god it look awesome.

[fxgt race]

results a at www.grandprix.org.nz
Came 16th out of 72 cars,only did 2 runs as the rain poured down after the second run and was thinking how big the kerbs are and after understeering and wheel spinning in the other runs I took the car home in one piece.

[malc]

just a few pictures

[Malcolm]

If anyone has high res pics of the SAE car, I'd love it if you could send them to me so we could potentially use them in publicity documents.

I didn't get any pics up the hill but I'll upload and post a few from around the 'pits'

[Malcolm]

ok, here's my pics (i'm not going to bother linking them unless someone complains about the size...)

Freaking sweet 308GTB Ferrari


old Beema


Andrew Hawkeswood's 800hp/800kg pike's peak car, adorned with a couple of fashionable UoA FSAE rear wing elements


Lotus 7 replica, I think this one had an 18R in it


Sweet little exige


The ferrari again


I believe this is a newish car from Chevron, powered by a 20B turbo. A bit rough around the edges, didn't get a close look but it does look pretty cool


Possibly my favourite car there, Steve Neville's Pantera Detomaso. These things look so bad-ass. Steve was being greedy and racing this and his Porsche


There's about 2000hp sitting right there:


And finally Clark Proctor's Escort. Powered by a VG30DETT(? the 300zx motor), makes 540hp I think he said.

[xsspeed]

what was that red number 71 open wheeler?

[Malcolm]

that's an old Formula Ford, think it was a 68 or thereabouts.