Well, here we are gearing up for our Te Mata Sprint on Ruapuke Road. We have come back to a date where we traditionally ran and we are looking forward to another great day out in the country. Attached below are Regulations and an Entry Form in pdf format, along with an Entry form in Word format for those who have that available on their computers.
As noted in the Regulations it would be a great help to the organisers if as many as possible could get scrutineered on the Saturday. If we get sufficient numbers from Auckland we will set up Scrutineering there as well.
Look forward to your Entries.
Campbell
Te Mata Sprint Regulations Entry Form in pdf format Te Mata Entry Form in Word format
February 1st, 2010
As usual we are off to Taupo in January for Driver Training and Dual Car Sprinting. Now that A1GP appears to have imploded we have had the ability to have a more user friendly date. Sunday 23rd January is the big day, and we will be documenting and scrutineering in Hamilton on the Saturday at Research Motors, Ruakura Lane off Ruakura Road. We now have a Licenced Scrutineer based in Auckland so we will be looking to do as many cars as possible there as well to make things quicker and easier at Taupo. More information on that when we have set a time and location. It certainly helps when as many as possible are scrutineered in advance, and with that documentation is checked as well.
We are again limiting entries to 60, with up to 20 for training. This is not an excuse for an extra fang, it is for people who want some instruction in how to drive on the track - and this translates to better driving on the road as the skills learned help keep you out of trouble.
Attached are the regulations, slightly changed from the originals emailed out, and the Entry Form. Please get your entry in as early as possible so we know who is coming, and how many trainers we need.
Campbell
Entry Form 100123
Regulations 100123
December 14th, 2009
See attached flyer for information about this offer.
Campbell
Have a Go Day flyer
November 12th, 2009
Well,
A fine day while it rained on the taxis in Australia. The finale of the series was a superb day that ran as any organiser would hope, no cars off the road, no work for the ambulance, and lots of very happy looking players. 44 people started the day, but we were soon reduced by a couple, Alan Smith in his Subaru Legacy again breaking his gearbox after putting in only one run that counted. Similarly, Timo Fogelberg in his Mitsubishi VR4 soon had trouble with a slipping clutch. A couple of MX5 drivers went home after one run to watch Bathurst.
Allen Fretwell turned up in his Subaru Legacy RSRA with a fresh paint job that looks pretty sharp, and a new motor and turbo that are certainly pumping out some horsepower. He laid down the gauntlet in practice with a sub 55 second run. It seemed to work as times crept down all day, with some quite remarkable improvements during the day.
At the end of competition Allen Fretwell was fastest, with Alan Smith 3 seconds behind him, and top series competitor. Fastest Junior was again David Middlemiss, followed by Bradly Martin. Fastest woman was Nakita Stevenson in her Evo 7RS, followed by Kerryn Sutherland in Dad’s Toyota Levin second just ahead of Lenare Martin. Russell Jenkins won Class A in his Suzuki Swift, Christo Strydom was fastest in Class B in his Toyota MR2, Darcy Meier won Class C in his Civic and Allen Fretwell won Class D. Fastest Fiat was Blair Wald in his Uno Turbo, a well sorted little car.
It has been a great series, so well supported by almost 130 different competitors and well over 30 who did 4 or 5 rounds. Thanks to everyone who competed, and especially to the helpers throughout the series. A big thanks to everyone who made it possible for me to compete as well as co-ordinate the series.
See you all at prize giving, I will send an email during the week as we have decided that 29th October is unsuitable with Targa in progress.
Ciao,
Campbell
Series Coordinator,
TENG TOOLS TARMAC SERIES
Hillclimb Results
October 11th, 2009
This is very late notice, but due to family circumstances our venue as noted in the Supplementary Regulations for the TENG TOOLS Tarmac Series Hillclimb will not be available on Saturday.
Therefore;
Documentation and Scrutineering will take place at Research Motors, Ruakura, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm on Saturday 10th October. If you live in or anywhere near Hamilton please attend as Sainsbury Road is not the ideal venue for doing it on the side of the road.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Campbell
October 8th, 2009
Normal Entries have closed but there are still places available. Get your entries in as soon as possible please.
October 2nd, 2009
Hi,
Attached are a series of Entry Forms, and regulations for the Sainsbury Road Hillclimb. We are restrained for room so 60 entries is the limit. The order of waiting lists is as per the portfolio issued at the beginning of the series
Campbell
Sainsbury Regs
Drop Down Entry Form
Fill In Entry Form
pdf Entry Form
September 24th, 2009
Hi,
Attached is our September Newsletter
September Newsletter 09
September 23rd, 2009
Hi,
Finally I have the results. Rick Liefting and I slaved away for a couple of hours trying to make sense of the numbers, finally got it all together and the results are attached. Wonderful what a different set of eyes and a different way of thinking brings to the data set. Think about how many numbers there were to work on, 60 cars each doing 17 laps = over 1000 lap times to check.
Where it shows MISTIME your time was either far too fast or unreasonably slow for you. Other than that a great day’s racing was had by most.
It fascinates me that despite building in an extra hour into our timetable we still had people arriving late to scrutineering and documentation at the track. Despite that Ian briefed only slightly late, and similarly we started only slightly late. Once underway with Practice the timers got into the swing of things and it became reasonable to ask them to time 8 cars at once. This is done by 2 people, and this year one had never done it before, so a great thanks to Rick and Shona, and the others who put in an appearance in the timing tower to help out.
After our wet practice the weather was basically kind to us for the rest of the day and we had the times steadily improve as the day went on.
Phil Grey showed that gradual development and plenty of seat time on the track paid dividends and he came out our overall winner. He was followed closely by Brett Perry who was fastest Series competitor. Another new to the series this year is Mike Hindmarsh in his fabulous BMW M Coupe.
Winner of Class A was Russell Jenkins in his Suzuki Swift, Class B was won by Steve Wilcock in his very rapid Toyota AE86 - don’t expect us to believe you haven’t driven since January, I have heard the Porsche thunder past home, Class C was taken by Brett Perry and Phil Grey was our Class D winner.
Fastest Lady at the track was Julie Mitchell in her Toyota Trueno, and top Junior was again David Middlemiss in the Peugeot. Second was Bradly Martin whose family do so much to support our series, it’s always great to have them do well.
There were a few youngsters who all performed magnificently on the track, in particular we had 3 first timers on the track in Hannah Lowther sharing Dad’s Mazda MX5, actually competing in our series for the 1st time, Leigh Mitchell in his shared Starlet and Jack Batchelor in the smallest car running, a 903 cc Fiat 127.
Campbell
Results of Dual Car Sprints
September 17th, 2009
Remember that Normal Entries close on Friday 31 July 2009. After that there is a $20.00 surcharge. Entry Form and Regulations are attached.
Campbell
bent-sprint-entry-09.doc
bent-sprint-regs-09.doc
July 26th, 2009
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