Bega Valley Rally 2009

[mick]

1st Fro and Kirrilee
2nd Mick and Harv
3rd Dave and Kate
4th Bro's Cullen

Hyundai Best and Fairest award went to Justin Sinclair from Qld

24 second separated 1st to 3rd

Well done Fro and Kirrilee

[Darryn Snooks]

2009 Bega Valley Motors Rally
National Excel


50 Mick Gillett/Harvey Smith Hyundai Accent 1:33:33
51 Fro Horobin/Kirrilee GentlemanHyundai Excel X3 1:33:52
47 David Roberts/Kate Murphy Hyundai Excel 1:35:10
56 Matthew Cullen/Ben Cullen Hyundai Excel 1:37:06
58 Tony Moore/Nikki Moore Hyundai Excel 1:39:38
73 Kornel Zbroinski/Lila DabrowskaHyundai Excel 1:45:31
65 Aaron Watt/Georgina GallacherHyundai Excel 1:48:12
71 Peter Haggstrom/Rebecca FletHyundai Excel 1:50:02
68 Justin Sinclair/Rodney PatmanHyundai Excel 1:50:09
61 Peter Morrison/Susan WassonHyundai Excel 1:50:12
72 Richard Gray/Stephen HodgkinHyundai Excel 1:51:33
69 Fiona White/Michael Loxton Hyundai Excel 1:52:46
70 Kimberley Barson/Sandra CuttleHyundai Excel 1:54:49

[Damo]

Originally Posted by mick

1st Fro and Kirrilee
2nd Mick and Harv
...Well done Fro and Kirrilee

Originally Posted by Darryn Snooks

2009 Bega Valley Motors Rally
National Excel
50 Mick Gillett/Harvey Smith Hyundai Accent 1:33:33
51 Fro Horobin/Kirrilee GentlemanHyundai Excel X3 1:33:52

So, Fro won?

[MATNESmotorsports]

Originally Posted by Damo

So, Fro won?

looks like one is an accent

MATT

[Kagan]

DNF SS1 - Blown Engine

[jamar]

Originally Posted by Kagan

DNF SS1 - Blown Engine

wtf ?? wasn't it a brand newie (apart from being run in) ?

[Swill]

Originally Posted by Darryn Snooks

EVENT SUMMARY UP TO STAGE SS5 (Finish)
No. Crew POINTS

Being a non Victorian, I have to ask, how do the points system work?

[Kagan]

Originally Posted by jamar

wtf ?? wasn't it a brand newie (apart from being run in) ?

Yep!!!!!! Car started to loose power and seriously over heat, then started to blow blue smoke and we lost oil pressure. Pulled over quickly, worked out it didn't have any water in it but there was no sign of water going anywhere. We poured our drink bottle into it and then we heard the water bubbling in the engine!!! So it appear to have blown the head gasket. No idea how that happen having done about 30 competitive ks and 700 in total, so I will be making a phone call on Tuesday with a please explain!!!!!! To say I am not happy is a massive understatement!!!!!!

[Annatastic]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Bega - well two thumbs up for getting there with Lizzy driving...... I only had to shout once going down the Brown Mountain - stating that I didn't want to die a fast Datsun virgin!! Although for the passenger in the white Transit van in front of us, it may well have been Brown Pants mountain
The Clio Sport is a ridiculous car, how anyone, let alone Lizzy manages to keep their license is beyond me... anyhoo..

Got to the RSL to discover that both 2WD's ahead of us had withdrawn (I later found out after having a chat with Jeff David at the presso that their car hadn't arrived from NZ in time, which is probably why Snooks was a DNS too). So we were 1st 2WD - a position we wanted to maintain

I was a little aprehensive about a 45km first stage, but at the finish, I wanted to line up and do it all again - seemed to be all over in a flash and I was really disappointed to see those red boards. In fact I couldn't speak at the end of the stage I can only imagine what the car sounded like from the outside while Carl was wringing it's neck - bloody awesome*!! On a couple of the long calls I shut my eyes and just enjoyed the ride Set a pretty good time - were probably about a minute ahead of the other 2WD's which was cool.

SS2&3 were again nice and flowing. We were going really well despite the brake pedal sometimes going to the floor (glad I didn't notice that) and find out that we're 6th o/r after the first 3 stages. Sweet!

On SS4, the repeat of the first stage, it's wetter and greasier than before thanks to a flash storm that came through. We knew our time would be slower than SS1 as we struggled for grip in a few spots. We get a flat with about 12/13kms to go - we decide to change it. One car came past us, so we knew we had done alright with the tyre change. Thought we'd lost 2-3 minutes.
We had about 2:30 lead on the next 2WD, and wondered if this would be enough to keep us in front. I go look at the scoreboard to discover that we're about a minute behind. Buggar!!
So we have 13kms to make up 1 minute...... red mist descends great stage - simply couldn't have done it any faster..... 10:14... we got 44 seconds back, which just wasn't enough and we end up 2nd 2WD (I think) by about 15 seconds. Drats!!

I'm still grinning though, so a fantastic weekend

Some things that I learned at Bega:

* Carl is awesome - I now fully understand the term 'steering with the rear'
* Flat tyres suck wang
* Clod has no luck
* Lizzy is a bed hog

Thanks to all those that made the event possible - I can't remember a more relaxed and laid back Bega.

Thanks to our service crew - Lobby and Michelle, Travis and Simone, Bob Bridge and of course Michelle and the boys!

Thanks to Carl for the seat and opening my eyes to what a fast Datsun can do in the forest - blown away buddy - had an absolute blast!

Thanks to my Mum for taking care of Thomas for the weekend so I could compete, and to Nathan for his support and front tyres


*Please tell me someone had a video camera and got aome footage of car 20?!

[rwinks]

Even without shire roads Bega (Eden) is gold! (when they’re dry)

I’m still on the high from those predictable flowing roads, cruising along in 4th gear with the song of 5krpm playing in the back ground.

The rhythm was soon lost in stage 2 when the car was pushing its self out of over steers and torque steering down the road. With the grinding noises coming from the rear wheels as they were rubbing on the guards I convinced myself I had bent the panard rod again. At the end of stage as I looked in the side mirror only to be surprised to see the rear wheels trying to escape from under the car, no wonder the car was dancing down the road! Between stages I tied up the broken panard rod with the fan belt, tie down strap, tyre lever and many cable ties so we could limped through stage 3.

Being an adjustable panard rod the nut for the adjustment had broken away from the rod. Thanks to the Nutter’s team who welded it back together.

Stage 4 with its general caution of slippery started with 20 plus k’s of gold and I was wondering why did they bother with the caution or how crap could the coarse car driver had been. But then it turned to crap and I ate my words as the light grey surface didn’t give any clues to the grip levels and all confidence was lost as many corners were almost impassable. The mud was made worse by the fact that the roads had such a nice flow you ended up approaching them way too fast. I struggled to keep the car on the road and had memories of waiting in the rain after going off in Narooma in similar conditions. At the end of the event I found that we made some ground back in the results which really meant the reason I struggled so much was the fact we were going too quick for the conditions.

Congratulations to Dave Boyd who is shaking up the silver cup series with another win. We managed to hold onto 2nd as Dave Stephens played the caution card in the mud.

Thanks to Rob for Naving again and the crew for keeping the car going.

[CHEZ]

Great event, great roads, can anyone steer me towards a link for final results.

Cheers, chez

[gumbootracing]

unoficial scores
2009 Bega Valley Motors Rally
Long Course Event

O/R Crew Vehicle Points
1 Gavin Croker/Eric Croker Mitsubishi Lancer 1:30:46
2 Steve Forsberg/Craig Whybern Mitsubishi Lancer 1:31:10
3 Mark Fawcett/Carrie Morris Subaru WRX Spec C 1:31:27
4 Claude Murray/Lizzy Ferme Subaru WRX0 1:34:22
5 Ross Allan/Scott Allan Subaru Legacy 1:34:34
6 Nigel Shellshear/Paul Fletcher Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3 1:35:21
7 Warren Lee/David Lethlean Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 2 1:35:22
8 David Nutter/Catherine Taylor Subaru WRX RA 1:36:19
9 Matthew Amos/Zoey Gillis Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 1:36:24
10 Ian Martin/Roslyn Martin Subaru Impreza WRX STi 1:36:49
11 Peter Neal/Brian Eversham Subaru WRX 1:37:08
12 Richard Opie/Renee Jeffery Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 4 1:38:11
13 Wayne Stewart/Lucas Zinsstag Subaru WRX STi RA 1:38:24
14 Alan Wilson/Kevin Wilson Subaru WRX 1:38:47
15 Steve Kenway/Lauren Kenway Subaru Impreza WRX 1:39:14
16 Campbell Eastwood/Darren Miller Datsun Stanza 1:39:51
17 John Berne/Tony Best Subaru Impreza RS 1:42:52
18 David Stephens/Michael Gentleman Nissan Silvia 1:43:26
19 Russell Dixon/Nathhan Long Honda Civic 1:43:38
20 David West/Tod Reed Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 2 1:43:50
21 Michael Conway/Jenny Cole Ford Escort Mk 2 1:43:53
22 Brendan Brown/Sam Robison Datsun 180B SSS 1:44:36
23 Mick Gillett/Harvey Smith Hyundai Accent 1:44:52
24 John Sparkes/Andrew Sparkes Nissan Silvia 1:45:09
25 Luke Anderson/Barry Woollham Mitsubishi Galant VR4 1:46:52
26 Matthew Cullen/Ben Cullen Hyundai Excel 1:48:45
27 Leigh Manning/Nikkita Taylor Datsun 1600 1:49:14
28 Tony Moore/Nikki Moore Hyundai Excel 1:51:25
29 Tim Stuchbery/Robert Wilson Holden Commodore 1:53:09
30 Aaron Watt/Georgina Gallacher Hyundai Excel 2:00:37
31 Beau Griggs/Craig Scott Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2:01:39
32 Peter Morrison/Susan Wasson Hyundai Excel 2:02:33
33 Brett Mackieson/Julian Ong Diahatsu Charade 2:03:08
34 Fiona White/Michael Loxton Hyundai Excel 2:05:20
35 Kimberley Barson/Sandra Cuttle Hyundai Excel 2:07:47
Did Not Finish
Jesse Robison/Adam Wright Subaru Impreza WRX DNF(SS5) Off road
David Shuttle/Zoe Butler Datsun Stanza DNF(L6) Accident damage
Geoff Legg-Stoker/Robert Johnston Subaru Impreza WRX DNF(L6) Blown engine
Nigel Bland/Mickey Rourke Holden Commodore VP DNF(SS4) Off road
Hugh Taylor/Bryan Van Eck Toyota MR2 DNF(SS4) Engine failure
Terry Trewern/Andrew Ormesher Holden Commodore VB DNF(L6) Rear suspension
Richard Troup/Russell Hannah Mazda RX2 DNF(L4) Suspension
Langdon Patrick/Julie Boorman Subaru Impreza WRX STi DNF(L4) No 3rd gear
Mark Sessions/Matthew Harriot Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3 DNF(L4) No oil
Matt Swan/Paul Franklin Subaru WRX DNF(SS3) Turbo
Nathan Reeves/Scott Spedding Subaru Impreza WRX DNF(SS3) No brakes
Ross O'Reilly/Dan Lemish Datsun 1600 DNF(L2) Accident damage
Tom Clarke/Lance Dye Datsun 1600 DNF(SS1) Off road
Craig Jarvie/Silvia Jarvie Holden Commodore VN DNF(SS1) Off road

2009 Bega Valley Motors Rally
Short Course Event

O/R Crew Vehicle Points
1 Peter Taylor/Kim Martin Toyota Corolla 1:23:47
2 Claude Murray/Lizzy Ferme Subaru WRX0 1:24:29
3 Andrew Penny/Rhys Llewellyn Subaru WRX STi 1:26:12
4 David Boyd/Sean Gibson Datsun Stanza 1:28:48
5 Carl Stewart/Anna Ritson Datsun 1600 1:29:49
6 Russel Winks/Rob Moran Holden Commodore 1:31:48
7 David Stephens/Michael Gentleman Nissan Silvia 1:32:15
8 Bede Austin/Andrew Crowley Datsun 180B 1:33:23
9 Mick Gillett/Harvey Smith Hyundai Accent 1:33:33
10 Fro Horobin/Kirrilee Gentleman Hyundai Excel X3 1:33:52
11 Meng Chung/Nick Vardos Honda Integra Type R 1:34:20
12 David Roberts/Kate Murphy Hyundai Excel 1:35:10
13 Matthew Cullen/Ben Cullen Hyundai Excel 1:37:06
14 Nick Herrald/Phil Herald Datsun 1600 1:37:12
15 Adam Phillips/Nick Bell Holden Gemini 1:37:22
16 Jen Austin/Matthew Holloway Mazda RX7 1:38:01
17 Tony Moore/Nikki Moore Hyundai Excel 1:39:38
18 Jeff Eastman/Tony Cardwell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3 1:40:34
19 Kornel Zbroinski/Lila Dabrowska Hyundai Excel 1:45:31
20 Aaron Watt/Georgina Gallacher Hyundai Excel 1:48:12
21 Peter Haggstrom/Rebecca Flett Hyundai Excel 1:50:02
22 Justin Sinclair/Rodney Patman Hyundai Excel 1:50:09
23 Peter Morrison/Susan Wasson Hyundai Excel 1:50:12
24 Heather Smith/Glenn Farrant Mitsubishi Sigma 1:50:28
25 Richard Gray/Stephen Hodgkin Hyundai Excel 1:51:33
26 Fiona White/Michael Loxton Hyundai Excel 1:52:46
27 Kimberley Barson/Sandra Cuttle Hyundai Excel 1:54:49
28 Tim Armstrong/Adam Nightingale Ford Escort Mk 2 1:55:22
29 Aaron Tams/Nigel Evans Toyota Corona 2:00:26
Did Not Finish
Damian Soward/Kristy Offner Datsun 1200 DNF(SS1) Radiator
Kagan Skipper/Phil Skipper Diahatsu Charade de Tomaso DNF(SS1) Blown motor

[hev]

Originally Posted by Damo

So, Fro won?

My understanding is that Fro was originally awarded the result, however Mick/Harv were since awarded compassionate time for stopping to help Richard & Russell as they had a fire under their car.

I think series wise, Fro still won the NSW event because Mick/Harv aren't registered for the series this year.

(Mick, feel free to correct me if I've mixed this up somehow...)

[Eco-velocity therapy]

My Bega photos have been uploaded to Flickr. Sorry, there are duplicated files (I will fix this over next few days).

Find them here... Bega Rally 2009 - a set on Flickr

Usual deal... help yourself to free pics. Larger files are available under the "all sizes" button.

Can someone post a link on the Victorian e-group so our friends have something to browse while stuck at home in hog flu quarantine?

Enjoy!!!

[grahamthompson]

Snippets from the service park.

Claude and Lizzie in the WRX reported they dropped about 1:30 in SS1 when they stopped to investigate a non existent flat tyre. They soldiered on rather tentatively with the car behaving perfectly on rh bends, and snap oversteer on left (or the other way round). At service discovered they had soft compounds on the front and also left rear, and a hard on the right rear. Changing to hard fronts and soft rears at least made it predictable.

Luke Anderson reported that part way into SS1 the nuts securing the VR4's dump pipe to the exhaust undid themselves (?) blasting hot gas onto the clutch slave cylinder, cooking it. He continued with clutchless shifts, but pulled the eye off a shift cable, resulting in about a 14 minute time loss. After the problem was fixed at service, he flew. Without that misadventure, he could well have threatened the podium.