Bathurst Real Estate Australian Hillclimb Championship Results 3rd & 4th November 2012.
This Hillclimb was organised by the Bathurst Light Car Club the major sponsor was Bathurst Real Estate. The track for this event was the iconic Mt Panorama in Bathurst NSW, we were using 1.7 Klms of this circuit starting halfway up mountain straight and finishing just before Mc Phillamy Park.
Friday’s practice runs started at 9 o’clock and went until 5pm, most of the people running took to the track to hone their skills for the main event. The first official run on Saturday starting from 9am were mostly under control with most people running staying out of trouble but a few cars had some off’s, none of the cars that had issues during Saturday but it was a different on the Sunday. As the competition heated up and the cars were pushed to their limits, there were a few cars damaged. With clear weather the track was cold but it had very good grip, all entrants had 6 official runs over the weekend.
With 141 cars taking part in this event there was a good turn-out of Rotary Hillclimb Racing Cars competing in this Hillclimb with a total of 12 Rotary Hillclimb Racing Cars , Scott Trenoweth (Mazda RX7), Warwick Hutchinson (RPV02 13B Turbo Formula Libre), Jason Schilling (RX7), Rodney Schilling (RX7), Cooper Calman (RX7), Peter Calman (RX7), Keith Jones (RX7), Brad Shiels (RX7), Kon Pang Chan (RX7), Jason Gregory (RX7) Neville Gregory (RX7) and Glenn Latter also in a RX7, a short summary of how they all went and their best times are listed below.
Scott Trenoweth, running in Group 3J Production 2001 to 3000cc Class, in his beautifully prepared Mazda Rx7 set some good times with the highlight on the 2nd run on Sunday Scott set a new class record of 50.70sec this time was set with Scott going backwards across the finish line and unfortunately Scott damaged his car by hitting the wall with the rear of the car putting him out for the rest of the day. Well done Scott you have set the bar high by cutting 2.42 seconds of the class record. (Scott finished the weekend 1st in class & 39th outright.)
Neville & Jason Gregory also running in Group 3J Production 2001 to 3000cc Class, had a great weekend as Neville also set a time under the class record of 51.51 sec this was 1.61 seconds under the old record. (Neville finished the weekend with his best time of 51.51 on the 3rd run on Saturday – 4th in class & 46th outright with Jason finishing the weekend with his best time of 53.55 on his 1st run on Sunday – 9th in class & 73rd outright.)
Kon Pang Chan was the 3rd Rotary Hillclimb Racing car running in Group 3J Production 2001 to 3000cc Class. Kon is in Australia as a back packer from China he has built up his RX7 from scratch to have a go at hillclimbing, well done Kon it was good to see you have a crack at the Mt Panorama Hillclimb. (Kon finished the weekend with his best time of 64.69 on his 2nd run on Sunday – 11th in class & 137th outright.)
Jason & Rodney Schilling were running in Group 2B Marque Sports 1601 to 3000cc Class also in an RX7. Jason had the upper hand beating Rodney over the 2 days of competition by 2.83 seconds (Jason finished the weekend with his best time of 57.97 on the very last run on Sunday finishing – 6th in class & 110th outright with Rodney finishing the weekend with his best time of 60.80 on the 2nd run on Sunday finishing – 7th in class & 127th outright.)
Brad Shiels was running his RX7 in Group 3D Sports Sedans over 3000cc. Brad set his fastest time on the 2nd run on Sunday, his times were very consistent over the weekend with his fastest time just 0.18 seconds faster than his first time on Saturday. (Brad finished the weekend with a best time of 49.14seconds – 6th in class & 27th outright.)
Glenn Latter was also running in Group 3D Sports Sedans over 3000cc. Glenn had a few issues over the weekend with the car having slight starting problems but he managed to sort them out and ran all of the 6 official runs for the weekend. (Glenn finished the weekend with the best time of 50.21 on the very last run on Sunday – 9th in class & 35th outright.)
Cooper & Peter Calman were both running in Group 2B Marque Sports 1601 to 3000cc class in their RX7. Cooper ended up faster than Peter by just 0.09 of a second. Cooper’s best time was on the 1st run on Sunday with a time of 54.69 and Peter’s best time was on his 2nd run on Saturday of 54.78. (Cooper finished the weekend finishing – 5th in class & 83rd outright with Peter finishing the weekend – 6th in class & 85th outright.)
Keith Jones was running his RX7 in Group 2F Production Sports over 1600cc. Keith ran all of the 6 official runs starting at 57.35 on the 1st run on Saturday and leaving his beast time of the weekend to the very last run on Sunday of 55.91. (Keith finished the weekend 1st in class & 95th outright.)
Warwick Hutchinson was running his Van-dieman RF92 RPV02 13B Turbo Rotay Hillclimb Racing Car in the Formula Libre over 2000cc Class. Warwick had high hopes for the weekend but he had a slipping clutch that couldn’t be resolved this hindered his progress over the weekend. Even with the clutch issues he managed to set his quickest time on his 1st run on Sunday morning of 42.61. This class was dominated by Tim Edmondson in his Gould GR55B who won the event with a record time of 36.83, then came Doug Barry in his Lola and the very fast Ron Hay in his Self-built Synergy Dallara. (Warwick finished the weekend 4th in class & 8th outright.)
The top 10 outright cars were –
1st Tim Edmondson – Gould GR55B – 36.83
2nd Doug Barry – Lola – 38.56
3rd Brett Hayward – Hayward 09 – 39.89
4th Ron Hay – Synergy Dallara – 40.96
5th Daryl Watt – Force PC – 41.60
6th Greg Ackland – Ninjia GA8 – 41.76
7th Malcolm Oastler – Dallara F394 – 42.32
8th Warwick Hutchinson – Van-Dieman RF92 RPV02 – 42.61
9th Peter Morley OMS CF10 – 44.21
10th Bruce Minahan – Hayward 07 – 45.91
The next event we will be running is the Last Round of the Tighe Cams Hillclimb Round 6 at Mt Cotton on Sunday 25th November 2012.