Report, results, photos and YouTube links
The 2010 Transcore Classic Challenge has been run and won. From all feedback it was a tremendous success, flowing well, without any hiccups, a brilliant mix of stages and a great social atmosphere throughout the 3 nights and 2 days of events.
There was some brilliant driving – it’s so good to see a well controlled car being driven really hard. And there was plenty of that.
We had some attrition especially on Day 2 – cars let down assortedly by a gearbox, engine, fuel pump, fuel tank, kerb and a fence… Interestingly, in addition to two others, cars No 22, 23, 24 & 25 failed to finish. Fortunately nothing too serious that can’t be repaired.
Everyone’s favourite stage? An almost even split between The Cut and East Picton, with the balance tipping in favour of the latter.
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Thanks - a lot of people deserve thanks for their efforts in making the event work so well:
- Will White – as a local in the Bunbury area did a brilliant job helping co-ordinate things down there. You couldn’t ask for a more helpful person.
- Our venues – while the costs and complexity in getting approvals are increasing, at least we can get some great venues still.
- Our stage commanders – Martin McCoy, Sue Ridley, Brock Mann, Rubin Sadique, Andy Hamilton, Tim Fowler, Franz Esterbauer. Other key officials – Ian Man – Results, Natalie Holburn – Steward. These guys put in really long hours of physically and mentally hard work for which we're all extremely thankful.
- Volunteer marshals – out there in the sun and rain. A big Thank You.
- And of course a big thanks to our event sponsor Transcore.
Rally Director’s Award for the most impressive car.
There’s something un-natural about the sound of Rod Willis’ V8 MX5, and it’s an impressive car – but it didn’t win this award.
And the Caruso Jaguar – what can you say – always impressive always driven spectacularly. Bit it’s not the winner...
Those hot, early model Porsche 911s are pretty special too.
But having consulted with some of the other senior officials about this, and they agreed with the Rally Director's feeling on the car which should win this award – one that excels beyond expectation - and it’s Chris Fabian’s 1964 Volkswagen Beetle. This announcement was met with a huge cheer in the room.
Results
After the problem which caused us to pull the pin at the end of the day, we decided that rather than scrub the stages altogether, we would allocate times for those few remaining cars, of the average of their own times on the previous two runs on those same courses. Thos which did not finish got DNF, not average scores.
Congratulations to all the winners - tremendous effort - especially for outright winner Pete Major who was quite unwell on the last day and in spite of missing the last stages, had performed so exceptionally well he was able to win outright. Well done!
The performance awards…
First Outright – 162 points
30
Peter Major
Michael Ward
2006 Mitsubishi Evo9RS
2300T
Second Place – 175 points
8
Bruce Hawley
Karl Howard
2000 Nissan Skyline GTR
2600T
Third Place – points loss of 191 points
24
Deryck Graham
Andy Morris
1994 Porsche 968 Turbo RS
3000T
Category awards were won by:
All up to 1985
9
Paul Moltoni
Brett Davey
1974 Porsche 911 RS
3500
1986-2010
24
Deryck Graham
Andy Morris
1994 Porsche 968 Turbo RS
3000T
4WD Turbo up to 2-litres
5
Dennis Heller
Lauren Joyce
2008 Mitsubishi Evo8 MR
2000T
4WD Turbo over 2-litres
8
Bruce Hawley
Karl Howard
2000 Nissan Skyline GTR
2600T
OUTRIGHT RESULTS SHOWN BELOW
Next AEM 1-Day rallies: September 19 and November 28 2010
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Winning co-driver Michael Ward: "My Dad said I'd never achieve anything sitting on my arse."
Transcore Classic Challenge 2010 Outright Results Class Time Taken Time penalty Total Taken Points Lost Outright Place 30 Peter Major Michael Ward 2006 Mitsubishi Evo9RS 2000T C 1350.86 0 1350.86 162 1 8 Bruce Hawley Karl Howard 2000 Nissan Skyline GTR 2600T D 1292.85 20 1312.85 175 2 24 Deryck Graham Andy Morris 1994 Porsche 968 Turbo RS 3000T B 1342.41 0 1342.41 191 3 27 Stuart Norman Dale Luelf 2000 Nissan Skyline GTR V-Spec 2600T D 1330.47 10 1340.47 236 4 2 Will White Ethan Tyrell 1988 Nissan Skyline Silhouette GTS 2600T B 1376.81 5 1381.81 242 5 9 Paul Moltoni Brett Davey 1974 Porsche 911 RS 3500 A 1335.97 0 1335.97 250 6 20 Jurgen Lunsmann Helen Lunsmann 1990 Suzuki Swift GTI Turbo 1300T B 1335.64 60 1395.64 263 7 5 Dennis Heller Lauren Joyce 2004 Mitsubishi Evo8 MR 2000T C 1380.05 20 1400.05 267 8 14 Denis Conway Nathon McLaren 2005 Subaru WRX STi 2457T D 1347.66 0 1347.66 278 9 28 Simon Line Robin Maras 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3400 A 1424.00 0 1424.00 295 10 18 David Moir Vicki Moir 1973 Datsun 240Z 2800 A 1384.82 20 1404.82 303 11 10 Steve Cherry Megan Cherry 2009 Mitsubishi Evo 2000T C 1401.56 10 1411.56 339 12 12 Vito Forte Chris Forte 1983 BMW E30 2500 B 1374.65 55 1429.65 376 13 4 Chris Fabian Joel Beaver 1964 VW Beetle 1998 A 1441.11 0 1441.11 399 14 19 Simon Lingford Susannah Lingford 1970 Ford Capri Perana 5000 A 1427.68 10 1437.68 416 15 7 Craig Arnold Kyle Arnold 2002 Subaru WRX RA Spec 2000T C 1403.54 0 1403.54 419 16 22 Simon Gunson Sharon Payne 2003 Mitsubishi Evo8RS 2300T D 1652.86 0 1652.86 422 17 26 John Fowler Monica Jakovich 1979 Porsche 911 Targa 3200 A 1404.26 0 1404.26 424 18 13 Chris Caruso Susan Caruso 1976 Jaguar XJC 5700 A 1490.93 5 1495.93 445 19 21 Andrew Gilmore Wayne Councel 2009 Holden HSV Maloo 6200 B 1393.67 20 1413.67 450 20 17 Richard Gilmore Aaron Sharp 1995 Nissan Skyline GTR 2800T D 1443.78 40 1483.78 457 21 33 Jeff Ash Rosanne Dirou 1995 Nissan GTR 2600T D 1515.84 0 1515.84 468 22 32 Rob Buys Sanja Aksamija 1977 Porsche 911 3000 A 1421.31 5 1426.31 484 23 11 Brenden Attard Jonathon Booth 1989 Nissan Skyline 2500T B 1477.20 20 1497.20 498 24 31 Peter Gillon Neil Martin 2009 BMW M3 3999 B 1434.61 10 1444.61 523 25 6 Joshua Robinson Jacob Rudback 1997 Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo 2000T C 1756.09 10 1766.09 550 26 29 Rod Willis Anthony Bertoli 1990 Mazda MX5-V8 6000 B 1491.43 10 1501.43 567 27 1 Les Eather Chris Kirkhouse 1976 Datsun 200B 2000 A 1486.52 10 1496.52 576 28 3 Ryan Judkins Susan Smith 1972 Holden Torana 3300 A 1548.31 50 1598.31 604 29 23 Peter May Clinton Miller 1995 Subaru WRX 2000T C 1752.63 0 1752.63 612 30 25 Trent Eather Jo Cooper 1982 Mitsubishi Starion Turbo 2000T A 1611.09 10 1621.09 617 31 15 Simona Gilmore Sonia Gilmore 1998 Nissan Skyline GTR 2600T D 1665.95 10 1675.95 654 32 CLICK HERE FOR DAILY, STAGE AND CATEGORY RESULTS
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Resourceful co-driver finds radiator water from Kwinana sprinklers... Chris Fabian accepts Rally Director's Choice Award for his 1964 Volkswagen Beetle
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