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Originally Posted by Mrs flatchat
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For anyone interested, if you're looking through that website... we were all in groups 3, 8, and 11.
We just had the BEST weekend....with a huge Cobra/GT40/RCR roll up
( about 20 vehicles as part of about 120 total entrants)
We had a great night at the Pit Stop Lodge last night with about 30 of us sitting around having plenty to eat and drink....and TONS of the Bulls*** being tossed about .
We had a good size gang from the N.S.W. Cobra Club, make the pilgrimage...great effort...with Brad STREETING kicking everyone's butt on his very fast Ride on Mower
( RCR SLR )....
Also we had some New faces ( Mario and Tony ) who had the time of their lives.
A brilliant weekend, with some INCREDIBLE times.
As a group of racers I recon we seem to be going in the right direction, with continued improvement, which is great to see ( If You are a Queenslander that is ! )
eg.
We look back on some old results from just a few years ago...and this track configuration could be raced around with the quickest cars in our group,taking 2minutes 35 seconds.....we considered this to be a REALLY quick time a few years ago.
Then we had a look at the last time we raced on it in 2009.
The same track configuration ( Turn Right Under the bridge)...was last raced on by us in 2009, and when we look back at the times , we had the fastest Cobra coming in at 2minutes 27 secs, and the second fastest @ 2minutes 28 seconds.
At that meeting, these times were enough to be
overall 2nd, and 3rd. fastest cars at the meeting...
( With about 120 competing, and includes open wheelers/formula vehicles)...
and we thought we had reached a point where we couldn't really improve much more.
THIS weekend.....there were THREE Cobras that recorded 2 minutes 25 seconds...and LOADS of times recorded in the 2min 26secs. , and 2min 27secs.
Wayne Proctor was the fastest COBRA with a 2min 25.16 secs.....with Brad Streeting the quickest OTHER car...a blistering 2min.24 !!!!
Well done and huge congrats to you both.
I know a few seconds doesn't sound like much....but once you get to the pointy end of the competition ONE TENTH of a second is considered a good improvement...and here we are knocking two and three seconds off what we thought were as fast as we were ever going to go....and approximately 10 full seconds quicker than just a few years ago.
So HUGE congratulations to everyone for making this series such a load of fun....
already looking forward to the next one in April.
Cheers,
Warren.