Qld Super Sprint series A

[Mrs flatchat]

Super Sprints starts this weekend at Morgan Park (Warwick Qld)
Basically a boys weekend away where we can tootal around a race track filming each other
About 15 Cobras a GT40 , a Porsche cup car, a few SLRs (RCR) and a T70 Lola --for practice.
Rumours have it, that some of these Cobras have had some testosterone injections -- which should make for some interesting story telling at the apre' racing during the evenings

[400TT]

I can only spare the Saturday morning to come out.

But I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone and seeing the cars on track.

[Towmaster]

It has been interesting already....
PD practice day Boylan has topped the timesheets already....
Can he hold on???

[Wazza]

[quote=Towmaster;1110741]It has been interesting already....
PD practice day Boylan has topped the timesheets already....
Can he hold on?????

Aaaahh my little Towmaster buddy.....as you sleep on the other side of this wall ( we're all at pit stop lodge ), I'm already doing "practice laps" in my head.

Although I have a feeling that you will all be much quicker today, and my temporary bragging rites will be all over.

And although I'll be doing my best to make it last another day , you know me.... It's not about who beats who , and who's the fastest... It's all about spending quality time with all your mates.
Sound believable ???

[Towmaster]

Well yes another day and he has managed to hold on.... Just...

[Donunder]

Nothing on Natsoft yet...

[Mrs flatchat]

New bigger faster motors -- new challenges

My Laps:- www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=626830

A great weekend tho --and bloody hot

[Wazza]

Originally Posted by Mrs flatchat

New bigger faster motors -- new challenges

My Laps:- www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=626830

A great weekend tho --and bloody hot

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.

[Donunder]

Originally Posted by Wazza

Wayne Proctor was the fastest COBRA with a 2min 25.16 secs.

Sounds like a terrific weekend.
I couldn't attend because we had a family get together to celebrate my dear old mum's 94th birthday.

Congrats to the Proctologist who from the sound of things showed only his rear end to the competition.

[Towmaster]

no comment!

[Mrs flatchat]

The Streeting boys took home the bacon with some impressive times in their SLR wipper snipper then Wazza ,Towmaster, Oz venom, .............
Harrison Venom, BDR, the real one DRB , FFR Daytona, DRB 2000

[Mrs flatchat]

And what a loverly weekend it was --- with some new comers eager to get to the pointy end already

[Mrs flatchat]

18 Cobra guys hit the tarmac of Morgan park from frosty beginnings to near perfect sunny clear winter weather
Brad S - 2:37 NSW, John W 2:41 Qld, Wazza Qld, Ash B Qld, Sean S 2:42 NSW, Scott H Venom Qld,Gary H BDM Qld, Eric Porsche, Mitch M NSW, Yve S Qld, Denis S Geriatric class Qld, Super Mario Qld, Datony Qld, Warny Qld, Tony S Qld, 3:24, Wayne P Qld DNS, Paul G Qld DNS, John M NSW DNS

[Merv and Sharon]

Serious frost and nice race cars!

[400TT]

Some nice frost there Chris.

Attached link below to the full results:

MYLAPS Results

Added the type of cars being raced as I thought it might be of interest. (Just listed cobra club members cars)

1 BRAD STREETING 2:37.170 (RCR SL-R Track Only Car)
2 ADAM BAXTER 2:41.509
3 JOHN WHITE 2:41.653 (RCR GT40 Street Car)
4 WARREN BOYLAN 2:42.065 (Harrison Cobra Track)
5 ASHLEY BRIGHT 2:42.276 (DRB Cobra Street)
6 SEAN STREETING 2:42.657 (RCR SL-R Track)
7 NEILL FORD 2:43.089
8 CHRIS CURNOCK 2:43.849
9 SCOTT HAMPSON 2:44.047 (Venom Cobra Track)
10 PAUL ANSELL 2:44.801
11 RON BOMGAARS 2:45.345
12 DARRIN SIDDINS 2:45.946
13 GARRY HALL 2:49.247 (BDM Cobra Track)
14 STEVEN LEE-JONES 2:49.530
15 23 PETER McCLOY 2:49.801
16 68 ERIC ROTH 2:49.820 (Porsche Cup Car)

[Mrs flatchat]

Lots of DNFs --3 x cobras, 1 x porsche , 3 x SLRs and 1 x bdm Fn' 350 transporter

[400TT]

Yes, a lot of cars really have the wick turned up now and so reliability is affected until they sort it all out. Even then you are still pushing the limits.

Sometimes it's better to keep things simple.

And sometimes you just get unlucky.

Certainly a bad weekend for DNF's.

[Towmaster]

Of the Cobra GT40 clan......

Fastest out lap.... me.... 42.2
Fastest lap .... me & john.... a tie..... 36.6 (unless we are counting thousandths?)

Am I clutching at straws or should i just accept defeat .... LOL

Seriously,
Well done John you pipped us at the post on the last run of the day.

Great weekend guys, the last 3 runs were awesome, hearts breaking all over the place.

At least we kept him honest hey Wazza?

Wazza and I both did PB's by around 10 seconds, awesome stuff.

[Wazza]

Some shots of the weekend...

We all had a ball...and as an added extra, my boys, Michael and Chris came along as well....

They had a ball as well, and I loved having the lads with me for the weekend.

We'll be doing more of that.

These weekends away with all of the gang is something we all look forward to .....gets better every year.

Cheers,
Warren.



The Eggs !







Me...Getting Stuck in !......Ashley Bright on my tail.....






Ashley Bright...( Towmaster)




Sneaky John White coming "Unstuck"



Ther gang at Saturday Night dinner....Ashley telling me he's NO 1 ?



Canetoads and Cockroaches CAN play together !!



The "Saturday Winners" Table...Ashley in the lead !



Denis Stone and Yve Stocks battle it out.

[Donunder]

Nice shot of "The Eggs" Waz.
You can see the family resemblance with Jo's abs.