Woodzy
11-02-2010, 12:12 AM
Well I thought i'd share what I get up to when off the Tarmac.
History: My Grandfather is one of the founders of Rally in Australia. My father also followed in his footsteps and Rallyed too(mainly Navigator), talking Mini CopperS, Rx3's, Datsun works team1600's and the like back in the 70s, Colin Bond is one who started his carear with Dad.
Anyway Years pass and the Old man gets back into it, about 3 years ago, he's 60 now. Following the traditions he enters into the Australian Rally Championship (ARC) with the Son of another Very famous driver named Mr Jack 'Gelignite' Murray who raced with my grandfather in the 60s.
They enter in a WRX STI. So the 2 old blokes actually came 10th in Rally Queensland last month.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/selbymurray.jpg
Motor Racing has this big thing with Father/Son traditions and Dad wanted me to get exposure (finally geeez i'm 34 now, better late than never lol).
So over the last few years dad has been rebuilding a dato 1600 for rally. Well he got so eager and left the car in the garage and he spent 20k on a fully prepaired dato, that won the clubman championship the year before.
I study and do all my shit in Feb to get my CAMS licence (Confederation of Australian Motorsport).
So we enter our first rally in March and oh boy i had a blast. Old man driving, me navigating. Rally of Lithgow NSW..not a round of the ARC but a hard proper CAMS rally none the less. And using WRC style Pace Notes my first time.....usually they use whats called a road book, it's way easier apparently.
Picked it up no worries, we started last Car39...ended up 21st and 3rd in class
The Dato is CAMS spec so no SR20turbos like they are ALL doing over here now in 1600s
Just a solid 2.0L with Big Webbers
Lota a picks I took at the start and the rest I found on the web after the rally from spectators posting their stuff lol
FYI the winners of the rally were in an old Vr4 magna woot woot :)
Thanks for Reading Enjoy:
Found InCar footage of my favorite stage, really fast in bits, in fact (i heard all about this cars little episode at the awards cerimony but never saw it till now) These guys actually won the rally but were disqualified as you will see. And yea I almost shat myself when dad was driving 1 handed into the fucking sun like these guys were, very scary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEdto1eoCU&NR=1
Another of a big heavy V8 RWD 4 door family car goin at it, the car is in my pics.
They come undone at the same spot as the other dude, we almost did too, was something about the rise made the car light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knz8xn8uqHY&feature=related
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01397.jpg
This thing is worth $250,000
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01395.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01396.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01394.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01393.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01392.jpg
History: My Grandfather is one of the founders of Rally in Australia. My father also followed in his footsteps and Rallyed too(mainly Navigator), talking Mini CopperS, Rx3's, Datsun works team1600's and the like back in the 70s, Colin Bond is one who started his carear with Dad.
Anyway Years pass and the Old man gets back into it, about 3 years ago, he's 60 now. Following the traditions he enters into the Australian Rally Championship (ARC) with the Son of another Very famous driver named Mr Jack 'Gelignite' Murray who raced with my grandfather in the 60s.
They enter in a WRX STI. So the 2 old blokes actually came 10th in Rally Queensland last month.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/selbymurray.jpg
Motor Racing has this big thing with Father/Son traditions and Dad wanted me to get exposure (finally geeez i'm 34 now, better late than never lol).
So over the last few years dad has been rebuilding a dato 1600 for rally. Well he got so eager and left the car in the garage and he spent 20k on a fully prepaired dato, that won the clubman championship the year before.
I study and do all my shit in Feb to get my CAMS licence (Confederation of Australian Motorsport).
So we enter our first rally in March and oh boy i had a blast. Old man driving, me navigating. Rally of Lithgow NSW..not a round of the ARC but a hard proper CAMS rally none the less. And using WRC style Pace Notes my first time.....usually they use whats called a road book, it's way easier apparently.
Picked it up no worries, we started last Car39...ended up 21st and 3rd in class
The Dato is CAMS spec so no SR20turbos like they are ALL doing over here now in 1600s
Just a solid 2.0L with Big Webbers
Lota a picks I took at the start and the rest I found on the web after the rally from spectators posting their stuff lol
FYI the winners of the rally were in an old Vr4 magna woot woot :)
Thanks for Reading Enjoy:
Found InCar footage of my favorite stage, really fast in bits, in fact (i heard all about this cars little episode at the awards cerimony but never saw it till now) These guys actually won the rally but were disqualified as you will see. And yea I almost shat myself when dad was driving 1 handed into the fucking sun like these guys were, very scary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEdto1eoCU&NR=1
Another of a big heavy V8 RWD 4 door family car goin at it, the car is in my pics.
They come undone at the same spot as the other dude, we almost did too, was something about the rise made the car light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knz8xn8uqHY&feature=related
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01397.jpg
This thing is worth $250,000
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01395.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01396.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01394.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01393.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm283/woodzyrx7/DSC01392.jpg