Hi
I went down to Cooma again and ran my Beetle at the Snowy Mountains 1000, it’s a bit like a drag race but only a single car at a time and at over 1000 metres on Cooma airport runway, it’s much longer than a traditional ¼ mile which is only 402.336 metres.
There was an amazing variety of cars running, even an electric Radical race car and a strong contingent of VWs.
This year I had a bit of completion in my class, I guy I work with ran his immaculate Datsun 1600 powered by a 350 kW SR20 engine, he was about 1.5 seconds quicker than me and took the class win, I came second. I finished at about 50th out of 135 cars.
This year I did few things to my car to make it run faster and I managed to go a bit quicker, last year my best time was 22.513 seconds @ 226 km/h, this year I did 22.3247 @ 236.7 km/h, I had 4 runs, two where I went from 2nd gear to fifth gear one were my coolant overflow sprayed onto my ignition coils and the one where I got my best time which wasn’t a very good run as it was late in the day and I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, so car is going great, driver needs more time doing angry gear changes. Can’t wait till next year.
A video of my least crappy run
https://youtu.be/wQS_nG_2E_k
The VW/Audi times
SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470
SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327
STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637
STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247
GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235
MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880
KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159
KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367
TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065
MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783
WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953
MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311
GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867
DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414
MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278