Past Meet: Wilson Bulk Transport Ashburton Street Sprints 2008

[Kahlua]

After a delay in getting the information out - due to not having a major sponsor, Wilson Bulk Transport came to the party for the coolest Clubsport event in the South Island (IMHO anyway)

Event is Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th of May.

Entries open this Saturday 8)

Ashburton Car Club Committee

Note this year - you can only enter on behalf of 4 people, I believe to stop people showing up with 16 or so entries at a time

I'll be there for my 3rd time

For those who don't know / or need a reminder: YouTube - ASHBURTON STREET SPRINTS

Even if you aren't competing, make the roadtrip to Ashburton (esp if you live in Christchurch) and come watch. Sunday has the third run of all cars normally and the Top 32,16,8,4, then final. Free entry (if same as last year) and unlike most places nowadays, you can BYO alcohol and watch the event without having to pay $4 a beer!

Both days are awesome to spectate. That includes you VTAKYO.

[ef9]

i went in this a few years back,, its good fun, , sort out a cruise for it

[MyH22A]

Yeah cool Me n Graphite are keen to go there and watch some shinanagan's & yeah definately a good excuse for a cruise mish to ashvega's, there'll prbly be lots of cop's along the way however :evil: not that anything would happen but yeah most patrolled state highway in the country.

[VTAKYO]

Bah, my birthday weekend - again! Will see what I can do...

[Baxter]

Originally Posted by Kahlua

Event is Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th of May.

Meh, keep heading south - the Otago Rally is on the same weekend...

[MyH22A]

Originally Posted by Baxter

Meh, keep heading south - the Otago Rally is on the same weekend...

I dont think your gonna quiet see the same sort of cars like you'll see at the street sprints man, but you should take some pic's of the rally for us and post em up anyway if your going dude.

Ive still got a few mates interested in going down aswell as a few others i know of that were already going and keen as to do a roady there sat or sunday possibly sat i think, as i might be stay'n with a mate down there sat night and watching both days. (Weather being a factor of course).

[Kahlua]

Hope to see you there

I'm ampted for it - its going to be awesome. Make an effort to get there Saturday, word has it that Hopper (Donn McLaren) is doing some drifting halftime in his Mazcort before heading down south to the Otago Rally.

And he knows how to entertain - YouTube - rotor escort


CCC members may be down this year (?) - some regulars aren't entering (Geoff Watson (selling car), Wayne Scott (overseas - but back this year on holiday to watch), John Cottier (overseas holiday) - Nate isn't doing it this year, and Allan lost his car at that event last year, but the Russell lads are entering & Malcolm, and myself, Logan (Corolla), Mark (MX5) and Nikki (Laurel) are entered from CCC.

The other regulars (Mike Skevington (Civic), Dave Wilson (Celica), Ross McKay (Evo), Tim Cook (Evo) etc were at the entry day, so there will still be plenty of competition at the top of the table.

And without knowing for certain but seeing Carl Vaughan's new Evo doing some laps at the last Speed event I can only imagine him entering - and I can't see Neville Stowell not doing it this year after last years amazing result...

Lets hope the weather is nice to us

[ENT1CE]

im running again this year go the standard 16v 4age ae86 (2DRFTY)

hey im on that you tube video @ 4.00 minutes in :/ my skid is tiny compared to allan dunns gt40

Yes carl vaughan has entered the new ADVANTI race car its the cars first event so will be interesting.
I sponsor carls evo and I did the sign writing for him on it.

Other peolple of note entered

Chris thompson ex go-carter in a B18c EG civic from vaughan tyre & perfromance (carls parents performance workshop)
Rueben York 300wkw r32 gtr, he is carls mechanic and built carls new evo and his old one and ross's evo he also works at vaughans
Meet up with Glen frew at the ngapara hill climb 2 weekends ago and convinced him to enter his 480whp red evo (nzpc featured evo)
Jared Parmentor 2.4l evo from Timaru
Beeby in his 3 litre supercharged wrx
Jayden bailey ex go-carter/clubsport champ in his Z20det powered nissan sunny
Stan moore 2.0l evo
nevile stowell ?.?litre gtr
allan dunn gt40 repilca

should make for a great days racing

[vince1990]

If you had to pick a single day to go? Which would it be sat or sun? Want to get my ...... ?moneys? worth lol. But on a serious note, I can only give up a day so when would the best action be? Cheers, Seeing as even the website for the event is a little vague. Hell until I saw this on some random sunday motorsport program I wouldn't have known such an awesome event existed!

[Kahlua]

Come either day - depends what you want to see.

You'll see more cars on the Saturday, with the first 2 runs of all 54 cars, and Hopper drifting the Mazcort at halftime , Sunday you'll see elimination rounds (and the completion of the third run of all cars) up to the finale. If you only choose the Sunday, get there early - it starts around 9am.

Cheers for the update on other entries ENT1CE - stoked to hear Alan Dunn will be back in the GT40.

Will see you all there (damn its going to be cold)

And feel free to post up any video footage after the event

[MyH22A]

Ill be at the Scrutineering on friday night here in chch just having a looksey while a friend scrutineer's and then either heading down saturday earlyish or sunday morning early as, with ma mates. lets hope the weather holds out doesnt look to good for saturday. ASHBURTON | YOUR TOWN | WEATHER | tvnz.co.nz sunday maybe the day im afraid tho fingers crossed it'll be all g both days, more action the better right!

Ill see if i can get some pic's up friday night too, Ta maybe convince a few more into making the trip down or up, from what ive heard theres gonna be some pretty mean machines running lotsa HP, it should be great!

[MyH22A]

Lol whoop's it was actually tonight, didnt get a chance to grab the digi, but still seen some MADD car's! kinda wishing i was driving some of them type of feeling too, anyway see'ya's there il keep an eye out for some of your face's from SIMM08

[ENT1CE]

i didnt make simm but just look for a slow JDM panda ae86 2DRFTY im in red overalls thats me

[MyH22A]

Well, i made it down there sunday morning Managed to catch up with the lad's then went down and go ta park behind the warehouse down the gravel rd & it was a prime looking position up on the second trailer unit right in the middle of the course, A big thanks to the weather god's for the great weather I got a few pic's and managed to snap some great video's sadly only of the last half of the day on sunday ma damn batteries went flat soon as i pulled it out.. had to get some more form the shop after lunch as i didnt wanna leave the racing till then , doh! shoulda checked it first anyway ill post up the footage and pic's later tonight once i find the damn cable , ill post up some links on the gootube for the video's i did.

Gotta say the GTR was just eye WOW'ng everytime it did a run as was the Red Evo but i think it needed a smaller turbo i think all tht powa up top wasnt best suited, Good to see the White civic aka 2NV plate but anyway, it was a greatday & weekend of racing!

[Kahlua]

I still have heaps of video to upload, but will do shortly.

Had an awesome weekend, ended up third in class (1601cc to 2000cc) and when you are in the same class as Mike Skevington (White Civic you all know) you have to be happy.

Everyones times were slower this year- the council resealed the road 2 weeks prior, so there was shingle to Africa all over the show, meaning the nice quick corners we are used to ended up being a bit slidy, which with haybales lining the road you had to take them with more caution than normal. Most people ended up 5 to 10 seconds slower a run than last year.

However, means next year it'll be all good, and look for some record breaking times in 09.

The slippery road and shingle cost me on my first run, had a slide then spin on my first run, which even though I missed the bales I still managed to (and I have no idea how to this day) slip the clutch cable so I had to change gears without a clutch using revs, popped a vacumn hose so lost all my power, and managed to make the fan stop working.

Second and third runs were all good though, but not the sub 3 minute run I wanted, but having too harder shocks / springs didn't help there, as did the gravel.

Awesome event as usual anyway

[MyH22A]

Managed to get some video's up on Youtube, it failed so many other ones i had too, not sure exactly why maybe it was the advertising in the clip's not sure

YouTube - Ashburton St Sprints 2008 R32 GTR

YouTube - Ashburton St Sprints 2008 Silver WRX

YouTube - Ashburton St Sprints 2008 Race Ready Evo