Hillclimb event Knysna, Sout Africa

[ghost.197]

This past weekend we had a big hillclimb event at a golf estate in Knysna. The track is basically a 1.9km uphill climb on one of the mountain roads leading up to the golf course itself. Was an awesome event - great turnout with lots of cars: Audi - RS2, R8's; Nissan - GTR's (old and new), 350Z, 370Z; Ariel Atoms; Porsche - Le Mans car (don't know which model), 911's; Evo 8 (last years winner - driven by a 74 year old!); F430; Mustangs; etc.

I didn't compete as I have a nagging engine mount issue that still needs sorting but a couple of the guys from our RS Club did. And they did relatively well in their classes.

Unfortunately, I didn't get many pics of the other cars - so just a few of mine and some other RSs that were there.

Also, apologies for the crappy phone cam pics.

Had my calipers done about a week before the event. Decided on yellow (too many red around imo ) Here's the last pic before:


After


Some other members of the RS club that went up (from Cape Town) or down (from Johannesburg) to the event


Meg RS with Clio skirts :clap:


Mine


Nimbus twins






Megs


Baby Gordini


The venue


The Gordini was launched at the event, here's a few of 'em lining up for a run



RSs and some other stuff

 

[Roy]

Ace pics mate :drool:

 

[Gandy]

Awesome pics...looks like a great event!!

 

[ghost.197]

Thanks bud. Wish I'd got some more of the others - were some awesome machines present.

For those interested, here's an onboard vid from one of the Meganes in our club that participated (not sure how to embed the video on this forum):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG6p5pE54Sg

In the absence of pics of the other cars, here are some of them (ignore the music - not my vid )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFs5AO5bx64&feature=related

 

[ghost.197]

Accident list:
‎1x Audi R8 V10 write off, 2 x Nissan GTR R34 write off, 1x Nissan R35 GTR write off, 1x Arial Atom almost write off

A couple of pics of the R8

 

[Roy]

Ouch that got to hurt

 

[Gandy]

It'll buff!!!

 

[edd1e]

ace pic of the R8 in the ditch mate! (if it's yours?)

looks like a good day

 

[ghost.197]

nope, not mine. don't have that kinda camera skill
pinched from a couple of other guys.

Was an awesome weekend - loads of fun.

 

[BenW]

Feel sorry for the people who wrote of their cars, some expensive stuff there

 

[Mancman68]

Kynsa

Looks great just watched the video lots of skid marks disappearing off the road at stages. But its safe to say you beat then Audi hands down bet he was gutted
:swear::swear:

 

[Robo_#1]

HOLY ****!! That poor R8, I'd have properly shat my pants if that was me. I could tell there was some write offs before I saw you post cos of all the tyre marks leaving the road!

Looks like great fun, if not a little dangerous....

 

[ghost.197]

Was great fun, and luckily there weren't any serious injuries, despite the writeoffs. Just some bruised egos. And wallets. Guess it's all part of it when guys are really pushing for a good time.

In the end GTR's (R34s and R35s) really dominated, taking the first 6 or seven positions. The Evo 9 (driven by a 74 year old race legend in SA) that won it last year pulled out at the end of day 1 unfortunately. Once that'd happened, it was Nissan all the way.

Just to give you some perspective. The fastest Renault Sports (RS250 and a couple of R26s) completed the 1.9km course in about 50+ seconds. The winning GTRs did it in about 40ish - although in a different class obviously.