Post by kiwicanfly on Apr 25, 2017 8:40:53 GMT
On Sunday 23rd April our club held a rallysprint at Lepperton in Taranaki.
This was the first such event I had competed in and differed from the usual hill climbs and sprints in that you had to carry a passenger and the total of three runs counted rather than your best single run.
I decided that rather than simply roping in a mate or a lightweight passenger I would take advantage of a bloke called Steve who is an experienced rally driver but is currently without his car due to gearbox troubles.
This worked well as he was able to give me meaningful advice, mainly via hand signals.
As the final times were made up from three runs (from six) I made this video in which I split the video from all the runs into twenty sections and selected the best run for each section.
Whilst my total time saw me finish well down the running order it was a very fast course suited to much more powerful vehicles. For example the top speed I hit was around 150kph whereas I have watched videos from previous years where speeds approaching 240kph were achieved and cars were leaving the ground at 200kph in places. A bit scary considering there was absolutely no place to go if things had gone wrong at this speed.
The day saw a few casualties, mainly vehicle, with broken gearboxes and clutches and one car embedded in a bank (this can be seen at the 2:32 mark).
At the end is an extra snippet of what happened at a corner on run one.
I have moved my camera position due to acquiring a new mounting clamp, it shows the front suspension movement quite nicely, the audio also shows(?) the car grounding a number of time so a few turns on the rear springs are required.
This was the first such event I had competed in and differed from the usual hill climbs and sprints in that you had to carry a passenger and the total of three runs counted rather than your best single run.
I decided that rather than simply roping in a mate or a lightweight passenger I would take advantage of a bloke called Steve who is an experienced rally driver but is currently without his car due to gearbox troubles.
This worked well as he was able to give me meaningful advice, mainly via hand signals.
As the final times were made up from three runs (from six) I made this video in which I split the video from all the runs into twenty sections and selected the best run for each section.
Whilst my total time saw me finish well down the running order it was a very fast course suited to much more powerful vehicles. For example the top speed I hit was around 150kph whereas I have watched videos from previous years where speeds approaching 240kph were achieved and cars were leaving the ground at 200kph in places. A bit scary considering there was absolutely no place to go if things had gone wrong at this speed.
The day saw a few casualties, mainly vehicle, with broken gearboxes and clutches and one car embedded in a bank (this can be seen at the 2:32 mark).
At the end is an extra snippet of what happened at a corner on run one.
I have moved my camera position due to acquiring a new mounting clamp, it shows the front suspension movement quite nicely, the audio also shows(?) the car grounding a number of time so a few turns on the rear springs are required.
