Geelong Speed Trials, December 1 and 2, enter or come watch!

[EDManual]

http://www.geelongrevival.com.au/

There are still some places, so if you have something appropriate put in an entry!

Hasnt been on for about 10 years or so. I used to love going, and watching and dreampt of having a go, now I am!

I have entered myself! And cant wait!

Who has entered here?? Surely a few old and new GT's are coming along!

I will be there in my Triumph TR7 V8.
A mate of mine will be in his 80's club race porsche.

[Bossxr8]

Stoked that its back. Can remember the days when Dicky used to bring his race cars down for a run.

[Franco Cozzo]

What is there to do in Geelong, is there any type of touristy stuff? Also I've only ever been once to Smorgies in Geelong years ago, so I have no idea about it.

If I go I'll probably go via train, Vline is pretty damn good on Bendigo and Geelong lines.

Is it open to newer cars? As thats what I'm mainly interested in.

[EDManual]

In geelong there is heaps to do. The waterfront is very different to what it used to be. Thats nice, and theres the wool musuem, good shopping, lots of places to eat, the ford discovery centre recently closed sadly.

yes you can catch the train and its only a short walk to the cbd and the action along the waterfront(thats where the racing is).

The newer cars are on the saturday, and all the vintage stuff, including old motorbikes is on the sunday. In the past, the big crowds turned up for the sunday more than the saturday. Would you believe back in the day 50,000 people used to line the course!

Last time it happened was 2003, here is the list of cars on the sat and sun.
http://www.geelongrevival.com.au/past-competitors/

Anyone with decent GT's get an entry in! If you dont want to race, you can go in car shows too.

Maybe Fordforums should have a group enter??

[smciner1]

I have recieved my Entry Confirmation. Just need to get the XB ready.

[smciner1]

Originally Posted by EDManual

http://www.geelongrevival.com.au/

There are still some places, so if you have something appropriate put in an entry!

Hasnt been on for about 10 years or so. I used to love going, and watching and dreampt of having a go, now I am!

I have entered myself! And cant wait!

Who has entered here?? Surely a few old and new GT's are coming along!

I will be there in my Triumph TR7 V8.
A mate of mine will be in his 80's club race porsche.

If you go to the Geelong Revival Facebook pageand click on the photos tab, you will see a picture of a HK Monaro someone has loaded up. Read the comments for it and you will see a link they have put up showing the entries. Thee is a good cross section of Cars entered. Several Guys from our Club have entered (2 XB GTs, an XY Fairmont GS, 2 65 Mustangs, an XD and an LS7 powered Shelby Daytona replica.

It should be an awesome weekend.

P.S. The link says you need to upload pics of your TR-7.

[iCat]

wow, this is great - i'll be there for a sticky

[EDManual]

Awesome! Theres an absolute tonne of completely different cars!! Check out the link : Looks like a mate of mine will have his xr6turbo ute in it too!

http://www.motorevententry.org/site/...=25&eventId=55

If you are into cars and you dont come see this, theres something wrong with you!!

[smciner1]

Originally Posted by EDManual

Awesome! Theres an absolute tonne of completely different cars!! Check out the link : Looks like a mate of mine will have his xr6turbo ute in it too!

http://www.motorevententry.org/site/...=25&eventId=55

If you are into cars and you dont come see this, theres something wrong with you!!

Thanks for posting the link. I couldn't do it with my Phone. I look forward to catching up on the day.

[EDManual]

This weekend everyone!! Look out for my yellow triumph on the saturday!! I just started it last weekend!...running it in quarter mile at a time! :-)

[Grippy]

My old man will be there competing in the Mini, keep an eye out for the British Racing Green Cooper S, car number 155. I'll be there watching.

[smciner1]

Originally Posted by EDManual

This weekend everyone!! Look out for my yellow triumph on the saturday!! I just started it last weekend!...running it in quarter mile at a time! :-)

Good on you Troy, I will keep an eye out for you. I will be there on Saturday in my Blue XB GT Sedan.

[Jason[98.EL]]

will be heading down to have a look in the morning

Great to see it back again

[smciner1]

Had the Practice and first Runs. Tis shaping up the be a top day.

[Jason[98.EL]]

Originally Posted by smciner1

Had the Practice and first Runs. Tis shaping up the be a top day.

seen your run this morning looked good didnt catch the time you ran though

Jason

[flappist]

These things are always fun and there are three things you will learn.

1) Just how much "performance" your "performance" car actually has.

2) Just how good you actually are at driving compared to how good you think you are.

3) Lots of really creative excuses that will be used by the "superheroes" as to why this particular weekend was not suitable for them to enter. These excuses may contain death of a family pet, some dog eating the entry form, some temporary ailment for either them or their car or even the classic "I don't want to draw attention to just how fast my cars is" but never anything like "I did this once and came dead last but only because everyone else cheated".

This is walking the walk not talking the talk and is HUGE amounts of fun but be aware that it is not a drag strip and none of the "stunts" used to get low ETs during test'n'tune will work.

We have something similar up here except it has corners as well. Looks like fun, shame it is so far away.

[zilo]

Dunno about the Gala dinner on the night.

"Guest Speaker Alan Jones."

So sorry I won't be able to make it...LOL

[EDManual]

Was heaps of fun!! Best turn out of cars I have seen!
I had no grip in 1st, and 2nd I could be slightly sideways as long as I liked (apart from one time where I had a one wheel burnout happening for 100 metres! Thats not the fastest take off!)
I kept getting 14.2s. The trap speed at the end wasnt recorded but would have been pretty decent I think!
Oh, I have only had my engine on for about 1 hour. Running it in quarter mile at a time!

[EDManual]

Heres an in car video of me! Started in 2nd gear for something different, and still struggled for grip! 14.2 sec. Wonder what it would do if it had grip and an LSD! Must lose maybe 1 and a half seconds doing starts like this?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Si...s&feature=plcp

[smciner1]

Great to catch up Troy. I had a ball all weekend. A very well run event and am looking forward to it next year.

Check the link below for some pics.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...6547632&type=1