Skelta takes it to Porsche GT3

Remember below when I said the Skelta caught and passed Targa Tassies' # 1 competitor and most prolific winner Jim Richards?

Here's the video and it was done in the wet.

click here >Enjoy.
No wonder they banned it, can't have an aussie made and engineered car beating an established marque like Porsche on an specialised aussie event, let alone catching and passing it on a Tarmac stage. Yes, that was a bit of fun-poking sarcasm...

We're heading back to Pikes Peak!!!!

Yep, that's right! We're heading back to Pikes Peak in 2012 this time in a magnificent Skelta, Australia's own Porsche killer!

Weighing in at only 780 kilos and with a nominal 300 hp at the rear wheels from it's supercharged F20C Honda S2000 engine, the power to weight ratio is enough to scare the likes of Lamborghini and Porsche.

The car we'll be using is the same car that came 2nd on Targa Tasmania this year, loosing out to the top spot by 63 seconds due to running on JUST 3 cylinders on the final day. Not too shabby, huh!

But sadly the Targa Tasmania organisers got taken on a nice little junket by Porsche to Europe, got given nice vintage Porsches to drive in the Lemans 'classic' event, and around Europe, and a Porsche to drive at the Nurburgring for kicks, and when they flew home they immediately re-wrote the rules to stop the future entries of this magnificent Aussie built car into further and future Targa Tasmania events at the stroke of a pen. I guess it had something to do with the video image of the Skelta catching and passing the Porsche GT3 of Aussie race legend Jim Richards on one of the stages in last years event. I know Jim and if he found out why they banned the Skelta he'd be really upset.

Makes you sick doesn't it! An Aussie made car taking on the world in an Aussie event and the organisers are so wrapped up in a gravy train the refused to allow it future entries to please the gravy train from Porsche. The amazing thing is I like Porsches, having raced them in endurance events in the US, and I like the Targa Tasmania event too, but I also like the Skelta.

Anyways, so now we're not welcome here, (which may sound famialir to my friends and fans in the US) so we'll go to the big show across the pond and compete there...

Hey, does anyone know how Porsche got their start...? Wasnt it building lightweight small capacity cars that kicked the big established guys - ie: other motor manufacturers - butts in motorsports in the early years earning a reputation for well engineered and lightweight cars... Im just saying!

The nuances of life...

Life's perplexing at times. How can it be that there is so much going on, yet nothing happening?

How can it be that I feel like Im running in circles putting so much together, then I sit back and see that actually nothing has come together? Is this going to be like a big rubber band that's being stretched and stretched and as you keep going stretching it you start to wonder if it's ever going to, A: snap, or B: pull you back so quickly your head spins. My life would 'A', then. And when it does snap, you wonder how things could all be happening at onc.... oh, never mind, I guess I just figured it out!

So we'll keep running in circles and wait for the rebound coil, I'll be the one in the heap on the floor.

Doing a photo dump!

These are some images of my past life. Hope you enjoy them.

In car video

Ok, so Blogger isnt being nice and letting me throw up a link to the Facebook video, I guess Blogger and Facebook just dont get along, so here is the direct link.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=2079189462034

Sorry, here is the results. Mt Washington 1999. That was soooo long ago. So many great memories also.

Wind back the clock!

Ok, so we did Pikes Peak and did well, however, way back, like 12 years ago, in 1999 we did an event called the Mt Washington Auto Road hillclimb, or "climb to the Clouds" as it was known. We did that event also in an evo, but this time it was an evo 5 RS, which, given the sparcity of these in the US, it was a mythical creature that had a buzz around it from all the Playstation types.

We won class there also, and took a new record. This is the in-car camera that a TV crew set up, when we were the fastest car in qualifying, and were the only car into the sub 7:00 mins during said qualifying. Of course the two really faster cars had issues, but hey that's racing, and come race day they found their mojo and powered on, relingating us to a deserved 3rd overall but 1st in class. The evo was still fresh off the boat for this event, and sported just stock suspension, stock unflashed ecu, but sticky rubber that really worked over the suspension to the point ti was almost tripping over itself, often getting all discombobulated. With about a stock 290hp, up against the 650hp Nascar engined hybrid of Dan Rutan, and the 500HP REAL Group B Audi Quattor of the talented Frank Sprongle we still held out own and beat many faster cars, but only because I JUST hung onto the car. Enjoy, here is the video.



Here are the results from then.