Ateco Warn Challenge

[tna racing]

how did allan cuthill go ?

[Weiner]

Enough constructive criticism, bagging of event organisers and whingers thanks ...... More pics please !!!! That was an awesome event and i will be back for more next year. Pics of the green and orange bar work 70# Yota please if any one got any ..... cut and paste them from another event if you dont have them from this event!!!!

The order is all out of whack but you get the idea.

[Big Red Toy]

The crowd is great don't get me wrong, on ss5 & ss6 i had stuff yelled at me which i listened too & changed my winching plan & worked out for the better, but when your trying to hook up winch cables & people are standing in the way thats annoying & dangerous.

I heard on the radio that spectators had to be stopped going onto some stages as they were walkin on tracks whilst people where trying to drive on them at speed, might not be "you" but others were

[tuf355]

results & pics please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GU BUG]

results & pics please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 2 or 3 pages back

[BushTuckerNed]

I heard on the radio that spectators had to be stopped going onto some stages as they were walkin on tracks whilst people where trying to drive on them at speed, might not be "you" but others were

i dont think the tracks were that well bunted off

of course, i didnt mind becasue it allowed me to get closer to the action. but some people will just get to close

[bagsy]

Well i for one had an awesome weekend!!!!

Massive thanks to the people that put in the huge effort to run the event!

I guess we are now just waiting on results... surely we came 11th as we were not in top 10

Now for my rant!!!! Bloody spectators getting way too close! & not behind bunting!! Whats going on there??? Help the marshalls out & stay where your meant to be!!!

Who was it that Darren green almost ran over as they were on the wrong side of the bunting whilst a speed stage is going on??? Genius

When we did SS9... There were spectators way to close!!! Photo below to show! there are people standing on the track!!!

Sorry andrew , but we came 11 th , you and matt must have been 12 th . What an awsome weekend , spewing there was'nt more stages on sunday to climb up the ranks more after our rough friday nite .. If any one has more pics of car 17 ads and shane , please pm me . cheers shane ..............

[andy & di]

I dont think there is a comp where people dont have to be told to get of the track..................look at the WRC they have choppers fly infront to warn people of on comming cars and yet they still manage to run over a few every now and then

[Ruffy]

At both of the last two competitions i have competed i have had to move spectators out of my way. In one case i hip and shouldered the spectator to the ground. I make no appology for shoving a spectator aside as i'm there to do a job the fastest wat i can. If they choose to be ignorant enough to get in my way then bad luck. At the Cliff hanger i threw my Tree trunk protector up a creek bank with out looking. It inadvertantly headed straight for T.Trudi and smacked her in the face. I felt bad and apollogised but all in all it's a risk she takes doing her job.
Likewise, I would never back off due to there being spectators beside the track. I wouldn't deliberately endanger someone either. If they're stupid enough to stand there then why should i care for there health??

Personally i think the spectator control was poor at the Ateco.
Cheers Dan

[MissDrew]

At both of the last two competitions i have competed i have had to move spectators out of my way. In one case i hip and shouldered the spectator to the ground. I make no appology for shoving a spectator aside as i'm there to do a job the fastest wat i can. If they choose to be ignorant enough to get in my way then bad luck. At the Cliff hanger i threw my Tree trunk protector up a creek bank with out looking. It inadvertantly headed straight for T.Trudi and smacked her in the face. I felt bad and apollogised but all in all it's a risk she takes doing her job.
Likewise, I would never back off due to there being spectators beside the track. I wouldn't deliberately endanger someone either. If they're stupid enough to stand there then why should i care for there health??

Personally i think the spectator control was poor at the Ateco.
Cheers Dan

I think at some point COMPEDITORS should take a stand and just STOP untill the track is FULLY cleared, in this case if they were not allowed to rerun a stage because they stop during it because of spectators being to close and making a dangerous situtation then the organisers should not be running events. Does that make sense? and have I explained it correctly

Ruffy I know they shouldn't be there, I know they must be farking stupid standing that close and sometimes just plain in the way. But how would you feel if you lost it (when driving) and rolled over or drove over somebody and killed them?

You would never get over it, I know I wouldn't

[Davidh]

The crowd is great don't get me wrong, on ss5 & ss6 i had stuff yelled at me which i listened too & changed my winching plan & worked out for the better, but when your trying to hook up winch cables & people are standing in the way thats annoying & dangerous.

I heard on the radio that spectators had to be stopped going onto some stages as they were walkin on tracks whilst people where trying to drive on them at speed, might not be "you" but others were

Andrew I agree with you totally here.
I saw a pretty huge crowd getting way too close to the finish gate of the dash for cash when quite a few cars were basically hitting the last bit full noise clearing the creek bed.
All it would take is one sticking throttle cable and many would be dead.
In all fairness, it does happen in motorsports worldwide, but we should at least be aware of this by now.
Oh yeah, the lines for food sucked arse... All I wanted was a Pepsi!

BTW, damn u move quick for someone who broke his back not long ago!

[Ruffy]

At both of the last two competitions i have competed i have had to move spectators out of my way. In one case i hip and shouldered the spectator to the ground. I make no appology for shoving a spectator aside as i'm there to do a job the fastest wat i can. If they choose to be ignorant enough to get in my way then bad luck. At the Cliff hanger i threw my Tree trunk protector up a creek bank with out looking. It inadvertantly headed straight for T.Trudi and smacked her in the face. I felt bad and apollogised but all in all it's a risk she takes doing her job.
Likewise, I would never back off due to there being spectators beside the track. I wouldn't deliberately endanger someone either. If they're stupid enough to stand there then why should i care for there health??

Personally i think the spectator control was poor at the Ateco.
Cheers Dan

I think at some point COMPEDITORS should take a stand and just STOP untill the track is FULLY cleared, in this case if they were not allowed to rerun a stage because they stop during it because of spectators being to close and making a dangerous situtation then the organisers should not be running events. Does that make sense? and have I explained it correctly

Ruffy I know they shouldn't be there, I know they must be farking stupid standing that close and sometimes just plain in the way. But how would you feel if you lost it (when driving) and rolled over or drove over somebody and killed them?

You would never get over it, I know I wouldn't

Of course you'd feel bad. Who wouldn't. I guess what i should have said is that i don't focus on the crowd. It's not like i see them standing there, i just watch the track. Half of the buzz for the speccies is being so close.

Your right. The competitors need to make a stand. but at the time they're all too focused on racing. Safety should be paramount and some striped bunting just doesn't cut it.

[chompyd]

Great Pics ........ Thanks to all that posted them up!
What a kick arse event ... still in race mode from weekend! i want to go out again and race

[MYTTUF]

Great Pics ........ Thanks to all that posted them up!
What a kick arse event ... still in race mode from weekend! i want to go out again and race

Well thanks for the kind words from those nice fellows out there, to all the rest take notes from Bagsy's reply. I too was very dissapointed the way Sunday turned out. I was there to manage the tracks with regards to marshalls, not run the show. I came apparent very quick that "the run the show" dudes were there, but only to confuse us hard working marshalls. I had to change tracks, which was done in a very fine manner thanks to all the marshalls, yell, both on and off the radio, thanks to some farkwit blocking the channel and abusing us, and deal with what I think were some of the poorest decisions ever made from event management all on an empty stomach as the food that was available to us was not offered due to one of those decisions mentioned above. I'm not going to say any more on this matter but did work over the top on the weekend and even though it was only 3 teams, I did bringt he hill back for you dudes.

Oh and Matty, bring it on this weekend as I will be back there for the 3rd weekend in a row doing the sweep of the tracks to clean up the mess left by some.

Jonesy (who will next time love to pay $15 to be there!!)

[nathan114]

Hey,
Does anyone have final placings & scores for the entire field?. We know about the top 10 but what about the rest of the boys that raced - I'm sure they would like to know about their competition results as well!

Cheers,
Mrs. Moonshine

[gqpete]

results & pics please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 2 or 3 pages back

think he means full names and results but nothing like that posted yet

[MissDrew]

Your right. The competitors need to make a stand. but at the time they're all too focused on racing. Safety should be paramount and some striped bunting just doesn't cut it.

Agree 100% and yes I am guilty of this myself Makes you SOOOOOOOOO tunnel visioned.

[Big Red Toy]

Your right. The competitors need to make a stand. but at the time they're all too focused on racing. Safety should be paramount and some striped bunting just doesn't cut it.

Agree 100% and yes I am guilty of this myself Makes you SOOOOOOOOO tunnel visioned.

I agree, i don't even look at who yells stuff @ me anymore! had some handy tips sent my way, but wouldn't have a clue who from as was to concentrated on getting the car up the hill

[PGS 4WD]

hokey wrote:
I found the PGS 40# to be pretty funny being the recovery vehicle yet it was stuck there broken down. pretty flash looking truck thou however didn't really belong at a winch challenge


I think they cooked the head on it before the night stages had even started. I was at the bottom of SS1 and heard much cursing and lots and lots of steam.
So PGS didnt have a good weekend as the Zook got broke at some stage on friday also.

Not a great weekend for us. Bogger broke the transfere case input shaft, as far as we can tell,(no pulled apart yet) it has done this before as it has massive reductions low range plus another 5:1 or 3:1 selectable, we fitted a cryogenic treated input shaft last time but obviously are going to have to look into another solution, although it is a big new process transfer case.

The Zook has had transmission issues for a while, it blew one up prior to the outback that was 3 hour old(burnt 3rd gear 1:1) and Kewish with only short notice patched it up and we competed on low boost. While preparing for the Ateco and turning up the power we snapped the input shaft to the transmission. Kewish built a new trans but we had major issues with the torque converter supplied by Dominator that was stalling at 4000 rpm not the desired 2000 rpm. Unfortunatly the converter fault causes the trans oil to boil and dump out and loss of drive, not to mention driving the car was more like being fired from a sling shot as it wouldn't take up until it hit 4000 rpm. So next week trans out and try again, coming from a performance car background I know it can be difficult to get the auto just right, once we are able to get it sorted we'll be out in force, its got the go, the input shafts break at about 300 rw kw, we've got one cryo'd in it now but are going to see about a V8 input shaft to suit the V6 box.

Not the best event ever, but I had fun.

My two cents would be that there needs to be one chief who'll stand up and take responsibility for event management.

Great job Jonesy under difficult conditions.

Wasnt all bad, GQHOON won and I tuned it friday morning

Cheers

Joel

[ludacris]

Congratulations to the Clayton's racing team for there top ten finish especially the little hilux. What an effort.

LudaCris

[andy & di]

Congratulations to the Clayton's racing team for there top ten finish especially the little hilux. What an effort.

LudaCris

Agreed have they defrosted yet??

Congratulations to all competitors

[bigcam]

a little vid from sundays fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJ7NbiIJTQ

pity i missed the tree coming down.

[Clayton's Racing]

Congratulations to the Clayton's racing team for there top ten finish especially the little hilux. What an effort.

LudaCris

Agreed have they defrosted yet??

Congratulations to all competitors

Thanks guys, it was good to play in some mud for a change. Yep we have defrosted, though it was probably just as cold at cruiser park the weekend b4 at the QLD Winch challenge. Cheers

[chompyd]

Still waiting on results past 10th ......... C'mon we paid our entry fees too!!! Where's the love? Cause i sure aint feeling any!

[TRobbo]

At last we have now all returned home. The event results are:

NO TEAM VEHICLE POINTS PLACING
27 Peter Mihailoff Shiloh Hoel GQ MWB 1,019 1
28 Adam Bird Andrew Cassar GQ Ute 986 2
13 Marc Elliott Glenn Elliott Landrover 972 3
44 Mike Smith Wayne Smith Rangie 908 4
11 John Bidwell Joe Prosejak Landcruiser 903 5
34 Dave Hickman Trent Leen GQ MWB 892 6
8 Darren Green Kevin Nott GQ Ute 831 7
2 Jason Wotherspoon Manni GQ Ute 786 8
37 Adrian Parker Alan McGilvray GQ Patrol 756 9
1 Mike Clayton Ross Hopper Hilux 749 10
17 Adam O'Brien Shane Baguley 80 Sries 736 11
29 Phil Swindle Warwick Dunn GQ 734 12
31 Sandy Bowman Gavin Begbie GQ SWB 734 12
12 Alan Cuthill Paul Carolan GQ Tray 698 14
32 JamesTyrrell Matthew Sparks GQ SWB 696 15
7 Nathan berry Dane Berry GQ SWB 687 16
9 Brett Chynoweth Rob Barton GQ SWB 675 17
36 Steven Lowe Darren Webster GQ Ute 654 18
18 Lawrie Sternbeck Robbie Calvert Hilux 645 19
39 Jeff Redman Jason Forssman GQ SWB 615 20
23 Jason Wileman Rodney McCraw HJ60 598 21
5 Matthew Delbrocco Andrew BURKE 70 Sries 596 22
33 Christian Richter Daniel Hose GQ Patrol 571 23
21 Allen Moysey Justin Worden RR Ute 568 24
3 Max Baerlocher Kent Baerlocher Jeep 561 25
26 Peter Lea Smith Neil Cooper GQ Ute 557 26
16 Alister Grove Bryan Ross GQ 532 27
15 Steve Fowler Craig Kuhnell RR Ute 531 28
45 Scott Alison Paul Mackay FJ45 511 29
30 Scott Allen Grant Hampton BJ70 508 30
24 Nathan Alison Damien Vincent GQ 490 31
22 Chris Nash Ben Nash GQ SWB 452 32
38 Rohan Canavan Steve Hudson GQ 447 33
10 West Reynolds Dean Miles GQ 365 34
35 Clive Denholm Sam Devenish GQ 322 35
20 Scott Bevan Tim Tettamanti GQ 228 36
19 Norm Walters Phill Schott GQ Ute 226 37
6 Adrian Jamison Stuart Wilson GQ Ute 218 38
25 Ben Russell Sean Harbour GQ MWB 205 39
4 Brett Burns James Simmons Suzuki 63 40
14 Adrian Cauchi David Horsley RR ute 0 41

If anyone can post a pdf file on here let me know

[Ruffy]

At last we have now all returned home. The event results are:

34 Dave Hickman Trent Leen GQ MWB 892 6

Wasn't Trent driving????

[Big Red Toy]

We beat Ruffy

[nathan114]

just wondering if anyone had any pics of the family silver wagon from the weekend be most appreciated

[Ruffy]

We beat Ruffy

That wasn't hard on this occassion ... If you want to be like that We both beat Rohan

[evil_hitman]

I got there Thursday lunchtime and didn't leave until after dark on Sunday.
Did i see much? just the dash for cash.
Would i be there again. HELL YEAH. Every event has both its good points and bad points. There are so many variables that it needs to be expected.

Well done to the volunteers (including organisers) and competitors. It wasn't perfect but no event is.

I had a ball, towing (dragging) the food van up the hill near the sunday stages, and going A over T crossing the creek getting ready for the sponsor runs after the dash for cash (hopefully most people were looking the other way although i doubt it)

Looking forward to a bigger and better winch challenge next year.

Matt