Winch Truck Challenge series 2010 Central Queensland

[LSG948]

With a strong 4wd following and participation in the CQ area we have decided to run our own series for 2010 and onwards.

The event organisers are experianced in organising 4wd events, competiting (XWC series, Cliffhanger, CQ Offroad Challenge, Logan Challenge and SSS) and officialing.

The Winch Truck Challenge ( WTC ) Series will consist of three rounds held at local properties in/around the Central Queensland area. Special Stages will be varied with a major emphasis on safety, navigation, driving skills, recovery and teamwork. All three rounds will be single car events, consisting of driver and navigator. All vehicles will be fitted with full roll cages and other complimentary safety equipment.

Entry is $280 per vehicle

All rounds will be weekend events starting on the Friday night with a welcome BBQ and scrutineering. Competition will start Saturday morning and come to a completion on the Sunday afternoon, with an awards presentation following.

Round 1 27th-28th February. Rockhampton Area
Round 2 29th-30th May. Mackay Area
Round 3 28th-29th August. TBA

Rules will be finalised before Christmas and will be available by ringing, emailing or PMing the event organisers.

Ian Davison 0408 500194

Brad Dukes 0412 437725

Brent Taylor 0414 455542

If anyone is interested in competiting, being an official etc than please post on here or let the event organisers know directly.

Entries will be capped at 30 vehicles maximum.

Cheers Davo

[swb_ute]

Would like to put my entry in for round 2 and 3 Davo.

Cheers
Ben

[H@MMeR]

tell me more tell me more )
later Michael

[LSG948]

At this stage, SS's will be much like everyone is used to, XWC and SSS. But also depending on terain we hope to have some longer stages where you can open up your legs. Your GPS will be used extensivly so make sure you now how to use all of it's features. Street nav type GPS's will be unaceptable.

Rules and regs, entry forms etc will be available before xmas. As we don't have a website at the moment we will email them out to interested parties.

Davo

[UPPY]

we hope to have some longer stages where you can open up your legs.

Rules and regs, entry forms etc will be available before xmas. As we don't have a website at the moment we will email them out to interested parties.

Davo[/quote]

that sounds like a realy interesting concept? Lol.
Jokes aside this is what cq needs as the offroad community seems to be going from strenght to strenght at the moment. Can't wait for it to start I should be availabe to help out (work permiting)

[Lexlux]

Will there be any penalty for twin winch motors, vechicle motor changes or anything thats restricks development to our comp trucks. I'm interested LEXLUX.

[tacrocky]

Hey Lelux there is no penalty system like the CQ Challenge but there will be two class , rules out very soon. Just P.M us with your email address or give us a ring so as soon as the rules are ready we can get it out to every one interested.

Brad

[bigoll]

better let me in on those rules to gents.

[LSG948]

No worries olly.

[big willy]

count me in from the reports i heard about the teams event it should be awesome

[tacrocky]

Thanks to those that have email/Pm or phoned . Rules realy close to being released let us no your contact details. My email is braddukes@rock.ntn.com.au

Brad

[LSG948]

Hello everyone, Rules and Regulations are ready for distribution. For those that we have e-mail addresses for, you should start seeing them appear tonight.

For those that we don't or you didn't get them please email Dukesy on the above address.

Cheers Davo

[Mosko111]

will be up to 8 vehicles competing from gladstone next year, with a few cruisers thrown in to have a run,
should be a great comp will have to get some musical instruments out for the fri nights around the bbq, will check out the rules and regs to see what classes we will be racing in, cheers mosko

[DOWIE]

GREAT idea! Reece and I would like to race this series so count us in and send the rules and nomination paper work to Listerm@bigpond.net.au
thank you

P.S Let us know where to send the cheque

[WelchyGQ]

So reading through the rules it says no forced induction for modified class.

So does this mean no turbo diesels?

A guess everyone with a diesel will be racing open?

Cheers,

Welchy

[LSG948]

• No aftermarket forced induction is allowed. If forced induction is factory then boost may be wound up but original turbo/housing/manifold must remain. Exhaust pipe size is allowed to be increased.

You are allowed forced induction as long as that model came out with it from the factory. If you have a standard diesal 4.2 GU say, then you can turbo it as long as you use the factory turbo and manifold etc. You can not use an aftermarket turbo or manifold, but you are allowed to play with boost and fuel as long as you use the factory pump.

It's all about extracting power from parts the vehicle was produced with. There is a limit to the aftermarket parts allowed otherwise you step up to OPEN class.

Davo

[LUXS DRIVER]

me an johnt would love to race so count us in from tannum send rules to tonka_truck85@msn.com please thanks

[WelchyGQ]

So where it says that you must isolate everything from the battery - does the car have to stop?

Can this switch be in the negative side?

Cheers,

Welchy

[LSG948]

I assume your talking about rule 5H1. Yes and yes.

It must mechanically disconnect the entire vehicle's electric system (winch circuit exempted).

Davo

[BEAR 80]

By the looks of things so far, our Modified Class is going to be very popular and competitive.
But for those that are going to have to run open due to their vehicle mods, don't be discouraged from entering. Judging by some of the results from CQ Challenge this year, the lower budget teams can do just as well as long as they have the team work.

[bigoll]

had a quik look at the rules to day and i think there is a couple of odd ones in there (hyd steer) but hey CQ's own 3 round comp, go you good thing

[tacrocky]

Hi , just to keep you posted we have inspected our second property on the weekend and looks great. Heaps of room to have some long runs and some bigger Gps's. One more place to look at but will keep you posted.
Web site is gettig close we are working on it will be up soon. If you need a copy of the rules please email us.

Brad

[LUXS DRIVER]

could you send me the rules please brad ,didnt get them you get that tape too

[ludacris]

Any thoughts of holding round 3 down this way like LCMP or something.

Cris

[BEAR 80]

Hey Cris, not in the near future mate, but don't rule it out forever. The comp scene north of Brisbane is getting bigger all the time, and we are trying to cater to that.
Stirlo and Dave hold many events down your way all the time, but what would be better is if you pack yourselves up and come and see how we do things up here.

[BEAR 80]

For those that have not got a set, the rules & regs are out now, and noms will be taken from approx mid Jan.

[Mosko111]

So how is this comp looking for numbers so far?
has there been much interest from outside of the cq 4x4 comunity?

[LSG948]

Massive interest from outside CQ. We will put up the details of where round 1 is exactly in the next week or so. At this stage it is looking like about 60k south of Rocky. The recent rain has made things look nice and green and should be good for camping. Entries where to officialy open on monday the 11th but we havent got our website up yet so they may be postponed for a few more days. In any case there will be a post on here linking to the site when it is up. All forms etc will be available for download from the website.

Davo

[Mosko111]

So any word on where the 3rd round will be head? maybe a place called lowmead?

[BEAR 80]

Mosko, we have a couple of options at this time, but somewhere between Cairms and Gladstone.