ARB Winch Truck Challenge: 13th-14th April, Mount Larcom

[Mosko111]

#Round 1 has had a venue change, it will now be held near Mount Larcom#
Teaser--- http://stockers.cqoz.com/video/wtc-teas ... e=activity


Well the 2013 ROPS Winch Truck Challenge series has had the inclusion of myself, Troy T and Kirsty W into the organising committee and we have locked in this years dates and venues!!

Round 1:
Will be held on the 9th & 10th of March on a completely new property near Yepoon, this will be a blank canvas for the organisers to set tracks on and competitors won't have a home ground advantage thanks to it being the first ever event there!
Reports so far is that it is littered with gullies and hills and that as soon as you leave one you drop into another! So navies will want to be fit for this one and be ready to clamber up and down banks as they work their way through the stages.

Round 2:
Will be held on the 20th & 21st of July at Lowmead on Clarkey's Petrol Heads Paradise which over the last few years has been home to the Lowmead 3 Car Challenge!!
Initial plans are to race in the same area as the 2012 3 car event but use the hills and creek systems that were deemed to hard or steep for that event!
For those who spectated or competed at that event think Stage #4 (Zook Hill) and Stage 5 (Mud Mayhem) and you will get a bit of an idea on what will lay ahead for the racers! Plus add in some high speed runs and longer stages and it will make for a chilly but awesome event!

Round 3:
Will be on the 5th & 7th of October and will return to New Chum on the outskirts of Mount Morgan!! For this years event all new terrain will be used! Even Base Camp will be moved to a new area so it's nice and close to the competition area.
Plans at this stage are to have the Special Stages in the area between the All Terrain Rock stage from last year and the Sandy Creek Run! This area has some long loose hills, short sharp creek banks, V gullies, water holes and a few random boulders laying around the place. And will provide the perfect mixture to set some very challenging and longer stages! So it will be the perfect venue for Round 3 and the series decider!!

I hope to see a some new faces at this years events and hopefully guys from the years gone past come back to have some fun aswell!

Cheers Mosko

[Shieldsy]

When are Noms open?

Price? Forms?

[Mosko111]

Nomination forms are available on the WTC Website: http://wtc4x4.com.au/

The opening of Round 1 noms will be in the near future, I will inform everyone a few days ahead.

[Mosko111]

Nominations for Round 1 will be opening this Saturday. I will put up the email address and fax number for those wishing to send in nom forms.

[Mosko111]

Here is the DVD intro for last years Round 3 which was held at New Chum, this years Round 3 will also be held on this property but in a completely new area!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=yQgghYTr ... r1QQ&gl=GB

[Mosko111]

This is a promo clip Casey Imaging did to stir some interest for this years series http://stockers.cqoz.com/video/wtc-teas ... e=activity

And another promo clip with the dates and venues of all three rounds on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhsgSn-Ohs

[Mosko111]

Nominations for round 1 are now open!
Forms can be found on this website under "Downloads":
http://www.wtc4x4.com.au

And once they are filled out please email the forms to:
bradduke@bigpond.com
Or fax to:
0749211144

So far we have 7 teams from Gladstone looking to compete with another 3 possibilities and probably around the same amount from Rockhampton! Plus the guys from other regions.

[Shieldsy]

Zoo 4x4 will be there

[Mosko111]

Seriously Mr Shields?

You aren't just tricking are you?

[Shieldsy]

Wer doing the whole series.

Put our name down

[Mosko111]

Awesome stuff!
Another Cruiser is always good!

Will you be mod or Open class this year?

[Shieldsy]

Is there 24v in production?

[Mosko111]

No 24volt mate, but widened drums are allowed this year for mod class by the sounds of it!

[Mosko111]

The Winch Truck Challenge now have a new facebook page!
So please follow the link and click "LIKE" this way you can keep up to date with all of the current information of upcoming events, and check out photo's and videos from the events!!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/ ... kChallenge

[perko88]

Do you know if many cars are lined up for production class Mosko?

[Mosko111]

Just from asking around I know of 4 or 5 who are looking to race mate. Would you like to join the list?

[perko88]

That's the go man, I would love to but I just worked out I'm working so even if the big girl was ready I can't make it unfortunately. That's a good turnout for mod class though, be a good chance for everyone to test their rigs and their skills against a similar crowd

[Shieldsy]

It's not production class without the yellow 60 Perko

[perko88]

Haha yea I wish I could be there. It will be getting some love this year and I'll hopefully be getting some seat time

[Mosko111]

Come along and race Round 2 at Lowmead Perko! Would be good to see even more mod class rigs racing!

[Mosko111]

Hopefully everyone in Rockhampton/ Gladstone and Boyne/Tannum are doing ok after the recent weather events and have been able to clean up and return back to work. We also hope the guys from down south like Summit Racing from Bundaberg and other past competitors are safe and well also!

A few of the locals from the area where the comp is to be held have informed us that there will most likely be some water still laying around for Round 1 and they have been busy wiring in bilge pumps just incase the organisers are feeling like sending competitors for a dip through some of the water holes

We won't know how much water is actually around until the next scouting trip out there (when the ground dries out a bit more) but we will shed some light on what competitors and spectators can look forward to seeing at Round 1 as soon as we know!

Also the photo competition winner will be announced on the ROPS Winch Truck Challenge Facebook page today and a new photo category will be started later in the week.

[Mosko111]

With 5 weeks to go until Round 1 in Yeppoon, the organisers have started a new Photo competition on the WTC Facebook page. Head to the page and check it out if you think you have a winning photo!

http://www.facebook.com/WinchTruckChallenge

[Shieldsy]

So what's the competitor list like

[Mosko111]

I will try and post it up in the next couple days Shieldsy. Just need to go through Emails and faxed/ dropped in entry forms and make up the list.

[Mosko111]

Photo's of nominated competitors are being added to this photo album as we get a chance to do so.

Click on the link and check out a photo of each race car!
http://www.facebook.com/WinchTruckChall ... 681&type=1

[Mosko111]

There has been a venue change for Round 1 of the Rops Winch Truck Challenge.

Round 1 will now be held on a property just South of Mount Larcom in Central Queensland.

Directions to the property are as follows:

If travelling South from Rockhampton, it will be a 75km trip from the Rockhampton Round about.
Travel past Mount Larcom (ML) as if you are heading towards the calliope crossroads (don't turn towards Gladstone at the ML intersection) 2km south of ML there will be a right hand turn onto East End Road and there is a sign for the Cement Australia quarry.
Follow that road past the quarry and onto the dirt road, stay on this road taking the left hand turns, it will be a roughly 10km drive drive from the highway turn off to the comp site.

If you are travelling from Gladstone you can either travel to the Mount Larcom T intersection and turn left then follow the same directions as above ^^ Or you can head North from the Calliope crossroads. It will be a 32km drive from the crossroads to the intersection where you will then turn left and follow the road until you reach the property.

We will upload a mud map prior to the event.

[Mosko111]

For those interested in competing,

WTC will be having a lucky draw where everyone who has their nominations in by this Friday will be in with a chance to win 2 x adult full weekend passes to Round 1!
The prize is valued at $70 and will be a nice little saving for your wife, girlfriends or two of your supporters!!

[Mosko111]

EXCITING NEWS:

The Winch Truck Challenge organisers would like to announce our new naming rights sponsor!

The WTC committee are super excited to announce that ARB will be our new naming rights sponsor!!

Since the beginning of the Winch Truck Challenge series 3 years ago ARB have been supporters of the WTC events and now with the position for naming rights sponsor becoming available they jumped at the chance to step up and put their name to the series!

As you may notice the logos and facebook page have not been updated to be the "ARB Winch Truck Challenge" but the transition from Rops to ARB will happen over the next few days!!

Along with ARB becoming our new naming rights sponsors we have had some new series sponsors also come on board, they will also be named over the next few days.
2013 is going to be a great year!

[Mosko111]

It's safe to say that Round 1 of this years ARB Winch Truck Challenge series is going to be a hard fought battle in the muddy and wet conditions that will be waiting for those brave souls who have nominated!!
The new property "Ashleigh" with her virgin untouched soils, which is situated just outside of Mount Larcom has had the stages planned and cleared with only a little more ground work to be done!

The best bit is we have a HUGE nominations list with 20+ comp trucks of all shapes, sizes, makes and models on it!!

The teams are as follows:

1: Red Beard Racing
2: Pump & Grunt Racing
3: Houndog Racingf
4: Lister Larikins
5: TnT
6: ARB Rockhampton
7: Ready To Roll
8: Jee-q Racing
9: Zoo 4x4
10: Upton Motorsports
11: Wild Racing
12: General Jeep
13: Tree Huggers
14: Swamp Donkeez
15: Team Fergy
16: Doghouse Racing
17: B&B Racing
18: Two Blind Mice
19: Simon Clews
20: Pissed & Broke
21: TBA
22: TBA

[Shieldsy]

22 cars!

What a good turn out for the first race of the season