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Outback Challenge 2005

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Post by ludacris »

Who won the money pool on Kevin and Mani.

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Post by johndiane »

All the best to Alan and Shane, well done on getting 21st for first timers and it is the first of many OBC's to come.

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Post by The Fish »

Have finally spoken to T. Trudi but she didn't have a list of final results as it was very confusing due to re-counts as others have already noted.

Norm and Kym were leading by 90 pts going into the final 3 stages and all they had to do to hold onto the top spot was to complete the 3 stages in reasonable times, which they did ;)

But when the results were being read out they were named as 4th place getters :? After a fair bit of protesting by most competitors, as this just didn't add up, the scorers went away and it took another 2 hours for the mistakes to be found and the results rectified!!!! Hence the late presentation :roll:

Apparently they had not been awarded their points for getting into camp on time each night due to a paperwork filling out issue, the box was ticked and not signed or vice versa, which totalled 500 pts :shock:

Also the place getters of 3 or 4 stages were presented with medals only to have to return them after some mistakes in the placings were found. These were only found after some teams realised their score, or times I'm not sure, were wrong and put in protests :roll:

Anyway besides the hiccups in the results T. Trudi said the presentation night was fantastic and a definate improvement on previous years :armsup:

T. Trudi has started the long trip home now but will hopefully post up some photos when she gets home and finds the time to do so.

They are travelling with Hobzee and Clint in the Pro Comp GU and the South Africans, as their single cab hilux is undrivable and is on the Cassaboo truck while they drive Chunck's GU tray back to Vic.

Roger and Jonesy are towing the rangie home on a trailer behind Rod McGraws (sp) Jeep as it is also undrivable :cry:

Should be good reading when the competitors get home and post up what they thought of the event and how they went ;)

Congrats to Norm and Kym again and to all competitors for making it through, one way or another, the "One Week Of Sheer Hell"

That's all from me,

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Post by goodie »

top effort to all who competed. CONGRATS to AL and SHANE on their first OBC. any idea where hummer and cooper finished?
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Post by cuthill »

Congrats to all who competed. I believe Chris Hummer and Neil Cooper placed 18th. :)
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Post by Timbot »

Anyone know when the Official website will be updated.
http://www.outbackchallenge.com/

Kindda silly how they make a website, and the time everyone needs it, it's not up to date :(

There's were updates for
Monday 16th May 2005
Tuesday 17th May 2005
Wednesday 18th May 2005

If people are interested.

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Post by toughnut »

ludacris wrote:Who won the money pool on Kevin and Mani.

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Would you believe that mani and kevvy won it :rofl: The donated their half to the royal flying doctors as well. There were a lot of sore heads this morning as I left maccas in Broken Hill. Mani may be a bit over confident and obnoxious at times but congrates for breaking into the teens. They came 11th.
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Post by thunder »

DRIVER CAR NO POINTS
2005 CHALLENGE RESULT
CO DRIVER PLACING
Norm Walters K 5 ym Bolton 2132 1
Trent Leen 45 Dave Hickman 2012 2
Dean Kilmurray 2 Jack Talbot 1953 3
Adam Bird 57 Joe Cassar 1934 4
Stephen Booth 6 Peter Lea-Smith 1868 5
Jeff Redman 7 Jason Forssman 1841 6
Rohan Canavan 44 Cass Jones 1841 6
Laurie Sternbeck 3 Sean Calcino 1839 8
Steve Hobbs 10 Clint Leask 1801 9
Ian McClenahan 35 Mark Bielz 1734 10
Mani Kafantaris 22 Kevin Tapp 1732 11
Terence Reinders 47 Warner Trimmer 1728 12
Chris Nash 4 Ben Nash 1719 13
Mike Smith 55 Wayne Smith 1635 14
Kevin Nott 20 Theo Demetriou 1627 15
Neil Redpath 51 Patrick Smart 1625 16
Chris Hummer 1 Neil Cooper 1623 17
Phil Swindale 52 Craig Hartin 1495 18
Andy Miller 41 Robbie Calvert 1444 19
Matt Bolger 16 Cameron Blackmore 1443 20
Alan Cuthill 42 Shane Barkley 1440 21
Roger Smith 8 Jason Jones 1422 22
Todd Joyce 38 Verena Joyce 1388 23
Conrad Evans 56 Grant Evans 1385 24
Brian Pethybridge 14 Keith Seeber 1353 25
Alan Mai 9 Warren Cleland 1282 26
Allen Moysey 46 Adam Kenny 1242 27
Bill Lyne 31 Jeff Newick 1242 27
Kris Umhauer 23 Simon Bailey 1231 29
Marc Boas 53 David Rowland 1229 30
Russell Cullen 25 Brad Morris 1227 31
Alan Reynolds 11 Peter Sternbeck 1200 32
Dave White 40 Paul Everett 1198 33
Christian Richter 36 Darren Nichols 1143 34
Nick Mannell 13 Shane Eslick 1139 35
Mick Whitehead 15 Norm Needham 1128 36
Michael Hingerty 30 Mick Burns 1121 37
Malcolm Graham 29 Bruce Borchardt 1048 38
Steve Graham 24 Trevor Dean 1040 39
Ashleigh McLochlan 21 Cameron Moore 1028 40
Brett Scrivener 18 Brett Quadling 1003 41
Laurie Griffiths 28 Gary Osborne 921 42
Andrew Hogg 39 James Feeney 884 43
Mark Hughes 37 Steve Browitt 756 44
Nathan Merritt 50 Wayne Merritt 739 45
Barry Packer 17 Sue Packer 729 46
Greg Scanlon 19 Andrew Scanlon 723 47
Alan van Schoor 48 Dennis Maytom 595 48
Jason Oswald 49 Stephanie Andreata 492 49
Henry Lefever 12 Robin Lefever 464 50
Cris Ingram 43 Jeremy Berg 321 51
Max Baerlocher 26 Craig Cooper 302 52
Steven Waterford 33 Steven Baker 171 53
Robert Szczupak 54 Peter Mildwaters 111 54
Celia Barry 32 Eugene Barry 95 55
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Outback Challenge 2005 Results

Post by okz00k »

OBC 2005 results are posted at http://CCDA.info
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Post by vn15 »

Recived a newsletter from Outback4x4Challenge today, with the final results and a pic of the winning truck.

They say it`s the first time a Rangie has finished outside top 3. :roll:

In OBC 2000 it was:

1. GQ Patrol, Leen and Hickman
2. Jeep TJ, Macmullen and Blegg
3. LC 60, Reilly and Storey

Five Patrols in top ten, best Rangie in 9th and a Rangie/Holden hybrid in 8th.
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Post by HeathGQ »

thunder wrote:DRIVER CAR NO POINTS
2005 CHALLENGE RESULT
CO DRIVER PLACING
Norm Walters K 5 ym Bolton 2132 1
Trent Leen 45 Dave Hickman 2012 2
Dean Kilmurray 2 Jack Talbot 1953 3
Adam Bird 57 Joe Cassar 1934 4
Stephen Booth 6 Peter Lea-Smith 1868 5
Jeff Redman 7 Jason Forssman 1841 6
Rohan Canavan 44 Cass Jones 1841 6
Laurie Sternbeck 3 Sean Calcino 1839 8 (missed it by that much)
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Alan Reynolds 11 Peter Sternbeck 1200 32
go the QLDer's. Congrats to Laurie and Sean, and Al and Pete. Top job. Now time for some sleep boys....
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Post by Kane »

Does anyone know what make of trucks finished in the top 10 and what motors were they running? From memory, there were a few trucks in the top 10 that were running JPC turbochargers last year.
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Post by bogged »

The trophy heads north

Norm Walters and Kym Bolton driving a Nissan Patrol have won the seventh ARB Warn Outback Challenge and in doing so have taken the coveted winners trophy to Queensland for the first time. Trent Leen and David Hickman came in second also in a Nissan Patrol whilst Dean Kilmurray and Jack Talbot took out third place making it a hat trick for Nissan. :armsup: :armsup: :armsup: :armsup:
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Post by morkz »

I have few pics and videos of the challenge i'll post them up soon.

But on a short note the spectator package was disappointing and the organization of the event left a lot to be desired, so i doubt many of this years competitors will come back.

the presentation was pretty bad and every year by the sounds of it they stuff up the results for the money the receive from competitors and sponssors you would think after 7 years the event would be perfect!

All in all it was great watching the competitors and having a chat, also drinking with jornos from south africa, france, USA, and the little sotty it was great we had a ball at the mulgar pub.

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Post by GRIMACE »

bogged wrote:The trophy heads north

Norm Walters and Kym Bolton driving a Nissan Patrol have won the seventh ARB Warn Outback Challenge and in doing so have taken the coveted winners trophy to Queensland for the first time. Trent Leen and David Hickman came in second also in a Nissan Patrol whilst Dean Kilmurray and Jack Talbot took out third place making it a hat trick for Nissan. :armsup: :armsup: :armsup: :armsup:


i can see the head swellin :lol:

Well done and congratulations to all competitors :armsup: Good to see a totally different outcome and obviously was a very challenging event.... so again extra congratulation to all entrants.
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Post by Drafty »

Got back last night at 7.30, i have to say it was an awsome competition, the group we had was super competative which was great. There were quite a few breakdowns and we were all there working on each others trucks, all 11 from our group finished the event. The new stage were excelent, i believe it took the advantage away from those who had competed previously.
Some of the Guys we had in our group were Norm and Kim, Many and Kev, Pig and Skiddy, Redman and Jason, Roger and Jonesy, the South Africans Terance and Warner and others. I have to say that Norm and Kim did extremely well to even finish the event and definately deserve the win, congratulations guys. At the end their truck was a total wreck it had no exhaust, no engine mounts, the front of the body was held to the chassy with a ratchet strap, no power steering and the list goes on, on the first night the map sensor went and skiddy somehow got it working again, that guy is a magician, he worked on competitors cars every day including ours, thanks Skiddy you are a champ.

In total we had a few problems, at the prolog we nearly rolled it, tuesday we melted the wiring loom to the computer, wednesday it melted again, thursday we missed a washout at 120km hr launched the car and did a tyre, sheared off an oil fitting which spewed oil onto the extractors igniting the oil and setting the car on fire, while fixing the flat the highlift jack broke. Got going again next stage did a front pasenger tyre and the incab winch controler didnt work, ended up activating it from the cab using plasma cable and duct tape, thursday night the turbo shit itself,new turbo on friday morning, friday we had a clean run and on saturday the wiring went to shit again on the second last stage. But we finished and that was the main thing.
We ended up wining 6 stages, had 2 second places and 2 3rds DNF'd 3 stages and lost 100 points for outside assistance. We were 198 points behind first and missed 3rd by 19 points.

We had an absolute ball. If anyone has any photos or video footage of us PM me as i would love to get hold of a copy.

Having Many and pig in the group was a hoot, on the last night we all sat around the camp fire laughing at jokes being told by them as they tried to outdo each other.
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Post by bogged »

anyone know how Jason Oswald (ossie on here) and Stephanie Andreata went, I see they are very low in the points..

wanna put something in club maggo about them.
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Post by Camshaft1 »

Congratulations to Chris Richter and Navi for a 34th place. Not bad for first year!
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Post by morkz »

bogged wrote:anyone know how Jason Oswald (ossie on here) and Stephanie Andreata went, I see they are very low in the points..

wanna put something in club maggo about them.


yeah spoke them alot

alot of electrical issues the bloke who re-wired the rangie didnt do a good job rangieautomotive were fixing a few problems before they left however they burnt alot of fuses and stuff and the mud didnt help what so ever.

so basically electric issues were there main problem, that and cracking the chassis.

also he and i had a chat before we left and i told him a nissan was much better but he disagreed i wouldnt be surprised if they build up gq/gu when they get back instead of the rangie...

THIS YEARS EVENT KILLED RANGIES THATS WHY NISSANS WERE TOP 3
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OBC 2005

Post by Britswed »

Tough Event???

Yep!!!!! But also i think it topped my first year which was for now the best event i had been too!!! OBC 2005 was brillant stages where harder,longer & as usual had there complaints :armsup:

Congrats too Norm & Kym you two are so worthy winners & also to Dean & Jack in Third(Go Traction 4club)

Bruce & I had a ball no complaints

Highlights
Racing Rowan & Cass @ Gunbarrel
AND the MUD :D

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Re: OBC 2005

Post by TUFFRANGIE »

Britswed wrote:Tough Event???

Highlights
Racing Rowan & Cass @ Gunbarrel
AND the MUD :D

Cheers All

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Re: OBC 2005

Post by Britswed »

TUFFRANGIE wrote:
Britswed wrote:Tough Event???

Highlights
Racing Rowan & Cass @ Gunbarrel
AND the MUD :D

Cheers All

Mal



Who won :cool:


On Gunbarrel they got me with 50m to go but the point was it was great :D Group E where Awesome could not have been better

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Post by TUFFRANGIE »

Sweet mate, I was just saying in a roundabout way that Rohan's car has some serious stick-It would have been to watch all the competitors going at it on Gunbarrel
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Post by johndiane »

Some awsome stories have come out of this event, has anyone one seen or got pics to post up for all to see.


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Post by bogged »

No Hall Brothers this year?
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Post by oozuk »

Had a great time for my first year in the OBC, learnt ALOT and gonna be more prepaired next year when i come back another car (better suspention and LOTS MORE POWER!!)

made a heap of new frends too
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Post by Ossie »

morkz wrote:also he and i had a chat before we left and i told him a nissan was much better but he disagreed i wouldnt be surprised if they build up gq/gu when they get back instead of the rangie...


I would not guarantee that...... to set the record straight these are the hiccups we had

1 x DNS because I was fixing the three punctures I got the night before, we should have had a DNF (and 20 points) but we did not record the mandatory finish point even though we had 30 mins to spare (amateur error!)
1x DNF for rookie error
1 x DNF because I got one flat and destroyed a rim,
2 x DNS fixing wiring problems,
2 x DNF due to wiring problems,
1 x outside assistance for wiring problems,
2 x DNF because of tie rod damage
1 x DNS due to getting chassis repaired

At least we finished, and could drive the car home :D all be it slowly. My wife put in an excellent effort all week and I was proud of her when she won an enlarged photo from Offroad Images for her efforts in the mud.

Will we be back....probably. I have 11 months to sort out the electrical issues :lol:

The positive for us is we had no major disagreements and did not get any winching penalties.

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Post by Bighazza »

very cool peoples awesome job to all the compettiors



but wheres the pics :? :D
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Post by Drafty »

Sorry but i and most competitors were to busy running through mud, pulling winch cables in sludge, up hills, cliff faces, sand dunes, navigating entering waypoints directing drivers and repairing cars to take photos.

But where are all the photos taken by spectators, Trudy you must have a coupla hundred shots, every time i saw you a camera was in your hand. I know Juzza has a few shots ;)
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Post by OnPatrol »

Joe,

Here's a photo for you.....this was sent by a mate.

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