My other 1303 GL

[Steve C]

Hi

I went down to Cooma again and ran my Beetle at the Snowy Mountains 1000, it’s a bit like a drag race but only a single car at a time and at over 1000 metres on Cooma airport runway, it’s much longer than a traditional ¼ mile which is only 402.336 metres.

There was an amazing variety of cars running, even an electric Radical race car and a strong contingent of VWs.

This year I had a bit of completion in my class, I guy I work with ran his immaculate Datsun 1600 powered by a 350 kW SR20 engine, he was about 1.5 seconds quicker than me and took the class win, I came second. I finished at about 50th out of 135 cars.


This year I did few things to my car to make it run faster and I managed to go a bit quicker, last year my best time was 22.513 seconds @ 226 km/h, this year I did 22.3247 @ 236.7 km/h, I had 4 runs, two where I went from 2nd gear to fifth gear one were my coolant overflow sprayed onto my ignition coils and the one where I got my best time which wasn’t a very good run as it was late in the day and I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, so car is going great, driver needs more time doing angry gear changes. Can’t wait till next year.

A video of my least crappy run https://youtu.be/wQS_nG_2E_k









The VW/Audi times

SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470

SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327

STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637

STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247

GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235

MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880

KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159

KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367

TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065

MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783

WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953

MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311

GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867

DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414

MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278

[Wally]

Very cool event and great pics Steve! Congrats! 236 km/h is moving!

The 1000 meter distance is interesting as this puts it in the 'Landspeed racing' category.

If you also have the speeds with that last summery of all VW's that ran, my friend the vw landspeed historian Burly Burlile would be extremely happy

Walter