Alfa's at Historic Sandown

[Neil Choi]

Historic Sandown this weekend at............Sandown 4-6 November.

Representing AROCA Vic:

Paul Chaleyer Alfa Romeo Spider Regularity
Marty Lambert Alfa Romeo 105 GTV Group Nc

Chris Blanden Alfa Romeo 105 GTV Group Sc
Nick Taylor Alfa Romeo 105 Spider Group Sc
Phil Baskett Alfetta GTV Group Sc
Hung Do Alfetta GTV Group Sc
Neil Choi Alfetta GTV Group Sc BOG

Other AROCA members or Racing Alfa's:

Steven Byrnes Alfa Romeo GTA Corsa Regularity
Phillip Schudmak Alfa Monza Replica Regularity
Peter Donald Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 Regularity
Lyndon McLeod Alfetta GT Group Sc
Graeme Lowe Alfa Ricciardi Spyder Regularity
Trevor Montgomery Alfa Romeo 6c (Little Alfa)

Free entry Friday Practice
Qualifying Saturday
Racing Saturday and Sunday

Weather is looking fabulous.

Neil

[alfagtv58]

Neil Choi Alfetta GTV Group Sc BOG

BOG = Best On Ground....right.

Weather is looking fabulous.

30 degrees + both days, I can hear the head gaskets groaning now.....

[alfagtv58]

Neil Hung and me are down near garage 40 at the back of the pit wall area if you want to come by and say hello.

[alfagtv58]

Neil Hung and me are down near garage 40 at the back of the pit wall area if you want to come by and say hello.

Edit - I have just been advised that despite taking time away from work to get there early yesterday and secure a nice spot we have been kicked out of our spot.... we are now over near the competitors entrance gate.

[Neil Choi]

30 degrees + both days, I can hear the head gaskets groaning now.....

Yep, I think I just did mine today.

[Neil Choi]

BOG = Best On Ground....right.

Blown Old Gasket

[Paul Gulliver]

Neil,

You forgot to tell everybody you will have a new one tomorrow. Never say die. Hope the rest of the weekend goes better.

Gully

[Neil Choi]

BOG = Best On Ground....right.

Blown Old Gasket

Backwards Over Guardrail

[Neil Choi]

Neil,

You forgot to tell everybody you will have a new one tomorrow. Never say die. Hiope the rest of the weekend goes better.

Gully

It's done already, huge thanks to Hugh Harrison. 

But still BOG 

[Neil Choi]

Got a couple of tickets for Saturday and Sunday to any AROCA member.

Price:  FREE
          or a bottle or two of ice cold gatorade as it is going to be a hot day
          or preferably additional 50 bhp

Give me a call at Sandown if you like 0433 11 66 47

Don't call at 12:15 pm or 4:15 pm for obvious reasons.

Neil

[alfagtv58]

It's pretty warm out here...

Qualy was not great for any of us.

My thanks to Choderboy for turning up and sorting out multiple issues with various cars.  This is a great club!

[alfagtv58]

Issues during qualifying I mentioned earlier;
I had handbrake cable wrap itself around the tailshaft. Choderboy fixed it while I was in drivers briefing.
Neil overheated. Hungs spare 3 core radiator fitted.
Hung overheated and broke his extractors. Overheating turned out to be a broken belt, extractors proved to be more difficult. DNS R1
Nick overheated.  topped up the coolant, fingers crossed.
Chris. No issues that I am aware of.
Lyndon did something to his tailshaft which took out the housing. DNS R1

R1 was a bit of a mixed bag.

I finished 17th, reasonable, but still slow.  Found my oil filter nearly unscrewed at end of race, thank god it wasnt one more lap.
Neil finished 28th, so not BOG and much faster than qualifying.  Overheating sorted.
Hung - Didn't start I'm afraid.  Currently trying to fix so can start rear of grid tomorrow.
Nick, started, but exhaust fell off in first lap, too far gone to rectify.  Out for rest of the weekend 
Chris, deposited most of the contents of his sump through turn 4 and the following kink.  They believe the engine was shut down before any damage done, checking it out tonight.
Lyndon - Out for rest of the weekend 

fingers crossed for a better showing tomorrow!

[Paul Gulliver]

Great summary Phil, I had been watching natsoft results all afternoon ( far to hot to be gardening i told my wife) helps put some understanding to the times. Gee the front runners in Sc are getting bloody fast, i suppose Sandown helps with that . The field is also getting bigger any chance of an under 2 litre race start .

Gully

[Neil Choi]

Here is a bit of excitement with 7 litres of oil on the track and for a split second thinking how much is this going to cost.........

[Neil Choi]

LUCK!!!!  AND LOTS OF QUICK PRAYING!!!!!