Australian Motorkhana Championship 2012

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:44 pm

Ok so all the details for the event are here;

http://www.motorkhana.com.au/

I am tempted, although not 100% at this stage.
Thought Id put this up to see how many 5ers were thinking of going!

Keep in mind that the MX5 was gods gift to Motorkhanas!

Scotty

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:41 pm

Registers and entry sent
Road trip planned
Accommodation booked

Bring it on

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:58 pm

Got offered a drive of a 370s Infinity in the Alpine Classic Rally that weekend, still think I'd rather be doing skids :lol:

It will be my first time driving the car in anger with the new Torsen, so I don't expect much, but I figure itll be a great event.

adidistyle · Postby **adidistyle** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:19 pm

I cant do this one, unfortunately.
My mates really should check with me before arranging thier interstate weddings :roll:

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:54 pm

The AMC 2012 web site has been update with more info!
http://www.motorkhana.com.au/

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:15 am

With my car off the road, and resources a little thin, looks like Im giving this one a miss :frown:

Plus, having just changed the diff, Im going to need practice before jumping into the nationals! Next year perhaps.

Best of luck to all MX5ers giving it a go!

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:40 pm

So Facebook tells me Peter Lepherd took out class B and second production outright.

Any news from our other mx5ers in attendance? 6 entries I can see on the entry list, no results posted yet.

scb · Postby **scb** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:29 pm

The results are now up on the website http://www.motorkhana.com.au/

It was a great day with mx5s well represented. CapitalF won class B and 2nd production on handicap.

I managed to come second in B class and also won the production car shootout by 0.1 seconds (CapitalF had packed up by then giving me a chance :-)

CapitalF's son also won the junior production category in an mx5 - he is very fast and beat me in a number of the tests.

Unfortunately one of the mx5s with two drivers had a clutch pipe problem and had to retire half way through.

Thanks to de Bounce for making the long trip up from Melbourne - it was nice to meet up and add another mx5 into the mix.

The event was well run by HSCCQ and went smoothly with nearly 70 competitors doing 12 tests over the day. The next Qld motorkhana is on 4th November if anyone is interested.

Cheers SCB

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:41 pm

Nice work SCB! I recall seeing your videos on YouTube, very smooth and clearly fast!
I'm already planning an attack on the 2013 Nationals... So keen in fact that im even considering running a few motorkhanas next year to get more practice! (NSW series only had 3 Tarmac events this year

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Not sure if the mx5 club would support it, but I know I can get 30 entries from my drifting buddies. Time will tell!

I hear 2013 will be in S.A :shock:

Zcootz · Postby **Zcootz** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:56 pm

How did Bob go? S.A. for 2013, cool, I'll be there

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:39 am

Zcootz wrote:How did Bob go? S.A. for 2013, cool, I'll be there

Basically I didn't drive fast enough and got smoked!

The venue for 2013 is likely to be Mount Gambier, run by SEAC
http://www.seacsa.com/

CapitalF · Postby **CapitalF** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:06 pm

It was a great event and MX5s dominated B class with 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and the remaining entrants suffering from a breakdown as above.

Stu above - scb - did a great summary already.

Good on you debounce for coming all the way up from Vic. I hope you enjoyed the trip over all.

I only learnt mid this week that they keep records for every class for every test at each AMC and Jeremy my son set a new class record for Top Hat (beat me by 13/100ths in that test the little bugger) and I set 5 other national records. Wooooot! I hope they hang around for a while as I have been doing motorkhanas for 5 years now and am hanging up my hat. Next year will just be a few khanacross events on the dirt. It's Year 12 for Jeremy next year too. Dash - our NA6T - will have an easy year.

Cheers,
Peter

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:32 pm

Great work Peter! Fantastic effort getting 2nd production car both outright and on handicap!

Nice work with the records too!

Smokinscotty · Postby **Smokinscotty** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:34 pm

Stumbled over this while doing a quick surf of the interwebs

http://public.fotki.com/fookseung/austr ... otorkha-1/

some great shots of the MX5s running up in QLD earlier in the year. Love the way de bounce's car came out in the exposure of those pics! stunning!