1750 GTV – Finished product 2020
Okay so not a lot happened on the GTV project for a couple of years as we focused on other Alfa-related projects and life in general got busy. The interior fit out slowly trickled along in the workshop in the background here and there during 2018 and 2019. Then suddenly 2020 and the global pandemic gripped the world, and my friend Bruno at Maranello Pur Sang Motors suddenly had a bit more spare time and I wasn’t distracting him...
AROCA Sandown May 2018
For the second time this year I ventured to Sandown for an AROCA Supersprint meeting. The 156 GTA takes some getting used to, but I was happy to record a personal best time of 1:27.8 on this outing, despite some minor...
AROCA Winton April 2018
We returned to Winton again in April for the first round of Alfa Racing. This time I was competing in the Madame Sud, while team mate Phil was driving the 156 GTA. The photos below were taken in the dry qualifying and start to race one, after which the weather turned dreadful with a wet track all day. This didn’t deter Phil at all in the mighty Sunk Cost Racing GTA – he qualified on pole and won all three races. Some...
Twin Spark Cup Project
Our Alfa Club friends up in NSW are starting a new racing series called the Twin Spark Cup, based on the successful Alfa twin spark racing in the UK and Europe. It seemed like too good an idea to not support – so my friend Sheldon and I picked up this (tired) manual twin spark 156 for a tiny investment, with 240,000km on it. It cleaned up remarkably well. After changing brake fluid, some decent brake pads, and a few other...
Sunk Cost Racing 156 GTA
For a long time my friend Phil and I have talked about buying a race car suitable for running in endurance racing. The stars aligned earlier this year and we were able to acquire a suitable car – a 2003 156 GTA. The car was originally built to production car specification and run in a two-hour production car race at Bathurst in 2003. It had a short-ish career racing in production cars before being run in club racing for...
AROCA Winton Nov 2017
Another superb one-day racing event by AROCA Victoria at Winton Raceway. Getting straight on the track for a combined practice and qualifying is challenging, and the track had definitely changed it’s traction level since the previous weekend’s event, so I qualified further back than I should have. I built some confidence in the races though, particularly races three and four which were held on the short track...
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