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...
Spettacolo 2015
This year’s Spettacolo would have to be the biggest show I’ve ever seen, with near-perfect weather making the whole day a real crowd-pleaser. A good display was made of other Italian marques, for me the most lovely of which was the silver 250 GT Lusso. There was a huge display of Montreals as well, more than I’d seen in one place before. Sadly there were only three Alfasuds on display, and one Alfasud Sprint...
Carlton Italian Festa 2015
The Alfa club was putting on a display at Argyle Square near Lygon St for the Italian Festa, so Jack and I dropped in to soak up some of the Italian vibe. There were some nice Alfas on display as well as some Ferraris and Fiats. It reminds me I really need to finish that 1750...
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