Winton 6 Hour Relay 2012
It’s been a busy couple of weeks of motorsport. I didn’t plan to compete in this year’s Winton 6-Hour, but Bruno convinced me to enter in one of the Maranello Pur Sang customer teams. At the last minute I got switched into an experienced team ‘Maschi di Alfa’ to replace a driver who could not compete. These guys were taking it seriously, and were quite experienced at the relay having won it in the...
Veloce Racing Winton September 2012
Last weekend I competed in my first full race meeting. The event was the VRA (Veloce Racing Association) East Coast Challenge – an annual competition between Alfa drivers from Qld and NSW, and this year the event came to Winton Raceway to attract some Victorians along. The VRA organised to run the category within Winton’s ‘Super Truck Nationals’ which had an interesting mix of truck racing, improved...
Weight Loss
The Sud hasn’t seen the race track for almost a year – since the Winton 6 hour in 2011 (we came fourth by the way). We’ve been busy with other things, including a driving tour in Tassie and the Shitbox rally. Then Phil started to talk about the Alfa ‘East Coast Challenge’ coming to Winton in September – one thing led to another, and I was entering for my first full race meeting! But the Sud is...
AROCA Winton 6-Hour Relay 2011
Over the weekend we competed in the 2011 AROCA 6-Hour regularity relay. This is the biggest event on our club calendar – and a pretty significant event in club motorsport full stop. My team ‘The Sicilian Suds’ consisted of two Alfa Sprints, one Alfa 90, and our Alfasud Ti. We’ve all done this event multiple times (this is my fifth time) and finished comfortably in the top half of the field, but were looking...
Trofeo Alfasud
Various photos I’ve collected of Alfasuds in Trofeo form – period or modern...