Here’s some highlights from four locations of the Adelaide Hills Tarmac Rally over the last Friday/Saturday of May. I didn’t get a huge range of shots and my choice of focal length didn’t always match the car, but I had a lot of fun.
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What more reason to celebrate than a previously unreleased black and white photo of Wilson Keir, last year’s second runner up, negotiating the chicane in the R35 #120 (last year’s Mile results). Over 150 competitors have entered this third running of the event in the Hindmarsh Valley. For the timing geeks, the timing systems are by Tag Heuer, provided last year by the Southern Districts Car Club. (more…)
Long time, no post!
We’ve been travelling through Australia for the past few months now, and have amassed just over 15,000km of driving from Adelaide, around KI, through the Red Centre and up to North QLD, and we are now on the Gold Coast. An approximate route of our journey thus far can be found here on google maps.
Three of the photos I took while passing the cannonball memorial in the Northern Territory are now featured on the Cannonball Run (Darwin 1994) website, on the ‘After the race’ page.
Had a go at being an official timer at the MG Car Club’s Motorkhana event yesterday. Probably a record for the amount of cars there - in the 60s I believe. Also managed to put in four runs - one of which ended up being somewhere in the top 8 for the Atom configuration.
Tightened handbrake, but when pulled at full strength, nothing seemed to lock up, even on the wet concrete. I reckon the rear pads are just poor ones the mechanic put on when I had the rear brakes replaced. My last run was my fastest, where I substituted my left arm pull with the regular brakes and changed my lines for maximum width usage to keep my speed up.
August Boehm is currently back home in Australia, with interests in artistic technologies, speed sports, and martial arts.
