VW 16V dominates at Eastern Creek

[wiking]

After years of persistence and learning Robertson Motorsport silenced the
critics and ruffled feathers at Eastern Creek.

CAMS sanctioned category Racing Cars and Sports sedans attracted 34 entrys.
This was a field including F3 Dallara's, Radicals and Wests. Many of which
were late model designs featuring heavily modified, fuel injected engines of
naturally aspirated design.

Despite this we dominated the weekend with a relatively stock Golf 16 valve
running weber 48 DCOE carbies. Thats right a $6,000 low tech VW defeated
high tech designs costing many more times. Added to this was its chassis
being an 18 year old Reynard F3 chassis that still had the goods.

The only non original parts in the engine being Wiseco forged pistons,
ARP rod and head studs.

Heres a link of the results

http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/re.../2009.ARDC.R26

Congrats also to state champion Ben Morley for his winning drive.

[evorobin]

Bloody well done boys. Beating SR3's

[Tulyar]

Congratulations!

Just out of interest what was your other car, the Dallara running - the same set up?

[Preen59]

Congratulations!! That's a great effort! Any pics of the car/engine? I'm very, very interested.


(Building a VW 16v myself, albeit a 1.8..)

[wiking]

We run the exact same powerplant/spec in all our chassis.
The different chassis ( Dallara vs Reynard ) each have their
pro's and cons but they balance out.

So it comes down to driver, we have run some very talented youngster's
at one stage or another. This weekend at Wakefield we gave Sam Power
from Adelaide a go and he was just amazing.

Despite starting from the back of the grid ( nervous, never raced open wheeler) Sam stormed thru all the midfield to finish 9th. It was complete
ownage, all from someone only 16 just finishing his CAMS P plates!

Will post more photos soon