Ive just gotten home from a very good day.
Basically as some of you know Ive joined the VW Club of SA (http://www.vwclub.co.zawww.vwclub.co.za) because there arent any local renault clubs.
Anyway, today was the VW Club Annual Jamboree which consists of a Gymkhana to determine the best driver in the club. Since I drive a Renault Im forced to compete in the Open class against any other members who dont drive VWs.
The final result is that I took 2nd place in my class behind a very modded Lotus 7 by only 3 seconds, 3rd place was 13 seconds slower than me, so Im very impressed with both myself and the Clio.
Needless to say Im in the final which will be taking place next sunday where all the drivers get one chance at a course laid out on a skidpan in the wet in a std 1.3 mk1 golf...wish me luck.
Oh in terms of performance, the types of VWs which were closest to me in time was a Polo 2.0 16v turbo which is producing 250bhp at the wheels where Im only making 114bhp at the wheels. btw he was only 1 second quicker than me.
On a sadder note I was just to late in being taken round the track in a Clio V6 by a professional racing driver...damn officials closed the track.
