New Zealand Historic Saloon Cars Under HRC

[Kiwiboss]

From my laps, over the last few meetings at Puke & Hampton Downs, the top HMC cars are doing 1:15's and the U3L HSC are doing 1:19 / 1:20's You can throw a blanket over me, Jonh Dennehy, Hillsy and John Sampson, depends on the day who is quicker, but we are all usually within a second of each other. A couple of the HMC cars are in the 1:13's at HD. So I'm guessing that's similar to back in the day when I watched these races as a 5 -6 yr old at Puke on the long back straight. May have been a bigger difference then due to the HMC cars running off down the long straight. Wet conditions it's almost a level playing field, probably a bit in favour of the HSC cars.

Great post Kerry, you pretty much got it summed up!! Sure the faster HMC cars are up front but the same can be done with a MK1 Escort if one wanted to spend the time and $$$, I always thought "Cubic Capacity" won out but as John McKechnie has posted "Cubic Money" beats out any day, guess I've been doing it all wrong, LOL.

Anyway, the attached pic shows what both HMC and HSC are all about, recreating our fabulous Saloon car history, and our Hoosier bias tyre gives the same slipage angle as Dennis and Paul have going on here. (Courtesy of Facebook, and whom ever owns this pic)

PS: I always luv looking at he safety fencing back then, and the cars weren't slugs either!!

Dale M