The early part of the Tour to Collingrove Hillclimb was in warm but pleasant conditions. Entrants were greeted with a sumptuous morning tea, and the opportunity to have a spirited run up the Hill. Then the convoy headed off over the hills to McLaren Vale for our lunch stop at the at Penny Hill winery. By this time, the temperature started to become rather testing in a non-air conditioned and non-power steering MGC.
January / February 2017
After lunch, we headed down to Goolwa Airport, where we had the opportunity for up to 2 high speed runs down the runway. This was great fun and it was surprising how quickly the end of run bollards arrived!
Geraldine & Christopher chatting at Collingrove
Cars lined up for the Hillclimb
Pat Mullins, Porsche & Stan Ward Jaguar
Then we headed back through Clarendon to Victoria Park for a reception at Stuart O’ Grady’ s Velo Restaurant in the old grandstand.
Friday morning it was an early start but, for us, a very short drive to the bottom of Anstey’ s Hill to help with Special Stages 2 and 5 of the Classic Adelaide Rally. We were joined by several other MGCCSA Members, Bev Waters, Adrian Ward( who organised our club’ s participation), Berry Treffers, Paul Dallwitz, Ian Buckley, Ian Moulds and Jason Edwards. Geraldine had the pressure job of using the Rally Safe tablet system to give the drivers their start times at 30 second intervals. Wayne reckons he had the best job of Start Lineup official as he could have brief chats to all the drivers while checking their safety equipment.
Stefan in a Ferarri on the start line 27