Dunpy is going to Bathurst, not quite #40 Options

[wonkipop]

@Maltese Falcon kindly set me one of the Dunpy stickers he had made up for #40 a couple of years ago.

i've faffed around since trying to work out where to place him.

had to wait until i retrieved the audi urban battle wagon from its entrapment in tasmania resulting from the vid lockdown era.

Dunpy will be going to Bathurst for the 12 hr in Feb.
the audi is white. f piech had something to do with #40 and these audis.
its a long bow to draw. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .
the sticker backing is in the glovebox for good luck.





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[wonkipop]

dunpy had a happy trip to bathurst and made it back home.
1550km and his presence blessed the urban combat audi - it never missed a beat.





no idea what le mans camping scene was like in 1970 but bathurst in 2024 is still tolerable. but my humble set up was rendered ridiculous by the average aussies in attendance who brought along their mobile suburban villas.

i dunno. the country has gone soft .........

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but as some of you may know the manthey racing team finally won.
(and manthey is basically a factory team these days - 100% owned by porsche).
first time a 912 has beaten a 911.
the "grellow" car stormed it home.
lets just say the car loved the rain and so did its driver.
one matt campbell is a rain god in the style of schumacher and senna.

grellow qualifying. calling on the rain gods.


thunderstorming home at the end.


the team had two cars. 911 ran an attractive shell livery almost as good as grellow.
911 got a biffo into the sand trap at skyline about 1/3 through the race. but got out and battled on and was up on the same lap as the front pack at the end.
i was secretly barracking for 911. got bashed up but came back at those buffoon bully boy mercs. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)





camera man at the bottom of the esses before forest's elbow.


what its like at the dipper. grellow may as well be a tree?


the dipper


mob of kangaroos lying all over the mount panorama sign made of rocks on the side of the mountain after the race was over. they didn't give a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif)


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i only pulled the phone out and starting taking photos in the pouring rain during the last 1/3 of the race. i was kind of indifferent until it starting raining.
but i have a stick coming from the wyong motors chick who is real good on the end of a camera (or these days an eye phone). i might upload some of those images when i get to them? i just enjoyed the general aura ---- until the last couple of hours of the race.

general conclusion. the "grellow" was not even trying. and the second car the
"911" fought its way back. these cars were seriously sorted and fast. the mercs and bmw had no answer to them in 2024. they even penalised the porsches with a 10kg penalty adjustment. and gave the 10 kg discount to the bmws. didn't change anything.

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