4X4 Challenge this weekend 20 okt @ Zone 7 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hoppy]

Round 5 of the WCCC challenge @ Zone 7

Competition starts at 9, beer tent, braai etc.

Directions to Zone 7;

•Take the N7 from Cape Town towards Malmesbury
•Pass Vissershok Rd and the dumping grounds, just before the weighbridge
•Turn right (off the N7) at West Coast Show Ranch / Van Schoorsdrif turn off
•Zone 7 is on your right, as you've turned.
•Continue ± 1 km on the road to the entrance

•GPS Coordinates: S 33 deg 45.555 min
E 18 deg 33.224 min


Come support us please

[Hilux 1]

will try my best, if it does not rain to much

[Stubs]

Just take your hilux umbrella

[Stubs]

will try and make a turn Hopster !!!

[Mr_B]

Looks like it's going to be a mudfest! The weather prediction is heavy rain. Will make a turn!

[Stubs]

well my truck is still trashed from Scheppie Saus recce so I have a good excuse not to clean it !!! hahah

[GI Jane]

Ooops mud. Was going to take my platkar, but maybe the Hilux... Allan will I have to drive in a lot of mud to get to the venue?

[Stubs]

We dont do Platkar's Val......

[GI Jane]

We dont do Platkar's Val......

hee hee, yes we do, to the shopping mall...

[Hoppy]

Heavy rain, mmmm, better seal my distributor!

[GI Jane]

Okay...then its wellies, and rain coats, and plastic bags for cameras and lenses... Oh Hoppy, a mud bath again.....

[Hoppy]

Luxter loves Mud!, but my cleaner doesn't!

[Maniac]

Heavy rain, mmmm, better seal my distributor!

??????? The one you are leaving in the shop??????

[Hoppy]

Yes, one big advantage of Diesel!

I used to wrap duct tape around the 4Y's dissy

[GI Jane]

What a brilliant day and event... Just busy going through the photo's to load some.. A really challenging day for all the competitors, lots of bits broken off and on vehicles on the day. Steep inclines and declines, very tight turns, better suited to the shorter vehicles, and mud, the guys and girls had their metal tested... Well done to all the entrants for a hard days driving... Hoppy tied in first place with points scored, and there was some formula to calculate a 1st and 2nd place and Hoppy got second place in the end.

[GI Jane]

This is a sequence of parts of one of the obstacles for starters.

The view from the bottom

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very tight turn coming out of the first smaller decline to go through the red markers,

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then into the next muddy decline

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into the muddy pool at the bottom

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out the other side

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[GI Jane]

This ones for you Dino..

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and this one for Jeepie and for XL Junkie aka Neil, co-driver in the Jeep, part of the wooden spoon brigade...

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[swartvark]

Mooi gedoen Hoppy!!!!!!
Thanks for the pics Val!

[GI Jane]

And a sequence at one of the other obstacles...

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The Hoppy family at an obstacle... Mommy Hoppy the photographer, and Dad Hoppy with co-driver Son Hoppy...

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[Mud Dog]

Well done Allan!! (We all know who should have been given first place .... they probably included the fact that you drive a Hilux as an 'unfair advantage' in their 'tie-break formula'! ). Lovely pics Val! ... looks like an enjoyable outing with a few anxious moments in places! Awesome!!


MORE!!!!

[GI Jane]

Andy, Allan actually used the wrong exit point at one of the obstacles, so lost all his points on that obstacle. He would have been quite well ahead otherwise... But must say all entrants worked very hard on the day. I thought it was a tough challenge..

[Thunder02]

Excellent pics,looked like you guys had great fun.

[Black Sam]

Dit lyk na gr8 fun, nice pics Alan

[The Legend]

Alan

Nee kyk as n man kan dan kan hy.Ek sou ook se jy moes 1ste ge-eindig het.Baie geluk Alan

[Hoppy]

Thanks for the pics & support Val & everyone that braved the "weather", the weatherman was wrong again, we had no rain!
It was a tough one and i made a few silly mistakes, one in particular where i took the wrong exit gate, my co- driver had a stomach bug and didn't walk all the obstacles like he usually does and i was to lazy, so it's my own fault.
We use a negative score sheet, so at the end of the day the one that makes the least mistakes wins, it's just bad luck if the score is even and you lose by a count-out.

[DINO]

Dankie Val baie mooi foto soos gewoonlik en geluk Allan,jul het weer eens mooi gery.

[JEEPIE]

kry ons net een ou foto van die jeep ?
nee nee nee kom nou tanie
wys ons nog n paar

[ThysdJ]

kry ons net een ou foto van die jeep ?
nee nee nee kom nou tanie
wys ons nog n paar

ek het ook 'n hond..

daai antie sal jou eerder 'n foto van 'n hondjie se agterent wys as nog fotos van Jeeps...

[GI Jane]

Nee, nee Thys, ek ry my seun se Jeep op die oomblik terwyl hulle by sy huis bou..Jy moet my net nie vang en photo's neem nie..... Ek sal n paar photo's opsit van die Jeeps..

[GI Jane]

Some more photo's of Dino... Not sure which obstacle it was but he snapped an axle, but it was replaced immediately and ready to go by the next obstacle.. As I said the obstacles were tough and the vehicles took a beating...

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A modified Toyota with a Ford V6 motor in it. Another class but these guys make lots of noise and dust, and I think they mostly all have 2 or 3 spare motors because the push their babies...

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And some jeeps from that same class, not sure what motors they have in them.. all are seriously modified..

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Back to the C class

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and that's it....