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Sombre win for Skelta at Mount Buller sprint |
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
Ray Vandersee and John Allen took the honours yesterday at the fifth
annual Mount Buller Sprint, finishing with a total time of 55 minutes
62 seconds over six runs up the 16-kilometre road to the alpine tourist
village.
Despite the event running to completion, competition was never at
the forefront of the competitor’s minds after a tragic accident on the
first day of proceedings that claimed the life of co-driver Paul
Flintoft.
A message from Flintoft’s family wishing his comrades well and thanking
them for their thoughts, accompanied with clearing weather after two
days of rain and fog, slightly buoyed the competitor’s spirits ahead of
yesterday’s final runs.
“To receive the message from Paul’s family was nice, and with the
weather finally clearing yesterday’s run seemed like a new beginning
for the field,” said Vandersee.
“Like all of the competitors here at Mount Buller my thoughts were
with Paul’s family as we completed what we, as a field, had set out to
do from the start on Friday.
“We bypassed the spraying of the champagne on the podium out of respect, these circumstances never make things like this easy.”
The only competitor to achieve sub nine minute times on all of
yesterday’s runs, the Skelta G-Force added another win to the growing
list of accolades by finishing in front of Klark Quinn and co-driver
Linda Long and Grant Denyer and co-driver Dale Moscatt in yesterday’s
final day of competition.
SKELTA G-FORCE S P E C I F I C A T I O N S
Chassis:
Chrome Molybdenum steel spaceframe reinforced with carbon fibre and Kevlar centre tunnel and side pods
Body: Carbon fibre/Kevlar
Weight: 650kg dry. 50/50 distribution.
Engine: 2-litre Honda F20C
Output: 180kw (241hp @ 8500RPM)
Power/Weight: 3.61 Kg/Kw
Transmission: 6-speed
Suspension:
Double unequal length wishbones with inboard Proflex type shock/ spring units.
Brakes: Ventilated, cross-drilled 298mm discs with 4 piston callipers (f&r)
Performance (calc): 0 - 100km/h: 4.1 sec
0 - 400m: 12.1 secs
Top speed: 254kmh (low downforce spec.)
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