2012
Myrnionmg Sprints - 15 April
The
Myrniong Sprints took place on Sunday 15 April under blazing autumn
sunshine with the temperature topping 27. Myrniong is a small township
an hour from Melbourne on the way to Ballarat. Graeme Hastings of
the Austin 7 Club runs a farm in Myrniong and is on the Myrniong Hall
committee. The two groups work together to hold this sprint/Hillclimb
event annually to raise funds for the restoration works at the Hall.
It
is a really relaxed family day out with the spectactor grandstand
being one level of scattered hay bails. This year there were 86 entries
from the numerous Austin 7 racing cars, to a Daytona Cobra Replica.
Records
fell as the day went on including; Patrick Ryan (Vauxhall 30/98) 38.8
seconds (after a DNF in a previous run due to a perishing rag that
was left under the bonnet), Graeme Dawes (A-H Sprite) 32.2 seconds,
Stepthen Pike (A-H 3000) 29.6 seconds, John Hardy (Alpine Renault
A110) 30.0 seconds (he almost didn’t make the start pulling
over with an expired car on arrival, but later found to be a loose
distributor cap), Richard Monty (Datsun 260Z) 28.3 seconds, David
Stewart (Mustang) 29.9 seconds, Les Bone (Haynes Clubman) 27.4 seconds,
David Flint (MG Midget-Datsun) 29.6 seconds & Rogert Allgood (Bolwell
Mazda) 29.2 seconds. Allgood bettered the previous record in that
class set by Gary Ball (Jaguar D-Type R) of 30.0 seconds. FTD went
to theDaytona Cobra R of Ken Sealenmeyer with a 26.7 second run.
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