Outback Challenge 2010
by mysv8rulz on May.30, 2010, under General, Motorsports
The dust has settled on yet another year for the outback challenge, not without the annual shed of blood sweat and tears from all competitors that makes the outback challenge what it is.
The week long event started off on Saturday afternoon with creek run to get everyone into the swing of things, Greg scanlon made an early exit with a diff failure on SS01 and then completed SS02 to realise his Torque converter was overheating his transmission. All in all the competitors put on a great show for the large amount of spectators that made the short trip from Broken Hill to see the action.
Sunday morning the competitors, spectators and officials made the journey to Denian the first of the 3 properties that the challenge makes its tracks through. Denian stages vary from GPS pegboards to Sand dune motorkhana stages with one of the most impressive being the sand wall where competitors are required to use a sand anchor and winch their way up the steep slippery sand dune. These stages seen Lawrie Sternbeck and Steve Hobbs struggle with a failed front diff and major winch dramas for Dave Cameron and Danial Dewitt 2 of the initial favorites to be contending for top spot this year.
Once the sand stages were out of the way the convoy moved on to Viewmont, THE MUD. You will find that competitors either love the mud or hate it, one thing is for sure the spectators definitely love it. With the recent floods the usual water holes are upwards of 3m deep so Paul had to do some searching for some new mud, Viewmont as usual never fails to provide plenty of the thick grey river clay that sucks all but the very best right down to their axles.
Still to come shots and write up from Poolamacca
