The NSW round of the Australian Tarmac Challenge starts at Eastern Creek tomorrow morning. Formerly known as the Dutton Rally, the ATC is a fun way to experience motorsport. Relatively speaking the costs are low and pretty much any road legal car is able to enter.
The Challenge runs over three days and each driver will test themselves against the clock in a variety of events, such as laps around Eastern Creek, 400m and 1000m drags, skid pan activities, hill climbs and more. Activities start in Sydney and end up in Tweed Heads. Along the way the cars will also form part of the support cast for Repco Rally Australia, which also takes place this weekend.
Ian Cudmore from aftermarket tuner rennenhaus has the two things required for the event; 1. an eligible car, in the form of his Mk5 Volkswagen Golf R32 and, 2. the required enthusiasm to take the event on. You can see pics of his car above and below and you’d have to agree his R32 certainly looks the goods.
Ian also took part in Motor magazine’s “Hot Tuner” challenge last month and you will be able to read all about that in the next issue of Motor, due on newsstands around the middle of September.
If you’d like to find out more on how Ian can help you customise your Audi, BMW, Honda, MINI or, of course, Volkswagen then take a peek at the rennenhaus website. To keep up to date with his progress in the ATC you can follow him on twitter.
Below: Before applying the final ATC event stickers. You can click on any of the images to load a 2000px version.
5 replies on “rennenhaus ready for Australian Tarmac Challenge”
now thats what i call a car!!
good luck guys 😀
Good luck Ian! Wished I could be there to support you the way you supported me at the Victorian round. I will be following your progress!
Great paint job. The R looks fantastic.
Good Luck!
All the best Ian – the car is a chameleon!
Good luck, Ian! Vinyl is always better than cd!!! Love the vodka sticker too – your R will probably like a drop or two..