fastest drive around australia

[hgmonaro]

Why is driving anti-clockwise quicker?

popular question on caravanning sites... usual answer is there's not enough difference to make a difference...

[Peter...]

fucks sake yo ucunts are fucking soft in the brains.

[Chase Rockwell]

Took me 4 months, kept all the points on my licence though.

[Fraud]

4 days 10hours in a hire car using the National Highway a few years ago by some Servo workers who decided to after reading the km free conditions on a contract. Will try and find the Street Machine mag it was in and dig it out. Average of 140kmh.

don't suppose you've found it?

[23Kev]

I love IMOA's idea of driving to each capital city GPO in whichever order you want. Hobart and Darwin included?

Damn that'd be fun as.... :D

[bryan]

my old man has been onto me for years wanting to do a hitchhiking competition around Aus, i go one way he goes the other.. he reckons if we both take a truck logbook and a torch truckies will pick ya up, and get ya to say you were driving so they don't have to stop

[Mr Ed]

think of which side of the road we drive on

Lol, fair enough.

Mathematically it makes about 25m difference, assuming the total distance is about 13,000km, the road is a perfect circle and theres about 4m between the centre of each lane.

If you drive clockwise make sure you speed up 0.0002% to make up the difference.

[pp]

Did the Round Australia Rally in 1998 - it was 18000kms and we did it in 21 days. A lot of that was on dirt roads which linked back to the national highway at some point I have half the route books still ... but much crown land/private property and aboriginal land traversed during the special stages. Awesome event/trip in one. No idea how anyone could do it in 4-7 days unless there are at least 4 drivers. We were smashed by the end of it!

[Great Dane]

Updates

Some friends want to do this in a purpose built Porsche Cayenne and I am helping them organise it from a base in Europe. Have anybody got any tips. They have done something like this before... and are all racing drivers (including one who has driven at Le Mans 24h)

[willsy01]

Have anybody got any tips.

Yes. Read all the news stories about tourists getting stuck in the middle of the desert and dying then plan appropriately based on that information.

[tut]

watch wolf creek

[rollin7]

Some friends want to do this in a purpose built Porsche Cayenne and I am helping them organise it from a base in Europe. Have anybody got any tips. They have done something like this before... and are all racing drivers (including one who has driven at Le Mans 24h)

the record could be broken pretty easy if you have the right car, equiptment and drivers. you'll also need local knowledge, you'll have to time it right as getting in and out of each city will be the biggest slowdown and getting caught by the cops in some areas will put an end to your trip imeaditly

Yes. Read all the news stories about tourists getting stuck in the middle of the desert and dying then plan appropriately based on that information.

stick to the blacktop around the coast should be fine

[GSRman]

Carry some spares - because if a poosh breaks down in most parts of aus, the week long wait for parts (or tow) might impact on your record attempt.

[sideways]

You're absolutely fucked if you break down/hit a roo/leave your car unattended for 20 seconds, use something more common like a 200 series Land Cruiser. Get the biggest, ugliest bullbar you can and put bash plates underneath. You will mow down several roos.

Even if you mangle 2 tyres in bumfuck nowhere on a Porsche you are screwed. You don't need anything quick anyway, anything modern can do the speed limit.

[GSRman]

I've always thought the most common car you could find would be the best thing blend in - white FG XR6T manual perhaps with a bigger fuel tank somehow - good fuel economy even when wound up - get some stabilised binoculars & radar/laser etc detectors.