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Weekend Wheels January 27: 2018 ENZED V8 Jetsprints Stadium Cup, ASB Baypark The V8 boats are back! Combining Kiwis’ love of V8 motorsports and boating, jetsprinting is returning to ASB Stadium at Baypark after a two-year break. The fivehour day/night racing extravaganza features three classes of V8-powered jetsprint boats battling it out for the ENZED 2018 Jetsprints Stadium Cup – 30 boats reaching speeds of up to 125km/ph – all on a purpose-built aqua-track in the stadium. The event runs from 5-10pm on Saturday, January 27. Tickets cost $45 for adults, $25 for students/ seniors, $10 for children and a family pass (two adults and up to three children) is $100. Tickets are available from: www.eventfinda.co.nz February 1 and 8: City by Cycle Guided Rides, Tauranga Join these free guided rides to discover how to ‘beat the traffic’ in the city. The first ride on February 1 will allow cyclists to discover the connecting trails leading through Kopurererua Valley, Greerton and The Avenues. The second ride on February 8 is through Maungatapu and Welcome Bay. Part of Sport Bay of Plenty’s Bike Month, the rides are suitable for all fitness levels. Bring your bike, helmet and water bottle. Booking is essential. Contact Paul on: 021 050 1728 or email: paulr@sportbop.co.nz February 3-4: Leadfoot Festival, Hahei, Coromandel The Leadfoot Festival is a unique weekend bringing together a mix of classic cars, vintage motorcycles and motorsport legends. Tickets are offered to the general public with an invitation to Rod and Shelly Millen’s private grounds at Leadfoot Ranch. The 150-acre, oceanfront estate in Hahei on the Coromandel Peninsula features a long driveway that winds through the property, designed to be the perfect hill climb. Visitors are encouraged to dress in period-style clothing. Camping options available. For tickets go to: www.leadfootfestival.com February 16-17: NZ Xtreme Motorsport Series, ASB Baypark ASB Baypark will play host to Round 2 of the NZ Xtreme Motorsport Series. The local venue will be transformed into Moto Mayhem alongside NZ’s epic D1NZ National Drifting Championship, featuring NZ’s Rally X Series jumping in and out of stadium, the new UTV series, Super Moto, music stage, bars and more. Gates open at 10am on Friday, February 16 for practice and qualifying with the main show from 3.3010.30pm on Saturday, February 17. The event features more than 120 professional drivers and more than 100 trucks of concrete will be used to lay a custom course. Tickets are available from: www.iticket.co.nz

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The sleepless nights had started earlier in the week. It wasn’t the high temperatures or humidity of the Bay’s summer nights. It wasn’t the mosquitoes that suddenly appeared after the rain. It wasn’t the tossing and turning at the prospect of the holidays coming to an end. My tossing and turning was caused by the prospect of the review drive I had coming at the end of the week. My lie-awake nights were ﬁlled with lust and passion. It all came down to two words; Alfa Romeo. Any car enthusiast knows those words mean Italian elegance and auto history, and when they are connected to the words Giulia Veloce (or Quadrifoglio), you know you’re stepping into rareﬁed car driving territory. The Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio is the car that has taken on other leading automotive marques and won. There isn’t a YouTube video or online review that doesn’t end with gushing enthusiasm for this Italian masterpiece of auto engineering, with the Quadrifoglio winning accolades worldwide as an outstanding four-door sports sedan. The Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce and Giulia Quadrifoglio are both that good they will change driver’s lives. Let me make this perfectly clear to the automotive naysayer – driving is not just about getting from A to B. It is not about the basics of ‘getting around town’. It is not about transport alone.

SPECS Giulia Veloce ddles) Alfa Romeo ne 4 Turbo (petrol) anual shift pa -li Engine: 2L in 8 Speed Automatic (w/m 5250RPM; : Transmission @ 5250RPM; 280HP @ W 6K 20 : Power @ 2250RPM 5250RPM 276BHP @ ft @ 2250RPM; 400Nm bTorque: 295l 7 seconds – 5. ph m 0k 10 0rifoglio Giulia Quad ddles) Alfa Romeo 6 Turbo (petrol) V anual shift pa Engine: 2.9L 8 Speed Automatic (w/m 6500 RPM; @ : Transmission W @ 6500RPM; 510HP 1K 5. 37 : er Pow 6500RPM 503BHP @ ft @ 2500-5500RPM; bTorque: 443l -5500RPM 00 600Nm @ 25 seconds 9 3. ph m 0k 0-10

Driving at its most intense is an emotional, sensual, spiritual, emotionally uplifting (and challenging) experience and I knew all that at 4.44am when I was only four days away from being behind the wheel of the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and I was still awake. I only had four sleeps to go.

Tale of two Italys

Two Alfa Romeos were on offer for driving; the Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce and its bigger, more powerful brother, the Quadrifoglio. Both four-door sedans were driven for this review, and while one is more powerful with more driver modes available, they both share much of the same platform and road feel and dynamic at lower speeds. They are twin brothers from the same factory placed at different price points, with both models capable of extraordinary road driving satisfaction and excitement. In contrast, the daily driver experience of both cars is not that different from each other; simply, they are designed for different markets and different drivers, but they are both quick and responsive and exciting to drive, depending on the driving mode chosen. The smaller Veloce has three driver modes and the dynamic mode will keep most drivers happy with the punch off the line, seamless automatic or paddle transmission shifting (over eight ratios) and near total absence of road noise. Both cars can be sedate daily drivers on their basic All Weather driving (DNA) mode. But change up from All Weather mode to Dynamic mode and the driving experience changes dramatically with it – changing the car from daily driver to a genuine sports car with punch and a more assertive driving character. The DNA system changes driving modes, altering throttle response, suspension, engine note and road-handling characteristics. The changes are so profound between DNA modes it is like the Alfa Romeo Giulia has three or four car characteristics in one sublime body.

Italiano ﬁt and ﬁnish

The interior fit and finish across both models was to be expected for anything Italian; it’s superb. Tight highlighter stitching across the front interior, alongside healthy doses of carbon fibre make for an upmarket feel with the interior feeling spacious and beautifully proportioned. A nice touch is the steering wheel mounted stop-start button.

A particular highlight of the cockpit came in the form of the two paddles located behind the steering wheel and with ample size to make manual shifting a breeze. The centre console has three rotary dials, one for radio volume and another acting as a control mouse for the menu on the centre console screen. They ﬁt snugly where the driver’s free hand may lie, meaning everything is at arm’s length. The third dial is the control for Alfa’s DNA driving mode system and suspension damping controls described above.

La semplicità è l’ultima soﬁsticazione

As the Italians would say; simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. This is what Alfa has achieved here. The basics really do apply. Both cars have great engines and transmissions, alongside outstanding chassis and computerised controls and functions. They all work together to provide sublime road handling characteristics, while packaged in a great-looking family sports sedan. They are the most sensual, sexiest, most thrilling, engaging, enlightening and exhilarating drives I have ever taken. No one can drive either Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce or Quadrifoglio and not appreciate the Italians have engineered something that goes being mechanics, beyond automotive art and beyond being a car deﬁned by torque numbers and 0-60km timing specs. This is the car the automotive gods would own and red line just for the pure fun of doing it. Drivers should remember the Quadrifoglio is part Ferrari, with the V6 engine being the same block as the Ferrari California, less two cylinders. This is a driver’s car. You own it to drive it. The only music you need is the sublime engine note from the twin exhaust. This review comes with a warning. If you test drive the Alfa Romeo Veloce/Guilia Quadrifoglio you will not want to leave this car behind on the yard. They are both Italian engineering marvels with an engine note to die for. They are automotive temptresses that will be like a ﬁrst love; never forgotten and always longed for. Bring your chequebook.

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Andre Heimgartner and teammate Jason Bargwanna racing side by side at Teretonga last weekend.

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Heimgartner extends lead Andre Heimgartner has continued his charge to a maiden BNT V8 title by winning round four of the championship at Teretonga last weekend. Following up his win in race one of the weekend on Saturday, he banked more valuable points with two-second placings in Sunday’s races. Race two of the weekend was won by his teammate Jason Bargwanna, while the ﬁnal race was won by Nick Ross, who fought back following a major off in Saturday’s race one. The podium was rounded out by Jason Bargwanna with Lance Hughes in third.

Heimgartner says it was a good weekend overall. “We were pretty speedy all weekend, got another pole, three podiums and extending the championship lead is another positive.” With two rounds in the championship remaining, Heimgartner is starting to focus on adding the BNT V8 championship to his racing CV. “The New Zealand V8 title is a good thing to have under your belt and it doesn’t hurt your CV to have it on there. I’m deﬁnitely focused on it over the next two rounds.” The BNT V8s now head to Manfeild for round ﬁve of the championship from February 10-11.

Driving still matters say experts Freedom, privacy, digital detoxing, and the satisfaction of using your hands top the list of reasons why drivers will choose to continue driving and working on cars long after selfdriving cars are the norm, a motoring forum in the USA has been told. A panel of automotive experts hosted by American insurance provider Hagerty told attendees at an auction week in Arizona that while self-driving technology will save lives, make commutes more productive and ease congestion in cities, it doesn’t mean people will lose interest in driving themselves. “This question of why driving matters is really the question of our time right now,” says CEO McKeel Hagerty. “What I’m seeing is the top of a lot of people’s heads walking around looking at

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