2013 Season

The FaceBook Competition from Peter Kittle Motor Sports attracted great interest with the team announcing Paul Malt and Chris Dunphy as the lucky winners.

“We chose Paul and Chris because we thought that their respective entries captured the spirit of off road - a serious sport that is different to anything else out there, but a sport that has a lighter side as well” commented Andrew Kittle.

Paul and Chris will now enjoy a trip to Alice Springs and spend time with the Peter Kittle Motor Sports team at a test day in early 2013. Along with a ride in one of the team cars, the winners will relax with the hospitality of the best restaurant in the desert, Sporties Cafe and Restaurant.

The Peter Kittle Motor Sports FaceBook page stated … “All entries were fantastic, and our job deciding the winners was certainly not an easy one.”

The winning entries read:

Paul Malt: Off road racing is the thrill and challenge of the unexpected. It is battling everything nature throws at you. It isn't "plastic" it's real.

Chris Dunphy: Off road racing, because v8 supercar drivers need heroes too ..... Enough said
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Armchair Ride For Fellows.

Dave Fellows has only done 30 kilometres or so in the brand new Peter Kittle Motor Sports Jimco Toyota Hilux Trophy Truck but has predicted he will have an ‘armchair ride’ in this year’s Tatts Finke Desert Race to be held this weekend June 8-11.
Fellows, as a five time winner of Australia’s greatest desert race, is set for another short test drive in the vehicle that has been air-freighted into Australia from the USA just in time to make the start of the 37th running of the Tatts Finke Desert Race.
Fellows said “the Trophy Truck rode better than the (previous) buggy, with more suspension travel and stopped better with bigger brakes”.
He also reported that the difference in terms of driving the Trophy truck as compared to the buggy was not as great as he had expected, but wasn’t prepared to be over confident as to the likely performance simply saying that he will “tell everyone that on Monday night at the finish”.
The team plan another short test tomorrow after installing the race engine last night.
Engine builder Shane Wilson went to the USA during the build of the Jimco machine and said today that the engine used in the first shakedown run yesterday was an installation unit.
Source: Tatts Finke Desert Race
Photograph:  Peter Kittle Motor Sports Facebook