|  | HSV Maloo R8 Ute in Mobil 1 Drive Around Australia
- 36,000km
Drive, Guinness World Record Holder
22 September 2006
35, 200km down, less than 1000km left!
The sixth and final
leg of the Mobil 1 Drive Around Australia kicks off on Monday 25th September
2006. The five-month adventure will finish in a blaze of glory visiting two
of Australia’s biggest motoring events and driving across one of our
world-famous landmarks.
The World’s Fastest Ute, the HSV
Maloo R8, will head along Victoria’s West Coast on September 25th to
Warrnambool and Hamilton before arriving in Mount Gambier then Adelaide. From
there it’s straight across to Australia’s Ute Capital for the Deniliquin Ute
Muster on 28th September.
The Ute Muster, an annual event
since 1999, draws thousands of people and their Utes to the tiny New South
Wales town of Deniliquin. This year’s Muster will be bigger than ever with an
expected line-up of more than 6000 Utes.
From Deniliquin, the
HSV Maloo Ute will head around country New South Wales visiting Wagga Wagga
and Goulburn before landing in Sydney to meet an Australian icon: the Sydney
Harbour Bridge.
The grand finale of this amazing journey
will see the HSV Maloo Ute finally rest its wheels at the Great Race: the
Bathurst 1000. Australia’s most famous race draws over 170, 000 race fans to
Mount Panorama for the four-day event.
The arrival at
Bathurst on 3rd October will see the HSV Maloo Ute complete its 36, 000km
journey. The five-month Drive Around Australia was designed by Mobil Oil
Australia to demonstrate the unique qualities of Mobil 1 synthetic engine oil.
The entire drive has been undertaken without once changing the Mobil 1 engine
oil.
In June, at the Woomera test facility, the Guinness
World Records confirmed that the HSV Maloo Z Series R8, driven by Holden
Racing Team’s Mark Skaife, had topped the world land speed record for a Ute,
formerly held by a Dodge Ram SRT 10 in the US.
Although a
significant highlight of the 36,000km drive, the world record run was just one
component in a remarkable drive structured to demonstrate the full range of
Mobil 1 synthetic engine oil qualities.
Mobil Oil Australia
and its event partners, HSV and Repco, created the Drive Around Australia to
incorporate a wide range of conditions, including mountain, desert and stop-go
peak hour traffic.
Mobil chose to build the world record
into the early stages of the drive to underscore the message that Mobil 1
provides outstanding performance under extreme conditions and can therefore be
relied upon to protect engines under the much more moderate conditions faced
by motorists in their everyday driving.
To demonstrate the
unique qualities of Mobil 1 synthetic engine oil, the HSV Maloo Ute’s engine
was sealed by the RACV at the start of the drive on May 12 and State auto
clubs have been on hand during the drive to check and verify that the engine
seals are intact. At the conclusion of the drive, at Bathurst in October, the
engine oil will undergo Mobil Oil Australia laboratory analysis and total
engine review.
The Drive Around Australia has taken in
Tasmania, Northern, Southern, Central, West, Northwest and parts of East Coast
Australia. HSV and Repco outlets have been included as stopovers and the Maloo
has generated much goodwill as a showpiece that illustrates the technical
leadership and capabilities of the Australian automotive industry.
Mobil is proud to have Holden Special Vehicles and Repco as partners in the
event.
Sixth leg (provisional) stops include:
Callaghan Motors, Warrnambool, Mon 25 Sept, 12.30am
Grange Burn
Holden, Hamilton, Mon 25 Sept, 2.00pm
OG Roberts, Mount Gambier,
Mon 25 Sept, 4.30pm
Adelaide Southgate Holden, Adelaide, Tues 26
Sept, 7.00pm
Adelaide City Holden, Adelaide, Tues 27 Sept, 9.30am
Media Contact: Naomi Francis T: 03 9537 3311 E: naomi@ampr.com.au
Mobil 1 Drive Around Australia
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