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11th TO 13th April 2008 The Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge is held at Milbrodale, 25km's south of Singleton in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney.
"The Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge is a great spectacle & provides the victor with the title of the Tuffest Truck in the country"
At the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge you'll find a collection of the tuffest 4WD's & crews, all hell-bent to navigate their way around the tuffest tracks in the country.
Over 48 hours and 9 stages, you'll witness glory, tears, thrilling technical driving and best of all, enjoying the atmosphere with over 5000 other Tuff Truck enthusiasts...
MalVan 2007 winner
sponsored by
CalOffroad running
CalOffroad
products
The basis of the event-4WD competition: Each vehicle consists of a team of two people. The three-day event has nine stages, which consists of one static & 8 driving sections. The static stage involves judging of a vehicle’s engineering features as well as general detail to cleanliness and tidiness. Many of the trucks are not looking to tidy or clean by the end of the weekend.
The driving stages are predominantly all terrain type courses of which the teams must manoeuvre their vehicles through some rocky and muddy situations against a point scoring system.
The spectator’s (definitely not the competitor’s) favourite is the night mud event ‘Mudrat’s Revenge'. This stage is ran under lights on both Friday & Saturday nights. Not viewable by the general public is the mystery night stage, but this makes for good viewing on the official event DVD.
Another stage includes the Travel Ramp. For those that haven’t seen it before this is a brilliant stage to watch. Each vehicle must drive up the 30° ramp in an attempt to gain drive against their wheelbase and show who has the most amount of travel in their suspension system.
The balance of the 5 stages is spread out through the weekend and creates some absolute feats of driving by many of the skilled teams.
Merchandise: Visit our CalOffroad stand at the event and check out our products and merchandise.
From the start: The Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge, (previously known as the Tuff Truck Challenge) started in 2001. The Tuff Truck Challenge was initially created, organised and run by the All Terrain 4WD Club (AT4) via some real 4WD competition enthusiasts that belonged to that club. But whilst it had small beginnings, its format set the standard for all future short-course 4WD events, with attendance levels around the 5000 mark.
From humble beginnings with
only 33 competitors, to the 40 team event that you see today, the Tough Dog Tuff
Truck Challenge has become one of the biggest and most widely attended events on
the Australian 4WD event calendar, quite simply because it can offer something
for everyone.
Depending on who you are and where you’ve just come from, the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge means a lot of different things. If you’ve just driven down from Darwin, or flown in from New Zealand, the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge is obviously more than just another 4WD event.
For the full-tilt, hardcore off-road event fans... The Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge is as close to Nirvana as it gets! There’s three days of metal crunching, axle-busting action and it’s all within walking distance of your campsite. With 5 of the stages running at the same time, there’s not a lot of time to be bored, so even the most ardent fan will have plenty to keep them happy.
After the mud stage, Saturday night includes a band, and the revelry goes long into the night. Helicopter joy-rides, full catering, top camping facilities are all part of the aspects that culminate to make the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge one of the most enjoyed weekends of the year.
For the mums and kids, it gives a chance to relax and meet up with interstate friends as many attendees of the event are part of 4WD clubs scattered right across the continent. Camping areas have been allocated specifically for families, so if it’s a relaxing social weekend you are after, the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge is the place to be. It’s a family event, so the husbands aren’t forgotten either. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with mates and enjoy some hardcore 4WD competition, while the wives traipse off on one of the many winery tours on offer in the Broke area.
Incorporated into the event
is Sponsors Alley, where members of the 4WD industry and abroad can showcase
their products and engineering within an event whose patrons are specific to
their target markets. This offers both sellers and buyers the opportunity to see
what’s new in the market and to interact on a more relaxed level.
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