Well I'm back from the 30-130 day and apart from the poor weather conditions ( rained nearly all day ) the baby GTI performed faultlessly. After discussions with people who had been before and looking at past result I had set myself targets of 30-130 at 25-30 seconds and a top speed of 140mph.
Top speed achieved was 142.97 mph ( showed as 160 mph on the speedo )
30-130 mph was done in 24.04 seconds
So mission achieved on both accounts.
What I didn't realise was that the airstrip wasn't flat, which I thought it would have been. There was a significant incline for the first third of the strip, then flat in the middle and then back to an incline for the last third. With this and the fact the surface was soaking wet the times for everyone weren't as good as expected. I had to start off the runs in third gear after finding out that a second gear start just ends up in a hail of wheelspin!
To give you all some idea of where I came in the overall standings, I came 38th out of 69 runners and beat some serious cars - R32, MKII Focus RS, beat some Scoobies too.
Not bad for a little 1.39 litre car eh?