Check out this VLOG with some of the action, the highs and the lows of this 1000km (621miles) of extreme Off-Road Racing.

This VIDEO BELOW is DAYS 1-3. Enjoy!

What is a Cliffhanger 4wd event?

Cliffhanger is a week-long off-road event every second year involving 1,000 klm of racing, winching up rocks, speedy creek runs, navigational tasks, rally stages on farm trails and across virgin terrain and is famous for its vertical winch walls. The stages are all long-lasting and typically combine several facets of winching, navigation and speed. All Four x 4 Spares proudly joined the MadMatt 4wd Team and WE WON the Super Tourer Class 1st price.

Here is some racing diary from our "Blind Navi" John:

Well after 6 gruelling days of racing and over 1000kms we finished. Here is just a brief wrap up of what we went through.

• Driver: Mad Matt
• Navigator: John Campbell
• Car number 211
• Class: Super Tourer

Just the journey out to the event was long enough with nearly 800km to cover just go get there.

We arrived at camp and set up our tents /swags.

Matt had arrived a day or so before, so the race car was already out there and a basic camp had been formed.

The first job was to get the race car passed for scrutineering, in this event like all others there are strict vehicle and safety items that must be adhered to, with a big tick to all of these we were free to go off and do some testing and tuning.

We still had a few days till the start of the 6-day event that would cover 1000kms of the harshest terrain that could be thrown at us.

I will not go into detail about every stage but will try to give all a brief understanding as to what it was like.

In this 6 day race, we covered just over 1000kms and had a variety of terrain to travel across from sandy creek bed runs, rocky dry creek runs, gibber plains and some of the nastiest rocky outcrops you can find and then to top it all off-vertical wall winching!

Throughout the week we tried to be consistent by starting and finishing every stage. All the teams' hard work paid off and we found ourselves playing with the big boys which found us in the top 16 cars overall.

Stage 5 was the only stage that we started and did not finish as a broken front diff and a snapped winch rope put ends to this. A quick trip back to our pit and the centre was changed out for another in approx. 45 mins and we were back onto the next stage.

The only real issues we had all week was the broken front diff centre, a busted engine air intake hose and an electrical gremlin that kept showing its head up randomly which would cause the whole engine to just simply turn off. This issue after 2 late nights spent chasing wires and connectors was found to be the ignitor for the distributor cap but we had a spare one!!!

All in all, it was a great week of racing and team building that not only got us over the finish line but also helped us to 1^st place in our class of super tourer as well as 22^nd overall.

Stay tuned to our blog page for a bit more detailed insight into CLIFFHANGER 2021