Pukekohe NZ V8 Round

[Kiwiracing]

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone else besides Chairman is going along to the V8's at Pukekohe.

I know I wish I was there, it's a great spectacle. Fastest average speed of all the V8 rounds I believe.

Placemakers V8 Supercar Web Site (http://www.nzv8supercars.co.nz/)

Cheers
Kiwiracing

[Glen Alexander]

I'd love to, but with the purchase of 5 new tyres, a service, and rego this month........ I'll be watchin' it from the comfort of my telly!!!! :(

Plus with all the BaaBaaa eautiful women all over the place, I could get myself in trouble!!!!! :D

[Kiwiracing]

Here's the results of first practise at Pukekohe, bit of a surprise for some:

Mind you first 21 cars within a second of each other, holy moley.

Race Day: Friday, 09:55-10:30


Pos Car Entrant Driver Vehicle Laps Fastest Lap Fastest Lap Time Gap
1 12 OzEmail Racing Team John Bowe Ford Falcon BA 27 26 0:57.0471
2 2 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VY 20 15 0:57.1241 0:00.0770
3 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford Falcon BA 23 20 0:57.2179 0:00.1708
4 50 PWR Performance Products Jason Bright Holden Commodore VY 21 18 0:57.3374 0:00.2903
5 22 Holden Racing Team Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VY 22 18 0:57.3591 0:00.3120
6 9 Caltex Havoline Race Team Russell Ingall Ford Falcon BA 26 23 0:57.3733 0:00.3262
7 888 Team Betta Electrical Max Wilson Ford Falcon BA 23 23 0:57.4826 0:00.4355
8 51 Kmart Racing Team Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VY 25 17 0:57.4899 0:00.4428
9 17 Shell Helix Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon BA 27 21 0:57.5111 0:00.4640
10 11 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Steven Richards Holden Commodore VY 19 14 0:57.5237 0:00.4766
11 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 20 9 0:57.5979 0:00.5508
12 16 PWR Performance Products Paul Weel Holden Commodore VY 24 17 0:57.6203 0:00.5732
13 3 Tasman Motorsport Jason Richards Holden Commodore VX 26 21 0:57.6603 0:00.6132
14 88 Team Betta Electrical Paul Radisich Ford Falcon BA 25 16 0:57.6857 0:00.6386
15 29 Sirromet - Life Style Wine Paul Morris Holden Commodore VY 21 21 0:57.6893 0:00.6422
16 31 Super Cheap Auto Racing Steve Ellery Ford Falcon BA 27 26 0:57.7553 0:00.7082
17 15 Kmart Racing Team Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VY 22 22 0:57.8001 0:00.7530
18 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VY 21 19 0:57.8373 0:00.7902
19 021 Team Kiwi Racing Craig Baird Holden Commodore VY 25 23 0:57.9176 0:00.8705
20 5 Ford Performance Racing Glenn Seton Ford Falcon BA 24 17 0:57.9397 0:00.8926
21 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Cameron McConville Holden Commodore VY 19 16 0:58.0014 0:00.9543
22 44 Holy Grail Wine/Alphawest Simon Wills Holden Commodore VY 13 8 0:58.2842 0:01.2371
23 20 Larkham Orrcon Racing Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon BA 29 21 0:58.3205 0:01.2734
24 18 Shell Helix Racing Warren Luff Ford Falcon BA 26 24 0:58.4316 0:01.3845
25 14 IMS - Hydralink Mark Porter Holden Commodore VX 29 27 0:58.4361 0:01.3890
26 8 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Paul Dumbrell Holden Commodore VY 18 18 0:58.5006 0:01.4535
27 7 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Tony Longhurst Holden Commodore VY 22 19 0:58.5172 0:01.4701
28 21 OzEmail Racing Team Brad Jones Ford Falcon BA 17 13 0:58.6673 0:01.6202
29 45 Holy Grail Wine/Alphawest Dale Brede Holden Commodore VY 16 16 1:00.0166 0:02.9695
30 6 Ford Performance Racing Craig Lowndes Ford Falcon BA 2 2 1:00.1884 0:03.1413
31 75 Toll Racing Anthony Tratt Holden Commodore VY 4 4 1:06.5127 0:09.46

Cheers
Kiwiracing

[Dingo]

Kiwiracing, check your PM's :D

[Leigh]

1 50 PWR Performance Products Jason Bright Holden Commodore VY 5000 25 23 0:56.8927*
2 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford Falcon BA 5000 24 18 0:56.9720 0:00.0793
3 51 Kmart Racing Team Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VY 5000 20 18 0:57.0140 0:00.1213
4 12 OzEmail Racing Team John Bowe Ford Falcon BA 5000 26 21 0:57.0170 0:00.1243
5 9 Caltex Havoline Race Team Russell Ingall Ford Falcon BA 5000 23 21 0:57.0631 0:00.1704
6 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 5000 22 19 0:57.2061 0:00.3134
7 11 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Steven Richards Holden Commodore VY 5000 25 21 0:57.2198 0:00.3271
8 5 Ford Performance Racing Glenn Seton Ford Falcon BA 5000 26 26 0:57.2252 0:00.3325
9 16 PWR Performance Products Paul Weel Holden Commodore VY 5000 24 24 0:57.2463 0:00.3536
10 88 Team Betta Electrical Paul Radisich Ford Falcon BA 5000 22 19 0:57.2859 0:00.3932

Full times here (http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?02/05/2004.PUK.P2)

Cheers

[Leigh]

...oops...That last post should have been titled Practice 2 Times

[timbo333]

Don't forget to put your tips in guys....

GO MARCOS GO!!


Timbo.

[Leigh]

Just waiting for the first qualifying session times to go up...

Shouldn't be long now!

Cheers

[HRT 1-2]

Qualifying Times


Pos Car Entrant Driver Vehicle Laps Fastest Lap Fastest Lap Time Gap
1 50 PWR Performance Products Jason Bright Holden Commodore VY 11 9 0:56.3655
2 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford Falcon BA 11 9 0:56.6062 0:00.2407
3 2 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VY 13 11 0:56.6209 0:00.2554
4 22 Holden Racing Team Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VY 11 8 0:56.7160 0:00.3505
5 51 Kmart Racing Team Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VY 10 10 0:56.7184 0:00.3529
6 11 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Steven Richards Holden Commodore VY 14 11 0:56.8207 0:00.4552
7 888 Team Betta Electrical Max Wilson Ford Falcon BA 15 9 0:56.8786 0:00.5131
8 88 Team Betta Electrical Paul Radisich Ford Falcon BA 15 11 0:56.9058 0:00.5403
9 12 OzEmail Racing Team John Bowe Ford Falcon BA 17 16 0:56.9423 0:00.5768
10 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 14 13 0:56.9425 0:00.5770
11 9 Caltex Havoline Race Team Russell Ingall Ford Falcon BA 13 12 0:56.9526 0:00.5871
12 17 Shell Helix Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon BA 16 14 0:56.9529 0:00.5874
13 15 Kmart Racing Team Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VY 15 8 0:57.0208 0:00.6553
14 16 PWR Performance Products Paul Weel Holden Commodore VY 17 12 0:57.0298 0:00.6643
15 5 Ford Performance Racing Glenn Seton Ford Falcon BA 15 13 0:57.0829 0:00.7174
16 3 Tasman Motorsport Jason Richards Holden Commodore VX 17 11 0:57.0904 0:00.7249
17 29 Sirromet - Life Style Wine Paul Morris Holden Commodore VY 10 8 0:57.2545 0:00.8890
18 18 Shell Helix Racing Warren Luff Ford Falcon BA 17 14 0:57.2793 0:00.9138
19 44 Holy Grail Wine/Alphawest Simon Wills Holden Commodore VY 12 10 0:57.4051 0:01.0396
20 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VY 14 5 0:57.4657 0:01.1002
21 6 Ford Performance Racing Craig Lowndes Ford Falcon BA 13 6 0:57.4761 0:01.1106
22 21 OzEmail Racing Team Brad Jones Ford Falcon BA 16 3 0:57.4974 0:01.1319
23 20 Larkham Orrcon Racing Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon BA 15 14 0:57.5168 0:01.1513
24 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Cameron McConville Holden Commodore VY 14 9 0:57.5283 0:01.1628
25 8 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Paul Dumbrell Holden Commodore VY 14 12 0:57.5393 0:01.1738
26 23 WPS David Besnard Ford Falcon BA 15 9 0:57.5584 0:01.1929
27 31 Super Cheap Auto Racing Steve Ellery Ford Falcon BA 10 10 0:57.5756 0:01.2101
28 75 Toll Racing Anthony Tratt Holden Commodore VY 17 15 0:57.6387 0:01.2732
29 021 Team Kiwi Racing Craig Baird Holden Commodore VY 11 8 0:57.7102 0:01.3447
30 14 IMS - Hydralink Mark Porter Holden Commodore VX 17 17 0:57.8811 0:01.5156
31 7 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Tony Longhurst Holden Commodore VX 17 14 0:57.9201 0:01.5546
32 45 Holy Grail Wine/Alphawest Dale Brede Holden Commodore VY 15 3 0:58.0219 0:01.6564

[the_goldie]

5 Holdens Vs 5 Fords in the top 10. Very even again.

Should be a great race. Go Brighty! Is that a new lap record for qualifying???

[Leigh]

As far as I can tell, yes that is a new lap record for qualifying...previos best was Skaife last year with 0:56.4562

Cheers

[Kiwiracing]

Silly boy - check this out

David Besnard was forced to play catch up with the field after an embarrassing start to round three of the V8 Supercar Championship Series today. Besnard, driving the WPS Racing BA Falcon, had to sit out the first practice session at Pukekohe Raceway in New Zealand after leaving his racing helmet in his hotel room in Auckland.:D

Kiwiracing

[stonebrosfan]

lol,

just finished posting that to the 'other' forum.

i was wondering why he wasnt on the first time sheet!!!

ah well, he is a doosh bag, but still a good driver!!!

[Grubby]

Originally posted by Kiwiracing
Silly boy - check this out

David Besnard was forced to play catch up with the field after an embarrassing start to round three of the V8 Supercar Championship Series today. Besnard, driving the WPS Racing BA Falcon, had to sit out the first practice session at Pukekohe Raceway in New Zealand after leaving his racing helmet in his hotel room in Auckland.:D

Kiwiracing

This cost him $10,000

[castkrazy]

guy's , Thanks for the stats. it will definately make trying to place the top 5 a bit easier in the finishline comp. especially now I've got some info to go on .

cheers

Jim..

[wayno]

Good result for Bright today but you don't get any points for Friday! Tomorrow will really tell us where everyone is at.
Am I the only one surprised how quickly the cars have gone today? Will be interesting to see if the times fall by much on Saturday.

[Kiwiracing]

Can't sleep - need news of NZ round, and Kiwi guys awake over there?:D

Kiwiracing

[KiwiRallyFan]

It's bucketing down with rain there, and will continue like that for most of the day....:(

[Kiwiracing]

Gee's the V8's are going to run of rain tyres with all these wet meetings, bet it's colder there than the flood we had at EC a few weeks back.:)

Wish TVNZ had a live feed on the internet.

Kiwiracing

[KiwiRallyFan]

It's about 17-18C there at present. The rain is expected to be quite heavy at times this afternoon, so I would be surprised if they managed to complete a full race. They may not even start it, as Pukekohe is quite susceptible to surface flooding in heavy rain.

At this stage, tomorow's weather looks ok.

[Kiwiracing]

I remember a big flood up there a few years back, I went out to the track afterwards and there were thousands of onions stuck in the Amco barriers along the front straight, they had come down from the hills behind the circuit.

Pukekohe for our Aussie mates is known as the Potato and Onion capital of NZ:D Heaps of farms around there.

Cheers
Kiwiracing

[Kiwiracing]

TOP 10 SHOOTOUT

Must be raining look at the times, damn Skaife on poll!!

1 2 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VY 5000 1 1 1:04.7477*
2 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford Falcon BA 5000 1 1 1:04.7517 0:00.0040
3 51 Kmart Racing Team Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VY 5000 1 1 1:05.2608 0:00.5131
4 50 PWR Performance Products Jason Bright Holden Commodore VY 5000 1 1 1:05.7407 0:00.9930
5 11 Castrol Perkins Motorsport Steven Richards Holden Commodore VY 5000 1 1 1:06.5466 0:01.7989
6 88 Team Betta Electrical Paul Radisich Ford Falcon BA 5000 1 1 1:06.5501 0:01.8024
7 12 OzEmail Racing Team John Bowe Ford Falcon BA 5000 1 1 1:06.5503 0:01.8026
8 888 Team Betta Electrical Max Wilson Ford Falcon BA 5000 1 1 1:06.5796 0:01.8319
9 22 Holden Racing Team Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VY 5000 1 1 1:06.7589 0:02.0112
10 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 5000 1 1 1:07.6230 0:02.8753


Cheers
Kiwiracing

[HRT 1-2]

Originally posted by Kiwiracing
TOP 10 SHOOTOUT

Must be raining look at the times, damn Skaife on poll!!


Cheers
Kiwiracing

And what's wrong with that :p :D

[Kiwiracing]

Originally posted by HRT 1-2
And what's wrong with that

Hopefully Ambrose and Skaife will take each other out at turn 3!!!:D

Kiwiracing

[HRT 1-2]

Originally posted by Kiwiracing
Hopefully Ambrose and Skaife will take each other out at turn 3!!!

Kiwiracing

That's Max's job:mad: ;)

[Kiwiracing]

Quote from my Dad in NZ watching on TV

trying to sweep water off track. may delay race. drainage is a problem .its pissing down

Bugger

Kiwiracing

[Kiwiracing]

Dad now says the drivers are checking the circuit out, that doesn't sound too good. Hope they get a start, not under yellow either.:( If they get one at all.

Kiwiracing

[Kiwiracing]

Now this: race delayed .inspection at 2.35. if ok race start at 3.00 (NZ Time)

Kiwiracing

[HRT 1-2]

Thanks for the updates Kiwi, good work:)

[stonebrosfan]

DUE TO HEAVY RAIN, RACE 1 HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL SUNDAY!

this is from the bigpond coverage!!!

[biante1881]

Race 1 cancelled , 3 races Sunday they think

[wayno]

And people complain about how much it rains in Melbourne!

[Kiwiracing]

Originally posted by wayno
And people complain about how much it rains in Melbourne!

Melbourne, that has to be the driest spot in Oz at the moment, EC was bloody wet!

Kiwiracing

[wayno]

Was glad I decided to stay at home for that one. I copped Phillip Island last year and missing the big wet at the creek (more like a river that day!) was not something I'm regretting too much!
Wonder if the delaying of race one will affect Channel 10 with having to edit and prepare three races in one day?

[Kiwiracing]

This from TVNZ:

May 1, 2004
By Dale Budge at Pukekohe Park Raceway

Persistent heavy rain has caused racing to be abandoned on day two of the PlaceMakers V8 International at Pukekohe Park Raceway on Saturday.

Heavy rain throughout the morning has caused some flooding around Pukekohe Park Raceway and wrecked havoc for the event organisers at the V8 Supercar International on Saturday afternoon.

The rain and surface water on the track itself has brought the cancellation of the Formula Ford race scheduled for 1.40pm and the abandonment of all V8 Supercar racing, originally set to start at 2.35pm.

The three races will now be played out on Sunday.

* More to follow.

Kiwiracing

[Malik]

Originally posted by wayno
Was glad I decided to stay at home for that one. I copped Phillip Island last year and missing the big wet at the creek (more like a river that day!) was not something I'm regretting too much!
Wonder if the delaying of race one will affect Channel 10 with having to edit and prepare three races in one day?

what the bet considering they werent showing the first race on TV today we wont see it tomorrow either..

[wayno]

Well and good, but what's the weather supposed to be for Sunday!?

[Kiwiracing]

Originally posted by wayno
Well and good, but what's the weather supposed to be for Sunday!?

Last I heard was for showers only, not like this morning, heres hoping:(

Kiwiracing

[wayno]

Is this unseasonal rain for this time of year in NZ? I'm not really au-fait with the weather conditions in the land of the wool lover. Just asking because Rally NZ is usually about the same time of year and that ALWAYS seems to be wet!

[Kiwiracing]

Originally posted by wayno
Is this unseasonal rain for this time of year in NZ? I'm not really au-fait with the weather conditions in the land of the wool lover. Just asking because Rally NZ is usually about the same time of year and that ALWAYS seems to be wet!

No not really I don't think?, temps seem ok up to 20/21 today and tomorrow, lows down to 15 (Canberra was worse yesterday - bloody cold when I was there), Wasn't the Rally fairly fine this year? They have had a lot of rain to begin this year. Very green! They have had some nice weather as well - go figure. They say NZ's weather is the dregs that gets sent from Oz:confused:

This from the TVNZ weather: Sunday 2 May

HIGH 20c

LOW 15c

Showers then rain, some heavy falls. Northerlies. Hope chairman comes on line tonight.

Cheers
Kiwiracing

[Kiwiracing]

Found some video footage from yesterday, not sure how long it will stay on this page, about 2mins long.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_index_skin/sport_inde x_group

Shows Ellery's smash, bit scary.

Cheers
Kiwiracing

[Malik]

Originally posted by Kiwiracing
Found some video footage from yesterday, not sure how long it will stay on this page, about 2mins long.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_index_skin/sport_inde x_group

Shows Ellery's smash, bit scary.

Cheers
Kiwiracing

betcha ellery is gonna be felling that one for a couple days to come...

[HRT 1-2]

Three 36 lapers tomorrow see here (http://www.v8supercar.com.au/news/latestnews/news display.asp?gid=10548&ind=M)

[Y2Joel]

I'm a fan of Skaife, no doubt, but Ambrose is the champ http://www.v8supercar.com.au/photogallery/photovie w.asp?ind=M&cat=EVNT&pid=157&piid=10487&pnum=3

Maybe at the end of the year, he will have earned the right to wear that race suit. Hope so :) .

[Malik]

alot of the drivers seem to be wearing, I supposed. wrong.. suits (lack of a better word) considering Tander was wearing his bathurst 24hr suit at the start of the year.. and alot are still wearing last year's suits too...

must be a backlog at the race suit company

[stonebrosfan]

Originally posted by Y2Joel
Maybe at the end of the year, he will have earned the right to wear that race suit. Hope so :) .

im not sure if ambrose will wanna wear a suit with a HRT logo on it!

[HRT 1-2]

Originally posted by Y2Joel
I'm a fan of Skaife, no doubt, but Ambrose is the champ http://www.v8supercar.com.au/photogallery/photovie w.asp?ind=M&cat=EVNT&pid=157&piid=10487&pnum=3

Maybe at the end of the year, he will have earned the right to wear that race suit. Hope so .

All he needs to do is get "Will Be" embroidered in front of the 1 and "In 2005" after:p :D

[Kiwiracing]

Race one results here (http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?02/05/2004.PUK.R1) read at your own peril:D

Kiwiracing

[diecastdude]

Race One, what can I say !

[Dowelly]

Scaifey has had a shocker in race 1 & 2..........Go Murph!!:)

[diecastdude]

Race two, still getting quality points but if the championship is won on consistency HRT’s form could still be a worry! Tongue in cheek.

[Dowelly]

Sure is a battle at the moment for them eh.:p

[diecastdude]

Race Three back where he should be as championship leader!

[Dowelly]

Good to see a Holden on the winning side again,what a move by Murph on Ambrose.......heart in the mouth stuff.:cool:

[Kiwiracing]

Anyone hear how Morris was, that was a big hit on the last lap and I noticed the Ambulance was up there afterwards, plus he didn't hop out straight after the crash?

Kiwiracing

[Kiwiracing]

Originally posted by Kiwiracing
Anyone hear how Morris was, that was a big hit on the last lap and I noticed the Ambulance was up there afterwards, plus he didn't hop out straight after the crash?

Kiwiracing

I just heard he went to hospital with a "sore neck", hope he is ok.

Kiwiracing

[Dowelly]

Nah i didn't hear anything on Paul Morris,unlucky to have 2 punchures.:confused:

[TIC-302]

PWR and K Mart cars were bullets !!

Ambrose and the others just didn't have the car speed at the end.

Top race!

[the_goldie]

Congrats to Bright on the round win and 2 race wins! Great effort with the new VY.

Must admit Muphy's move on Ambrose late in the race was great. They had a good battle. Still seems to be Ambrose flying the Ford flag, while there alot of Holden guys chasing hard - watch out Ambrose ;)

[Chairman]

Aaaah, three days away but now back to my own hot shower and bed.

I was one of the Pit Lane marshalls - we were the marshalls on the track side of the armco watching what was going on in pit lane, playing traffic cone for the support classes service vehicles, and autograph hunting :-) - there were plenty of chances to wander up and down in front of the garages looking at the cars and snaffle anyone who stuck their nose outside to see how high the creek was.

Kiwiracing - yes they used to suffer from bad flooding along the start straight and in particular the pit crossing, I remember once seeing a full metre of water laying there. Since then a drainage ditch 6 metres wide and 6 metres deep has been dug between pit lane and the track, on Saturday night water flowing down the ditch came within a metre and a half of the top. Oh, and the weather for Rally NZ was postcard perfect this year all day every day apart from a bit of fog in the early mornings.

Friday - nice weather, things went more or less according to the programme except a couple of practise sessions were lost after Racing Ray Williams stacked the leopardskin Porsche, and a good time was had by all (except Ray).

Saturday - It wasn't just pissing down, it was windy as well so we all froze, in fact two of us ended up with hypothermia. A couple of snippets that I don't think made the news - there was a report that most of the drivers were keen to get out and run a race on Saturday afternoon and one idiot steerer even said they could do 10 laps swerving behind the safety car washing the water away. He was off in la la land. If the cars had gone out in that they would have floated away. Most of the drivers were not keen to get out and race - they were standing in pit lane talking to each other about how much they did *not* want to go out, and we were standing next to them waiting for the meeting to be called so we could go home. In the last half hour the racing switched from happening to not happening so many times it was beyond a joke, when we got told for the third time that it was not happening we all cleared off before they changed their minds again.

While they were trying to make their minds up about the race a report came through that three cars parked in the support paddock [off to the left behind turn 1, or 'behind the stables' for those who recall the old *full* circuit] had started floating and were headed for an excavation pit.

Sunday - fantastic day, neat racing, awesome atmosphere, and believe it or not, we only had about one minute of light rain today, just before the last race (hence Ambrose's duff tyre choice, thinking as we all did that it was about to come hosing down). There was loads of water laying around and plenty of shots on tv of cars throwing up spray and wipers going flat out but that was all just surface water that hadn't drained yet. 10 laps swerving around behind the pace car, yeah right.

I couldn't take the nikon becuse we had to be a lot more discrete here than at the rally but I did have the canon in my pocket and I did manage to snap off a few photos, they'll be up shortly on the website.

For autographs, well my "official" ID swinger has been signed by Marcos Ambrose and Russell Ingall, and my other "official" ID swinger *cough* has been signed by Murph and Rick Kelly. I didn't think I'd get Russell Ingall, I didn't get a chance until he was walking the 20 feet from his car back to his garage after the last race and then he shook his head so I backed away but a minute later he popped out of the garage again looking for me and signed my swinger :D. Marcos signed my swinger and then signed my "official" bib as well which we had to hand back, unfortunately that bib got lost a couple of minutes later *coughs again* so I had to pay for it and be issued a new one :cool: The bibs are owned by AVESCO and had to be counted back in and so far as I know they all came back except the one I lost so I think that is a bit of a unique prize, certainly among us tight fisted marshalls it is a one-off.

And now you'll have to excuse me, I have some very important sleep to get on with.

[Malik]

both murph's move on ambrose and the original ambrose move on murph's... superb effort to both drivers... thats the kind of driving we need to see more of in the championship...

[wayno]

Great result for Jason and thoroughly deserved. The way the points are this year you really can't afford to put in a bad round as if you do your championship is as good as over.
Sandown and Bathurst will decide the championship this year me thinhs.

[Chairman]

My photos from the Pukekohe weekend are uploading to the website now, should be all done byearly afternoon aussie time.

http://flightpath.openmynd.com

Cheers
Gary

[Leigh]

Originally posted by Chairman
My photos from the Pukekohe weekend are uploading to the website now, should be all done byearly afternoon aussie time.

http://flightpath.openmynd.com

Cheers
Gary
Some good pics Gary...Is that you at the bottom of the first page getting your guernsey signed?

Cheers

[frosty]

Originally posted by Chairman
My photos from the Pukekohe weekend are uploading to the website now, should be all done byearly afternoon aussie time.

http://flightpath.openmynd.com

Cheers
Gary
Gary,
Your thumbnails have turned out very well, I am a bit early for the full size photos, will view them later.
I did like the photo of Ambrose's car during scruitineering when they were measuring his front spoiler with the template.

It is good having a "spy" on the inside.... where the public can't go... I don't normally see photos from the officials area.

Good work..... Thanks ...

[BIGD67]

i thought with the lack of pitstops because of the weather situation it got alittle boring to watch once the leaders got out in front the race was over - apart from the murph ambrose past at the end - it just lacked a little something for me :o

[Chairman]

All the pics are there now, the ftp fell over partway through while I was out :mad:

It did get a bit processional at times, as you can see from the pictures a whole lot of people in pit lane really had anything to do except watch their monitors or sit outside and watch the big screen. I was supposed to be scrutineering pitstops for the Shell Helix team the first race, the PWR team the second race, and Pirtek the third race. I didn't get my pen out all day.

Still, the roar from the terraces when Murph got back past Marcos ... wow !

:D

Gary:

[Chairman]

lcfp2297 muttered
Some good pics Gary...Is that you at the bottom of the first page getting your guernsey signed?


Guernsey ? Is that what you West Islanders ;) call the "official" bibs ?

Nah that's another one of the marshalls, he saw the Champion girls giving out posters so got a poster and then got the girls to sign it. I did like what that girl wrote on the back of it !

(He is left with the problem of how to hang the poster so that he can see the front and the back together :D)

[Leigh]

Originally posted by Chairman
Guernsey ? Is that what you West Islanders call the "official" bibs ?

Nah that's another one of the marshalls, he saw the Champion girls giving out posters so got a poster and then got the girls to sign it. I did like what that girl wrote on the back of it !

(He is left with the problem of how to hang the poster so that he can see the front and the back together )
had a mental block and the word bib just wouldn't come out...I was thinking jacket, pullover...etc etc...thought guernsey was the most appropriate of my inappropriate words...LOL:D

BIB:confused: now how did I not remember that!

Cheers

[KiwiRallyFan]

Here's a link to an interesting editorial about AVESCO's wisdom at running a V8 Supercar round at Pukekohe in May....

Bad Choice by Aussie V8's (http://www.car.co.nz/v8.asp?articleid=2868)

In my opinion, it can rain at Pukekohe anytime of the year, and Rally NZ was run two weeks earlier (in roughly the same area) in perfect weather.