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[John McKechnie]

Reassessment of some terms after Taupo weekend

Fan
- grid marshalls, flaggies and those who tirelessly support and are the backbone of a voluntary sport.
A chap called Paul who three times came up from Wellington to help drivers with refuelling, air pressures, bleeding brakes and generally driving race cars around the pits to make sure they are good to go.
People who came into the pits and talk about the cars.

Spectators
- they watch and its neat when they wave after a race.

Enthusiast
-someone who has more than 2 race cars sitting in their garage.

Optimist
-class coordinators
race drivers who think they are going to get 2 days in a row of sunshine, and that the air will stay in their tyres for this length of time.

Ray- that is so sad about Classic Trial. For me that word means basic introduction to cars on the track and much better than thrown in the deep end tail of a race feild...but is it a necessary class as a race track is a race track not a creche.
Also we have had endless discussions here about getting old race cars back on the track. It is hit and miss. I bought a stranded Torana XU1 V8, got it running and legal with a COD only because there was a class for it now