How did I get in with this bunch????a man of my upbringing
How did I get in with this bunch????a man of my upbringing
Wasn't this thread about Pukekohe once upon a time?
Without our noticing, it got taken over as a branch of Gaza and the West Bank. Incoming.........Originally Posted by ERC
Apparently they are starting on Puke this week.
May be F5000 running at Super Car meeting. That may bring in the crowd.
Been away fishing for a week and i come back to this carry on, now stop it you boy's or I will have to come and have a serious talk to all of you.
yes-yes & yes again erc its all about puke,i have had my say and will leave it at that.I started this thread about puke to get some good feed back but if you look today at what is going on in nz ,no one wants to work in with other views that are out there.
As it's Sunday morning I guess you feel a sermon is in order. Try the Destiny church with Bishop Brian, they might be more receptive.
I do struggle to understand what you and your mate are on about most of the time but as for love in my life! There's lots of it.
Have a truely loved up day.
All my love (with kisses & hugs)
Russ
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Right dad,the thing is it will all be on tv Rod so you cant win, put something on also that is not motorsport.look at all the infeild that they have at Puke.
I was on the net last night and this oversteer-sliding wildly sideways site came up ,and i see there is all this talk about puke hampton downs and the highlands complex in cromwell .i see this tony quinn was looking at taking over hampton downs but did not work out ,oversteer have had alot to say about the money that has been put up for the work on puke ,and had there say at what is going on with hampton downs does not look to good for this place at all. looking at what has been said maybe the long plan is for this tony quinn to get his hands on hampton downs allso, or maybe len brown has cooked up something to get hampton downs after all the hard work has been done for auckland maybe.
Last edited by CUSTAXIE50; 11-21-2012 at 08:24 PM.
I go away for a couple of weeks and return to find that many are throwing more mud and stones than a BDA Escort rally car.
Off Subject:
Jac Mac. True story, many years ago you were sitting on the dummy grid and your car did have your name enscribed on it. I turned to another good old boy and asked "how long has Jac Mac been looking after that guys car?".
Yes you are a legend in the south and pretty damn well known in the total motorsport scene in the South Island.
ok, your view on what is going on with our race tracks today-carlo.
Mark Skaife talking about the changes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdPq...ature=g-user-u
I find it very odd that Alan Dick (Oversteer article) feels that Greater Auckland isn't large enough to support two race tracks. My understanding and experience is that tracks need to be available for Tier 1 (or a supposedly top tier promotion); now you can also add Super Tourers; (Aussie V8s only account for one weekend a year) plus club events for classics, normal club racing, plus motorbikes, vintage bikes, drifting etc. With only one track and maybe just 35 - 40 usable weekends a year, one track just isn't enough. Auckland and northern club level guys, just do not have either the time or the budget to go to Manfeild more than maybe once a year and even Taupo is a squeeze.
If you are trying to run any mainly Auckland based series, (club/classic level) each needs a minimum of say 6 rounds to be viable, so having two tracks is almost essential.
The real pressure is on having sufficient volunteers to man both tracks on the same weekend. Spectator numbers are not really too important as most club meetings are self supporting anyway.
In the "good old days" the way into motorsport was to be a support person, it used to be called flag marshalling. In recent times I have volunteered to help when I can't compete, only to be turned down as I " don't have the training".
I have then been forced to watch, what I consider as a sometimes competitor, as barely adequate marshalling. In my humble opinion, there are plenty of volunteers being sidelined by a small minority of the old "give a man a title" type people who make this an unpleasant place to be. If they do turn out to man a post they are often belittled, and for sure will not return. I reckon that even people who have driven round a circuit as slowly as I, have more idea of what is needed by the competitors.
I'm really sorry to hear that any volunteer would be made to feel that way and certainly hope it wasn't any of our team. We're constantly on the look out for volunteers and have several racing drivers who come to meetings they're not competiting in to help out.
You're absolutely right about drivers being excellent marshals - they can 'read' a race in a way that takes us mere mortals years to learn and are excellent in passing this skill on.
If you'd like to come out and volunteer at one of the events we man, I'd be very pleased to see you - or any of the other forum users - on the "other side of the armco" for a day.
Deb
Deborah, PM sent
Totally agree. Equally, it is a pity that every driver isn't required to marshal at two full race meetings, before they are issued with a race licence... Welcome Deb - keep popping in...
Only when you have been baked by the sun, soaked by the rain, frozen by the howling wind (often on the same day!) can you really appreciate just what the flaggies (and other officials) have to put up with. Even worse when some grids only have half a dozen cars. It is always nice when the drivers wave their thanks at the end of the race too.
At least these days, the marshals are better organised and better looked after than they used to be, with water and a midday snack, but it was/is a rare luxury to have sufficient numbers on a post to have a break.
yes-RSZWEI that was a good view on puke from mark skaife,maybe get mark skaife to go down to Ruapuna to do some work to make this track safe .because if you look at what went down with john mcintyre and how he went off at 250kmh just look at the state of his car, and what he said one very lucky man to be still walking around and look at the state he was in .they can fix the car alright they have done it before ,they say things come right if you give it time but i dont know about that i wish him all the best at getting fit and well again.
Last edited by CUSTAXIE50; 11-27-2012 at 04:03 AM.
Looking at this one again ,the work has started on puke how far have they got with this.
How far have they got with the new part of puke.
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