WRC

[gemininja]

keen. not enough holiday days to justify going friday but sat and sun should be good.

slight subject change, whos the HSR vette running in the classic series?

[burntrubber]

I'll be doing the Whangarei/Kiapra Leg never mised a year for like ten years then it went waikato only I was heart broken glad its comming north again .

[gemininja]

could be a last for NZ. drivers perfer aussie aparently

[mikuni]

Apr 27, 2010 19:54:25 GMT 12 gemininja said:

could be a last for NZ. drivers perfer aussie aparently

lol, its a purely financial move man, nothing to do with the drivers, drivers never make the decisions in any motorsport

[gemininja]

i say drivers- i think teams =D

[mikuni]

fair enough then. I still think its a little more political than that, most likely. I'm sure even the teams would love to go all over the world and do even more rallies than they do now, but the funding of the wrc itself is what I imagine is unable to cover the costs of coming down to gods own just for the few spectators that actually pay to go along and watch.

[77vette]

yeh it is abit silly for them to waste money racing down here. Like citroen might sell an extra 7 cars in NZ if they win lol their racing budgets are much better spent someplace like china i would of thought. Even tho racing/rallyinging in such ungodly places as china/bahrain/malasia/singapore/australia/abu Barry Whiten dabi has ruined motorsport forever.

i wana see F1 at kaylami and brands hatch and zanvoort not Barry Whiteing shanghai nights




f*ck the FIA

wait what are we talking about

[zep]

Not China man, they have a 100% sales tax on cars not built in china. So your $250,000 Cayenne costs $500,000 there. Same type of thing in Singapore. A new Lambo Merci costs around NZ$1,000,000 there.

[77vette]

yeh but lots of manufacturueurz build cooking spec cars in china now

also looking to the future china would be the place where you would want to build a reputation. Mercedes, jag, bentley are still living off the names they built for themselves racing in the 1920s-50s

sucks ima miss the rally nz this year. Have been to most of them since the early 90's. Still have poster of the 1993 escort on my wall. Has been on the wall of all my bedrooms since i was 5/6 along side a 1987 tamiya calender and a 1988 perkins/watkinshaw grpA commodore lol

[burntrubber]

I went to 4 of the 8 stages of the Northland leg yesterday was probably the best In the 12 odd times I've been. The Super2000 cars were awesome way more sidways action then the full WRC cars.

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[gemininja]

went to hampton today and im in a hotel tonight so i can get to tomorrow nice and early ^^

[cuteweegem]

Epic weekend, good 8 hour or so drive to Auckland on Thursday, only just got back now.

I must add that Hampton Downs is a Barry Whiteing cool track, good work Mr Brock too out there in the Vette

So tired now

[gemininja]

hampton, hotel at raglan, hamilton nightlife, up early, found some good spots.. great weekend

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiuamkFM14

[bulldog]

Thanks guys, I had an absolute blast. Damn some of those minis are fast in a straight line They put on a great day, hampton lads should be proud.

[crazytim]

May 9, 2010 23:41:20 GMT 12 gemininja said:

hampton, hotel at raglan, hamilton nightlife, up early, found some good spots.. great weekend

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiuamkFM14

did you put your camera on the track?