kiwi 911

Hobbiton for lunch.

Macca

Paul. That made Jo and I smile. She very much remember the wet shoes from the first stage on the first day when she had to squat in a ditch. Its a blokes world eh!

Macca

Guys. Looks like a fairly small Tour field this year. What do you have - around 30 cars? Recognise 3/4 of the field.

Darins in the Cayman not tour leader this year?

I see Dan playing with the Turbo I hope its behaving itself. Seems to need a bit of talking to by PC.

kiwi 911

Darin is tour leader. The field is always 70% same old people. There are about 27-30 cars. I just photoed the Pcars.

Chris and Pete have a pit crew - Chris trying to get and keep max boost.

O2GO

GT3 would be good Macca. Everyone is having to button off at 160. It's all about speed through and out of the corners

O2GO

Rally car has hit a pole on our 2nd to last stage so we're skipping it sadly. This is a stage we all do twice and a nice long one at that. One more and we are done for the day.

Paul reckons we are cranking the Boxster up quicker and quicker. He's a good coach. Just the one sphincter clenching moment thus far

kiwi 911

This is the field......

Macca

Paul. Thanks for that its as I thought.

Douggie. Never had an issue with cornering speed in the 993. GT3 would be WAY to quick between the corners. If they lift the limit back to where it was a few years back would interest me but at 160 Id be struggling to keep the 993 legal and Id rather be peddling hard to catch the guy in-front than fiddling with the heated seats and 12 speaker stereo because Im being held up.

The guys in the rennaut 260 there this year? Ones a Brit. They were faster than the big boys in that thing. Pedalled it very well (driver was an ex race driver I recall).

Half way through now. Should be feeling good. Loosened up and now taking it in your stride. Will sleep well tonight and tomorrow. Whens Pauls turn to drive?

kiwi 911

I drive some of the touring stages. Just had 38K stage cancelled - burger!!!

Macca

Thanks for the picture. Brett? in the orange lambo, The Mitchells looks like most are present and correct.

Bugger re the cancelled stage. A good long one too! Oh well - there's always tomorrow.

John McM

Too much information.

996tnz

Those CT110s were raced on track in an episode of Top Gear filmed in Australia. Had proper racers aboard - dog slow but a hoot to watch. I think the winner managed to streamline it a bit down the straights by doing a superman with legs out the back. At 15 I bought a dead CT90 for $50, cleaned the carby and it ran for years before I sold it for at least that. Mostly used it offroad but the front forks were seized so it was always an interesting ride. They're almost indestructible but damn heavy for what they are.

Macca and Pcarplayer - nice machines guys. Most Ducatis just look so clean, well resolved and aggressive. Some jap bikes look good too but too often it seems like someone was told to just raid the parts bin leftovers - none of the angles seem to align.

Paul, Doug et al: keep those Tour shots coming (well the car ones anyway ) Bummer about the lost stage - we lost one of four at the Ecotech too. Would rather be out there with you but instead spent a bit of time this morning hunting down and fixing a broken wire for the Turbo's high mounted stop light so it can get it's WOF.

gt38088

just an update
day one looked great- no real risks taken and running 5th in 4wd and leading class.
Day 2 not so good. Co driver Kim and I both driving. Ss 11 ran up a small bank with Kim driving and now replacing front suspension arms Not sure if we can get going again. fingers crossed. We may have other harder problems to solve not sure yet

O2GO

Bugger. Hope you are ok for tomorrow Graeme

Macca

Thoughts with you Graeme and hope the crew can pull it together this evening for a final assault ion the last day....