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A1GP - Taupo NZ & EC, Sydney; 56K may struggle
Topic Started: Jan 23 2007, 03:59 PM (350 Views)
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Long weekend ... I went along with a good friend of mine who was one of the A1GP scrutineers for this meeting, so I spent the weekend hovvering round the Paddock

Probably got some of the best viewing of the meeting, and certainly the BEST photo opportunities due to the silly hours we were there.

Ireland team gets extra points from me, because I cruised into their pits early one morning when they had all the panels off the car, and they let me go nuts with the camera and take photo's of everything I wanted.

They're a Lola F3 chassis, with a spec motor. All controlled Lola parts, and they're a leased motor, so there really isn't a lot they can do to make their car different from the other 21 cars on the grid.

Obscenely loud. I had ear plugs in any time they had the A1GP cars fired up, as the echo in pit lane would make your brain shut down after about five seconds of it.

For the aussies of this forum, i reccommend getting to eastern creek for the next round in early feb.


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line up in parc ferme

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and again

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tilt!

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teching

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weighing

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the NZ airforce ... all of it nearly

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Cooper S racing class

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production racing cars

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beetle racing

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Production cars launching off the line

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surgery on the start line ... yep, I'm out on the grid just before race start

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They're chasing a driveline noise, without much luck

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Trophies for the meeting ... dumped in the scrutineering pit garage ... lucky I didn't walk off with them ;)

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Podium ceremony ... conveniently right beside where I am based the whole weekend

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Final parc ferme gathering
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Gentle on the old Airforce eh... It's not our fault Uncle Helen hates us...
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Nice Pics Dude!!!
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I feel green. Maybe another year. Anyway someone had to be at Auto X
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Well, glad i went along to the Eastern Creek round - a fantastic day!!

The A1 cars are properly quick and sound fantastic, there was a small drift demo, some Australian GT Championships which looked after my growing Porsche obsession, and the highlight, particularly for members here, was Toyota's TRD stand, which had the Aus Rally Corolla, and older works GT4 Celica, Neil Bates signing some posters and, just quietly in the middle of it all, a JGTC SUPRA!!!!

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TRD Display / JGTC Supra :woot:
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AGTC:
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(what a drive!)
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Turn 2 Bahh-tuhl!
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Go Karl!
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