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As it turned out, what an awesome day!
Due to the drizzling rain, during the morning, the meeting looked in jeopardy as apparently oiled tracks and water don’t mix, as we saw a few people try the track out when it was wet on quads with mixed results. I don’t think I would like to even try to walk on the track when it was wet!
After arriving at 10.20 am we waited patiently until at least 1 o’clock before they sent the quads out to dry the track. The waiting wasn’t that bad as there were plenty of things going on and plenty of people to talk to. I caught up with a few Old bulls as well as several people I haven’t seen in years!
There was a huge crowd in attendance and everyone was in the right frame of mind to enjoy them selves. While we waited for the track to dry the place took on a party atmosphere.
After a big night on Friday night, a very dusty Toes got himself a front row seat and didn’t move for the whole day, if he had a crochet rug and a thermos, he would still be sitting there I think.
AS well as the racing there was heaps of other stuff going on like this mad bugger in this blown 350 Chev powered Corolla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H3iE0lO8UQ
When they finally made it out onto the track the flat trackers are awesome to watch and the racing was bar banging madness.
Here is Toby Price and Chris Hollis getting up close .
Hollis in action
The main race is what every one went to see and we weren’t disappointed!
The heats were great to watch and Bayliss looked for all money that he was going to be unbeatable but as the other blokes got their mojo, he was relegated to mid-field in most of his heats.
To decide who was to go into the main race they did a timed shoot out were every rider did one hot lap and the 10 fastest plus 2 wild card entries would go to the final. This is where some of the big names were eliminated, Chris Hollis crashed on his hot lap and didn’t make the final and I don’t think Steve Gall made it through just to name a few.
One of the wild card entries was Mick Kirkness from Wauchope, he had the fastest lap time of the day and that got him into the main race. Mick is no stranger to the flat track scene after spending 3 years in America racing on a XR750 Harley.
We were sharing a Quick shade with Mick’s mum and sister on the hill so the anticipation of the main race was great!
Kirkness got the holeshot and the Wauchope contingent were cheering their heads off as it looked as though no one would catch mick but on the second lap Bayliss crashed and was laying on the track so the race was red flagged and had to be restarted.
In the restart Kirkness didn’t get as a good a start as the first one and was relegated to 3rd coming into the first corner. The racing was fast and furious as Mick tried his hardest to get into the front, he managed to round up the two riders in front and it was obvious from there that all he had to do was stay on the bike to win the night, he ended up crossing the line in front by several bike lengths.
As you can imagine the Wauchope crew went off! Cheering our local boy on!
The Troy Bayliss Cup final results,
1st Michael Kirkness,
2nd Troy Herfoss,
3rd Jarryd Oram and Troy Bayliss picked up 4th.For us that toped a great day off and at about 11pm we headed off after watching another 8 races. What a great day out, $20 well spent!
Here is some scratchy video I found on Youtube of the main race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i68xt2ywt2U
Trailboss wrote:micknmeld wrote:Wrap the spark plug thread in aluminium foil and flog it in with a hammer. Poor mans Helicoil!Should put a disclaimer there explaining that you are an idiot
and that’s not a true and proper alternative to a heli coil :laugh: :pinch:TB
Fair enough. Tongue firmly planted in cheek.
But by geez it certainly fits in the scrapper spirit of things!
Murph the surf wrote:Help please. :pinch:
Just tried to donate $30
But it was a little too confusing for me.
:whistle: :pinch:
Got caught up in some crazy facebook shit??? :silly:
I only want to donate a few bucks. Is there a way without having to be involved in (big brother is watching) Facebook CRAP.
Cheers
Not paranoid but old school (where we actually have a private life)Dunno how that happened Murph, FB shouldn’t have come into it??
Maybe it was some kind of Turkey filter :whistle: :laugh:
Try again tommorow, if that don’t work, I will sort something out for you.
mike wrote:moto wrote:Haha Mike will love that, it’s where I’m based. I already went a bought a bike for his growing collection!Yeah I did see that Yellow 250,not a bad old thing for the money :whistle: but the 360 that Mick saw is the one I wish I had the spare coin to buy
but its also in SA :pinch:Just do it. :laugh: Get it to Melbourne and I am sure the OBT network could make it happen from there! :laugh:
razzle wrote:micknmeld wrote:razzle wrote:Hey MickCount me in, donation made, see you there
Razz
I was wondering where the hell you were! You’ve been MIA for a while!
Bloody work, bloody xmas, bloody visitors, and bloody too HOT to even think about riding!
Moose and I rode Bago early yesterday and it was great. Home and in the pool by 12 after a quick 80kms!
