...with bells on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roby44
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...with bells on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roby44
Man I wish I was going - will be in Melbourne early next week, just couldn't swing it to take in the race :(
Ahh well, got Sunday booked in front of the box, cleared a path between the lounge and the beer fridge in the garage for fast transfers - might even set up a lounge-side esky full of ice for the main race :s mokin:
Have a great weekend both of you...Quote:
Originally Posted by NinjaMaster
That is a shame, I reckon the race will be a belter. A barbeque and gathered around the TV should still be plenty of fun though, especially with a Stoner (or Vermeulen! :eek: ) race win. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Phantom
Thanks Leopard, should be tops, especially if the rain stays away. I would prefer a non-soggy ride down there tomorrow...Quote:
Originally Posted by leopardsleeping
hey pit girl / grid girl pics please :cheese:
For the first time in years I'm not able to go :arrowed: Cursed new job, what kind of w@nker starts a new job on Oz GP week (don't answer that)?
My mates are there, in the campground as usual - they are the ones with the generator and movie projector. We drew a bit of an audience last year, especially when we had "on any Sunday" showing. Classic racing movie! Lots of people brought their chairs and drinks and watched, too.
I will be at the Supers next year, though. Oh yes :lips:
I hope everyone from this forum that goes has a great time and stays (relatively) dry. The weather forecast looks a bit iffy....
I'm hoping Stone was played as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFamousEccles
Just call up sick on Sunday. I'm sure someone will cover for you! ;) :up:
I can help you out there... a mate goes every year as a guest of Colin Edwards and he gets some phantastic shots of the ladies. I'll post some from his galleries over the years, along with whatever he turns up from this year :)Quote:
Originally Posted by harsha
I'm REALLY disappointed that MotoMatters has had NOTHING on the PI round to date - not even a preview. As much as I like Mike's WSB updates, I go there for GP stuff...
Just had a thought, maybe Krop/DE is on the plane to Oz???
How was the weekend guys? Not the best of races but sure you should've had a great weekend!
The weekend was very good thanks Corny. Seems a long time ago now. Our weekend was quite eventful in fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corny
When we head to the Island, we tend to try and make a bit of a ride of it and go the back twisty way. It's only a couple of hundred kays, but it's better than riding the highway. However, the Friday weather was fairly poor with drizzly rain falling and just not very nice. So we got away about 9 in the morning from our usual meeting point at McDonalds for breakfast. After only about 10-15 minutes into the trip, disaster struck when one of our quartet crashed his bike - in a straight line! :eek: My old man was leading the group and decided we would pull over and put our wet weather gear on, unfortunately his timing was poor and it happened to be in the middle of a diesel spill and down went Pete and his lovely blue ZX9R. Fortunately Pete's first ever crash resulted in no more than losing a bit of bark off the knee tho the bikes didn't fare so well with big scrapes down the left hand side fairings and a big hole in the engine cover. It's an odd thing to watch as the following bike and luckily I stayed upright ok. So we called a dude who was travelling down with us in his car and he came picked the bike up in a trailer and took it back to his joint as he was local. Seems Pete will be travelling by car the rest of the trip.
The rest of the ride (down the highway it was now decided) was blissfully uneventful and we arrived at our weekend residence around lunchtime. We unpacked, got changed and took off to the track. Upon arriving at the circuit, it turns out that this years Australian GP is the worst organised I've ever experienced. We get to the parking area, "three day pass please" to be met with "we're not doing that this year". Since when? Since they decided they could make a mint from 'secure parking' charging $39 for three days instead of our $5 a day. Lucky for us we got the the track reasonably early to beat the lines of traffic queuing up for the parking. Then, as we decided to go general admission this year instead of a stand as previous years (gotta be able to afford to go on the Snowy Ride somehow!), we rock up to the ticket booth to be told power is out, you'll have to walk around to the circuit entrance to purchase tickets. Wonderful! :mad: So we finally make it into the circuit and get to enjoy the sights and sounds of the MotoGP men and the smell of the 2-stroke boys as well as the excitement of the local support races. At days end, time to head back to the bikes and off to the house. But what's this? Where's my key? I put it right in my pocket. Oh, crap. It's fallen out of my pocket (I suspect around MG corner). Glad I keep a spare in my wallet. So the first day has been a fairly average one.
Onto Saturday. Down to the track and into the parking area but no-one to pay? Turns out we went in the media entrance. Yay, free parking! Over to the admission gate where it's been decided to have 2 lanes for people with bags and 2 for people without and person manning each line. So I get in the 25m long bag carriers lane and by the time I get into the circuit the line has doubled. Impressive. Anyway, the rest of the day goes pretty well. The one heavy shower in the morning happened to hit while we were ogling the Aprilia RSV4 and other good looking models (mechanical and not ;) ) in the expo so that was well timed. I caught up with an old school mate and we wandered the track the rest of the day taking photos and just enjoying the on-track action. Back into the expo before we head off, I know, I'll change to my short camera lense and take a photo of Rossi's M1. Oh, sonofa, I've been using the short lense all day! You fricken idiot! :angryfire : So back to the house I go in a filthy mood. Have a drink and a lie down, feel a bit more relaxed. Get up and join in discussions with the fellas. Dinner is made, mmm tasty. Then, as my Dad is cooking, what is that popping noise? Oh crap, the hotplate is shorting out and smoking under the bench! Race out and pull the fuse, smoke disapates, lift the hotplate and discover a mass of melted wire. D'oh! After tea I headed into Cowes to get some fuel and have a wander and a looksee. It was a nice, relaxed atmosphere but I do miss the old wilder days of burnouts out the front of the Isle of White. Had a coffee and a wander around checking out some of the beautiful and not-so-pretty bikes parked up the street before calling it a night.
Sunday arrives with the excitement and anticipation of Stoner on pole and Rossi right alongside him. Ride to the circuit nice and early. Parking the same as Saturday but this time we had to pay - no problem. Into the track this time with more people on the gate, much quicker - no problem. Head to turn 12 to watch the morning warmups and final Australian Superbike support race. On the way, stopped off at the Lost and Found - "have you got a Kawasaki key like this one?". "Is this close enough?". You beauty! I got my key back! My brothers and I head around to turn 11 and MG corner to watch the 125's, move along to Lukey Heights for the 250's and squeeze in amongst the throngs at Siberia for MotoGP. The sun came out for the big race, life is good. Stoner wins his second race back and Rossi takes a huge step towards his 9th world title, the crowd is happy. But, as usual, we get screwed over by organisers again as the riders are directed off the circuit at Honda corner, only the 4th corner on the track. Why is it that we never get a full celebration lap? Even Qatar does and they don't even have anyone there to see it!
So overall, it was a fairly mixed bag of a weekend for me but overall, it was MotoGP so it was good! Can't wait for next year! :up: