Muzzab
27th January 2013, 14:02
CAMS like to start the day early and the gate was to open at 8AM so my plan was to get there at the time. It's a 250 km drive through the mountains from my place in Greymouth to Ruapuna. It was 5:28am when I headed out the driveway, I arrived at Ruapuna at 7:58am.
Man did my van use some juice to get there, Toyota Estima Supercharged 2.4lt petrol = slurp when giving it the sausage. $90 when I filled up to head home in the evening.
Anyway, the weather was great, apart from the wind blowing dust in your face, but at least it was a tail wind down the main straight.
Ended up having 2 practices and 5 races for the day. I'm a piss poor starter and get left behind on the main straight (must shed some pies one day) so not really a great fan of full track on the bucket. But in the last race of the day, which was a Bucket and 150/250 class combined I had a hoot trying to pass a young lass on a RG150 and Aaron on a FXR150 (who was parked up next to me in the pits, nice to meet you Aaron).
Thanks CAMS for putting on a great event.
Here's some links to a couple of vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1d7YoQIEXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8rBsVY31E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkJxpyftFw
Cheers
Muzza
Man did my van use some juice to get there, Toyota Estima Supercharged 2.4lt petrol = slurp when giving it the sausage. $90 when I filled up to head home in the evening.
Anyway, the weather was great, apart from the wind blowing dust in your face, but at least it was a tail wind down the main straight.
Ended up having 2 practices and 5 races for the day. I'm a piss poor starter and get left behind on the main straight (must shed some pies one day) so not really a great fan of full track on the bucket. But in the last race of the day, which was a Bucket and 150/250 class combined I had a hoot trying to pass a young lass on a RG150 and Aaron on a FXR150 (who was parked up next to me in the pits, nice to meet you Aaron).
Thanks CAMS for putting on a great event.
Here's some links to a couple of vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1d7YoQIEXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8rBsVY31E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkJxpyftFw
Cheers
Muzza