2016 Classic Festival

[Voltaire]

Tracy's Dad's BMW went well, only just pipped at the post by Hoods Norton in the last race.

[Grumph]

Tracy's Dad's BMW went well, only just pipped at the post by Hoods Norton in the last race.

Who was in the chair ? Did Nev get the matchy fixed in time ?

[sidecar bob]

Who was in the chair ? Did Nev get the matchy fixed in time ?

Nev was swinging, so I guess his wasn't running.

[Voltaire]

Who was in the chair ? Did Nev get the matchy fixed in time ?

Not sure who was riding but Nev was swinging

[Motu]

They don't get anywhere near the crowds that they used to.

After those Hampton Downs cockups, the Classic Festival isn't on my radar these days....I didn't even know it was on, such is my interest. Still, I've been going off and on since the very first one, so one year it might be on again for me.

Classic Racing this weekend? Sure thing, had the Stornello out today hooning around Waikato back roads.

[trustme]

I don't see HD as being a cock up. If MNZ will not let you race at Puke, the NZCMRR had very little choice in the matter. The future as I see it will be interesting. Puke long term will go the way of Baypark, urban sprawl will kill it. HD is getting expensive , it will get more so & it does not attract the punters that provide the NZCMRR with much needed revenue. The grapevine says the new owner does not want motorcycles. The Hamilton clubs winter series is heading for Taupo. Who knows what the future holds .

Overall I had a bloody good time & a big thanks to all those who made it happen .

[jellywrestler]

[QUOTE=trustme;1130945972The grapevine says the new owner does not want motorcycles. [/QUOTE]

is this the same grapevine that says HD was supposed to go the other way around but transit nz didn't want cars crashing onto the motoray? what a crock of shit.
'he built the track at cromwell, it's not bike freindly the requirements for bikes are differnt, for example often you need differnt flag points for bikes and cars, you need run off, and it would all have had to have been different and cost differnt too.
His baby is cromwell, he picked up HD so he could have somewhere to run a few double meetings, the rest of the time he wants to let it sit there and run succesfully as a satelitte track.
simple, you grapevine has been pissed on too much i think.

[jellywrestler]

After those Hampton Downs cockups,

who cocked it up? and outside promoter who sold half of the practice day for many people whose first chance it was to ride on a new track and learn it, to a third party.....?

[trustme]

is this the same grapevine that says HD was supposed to go the other way around but transit nz didn't want cars crashing onto the motoray? what a crock of shit.
'he built the track at cromwell, it's not bike freindly the requirements for bikes are differnt, for example often you need differnt flag points for bikes and cars, you need run off, and it would all have had to have been different and cost differnt too.
His baby is cromwell, he picked up HD so he could have somewhere to run a few double meetings, the rest of the time he wants to let it sit there and run succesfully as a satelitte track.
simple, you grapevine has been pissed on too much i think.

From a personal point of view, I would have thought he would want everybody to use the circuit. The fewer users the the more the costs will go up for the ones that remain, it all becomes a bit self defeating, I am somewhat sceptical of the grapevive
Again from a personal point of view I want HD to succeed. Puke is a dinosaur, pouring money into that track was like patching up Eden Park. Short term gain , long term pain.
Just my opinion

[Laava]

Shit, I didn't realise it was only for aucklanders, I snuck in via Lower Hutt and they never asked me at the gate.. Maybe they noticed my car was an automatic and assumed I was a local?
they also had this thing called a covered grandstand there, if you were in there you may just have seen the one two minute drizzle come across on the sunday, between classes, and the shower during the practice session on saturday, but not felt any yourself.

Hah! I didn't mean it like that at all, I rode down from the far north where it was dry and it fucken pissed down on the auckland motorway right through. It would be fair to say that the majority of expected spectators will be aucklanders I would have thought. It was still pissing down in auckland when I went back through later on sat. So you were the commentator? I remember you saying to the crowd to get on their phones and round up some punters?

[jellywrestler]

So you were the commentator? I remember you saying to the crowd to get on their phones and round up some punters?

guilty... yeah it was only a pisstake but i was told by several people that it was pissing down in auckland so asked the crowd to remind people there was still fun in the dry at the track.

[Motu]

who cocked it up?

The Festival wasn't a Festival at HD. I'm not intersted in the racing, or politics....or advertising to get me to go somewhere, that usually has the opposite effect.

[jellywrestler]

The Festival wasn't a Festival at HD. I'm not intersted in the racing, or politics....or advertising to get me to go somewhere, that usually has the opposite effect.

to be fair the idea and lure of appartments right there was new, a lot of crew were showered, had down their toenails and siting on their balcony before the racing was over, and the crowd dispersed too.
there were bikes locked in garages, rather than in tents so no-one could look after the racing, at puke people had established where they'd camped over the years, and who would be next to them like a stale old motorcamp, they didn't know where to pit.
i got the impression a lot of people expected the new girfriend to be exactly like the old one that had 'dumped' them and just didn't want to make it work.m but that's my opinion.

[swarfie]

Not sure who was riding but Nev was swinging

Tracey's brother Brian was driving and did a top job. There weren't too many places I would have wanted to go harder. Was awesome fun and in the last one a demon out-braking manoeuvre at the back straight chicane put us in front but Hoodies big buck Maney engine managed to drag us over the line by less than a metre...bugger. Felt a bit tatty yesterday as I hadn't swung for a couple of years but would swing for Brian again any time he wants me to and I'm pretty picky on who I trust to do that with.

[sidecar bob]

Tracey's brother Brian was driving and did a top job. There weren't too many places I would have wanted to go harder. Was awesome fun and in the last one a demon out-braking manoeuvre at the back straight chicane put us in front but Hoodies big buck Maney engine managed to drag us over the line by less than a metre...bugger. Felt a bit tatty yesterday as I hadn't swung for a couple of years but would swing for Brian again any time he wants me to and I'm pretty picky on who I trust to do that with.

I know what you're saying there.
I only trust about four people to cart me around, & Bryan & his sister are two of them.