Well.. what a day.. !!! You guys don't know what you're missing out on not doing the Nelson street races!! I'm still absolutely buzzing from the racing I got to do!!! I entered formula 2 & 3, but managed to burgle a free practice in formula 1. To be totally honest, at the end of my first 4 laps with the formula 1 guys, I thought to myself.. what the ...... am I doing here.. this is fucking insane!! Picture this if you will.. you're hammering down a straight at 150 -200 kmph.. (depending if you're Nicko or slow poke Frosty) & you have to brake & right angle turn into a section of road the size of a frigging driveway!!! thee size you are heading towards is 300mm high kerbing you then gas & go round a series of right angled corners.. so there is very little flow to the track, but somehow it is totally addictive. About a third of the way through the day, Nicko gave me some of his harden up pills, & I actually started to race!! I'd bore you guys with the ins & outs of my performance, but I did well enough to qualify for King of the Port, which is the top 5 finishers in every class, & is a 10 lap, all in race, Motards, formula 1, 2 ,3 etcetc. all crammed on the track, you can imagine the mahem at turn 1 they were all trying to squeeze into the area the size of a driveway, & no one giving ground!!
Did I have fun today...???? FUCK YEAH!!! will I do it again... darn right!!!!!
I broke in a new virgin pit bitch today as well.. dropped in at the deep in, as per usual by me.. she did a darn good job by looking after me & Nicko.. I'm sure she'll put her own comments up later!! Here's a few pictures of me & 'Lipstick'
Best part of the day for me was a huge race long duel in my last race-we must have swapped positions at least 20 times as we duked it out.-On the last lap nicko and the other 2 fast guys went flying past -we were so intent on our own fight I diddnt even register him passing
Worst part was being right BEHIND diesel pig heading down to the hairpin. Totally committted to the corner I was suddenly looking at a cloud of smoke from his back tyre as he struggled to get his bucking beastie to coast around the corner.
Scared me so I hat to imagine what was going through his head.
Met so many cool KBers I really couldnt list them--but all fantastic people
FROSTY
Nicko did bloody well getting 2nd in F2.. & 3rd in Bears.. from a spectator point of view, it was some of the most exciting racing of the day!!!!
The old van unbelieveably loaded down with gear.. next stop Invercargill, if it's anything like todays racing.. I'm gunna be bouncing off the walls for the next month!!!
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