NZCMRR Classic Festival 2007

[slowpoke]

Haven't been to Pukie since they butchered it. Gotta say, if there was a competition for the most boring racetrack in the world, from a spectators' point of view, Pukie now would win it hands down.

Only decent place to watch motorcycle racing is in the inside quarter of a slow corner, so you can see the riders twitching themselves silly under brakes, and setting up their line for the corner. And they're slow enough to get a good look. And where is the only slow corner now at Pukie? Right up the far end, where you can't go (as far as I could see - correction welcome), and from the grandstand the bikes are just specks. And all you see from the grandstand is the bikes barrelling past flat tit. Boring boring boring. Better fun wandering around, I reckon they shouldn't bother with the actual races.

Haha, I just realised the last time I was at Puke Keke Rosberg was giving the locals a driving lesson....seems like several lifetimes ago...

Shame the racing isn't really set up for spectating but Puke is in it's death throes I reckon, so hopefully it'll be at a more suitable arena in the near future. If I'd gone along I'd still be rapt they were putting on a demo, the sound is half the attraction for me, I'd quite happily sit there with my eyes closed soaking it all in.

[Motu]

Definatly the sounds - old bikes and open exhausts are just heaven.Modern bikes are too refined,and even with open exhausts just sound boring.Having a 7R back off the throttle while you are strolling down pit lane is like having the seven horsemen ride past.

And the engineering - I am awed,and embaressed by the level of engineering skills possesed by the average Kiwi today.30 years ago with my meager mechanical skills and working in workshops with a lot of gear I was able to do things to bikes my contempories were unable to do..I am still a bodger - but Joe Bloggs far surpasses me now,the workmanship is stunning,the magnatude of the work overbearing....I just don't know how people get the time to churn out these projects when it takes all my time just to keep a bike on the road.

Oh,and as we were coming over the Tuakau bridge on sunday the Ferrari club were having a club day down SH22,I've never seen so many Ferrari's....a billion dollars going the other way.....