The Gladstone Cliffhanger was a momentous event, fraught with protests and seething rivalry. Australian motorcycle journalists flocked to cover this world class event that's putting New Zealand riders on the map.
Day one dawned....
And so we move on to day two. Fizzerman Biagi entered the first protest of the day when it was noted that the fastest time from day one was innocently sitting on the line connected to some skinny trash-talkin' bugger's name. In fact that honour belonged to Jay Lawrence of Cheezel Racing.
Enter protest number two when the day was canned due to excess moisture being hurled from the sky. Toys were thrown from some of the pit cots, and the top dogs prudently decided to wait until midday before making the final decision. Weather expert Mr Poos (call 0800MRPOOS) predicted sunshine for the afternoon, and was correct for the first time in his life. We're never going to hear the end of that folks!
During the weather downtime there was much discussion about tyres... Young whippersnapper Cheezel McJay is firmly entrenched in the Continental camp, with good reason we suspect. Trashy OohMeRibs found race slicks a big no no and converted to Metzeler Racetechs for his assault. ICantDecideWhichTyresToUse McFizzy was oft seen with tools in hand while he changed between slicks, road tyres, wets and various combinations thereof. Seems he was on to something there. And I could go on and on about what everyone was else was using, but investigating the portaloos became a much more interesting proposition.
Once the racing was underway there was much discussion amongst the spectators as to who was going to take out the title. As times got quicker on each successive run the excitement built. Was White Trash going to be able to give his younger brother the learn. With half a second between them there was a good chance, until Fizzyboy managed to pluck a 3 second lead out of his arse. A quick call was made to The Dover to see whether he could get his book of excuses down to Trashy before the end of the day. Whilst Fizzy and Warren Turner fought for first place, Trashy and Jayboy were battling each other for third. Just when it looked like Trashy was going to do it, the Jaymeister managed to get rid of an extra 2 seconds on the last run. Trashy considered protesting the young fella for some illegal mods he had made to his bike (see picture), but geeky Jay had been reading the rule book and discovered there is nothing said in it about cheezels. Who would have thunk it??
In a bad display of sportsmanship, Poos Team Racing Manager Ryan Withers, tried to upstage I'mTheMan Fizzy's winning mugshot for AMCN magazine with a brown-eye in the background.
There was some great riding on the day. Sexybum Flame was the fastest girly out there and the fastest v-twin. And what a hot bit of crumpet she is too. Phwoar!
At the end of the day Australian journalists said something about bringing some Aussies over to compete next year, but they didn't think they'd be a match for New Zealand talent or something like that.....
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Originally Posted by Riff Raff
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