Greymouth Street Race 2008 - All Go

[Ghost_Bullet]

What an awesome weekend, loved every moment.

[wharfy]

Great weekend !!!

[Buddha#81:Me]

Great weekend !!!

FFS man you made the effort to get down here from the Norf Island give us more than that........did ya make the ferry on time? Was it ruff? Ya comming back?

[steve74]

Hey wharfy, good to put a name to the face. Sorry i couldnt chat longer. Being one of few commitee members still awake at 7.30pm i always get lumbered with the prize giving duties. im normally in a zombie state untill all that shit is over. I was hoping to catch up with lots of KB'ers during the day but always seemed to have to be somewhere else between my own races.

JOHAN - i was hoping to catch up with you, did you make your ferry??

[wharfy]

FFS man you made the effort to get down here from the Norf Island give us more than that........did ya make the ferry on time? Was it ruff? Ya comming back?

In order
Yes, no, YES !!

[CHOPPA]

So who was the man!?

[wharfy]

So who was the man!?

Glen Williams (again)

[dangerous]

So who was the man!?

BrenChCh aka BrenBlade... he was the man in F4 buckets

[Mikkel]

A great weekend indeed!

Good ride over Lewis going there.
Awesome racing sunday - sun and cold wind -> no sunscreen -> pain & beer.
Great ride back monday going over Westport and Murchison - the beast really enjoyed it and so did I.

Between Glen Williams and Hank Randall the F1 and FG became rather predictable - 1st and 2nd places at least. My hat's off to Glen who entered his SV650 into 3 categories (F1, F3 & FG) and went out and gave it all taking first place in all 9 races.
I enjoyed the supermotards the most since there actually was some real intense competition at the head of the field. The dirt diversion was the place to be where the riders' background became very obvious. Wasn't clear cut if roadracers was better or worse than the motorcrossers - but the roadracers seemed more consistent overall, where the crossers sometimes gained immensely and other times fell over, stalled or in other ways were set back. At the end of the day Stephen Briggs took 1st place.
Buckets were great - Bren had quite a challenge in keeping up with the (relatively) skinny lad on the (relatively) powerful CBR, but I think he showed us how it's done! (1st, 1st, 1st and 3rd - 1st overall)

[helenoftroy]

Awesome guys,enjoyed that soo much......

Envious of everyone racing and all the CHCH dudes(and Miriam...go girl!!)you were all fantastic.......

Brens the man!!!....(tastefull pin-up shots??oops sorry!!)

[dangerous]

check out the race report page to hear from us racers, or go to www.visordown.co.nz/go and read a shit load of reports.

[quattrocchi]

for those of us who didn't go to the races.

(I was born there - that's why I never go back there)

Brian
Auckland

[steve74]

Sadly we couldnt secure tv coverage for this years event, we were trying right up untill the closing weeks but couldnt secure funding. There was a documentary being filmed on the day which looks interesting.

here is a link to the preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HngK2KoGfxE

The good news is that because of the high success of this years event, the West Coast development trust have already confirmed tv funding for the 2009 20th anniversary event.

cheers, steve

[racer40]

will you run sidecars next year ?,

[Kickaha]

will you run sidecars next year ?,

I asked that question again this year

We did a sidecar demo about 4-5 years ago hoping to get on the program the following year

Phil Garret was working with the Greymouth committee on it and told us once MNZ was approached for sidecars to be on the permit they pulled out the stewards report from the meeting we'd done a demo at and which no one else knew about and said it was a "no go" as the track was considered dangerous for us to run at