Racing in Australia

thenorm

So, many of you know I am working for 6 months in Australia.

While I am here I watched a V8 supercars race near Brisbane.

a little about the cars. Its a touring car class based of a 4 door sedan. the only four model are Ford Falcon, Holden Commodore, Mercedez c63 AMG and Nissan Altima.
5.0L v8 engine, the chassis, sequential gearbox, are all common parts.

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crazycanadian

Awsome Norm.. How was it to watch in person?? I have seen these guys often on speed... Always looks like some exciting racing to watch...

ginger

Damn that looks like a lot of fun! Nice pictures as well

thenorm

was a lot of fun, the cars sounds fanastic. Its not uncommon to get 100,000 spectators. People make a family weekend out of it. Put a canopy and lawn chairs on the hill. They also go pretty crazy for their favourite drivers. They'r all wearing shirts and other merchandise of their favourites.

thenorm

and now for something completely different.
I went and watched the Avon Descent. It is a 150km race down the Avon River. although the river is not very large nor deep. They almost had to shorten it this year to to lack of water but were saved by some late storms. Awesome fun to watch. The boats just crash and bash their way down the river. THey bring alot of spare parts with them as they destroy quite a few propellors in the race. and there is kayaks too, but not white water kayaks, they use longer ones so its easy to paddle on the flat bits.

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thenorm

Been to a couple more races.
First off is Jack's Hillclimb.
Its a permanent hillclimb site, so these are reasonably frequent. Its located at the back side of a raceway. They have a whole bunch of roads paved, so they can run different courses each time, kinda like our autocross.

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thenorm

next was Targa West. A tarmac rally on the city streets of Perth.

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mojoyaris

Wow! Norm, you're having a blast out there.

thenorm

I saw some more racing. This one was the Singapore GP.
full set http://www.flickr.com/photos/100803811@ ... 347433893/


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