Wakefield Konicas - Page 2

Bomn · 1 Apr 2002, 11:23 (Ref:248848)

Congratulations when is the wedding.

Easter would have to be the worst time for this race. Most people would be going away for the four days and would not want to come to Goulburn for that long.

mtpanorama · 1 Apr 2002, 11:23 (Ref:248849)

9000..............

That means i must have been counted 3 times with everyone else. We sat on the hill on sunday in the 1/2 hour break before the Konica cars came out and did a rough crowd count on the hill and looked across at the spectator mound near the pits and it was not full like last year. At a rough guess 3000 to 4000 would be the max.
BTW gmontrack,
When are the rules for improved production going to be properly enforced so that the cars that are legal actully have a chance of winning. Since when are things like spare wheel wells alowed to be removed or modified to allow roll cages to go thru them.

Crash Test · 1 Apr 2002, 11:25 (Ref:248851)

Kudos Elephino! Is she one of the 'blonde' girls from the Casino in Melbourne?

RaceTime · 1 Apr 2002, 11:32 (Ref:248854)

Not sure what happened about this one - but one driver in the Konica's was to be charged on Saturday (well they said they were going to) for having an extra item in the boot of the car during qualifying.....

Get this - the 'extra item' was a full container of fuel!

Crash Test · 1 Apr 2002, 11:34 (Ref:248857)

Ouch! I'd hate to see them in an enduro with the garden hose rigged up to the 44 gallon drum, refueling the car, with a bucket of water standing by in case there were any dramas...

Morris 1100 · 1 Apr 2002, 11:36 (Ref:248859)

The flaggies called in that a car was leaking fuel from near the back wheel and when the car came in they found a drum in the boot!
Sounds a bit like when I qualified at Amaroo with the wets in the boot!

Amaroo Park · 1 Apr 2002, 11:39 (Ref:248860)

Was there anything else in the boot Morris. It must have been a pretty awful pit crew

Bomn · 1 Apr 2002, 11:41 (Ref:248863)

I had to read that again Morris i thought you said you wet in your boots

Amaroo Park · 1 Apr 2002, 11:44 (Ref:248865)

I think the track frightened him

Morris 1100 · 1 Apr 2002, 11:44 (Ref:248866)

They were the worst pit crew you could ever find!
One bloke was a Holden Mechanic and the other was a Diesel Fitter off the railways and they were hopeless!

Bomn · 1 Apr 2002, 11:47 (Ref:248870)

Didn't you have a chicken farmer and a fireworks salesman on your crew.

Morris 1100 · 1 Apr 2002, 11:47 (Ref:248871)

But there was one bloke that stood out from the rest, The Bathurst strut throwing champion!

mtpanorama · 1 Apr 2002, 11:53 (Ref:248875)

Dont worry morris, you are not the only one. I was at private practice at Oran park and wondered why the car was handling baddly. Lots of over steer. The reason... 2 tyres and a trolley jack in the boot

Amaroo Park · 1 Apr 2002, 11:57 (Ref:248880)

I know what you mean I had this bloke helping at a HQ race at Wakefield Park. He thought he was Alan Wilkie and said it's going to rain we will go out on wets. So out we go on wets and low and behold it didn't rain. Morris did you have Cornel Sanduers on your crew. SABOTAGE

Morris 1100 · 1 Apr 2002, 12:03 (Ref:248886)

and then there was the guy that looked in the engine bay and said "Look at all the oil" when a scruitineer was walking past!

Morris 1100 · 1 Apr 2002, 12:09 (Ref:248892)

mtpanorama, my problem was that the car handled better with the wets in the boot!
There was a wet HQ race at Indy and one guy decided he needed ballast in the boot so in went the wets and an esky in the middle to stop the wets sliding around.........guess which car got hit in the boot and sent the contents down the track.......guess which team had no beer to celebrate with.

Morris 1100 · 3 Apr 2002, 11:22 (Ref:250795)

Has there been an official crowd figure yet, todays paper said the crowd was 1500 up on last year but gave no numbers.

Crash Test · 3 Apr 2002, 11:28 (Ref:250799)

yeah, 9,000, nicely rounded

Morris 1100 · 3 Apr 2002, 11:32 (Ref:250800)

I never saw 9000 people there and I had the best seat in the place!

Buckshot · 3 Apr 2002, 11:43 (Ref:250809)

Yeah no way was there 9,000 people there...I was at Wakefield Park for the Konicas and for PROCAR last year and I think there were more people at last years Konicas. PROCAR left them both for dead - I was surprised at the turn out for that event.

RaceTime · 3 Apr 2002, 11:47 (Ref:250813)

Quote:

Originally posted by Morris 1100
I never saw 9000 people there and I had the best seat in the place!

Didn't see you in the TIming Room (that is the best seat in the house - out of the wind/rain/sun, air conditioned, great company, food, music - what more could you want to stop yourself going to sleep?

Morris 1100 · 3 Apr 2002, 11:53 (Ref:250819)

I thought you were complaining about the air conditioning!
Well you did on Saturday!

elephino · 5 Apr 2002, 11:29 (Ref:252596)

Morris, he complains about the air con all the time anyway.

Good to know I'm considered good company, but I'd say it was the other two people racetime was referring to.

9000 was the 3 day figure and by my reconning...

Sunday - 3,000-3,5000
Saturday - 1,500-2,000 if you're lucky
Friday - 1,000 if you include the sheep next door.
=6,500 maximum.

P.S. The wedding has been called off as she won't return the favour and suck my toes.

Crash Test · 5 Apr 2002, 11:37 (Ref:252600)

eeeeewwwwww.... shudder

Morris 1100 · 5 Apr 2002, 11:40 (Ref:252602)

And I thought it was the number of people at the track multiplied by the number of races!

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