The Place

This weekend is Rd1 of the NZ National championship starting with a a 3 day meeting with 5 races at Ruapuna in Christchurch

Friday, 1 x practice, 1 x qualifying, 1 x 8lap race
Saturday 2 x 8 lap races
Sunday 1 x 8 lap race, 1 x 12 lap NZGP

Live timing and video feed is free online http://www.ctaslive.co.nz/Live_Timing.aspx



Temperature over the three days is expected to be between 28-30 degrees

I think the Andy MacDonald listed is the ex-350 LC racer from Kent.

Tell him Dave & Bernadette were asking about his shiny pipes! He'll know what we mean.

David Stewart wrote:I think the Andy MacDonald listed is the ex-350 LC racer from Kent.

Tell him Dave & Bernadette were asking about his shiny pipes! He'll know what we mean.

It is Alex McDonald and Andy Gorst

I think the Andy you are thinking of lives up North and still races an LC

Two racing from your side of the world are Barry Smith and Pete Goodwin

We will miss the racing again . In N.Z. from 2nd week in Feb. North Island first then down a bit .

oldbelly wrote:We will miss the racing again . In N.Z. from 2nd week in Feb. North Island fist then down a bit .

You're in luck, 3rd weekend in February is the Paeroa street race
http://www.battleofthestreets.co.nz/

First two weeks of March is NZ Nationals racing at Hampton Downs and Taupo

Give me a yell if you're down as far as Christchurch

Practice, qualifying and one race today was total crap, not even getting within 4 seconds of my club day times and lap 7 Barry and Robbie rolled over and it was red flagged, both up and mobile but waiting to here re their injuries

That looks like a great track

Another eventful day

So far between three teams there's been about 6-7 engine changes and two of the top teams are both out of the championship after big crashes (everyone is sort of ok)

Between that and swingers getting fired down the road it's been an eventful two days with lots of beer owed and we still have another day to go