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Yeah us too! Last stage of the last day, Grass Tree hill reverse I call it, can't remember its proper name.

We had them in 2006 too, right in the middle of the roud when we appeared tapped out in 4th in the GTR. Silly boys. LOL

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Yeah us too! Last stage of the last day, Grass Tree hill reverse I call it, can't remember its proper name.

We had them in 2006 too, right in the middle of the roud when we appeared tapped out in 4th in the GTR. Silly boys. LOL

Risdon Brook, only reason any taswegian could remember is thats the place you go when you do something bad, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

look I'm not saying it was a brilliant decision from the emo driver....but if you are doing rally you have no right to expect the road to be clear around the corner.

anything could happen or change from the recce notes, that evo could have been crashed into the bank and sideways across the road (came across one of those at buller, an evo by chance). hell, a tree fell over the track at the bathurst 12 hours the other week!

so no need for anyone to carry on like a dickhead

Sure Dunc, understand there may have been some over-reaction (I don't know, I wasn't there), but there is quite a difference to between coming across a crashed car and one that is being deliberatly driven against the direction of traffic.

I don't even know if the Emo was running, he may have had a full view of Weeks coming up the road and was simply trying to roll it down hill to a safer spot? As always, there's two sides to a good story :)

Holy FAWK!

She'll be quick across the top of Cethana without that chicane! Without the chicane (for those who don't know), it'll read somethin like;

200 metres into eight right, 350 to nine right, 600 to ten right, (now doing, oh, 300klm/h!), 600m into 9 right over crest 250 to left 6 off camber tightens.....

LOL. I wanna go!!!!!!

I know, it's going to be bloody fast. I think Rianna will be pretty crazy with no chicanes (it's combined with natone again), those looong straights with all the crests in them, photgraphers will love it.

You know this but I'll spell it out.

That real fast shit is money, you need to spend a heap of time on those spots during recce so you know where you can hold the thing tapped. Of course you always need to ease the throttle if she's leaving terra firma, and mark your safe braking points so you can keep it flat for as long as you can knowing you can stop with confidence.

Holy FAWK!

She'll be quick across the top of Cethana without that chicane! Without the chicane (for those who don't know), it'll read somethin like;

200 metres into eight right, 350 to nine right, 600 to ten right, (now doing, oh, 300klm/h!), 600m into 9 right over crest 250 to left 6 off camber tightens.....

LOL. I wanna go!!!!!!

Might invest in a few tow trucks to sit somewhere near the 6L off camber...after a run like that to an off camber 6 there's going to be moments/carnage a plenty!

Damn you Rookie!!!!!!!! That said, little devo runs out of legs very quickly. She's only geared to 230ish in 5th, so would be sitting at 6.5-7k for a very long time there :)

No chicanes at all from what ive heard, ive got reservations on this idea though, not everyone that enters is a seasoned racer/professional etc

We'll see after this event if they actually have any impact or not from a safety aspect. I feel they might have added a bit of a buffer for the less competent.

remember chicains have not always been there, it was only 2003? they were introduced with not much populatity. the fast cars of the mid to late 90, some of which were boardering on sports sedans seemed to survive...and that was on road rubber.

If the average speed stays under the FIA imposed average speed limit for a stage, then by all means get rid of them!

I'm more concerned for the future of the sport regading the freedoms creeping in. I know when it was CAMS it was crazy, like if you wanted to run your GTR as N1 you have to have EVERY GENUINE N1 part on it, but to see these "specials" creeping in has me concerned.

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