So the last week or so has been a nightmare as far as planning and getting things done has been concerned. The chaos of putting in motion a secondary plan in the wake of rain at Willowbank has been draining and not an experience I want to repeat in a hurry. The ultimate race of [...]
Well, it was never destined to be the world’s greatest trip, but who would have thought it would have ended like this? Willowbank is now marked on the map with a swamp/marsh symbol, racing was cancelled before day 3 began and it’s been chaos ever since. First things first, got to explain the swamp bit [...]
… as the song goes. Day 2 of the 2011 Winternationals has ended prematurey thanks to the rain. Until then, it has been a fairly busy and good day for racing. Final run of the day was a wheelstandingly brilliant John Zappia, who mostly two-wheeled his way to a 5.82 pass. Unfortunately, the canning 0f [...]
Queensland is pretty cold right now. Luckily, the presence of drag cars has cancelled out the bad points completely. So, the trip so far. Despite the near-annual dramas I seem to suffer in getting here (the rather dilapidated Queensland Rail system is slowly falling apart) which resulted in two trains and two taxis to get [...]
