Post by tcchamp on Jan 7, 2008 18:30:03 GMT 12
The Racing: Superb, TC deserved his 4th title, what a champion, the best ever, the stats don't lie.
The Event: The time it took to get the first race mobile was a disgrace, the officials took 15-20 minutes to get the race going and all nite there were long delays to get races underway. I am not referring to the 3 championship races, you expect delays when so much is at stake, and same goes for the delay in announcing results. But by 7pm after 1 hour, we had barely had one race! Why couldn't the track packing have started earlier?
But a NZ title is a chance for a circuit to promote itself, Dunedin missed the boat. At one point we had a bloke change his tyre on the track only for the officials then to say he could not race, what a waste of time! They looked disorganised and weak. It was VERY frustrating.
The program was cheap, $3, but it was worth that, hardly any info and photos of a few drivers but nothing special, another opportunity missed.
The backup races were awful, all saloons and small fields (not helped by retirements admittedly).
Finally, a point to ponder. TC may not have won if another car had DNFed in the final heat. He passed 3, 5 & 5 cars in each of the 3 heats. Boulton passed 5, 2 & 1 car. He benefitted massively by the attrition rate in H3. Sure he raced superbly in H2 to beat the caddy (but I wouldn't write home about that, the bloke needs to go back to the golf course) & Emerson (who is a brilliant driver but got stuffed by the golfing loon). TC was the best driver on the nite yet he could have missed out. I guess thats motor-racing.
Congrats TC, you are a superstar.
Dunedin, lets get it right next time fellas.
The Event: The time it took to get the first race mobile was a disgrace, the officials took 15-20 minutes to get the race going and all nite there were long delays to get races underway. I am not referring to the 3 championship races, you expect delays when so much is at stake, and same goes for the delay in announcing results. But by 7pm after 1 hour, we had barely had one race! Why couldn't the track packing have started earlier?
But a NZ title is a chance for a circuit to promote itself, Dunedin missed the boat. At one point we had a bloke change his tyre on the track only for the officials then to say he could not race, what a waste of time! They looked disorganised and weak. It was VERY frustrating.
The program was cheap, $3, but it was worth that, hardly any info and photos of a few drivers but nothing special, another opportunity missed.
The backup races were awful, all saloons and small fields (not helped by retirements admittedly).
Finally, a point to ponder. TC may not have won if another car had DNFed in the final heat. He passed 3, 5 & 5 cars in each of the 3 heats. Boulton passed 5, 2 & 1 car. He benefitted massively by the attrition rate in H3. Sure he raced superbly in H2 to beat the caddy (but I wouldn't write home about that, the bloke needs to go back to the golf course) & Emerson (who is a brilliant driver but got stuffed by the golfing loon). TC was the best driver on the nite yet he could have missed out. I guess thats motor-racing.
Congrats TC, you are a superstar.
Dunedin, lets get it right next time fellas.