Meremere Dirt Track pictures 27-28 Dec (Read 1,483 times)

[chairman]

What an absolute gem my first visit to this track turned out to be.

Some noteworthy things I found : All the spectator seating is covered, the flag marshalls points infield are covered and protected by tyre/dirt walls, the toilets were clean and modern and well stocked with paper and soap, there was somewhere organised to park kids for a while, and on the first day they ran 39 races and had a half hour lunch break within 5 hours.

Oh and the kids we took had a ball on the free bouncy castle

Meremere are sometimes described as a bunch of hicks. If the things I've noted above are part of the requirements for being "a bunch of hicks" then I wish more tracks were bunches of hicks.

I was only going to shoot off a handful of pics to work out some good spots to watch Eddy kick Yaz's errr to watch the Photographers Challenge race in February ;D, but I ended up with over 1200 shots. These are some of the ones that stood out as I scrolled through them afterwards.

Don't ask me which races these are from or who was driving - some of the cars seem to come out with a different family member driving in just about every race

As usual click on the thumbnail to open a larger copy in a new window/tab, or click here to open the entire gallery in a new window so you get the pictures with next/previous buttons.

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[Hooncorp]

Well done Gary.

Where we didn't have a stockcar teams race for the purists, too us this is as big an event as that. Thanks for coming down both days. If I had known you were coming down today as well, I would have organised you a media pass.

Those shots are awesome, the pic from Saturday you posted show Justin Baldwin (16) getting some 'love' from Rod Bennett (112) in what was nearly a very nasty incident.

As for today's shots, WOW !! to being in the right place at the right time to get that sequence of Scotty Wallace going over twice in the starlet (92). What I can tell you is, a couple of unknown people rushed over to Wallace in the pit and brought a jack and porta power to help get the car raceworthy for the next race. What followed was an unscripted story of getting the car onto the track (minus bonnet) to be scrutineered on the track while the race was held to then be very sadly sent to the infield due to having a broken axle. Thus correctly being deemed dangerous.

Those shots and others are brilliant, and I want to pass on the club's thanks for all your patronage and generous gift of a disc of all your Saturday photos.

See you at Huntly new years eve.

Hooncorp.

[chairman]

Thanks Mike, it was a great time and we were more than happy to pay $8 each to be there (aspiring 'bunch of hicks' tracks, note that ticket price ...)

I can't be at Huntly this week as I'm working on New Years Eve, but next time I'm there (or at Meremere) I'll bring you a disc of Sundays shots to add to your collection.

Cheers
Gary