Rally Australia

SupremeMoFo · Sep 16, 2009

Did noone from here go?

SupremeMoFo · Sep 16, 2009

Guest · Sep 16, 2009

I really do wish I went, great shots as always Evan!

SupremeMoFo · Sep 16, 2009

Cheers Stephen! Go to NZ next year instead, it's going back to Auckland (has been in Hamilton the past 3 years), and while WRC cars are AWESOME SPECTACULAR BRILLIANT AMAZING, the organisation of the event was terrible. And the hippies ****ing sucked.

jet150 · Sep 16, 2009

Yeah good pics.

bogan bob · Sep 16, 2009

Awesome pics Evan! what do you mean by poor organisation?

Also, we could possibly do with your imput for the SA group calender submission....

Mortz · Sep 16, 2009

I work in Murwillumbah at the little servo near town, the cars were running past for the Special stages while I was working so that was awesome. And had speed on tweed with all the early and late model production cars doing time trials just after the rally, and thats always cool to watch as well.
I was lazy though and didn't make it to the dirt stages, wish I had now

SupremeMoFo · Sep 16, 2009

Ooh, I haven't been on here for a couple of weeks, link Dion? I've deliberately avoided Magna photoshoots but would definitely be up for a VR-4 meet.

Organisation was just poor - granted, the other 2 WRCs I've been to were Perth (19th and last year it was run, they knew what they were doing) and NZ around Hamilton, where the spectator areas were considerably larger.

The spectator areas were FAR too small and very poorly thought out. In Perth, they had the same problem with nanny-state layouts not allowing you anywhere that might be possibly remotely dangerous. In NZ, there was a lot less nannying - plenty of places you could stand where you'd get sprayed with rocks, or if on the inside of a corner - you could get within a metre of the racing line - which I did. Talk about exhilarating! But there was none of that in this event - you really didn't get very close to the cars at all, the spectator areas just weren't large enough for people to spread out and soak up the action on multiple corners, and the spectator areas were mostly boring. Hell, in NZ, I was lying on the edge of a 3-4m high cliff taking photos of the cars beneath me. stupid nanny state Australia...

Mortz · Sep 16, 2009

Thats weird. Out the front of my service station they had two 1 metre tall (or slightly higher) barriers to protect the front of our servo, fuel pumps and everything. And this was literally just over a metre from the track, and you'd assume a car rolling over the small barriers into the fuel station full of spectators would be way more dangerous (and possible) than letting some spectators stand in larger observation areas for the dirt stages. Strange logic.

Guest · Sep 17, 2009

SupremeMoFo said:
Cheers Stephen! Go to NZ next year instead, it's going back to Auckland (has been in Hamilton the past 3 years), and while WRC cars are AWESOME SPECTACULAR BRILLIANT AMAZING, the organisation of the event was terrible. And the hippies ****ing sucked.

Yeah I was planning to go to NZ in the next couple of years with a few mates, and timing it with the WRC seems like a good plan.

Mind sharing or provide a link to your NZ photos? Would love to see them.