Saturday Night

Well for just a little while we were winning the outback challenge. Laurie did a great drive on his first run with a 4.03 minutes but then about 5 cars did better - Coops was best I think and Huddy did great in carby 4.2 (Funny how that's the motor everyone was taking out to fit a V8 and yet he beat almost all the V8's in a speed stage).

Major carnage for some as follows ...

Dave Cameron (fist car) did a tail shaft.
Laurie Griffiths busted the A Frame in the rear.
Nick Mannel was most impressive - not only ripping the front right hand wheel off with hub and all, but also front right guard completely off as well.
Mick Hingerty did a fuse - it ran computers as well as 6-8 x spottiesso he got just 50 feet into the stage.
Not sure what happened to Hoon but he lost power and coasted back to the finish inside DNF (5mins) but got towed back to B'Hill.

Second run was much less breakage an ran without a hitch. Times got faster. A sub 4Min was the goal and we were happy with a 3.50 from the Lux. But alas the fast guys got faster too.

Notable great performances from the following ... (I am tipping this might be top 10 ish but no particular order ...)

Neil Cooper & Chris Hummer
Greg Scanlon
Huddy & Muppet
Brett Chenowyth & Rob Barton
Alan Mac & Shayne Barclay
Lawrie Sternbeck & Hobzee
James & Brett - PGS - I think they did a pwr steer pump on 2nd run but still did great.
Bruce Borchardt did a blinder 2nd run and worth noting.

Not much sleep at Silver City tonight me thinks.

Pics tomorrow.