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yes they are.

Latest press release here:

http://motorsport.com.au/news/nissandrag_21Mar06.htm

For more info:

www.ndsoc.com.au

Thanks, should be a great day, going to race both of my cars!

Thorough Dissapointment I must say. Crowds were weak, consisted of heaps of bogans shouting out get a V8 (funny, at a Nissan/datsun day too) track was not prepped earlier in the day.

Biggest Waste of $20 bucks - I can remmeber last years one at heathcote was 500 times better.

Small crowd, heat etc. Kier Wilsons/Rajabs/Brecianis cars were the only decent things I seen going.

Thorough Dissapointment I must say. Crowds were weak, consisted of heaps of bogans shouting out get a V8 (funny, at a Nissan/datsun day too) track was not prepped earlier in the day.

Biggest Waste of $20 bucks - I can remmeber last years one at heathcote was 500 times better.

Small crowd, heat etc. Kier Wilsons/Rajabs/Brecianis cars were the only decent things I seen going.

Yes it was unfortunate that Kier's car blew an engine on the second pass. Brescani's just packed up after that and I left when that happened.

I agree on the bogan element, but you can't control that.

The $20 proved very steep for the quality of competition. Most of the bracket competitors were 15 Second+ cars. A friday night meeting cost's less with far more depth of competitors.

It's a risk putting an even like this on and focussing on a small cross section of vehicles. Hopefully lessons will be learnt.

The event needed to be run with far more "crispness" - starting at 6pm instead of 5pm with no explanation to a paying crowd is not good PR and will not encourage a return visit at the next event. Not staging cars in the pit lane for next bracket wasted a lot of time when there were only 3 or 4 cars in some brackets.

Please take this as constructive feedback as that is what it's intention is.

Regards

Andrew

ps. The food prices at Calder are getting just plain rediculous. $3.80 for a 600ml Pepsi, a people say Bank's are bleeding people dry... :O

Unfortunatly it seams calder still cannot run a drag event, this is very sad, altho the heat was a large issue, the events management at calder ( the same people who run friday night drags) just were not interested. very sad. all i can say wait till later in the year wen the ndsoc will be back at heathcote!

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Ive stopped going to calder on friday nights. Its a shit track, run by bogans, costs an arm and a leg, it seriously reminds me of a big rubbish tip out near the airport...... do I have to go on.

Other states, I know in particular, Perth and Sydneys drag strips are like 5 star hotels compared to calder.

If you wanna do something about it, simple, dont go and race. A huge proportion of my customers who have drag cars dont even sight calder. Heathcote may be 3 hours away, but its a better atmosphere and people enjoy going there.

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Ive stopped going to calder on friday nights. Its a shit track, run by bogans, costs an arm and a leg, it seriously reminds me of a big rubbish tip out near the airport...... do I have to go on.

Other states, I know in particular, Perth and Sydneys drag strips are like 5 star hotels compared to calder.

If you wanna do something about it, simple, dont go and race. A huge proportion of my customers who have drag cars dont even sight calder. Heathcote may be 3 hours away, but its a better atmosphere and people enjoy going there.

Yep, I agree. I was at Heathcote today with my 2 kids (5 yr old and 3 yr old), they loved it. Atmosphere was good, playground to play with and can view the cars up and close.

I must admit, Heathcote is much better for the spectator and racer, you can nearly touch the cars. But its been proven, Calder is a faster track by at least 0.2 of a second. Must be something to do with the air altitutude at Heathcote

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