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Great weekend, well done Ash for organising. I think someone should send an email to Alisa thanking her on behalf of the club (I am happy to do this Ash if you want? )

Was a very good weekend and most importantly, we didnt run dry!

Some great pics, well done Paul and Sarah :(

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haha yeh it was me wearing laurens shorts, she was upset cos i look better in them lol, was a great w-e thanks to the organisers including u ash, was good to meet some new sau members i haven met b4

hehe >_<

No worries about organising. Pity i couldnt come along, although Pete's wedding was something that should not be missed

Great weekend, well done Ash for organising. I think someone should send an email to Alisa thanking her on behalf of the club (I am happy to do this Ash if you want? )

Its cool, i usually drop her an email after the event :)

Well, not this week as Salon is coming up and its quite busy

what a BIG weekend (well....4 days). thanks to everyone involved, really was a top effort. Plenty of SAU antics going on throughout the weekend >_<

top effort with the photo's Paul! cant believed i missed Kris in the short shorts.....

Well it looks like everyone had fun. Once again, SAU comes through with the goods and picks up a couple trophies! I don't think we've gone an AutoSalon event before without winning something.

Just goes to show that SAU is full quality and also know how to party hard!

nice display guys. :mellow: thanks very much to all the SAU Vic guys for making me welcome and opening the door and the esky for me. It was good to meet quite a few of you and enjoy some nice melbourne weather. I may have drunk a touch too much over the weekend as both troy and I were a bit shaky today, but feeling much better tonight. I'm happy to extend the red carpet to any of the guys who make a trip north. Thanks again. :laugh:

Congrats Ash for putting this all together mate, fantastic job.

All the cars looked sensational and Im sure the F1 Patrons have their SAU fill.

Thanks to Sarah and Pauly for all the great pics too, great Job.

Was great to see so many familiar faces down at the track.

Love the F1, now have to wait a whole year for their return.

KL in 17 Days but who's counting.

Well I only went on Saturday but had a fantastic time. Actually was one of the best days I've ever had!!

Hooked up with a work contact that got me full pit access and got to meet Jackie Stewart which was the main highlight. Also hanging out in the Super Aguri & Ferrari Pit's right before they went out for qualifying was a highlight, Super Aguri pit team were very laid back and stopped for a photo opp, Ferrari Pit team looked flat out the whole time as they should be. Probably spent about 40 minutes strolling around all of the pits before we were booted out as they started qualifying.

Other than that my main highlights were - Being driven around in golf buggy's, getting back to the SAU display at the end of the day and being very intoxicated (Making the Mark Webber Mask smoke and talk!) and everyone else NOT being as drunk as me.

Well done to the people from SAU for organising the autosalon display, such a good turn out!

A couple of pit photos...

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Sounds like you had an awesome time.... scratch that, when I saw you, I think you were STILL in Party mode and why should'nt you be.

Pictures look awesome, they are some serious contacts you have to get SO close to all the action.

Thanks for sharing.

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