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That time of year again boys and girls 4 days of booze, grid girls, concerts and fast cars

I'm sure there will be the usual small get together that unfortunately matches the time of the bikini parade :( if not at the Murray Walker Extreme machine display (SHOTGUN THE SPYKER)

who else is coming and where are ya sitting??

I'll be all over the place at this stage, mainly between Australian GT, Carrera Cup and my grand stand seat :)

should be a good weekend

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i wanna go this year, last year i worked :) so not sure where i will be tho

Yeah i was the same, unfortunately had to work last year so missed out but i really wanna go this year but i still haven't sorted anything out about it :(

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Yup I'll be there. Block AA (I think, or A) on pit striaght this year, so said parade won't be too far away ;) LOL. Will be there all 4 days too, leave is approved, so whenever, wherever I'll be up for a catch up

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You know Ill be there all 4 days

Start/Finish line 1 row infront of me, Beer and Titty (sorry - fassion) show stands directly behind me.

Sunday night a hangover from hell.

We usually do a pub crawl through every sleezy joint we can find Friday and Saturday nights if anyone wants to tag along.

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You know Ill be there all 4 days

Start/Finish line 1 row infront of me, Beer and Titty (sorry - fassion) show stands directly behind me.

Sunday night a hangover from hell.

We usually do a pub crawl through every sleezy joint we can find Friday and Saturday nights if anyone wants to tag along.

I don't expect anything less, guy :)

won't be spending to much money there this year, I'll have to find some corporate facilities for me to get some free food and drink ;)

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i heard they were going to have supercars there this year :huh: they seem to be calling em exotics for some reason though

ill go if my bro scores us free tickets through his tow truck connections other than that im gonna pass cause i dont like enough of the races to make it worth while.

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got my free ticket.....one of my ex's is a grid girl this year.....haha so i am in for free and also got a free pit and paddock pass.....so cant wait to get some autographs....unless i am too wasted at team vodafones garage.....

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how good is it that beam is on board yeewwww!!

got to pj's about 9:30am after having a 6 pack on the train :banana: then after a few drinks at pj's had to be by the track at 10:45 to watch the GT series with the lambos ect then after that dont think i saw too much racing more just chatting to random girls all day :( a mate picked me up arond 6pm went home showered then back to town i remember sitting in heaven at 6am still drinking.. i was hurting for days after that!

im going to do it all again this year yay!! general admin FTW

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