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yep all cars are welcome, at the moment there are 30 cars attending. Don't forget to bring a passenger tho, it will be hard to follow the notes if you're on your own....

Mark - that's been all checked out and we are good to go at Homebush. All car-parks are open and no road closures affect our route.

c y'all there.

Cheers,

And yes folks - Fatz brought the rego papers for the Corolla !! He he. Better late than never Pete - I never doubted you M8 !

A HGE thanks to Duncan and Kel who organised the vast majority this event - Great one guys. Hopefully the first of many more successful SAU-NSW events.

Good to see everyone wearing the Skylines Australia Shirts too.

Pity about the wind - Pity about the Club meeting - But hey 5hit happens - it was a great day !

Did y'all like Duncan's trick question ? - That must have got a few of you ! (we all know it was deliberate - not)

Can't wait for the show and shine day !

Congrats to Dino, Lisa, Anne and Simon too !

And as always - nice to put a face to some SAU names !

Cheers guys.

Well all, apart from the bloody road closures over at Homebush, the wind, and the tiny mistake in the instructions, it was a great day out today.

For those who had to escape early, here's the table:

Lee 2

John 29 (OK, you guys were more

interested in the drive, right?)

Pete, Tosh and Bella 178

Mark, Nitaya and Pranee 195 (but disqualified for opening

envelope)

Struan, Drinte and Yassin 198

Ash and Alex 211

Mark and Robyn 212

Margaret and Jenelle 224

Carlo and Athlene 233

Lawrence, Genelle and Wayne 236

Julian and Mandy 236

Mel and Neil 237

And the joint(!) winners:

Simon and Anne

Dino and Lisa on 243 points

Unfortunately since there was only 1 perpetual trophy the winners will be sharing for the next 12 months.

The other prizes were:

Most Lost:

Unfortunately this one goes to Mark, Nitaya and Pranee who were still in Homebush bay an hour after leaving

Funniest Answer:

Ash and Alex, who when asked how many license points for " Drive or use vehicle where sound system emits offensive noise" answered "like maria carey or the backstreet boys?"

Honourable mentions for worst effort:

Pete having his dog Bella as next of kin & navigator

No GTRs for entering on the day, obviously they are all in workshops having sump baffles fitted (SBS).

Thanks to:

The rest of the organsing committee: Kel, Brendan and Dan

Dino for trying to deal with CAMs and their rules on competitive events

Mel and Toulia for donating the food for the BBQ, we certainly did not go hungry!

The 2 cars from *far* south coast who came up for the day, and Shell for joining us from Canberra

Unfortunately the SAU meeting did not go ahead as we did not have a committee quorum.

We hope you all enjoyed the day, next time we will remember a windbreak!

Guys n Gals

Just got home. Nice event.

Lucky we had a 2nd Navigator or else Driver and 1st Navigator were going to punch on.

Hey but it was good fun.

Enjoy! Laurie, Genelle & Wayne

lol, always a danger of HGE arguaments on days like these! Glad you guys could make it up today, I got to put quite a few names to faces.




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