Qld Driftstate - August 10 @ Qld Raceway

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Federal Tyres Drift State

Round 3

Sunday 10 August 2008

10am-5pm =7hours!!!!!

New Track Layout!!!

Turn 2 / Dipper / Infield Straight (with cones for one more clipping point)

Judges: Peter Cartwright & Robby Mounfield

Entries: Entry forms will be available on various forums and via Queensland Raceway's website (www.queenslandraceway.com.au) in the next few days. Competition entry will be $150. Entry forms lodged and paid prior to close of business Monday 4 August 2008 will receive 2 free tickets at the gate.

If you wish to pre-enter but do not have a credit card - Direct Deposits are now available!!! Just leave your "driftstate-yoursurname" as the reference. Feel free to call Trent at Mercury Motorsport on (07)33523363 to confirm the deposit has been received!

BSB: 633000

A/C: 132835349

A/C Name: Mercury Motorsport Australia Pty Ltd

Pitbays: The first 39 paid entrants will be guaranteed pit bays. This will be assigned as payments are received with your pre-entry, so don't wait till the last minute or else you WILL miss out.

Practice/Qualifying:

Track open from 10am for practice!!!! For Qualifying, the entrants will be broken into groups of 15 (A, B & C). Each group will be given 30 minutes in order to practice and qualify ie. there will only be 15 cars on the competition track at any one time. This will ensure each driver gets plenty of practice and can get in a good rhythm. 2 runs will be judged (line up in the right hand lane to qualify) and the best run out of the 2 will count. In the event of two drivers being tied, it will come down to their secondary score.

Competition: The competition is a standard 32 car battle tree, down to the winner. Every car in the 32 entrants can will the event on the day. Trophies will be given to 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Queensland Raceway will run practice throughout the even on the 3-6 track for those drivers who have been eliminated or just wish to get in some more laps!

DAY SCHEDULE

Practice on-track from 10:00am!!!

Competitor Vehicle Safety Check: 12:00 – 1pm (If you miss this, you will be excluded)

Drivers Briefing: 12:15-12:30 (If you miss this, you will also be excluded)

Practice/Qualifying:

Group A (cars 1-15) 1:00pm – 1:30pm

Group B (cars 16-30) 1:30pm – 2:00pm

Group C (cars 31-45+) 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Break: 2:30~2:45pm

Competition: 2:45~4:45pm

Expression Session: 4:45 ~ Close

PRIZES

1st, 2nd, 3rd – Pair of Federal 595SS 235/45ZR17 Tyres & Trophy

Driver Raffle Prizes – a) Set of 4 Federal 595RS 235/45ZR17 Tyres

b) Basic Service & Vehicle Inspection at Mercury Motorsport

SERIES PRIZES

As for prize money, there will be $2000 to 1st place, $1000 to 2nd place and $500 to third place for the series championship.

Below is a track layout - be advised the yellow line purely indicates the direction of the track, not the preferred driving line and clipping points.... My MSPaint skills are not that far advanced

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Entry Form Here-----> DRIFTSTATE!!!

Entry Form Here-----> DRIFTSTATE!!!

Entry Form Here-----> DRIFTSTATE!!!

Entry Form Here-----> DRIFTSTATE!!!

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this weekend guys!

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5 days!!!

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[Ramya]

The Remembrance of Lilacs

The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that Sunday in May. After all, it was Mother's Day -- and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio.(maple story mesos)

She had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy Mother's Day, and her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was now that spring had arrived. As they talked, the younger woman could almost smell the tantalizing aroma of purple lilacs hanging on the big bush outside her parents'back door.

　Later, when she mentioned to her husband how she missed those lilacs, he popped up from his chair. "I know where we can find you all you want, "he said. "Get the kids and c'mon. "

So off they went, driving the country roads of northern Rhode Island on the kind of day only mid－May can produce：sparkling sunshine, unclouded azure skies and vibrant newness of the green growing all around. They went past small villages and burgeoning housing developments, past abandoned apple orchards, back to where trees and brush have devoured old homesteads. wow gold

Where they stopped, dense thickets of cedars and ju nipers and birch crowded the roadway on both sides. There wasn't a lilac bush in sight.

"Come with me , "the man said. "Over that hill is an old cellar hole, from somebody's farm of years ago, and there are lilacs all round it. The man who owns this land said I could poke around here anytime. I'm sure he won't mind if we pick a few lilacs. "

Before they got halfway up the hill, the fragrance of the lilacs drifted down to them, and the kids started running. Soon, the mother began running, too, until she reached the top. world of warcraft power leveling

There, far from view of passing motorists and hidden from encroaching civilization, were the towering lilacs bushes, so laden with the huge, cone-shaped flower clusters that they almost bent double. With a smile, the young woman rushed up to the nearest bush and buried her face in the flowers, drinking in the fragrance and the memories it recalled.

While the man examined the cellar hole and tried to explain to the children what the house must have looked like, the woman drifted among the lilacs. Carefully, she chose a sprig here, another one there, and clipped them with her husband's pocket knife. She was in no hurry, relishing each blossom as a rare and delicate treasure.

Finally, though, they returned to their car for the trip home. While the kids chattered and the man drove, the woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers, a faraway look in her eyes.

When they were within three miles of home, she suddenly shouted to her husband, "Stop the car. Stop right here!"

The man slammed on the brakes. Before he could ask her why she wanted to stop, the woman was out of the car and hurrying up a nearby grassy slope with the lilacs still in her arms. At the top of the hill was a nursing home and, because it was such a beautiful spring day, the patients were outdoors strolling with relatives or sitting on the porch. world of warcraft gold

The young woman went to the end of the porch, where an elderly patient was sitting in her wheelchair, alone, head bowed, her back to most of the others. Across the porch railing went the flowers, in to the lap of the old woman. She lifted her head, and smiled. For a few moments, the two women chatted, both aglow with happiness, and then the young woman turned and ran back to her family. As the car pulled away, the woman in　the wheelchair waved, and clutched the lilacs.

　"Mom, "the kids asked, "who was that？Why did you give her our flowers？Is she somebody's mother？"The mother said she didn't know the old woman. But it was Mother's Day, and she seemed so alone, and who wouldn't be cheered by flowers？"Besides, "she added, "I have all of you, and I still have my mother, even if she is far away. That woman needed those flowers more than I did. "

This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he purchased half a dozen young lilacs bushes and planted them around their yard, and several times since then he has added more. aion gold

I was that man. The young mother was, and is, my wife. Now, every May, our own yard is redolent with lilacs. Every Mother's Day our kids gather purple bouquets. And every year I remember that smile on a lonely old woman's face, and the kindness that put the smile there.