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Good man Nathan as I know they are doing it tight on their track days with some of their days and rained out cancellation fees etc. If we are not carefull there will be few if any days to go to. I know the super Sprint series next year may not be running due to lack of funds and demand. We are in same boat as last track day ran at a big loss.

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Hi, i attended the drift day with a couple of my mates from the central coast here who are members of SAU, i was not a member and had to register here just to write a message.

long story short ... a mate emailed me the thread about the club coming up short for the day , which is not good for when i recieve my Z in 2004 ... i would like to drift it aswell...

I paid on the day to be a passenger and for 9:10's of the day i was!... but rite at the end of the day i did a couple of laps on the figure 8 and two or three runs of the slalom battle in my friends car. I had a blast and would pay to do it again , but thing is i didnt pay to do it in the first place and i would now like to repent my sins...

and donate $50 to whoever it was that had to pony up the rest of the dough after we had our fun ...

im not sorry i had a go on the day cause it was awsome! BUT i am sorry for my dishonesty toward the club and the organisers ...

Must say I'm impressed with the number of people that are doing the right thing and owning up/living up to their word and helping Moto stay afloat for this day. :rolleyes:

But there are still some that have not said anything. :)

:slap: Those people know who they are and I hope you will have a good think about the way your rubbing the name of our club into the dirt.

I should be mentioned now that untill the club becomes bigger and gets some CAMS quallified officials we can not run speed events of any kind. That means that people like Moto Concepts and Arron Mcgill are our only real hope of getting our cars out on Skid pans, Drive days and Drift days. Basically if we lose them money they arn't gonna want us to come and play anymore. Or charge us HUGE amounts to cover the loss. I know what it cost to run these days and these businesses are not making a lot of money from them.

Also OZ goes a long way back with these people and has been organising events since before my time. For him to say that he won't be organising another is a large blow to our club.

IMHO.

Dan.

PS. el nismo diablo if you go to this website you can send them the money. Let them know what it is for though. And Thank you.

well its like this , if it was me and i had to shell out to cover an expense ... then i would be mighty p***sed of with the offending persons who put me out of pocket, i am the worst for doing the wrong thing , if i know ive done wrong it eats away at me untill i go and appologise or try to fix the wrong...

i once started freaking out case a security guard took my licence plate number for lighting up the front hoops on my pulsar ... in a carpark somewhere, he wouldnt have done much, it was a lousy burnout anyway.

i was dwelling on it for days LoL.

nah , i just dont wanna see the potential for fun go down the tubes !




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