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Apparantly its cheaper to buy a three day pass than to buy a Saturday and Sunday pass seperate, whats your opinion in regards to seating or general tickets still not to sure.

Out of curiosity is anyone going out to the octagon round, its on Sunday I think but not sure what time.

Also welcome back guys just home from holidays. How was the Autosalon and congrats to platinum, didn't think Tassies quality of cars was as good as it seems.

Cheers Lavers

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cheers mate, MAS was excellent, put together really well.

Grandstand would probably be better but its personal preference, And grandstand have only just been built so who knows how good it'll be....

Might go out to octagon, went out last meet and didnt even get to see my mate's rx3 in action got there just as he did a gearbox.

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Yeah octagon is free on Sunday only thing is I'm unsure what time it starts.

Also on 20 November Tarmak dragway is holding one of the new sport compact meets. Apparantly their is large interest amoung mainlanders such as PAC performance etc.

Will be nice to finally meet you all out there.

Cheers Lavers

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Couldn't believe how many skylines I saw yesterday compared to how many people we actually have as members on here. Saw at least a dozen skylines and plenty of other imports. Overall I thought the racing was pretty poor but everyone is claiming that the new surface is heaps quicker.

See ya all soon Lavers

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wasn't too bad, mate's rx3 did another gearbox in qualifying round, bit dissapointed. Octagon is getting more and more interest each round. crowds getting pretty big. Anyone know what happened with the silver 33 GTR? Last few laps it did it only putted around and didnt sound healthy...

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I want to know the same thing, it was the only one and it sounded a bit sick and also was behind a couple of R32 GTSt's atone point!!! It wasn't right.

Was that a Dassun 200B with a turbo motor that killed its class? It was awesomely fast.

Some nice cars in the crowd I agree.

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