Offroad-Express

Team Performance Mechanical & Engineering got on the road from Taupo yesterday:



We made it to Raana's place with no probs & promptly got into some clutch changing, fishing & beer drinking:



We got out of there this morning OK:



The team made it to Whangarei no worries, we're all scrutinised now & raring to go for tomorrow

Cheers
Clint

Clint wrote:Team Performance Mechanical & Engineering got on the road from Taupo yesterday:

The team made it to Whangarei no worries, we're all scrutinised now & raring to go for tomorrow

Cheers
Clint

Good luck up there

So how was it ???

Saturday started with a winch through a ditch on S2:



No worries there, so it was off to S1:



I think Klem set one of the faster times through there.

Stage 4 turned a bit pear shaped when the new sheath on the main rope broke & jammed up, so the boys had to use the electric backup, but they got through without losing too much time:



Stage 3 was also a bit arse as the truck blew a front hub & Mike had to do some serious amounts of running to winch through a lot of the stage.



55 got through 1 more stage, then the last stage was canned, unfortunately not before Raana had bent up his steering on a stump. Another steering rod was located & installed before the night stage:



Klem set another good time on the night stage, collecting a few shrubbery souvenirs on the way:



Then it was time for a washdown & a few beers.

More later
Clint

The Top 5 placeings in the Competition class were
1st Justin
2nd Kerry
3rd Owen (fluffy)
4th Kleem
5th William
Sorry dont have any further results at the moment ,We had a Horror of a Comp and the least said about it the better ,one of the highlights was we were in Kleems group and it was sure nice to hear that Super charger of his screaming from over 1km away ..Steve

Hmmm... bit of a different story from prizegiving.

Anyway, we were up & into it on Sunday after fitting a new radius arm bush to Raana's truck in AB's yard. The Northlanders had a great site on the edge of town with some tough stages & good viewing for spectators. The first stage was a bit average but then the boys laid down a real sharp time in the 2nd one.



The last stage got a bit messed up when Klem decided that the course would be far better without a certain tree so he ran the bastard over. Unfortunately this broke the front skid plate, then on the next winch the rope was cut by the sharp edge. The guys had to thread the rope back through on the stage to carry on. Then it was back through the bog:



The shortened rope meant that the boys didn't have the length to reach a tree so it was out with the ground anchor, but they got through the stage without DNFing.



Then it was beer-washdown-beer-prizegiving-beer-dinner-beer...

Top marks to Darin & the Northland crew for laying on a great event & congrats to the winners & placegetters, whoever they may be

Clint

Clint wrote:

Atleast you remembered to fill it with gas before stages aye Clint