Offroad-Express

The MSR Deadwood Safari is on Saturday 8th January at 615 Whitemans Valley Road, Upper Hutt, Wellington. It is the second round of the national 4WD Trials series and will have the best 4WD drivers competing over 30 different “hazards”. It is being run by Valley 4WD club and they’ve pegged out the hazards and they're average to fearsome, mostly fearsome. It'll be a spectacular sight to see the best drivers and vehicles in NZ attempting them.

Spectators are welcome; entry will be $10 per adult or $25 for a family with free parking. We expect to give away a brand new Mitsubushi heat pump in a lucky draw (tbc) open to everyone coming to the event.

We are looking for some volunteers to assist as marshals, no experience necessary. If you haven’t been a marshal before don't worry - it's quite straightforward and a full briefing with all rules will be given prior to the start of the event on the day. It's likely you'll be paired with an experienced marshal anyway. Entry is free for marshals and lunch will be provided for so you don't have to queue at lunchtime. Pm me or email vitara888@yahoo.com if you are interested in marshalling.

Bump .... howd you get on with this? do you still need marshals/helpers?

Jerry, send Pedro a PM or give him a call 0212488527

I dunno how the marshall situation is going but we probably wont turn down help

Pedro says more would be helpful .... Its not just marshalls that they will need .... who's keen??? its on Saturday ...

Jerry wrote:Pedro says more would be helpful .... Its not just marshalls that they will need .... who's keen??? its on Saturday ...

free entry for marshalls, if enough show we can use u for am and the others for pm, we can even feed ya lunch if you help out, no experience required, you get trained on the rules for your particular hazard, if a competitor argues the clerk of course will give them 200 points, and the competitors don't like that so dont argue, get to see how many differnet ideas of vehicle performance actually work, there are no 12" lifts for "awesome performance and stability "

Give me or Jerry a PM, either for more info or to let us know ya coming please

Cheers

Pedro

Bump !!!!! ... 3 days to go !!!!

Who else is keen? ... no experience necessary, and lots of mud/cool trucks/v8's !!!!!!

The plan could be to come over after work

yea same with me, got a fair bit of work booked in, will try come for a looksee.

Cheers Daniel

is there a class for road trucks? reg wof etc?

wopass wrote:is there a class for road trucks? reg wof etc?

kinda, a class being 4 cyl, STD, b class being 5 cyl plus, Std, if you intending to run your crusier then you would be D class, V8, lockers suspension etc.
goto to http://www.4x4trials.co.nz/ for more info


Pedro

start times???

For spectators 9.00 am

For marshalls, briefing at 8.00 am in the marquee

Pedro wrote:

wopass wrote:is there a class for road trucks? reg wof etc?

kinda, a class being 4 cyl, STD, b class being 5 cyl plus, Std, if you intending to run your crusier then you would be D class, V8, lockers suspension etc.
goto to http://www.4x4trials.co.nz/ for more info


Pedro

i could run in A class and have all the zooks beat me, dont need to run D class for an ass woopin

Totally unconfirmed that the Hoff will be there!

Some photos from the morning session:













































Plenty of good action...

cooksworld wrote:

That has to be almost the end of JJ's truck surely , look at the bend in the body line . It must have a bent chassis or its a deceptive pic . Maybe he has just ripped the front guard off the inner bodywork .

Chris

Thanks to all the ORE people who came along to help out today. We had a good number of marshals and recovery teams and the event seemed to run well.

vitara888 wrote:Thanks to all the ORE people who came along to help out today. We had a good number of marshals and recovery teams and the event seemed to run well.

On behalf of the the Valley 4wd club, thank you very much to those who attended and helped marshalling, recovery etc, it is a huge task to run one of these events and with out the volunteers like yourselves it would simply be impossible. the drivers had a ball and enjoyed the day, Thanks again and hope to see you at the next deadwood, when ever that may be.

Cheers

Pedro

Wheres the video of the truck Skid was in doing the roll

some more footage here (not mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctY1TzGMnxM

Are any results going to be posted

Rotazuk wrote:
That has to be almost the end of JJ's truck surely , look at the bend in the body line . It must have a bent chassis or its a deceptive pic . Maybe he has just ripped the front guard off the inner bodywork .

Chris

A couple more for you...

great days entertainment, big ups to all that made it happen

some pics:

Jerry wrote:some more footage here (not mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctY1TzGMnxM

Haha that was fast! Beat me to uploading my own video

Ive got some photos too that I will put up tonight

couple of vids:

dan cowper taking the very high line:



can you say "limiter!!!!"

this is about a second before our second roll of the day.
first one was a simple sideways wheels to wheels.
this one was over backwards with a rather hard landing.......





we are still waiting for the video of our third roll to surface. it should be highly entertaining when it finally turns up

I went out for a watch with my boy and we both enjoyed it a lot. Great day, well run, some awesome trucks out there.

Thanks to those who organised and marshalled etc.

Matt.

That has to be almost the end of JJ's truck surely , look at the bend in the body line . It must have a bent chassis or its a deceptive pic . Maybe he has just ripped the front guard off the inner bodywork .

Chris

Damage included - holes in radiator, bend bonnett, puncture tyre etc etc

Think it will be back on the chassis straightening again !!!

Truck was still completing well into the afternoon session.

Couple more photos













Great day out! Wish I had shown up earlier so I could see more of the morning courses. A credit to all involved. Thank you too all the organisers and volunteers


David