Offroad-Express

Not long to go now The North/South Winch Challenge is on over the weekend of the 6-8th July. Based at Pucker Park, Hanmer, there will be 3 stages on Friday night, then down to Hurunui on Saturday for a further 10 stages and finally 7 stages on Sunday back at Pucker Park. Friday night will be free to view although we are keeping it low key spectator wise. Saturdays event is run by the 4x4 Events Club, this is run on private land and unfortunately no spectators are allowed. Sunday at Pucker Park will be a good day. Spectators welcome, usual price $10 per person or $25 a family. We'll have the food caravan there etc. Entries are still being taken here http://www.4x4events.co.nz/node/382

As per usual anyone who is keen to help out will be most welcome

Cheers
Jason

not long now, are there many North Islanders coming ??
tracks will be really wet, can`t see the sun coming out down here for a while

was up at the park Saturday , helping clear some tracks,
lots of trees down with snow dump, a couple of weeks back.
ground was still frozen, had trouble getting quad around, good thing it has a winch.
looking forward to this one , for sure

Thread Jack: Anyone from Palmy area that would have room for 4 beadlock rims?? Trying to get them to Chch for beer money

There'll be no shortage of firewood next year thats for sure

just need a good chainsaw ay Jase....Pucker looking good for event though will be good for spectators.

any one from Auckland coming down, need sump brought if possible.
not long now.

Himm rain rain rain she going to be a slippery weekend poor navis are going to have their work cut out

Sounds like this one will be a ripper!! Lots of pix n vids please.

Looking like a good event, Set up well for spectators .
Who's heading up there.

mck wrote:Looking like a good event, Set up well for spectators .
Who's heading up there.

Still workingon permission from herindoors...

What a blast last night Weather is brilliant today and looking like tommorrow will be awesome. 14 competitors in some cool trucks. Definitely worth a trip to see.

well done to sav and scotty
and good event

Awesome work Jason, great courses and loved the mud

Does any one have the final placings?

And pucker just gets better every event

Yeah really enjoyed pucker parks stages and set up awesome Marshall's. Well done Jase!

One night and two days of awesome 4wd , Great fun. Big thanks to Rick, Jason, and all your helpers. I had a brilliant weekend.

Who won ? Any results yet?

Was certainly a great weekend and I couldn't have done it without some serious help from John, Nick, Mike, Al, Jas and Rik who helped with the big tree cleanup, setting courses etc in the leadup to the event and then along with some excellent help from the Suzuki Club, marshalled the stages on the friday night and again on Sunday. I can't thank these guys enough for their help
Andrew Saverley (Sav) won the Thermal Thunder Event at Pucker Park
Rick Crosbie won the Hurunui Event


drum roll please.................................

Sav from Nelson took out the NZ1 title with Mike Holmes and Rick Crosbie second and third (I'm sure about Sav but might have Rick and Mike round the wrong way )

Big thanks to all the competitors who took part. We had 14 entries in 4 classes with two teams travelling down from the NI to fly the flag. We had a brand new 12000 pound SuperWinch up for grabs and thought the fairest way to pick a winner was by drawing a competitors name out of a hat. This was won by Glen Raymond from the Manakau 4WD Club so along with a good load of South Island mud the winch heads North with him.

Thanks again to everyone for helping us stage a fantastic, exciting and fun event.

So whats the next event going to be then guys????

Good to hear. No surprises with the winners.
Can someone throw up some links to any pix or vids, please?

Some here of stage 3 i think from the hairpin and staircase.

great event, enjoyed pucker park and a big effort for all involved
a bit of footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII8XMIzhiw&feature=plcp

Some people might of liked the country music instead of the sound of the guys wheeling their trucks. But to me you can't beat the sound of a 4X4 truck in the bog. CHEERS Bob!!