The Roaring Season

Rod Grimwood wrote:The video explains it all. Same sort of accident, even to the cause of it, impact partly obsorbed by fence, and bet it was easier to repair than DJR's car.

Might be a close run thing, as far as repair cost/complexity goes, according to this 2007 news item.

All body panels on the car, plus front and rear suspension, and the differential were destroyed in the crash, and the chassis rail was partially bent.

Initial cost estimates for damage are a minimum $100,000. The figure could be doubled if further assessments reveal the engine and gearbox are damaged beyond repair.

These photo's really sum up the old Pukekohe... Lots of room and so casual you could lie on the infield near the track !
Meanwhile the BMW's are going hard out and a Fiat is already parked on the railway tracks

and note the position of the marshal's post!!! I remember flagging there at the first truck meeting and we retreated about 30m as we deemed it too dangerous...

Just as well the bloke in the FIAT doing the three point turn onto the railway line didn't meet one of these coming the other way!

Somewhere in my mother's china cabinet is the first motorsport photo that I ever took, of a FIAT 125T at the B&H in 1973 or 74, standing behind the No. 8 wire fence on the outfield, where the track turns left just along from the hairpin. As a youngster with a cheap camera, that was pretty exciting stuff.

This year at the Supercars, I wondered up to the same spot, and replicated the shot. Can you spot the differences?

Apologies for the crap photo quality, I might have dropped my cellphone once too often .