(ACT) Canberra Ute Show, Feb '08

Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:59 pm

damn, obvioulsly completely different organisations. albery next then griffith for me.

Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:17 pm

Yeah, Aulbury is next on our calender, then Newcastle and then Griffith. Aulbury is a weekend event over the weekend of the 15th. I am with TEKA.

Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:20 pm

hey sorry, i miss read your last post. yeah i was there. 78 kart. white and blue, spent most of the time side ways. that was our 3rd race.

Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:26 pm

Ah, right. I am kart 88, purple and red. Team Canberra, obviously. My uncle/team owner is the treasurer of TEKA. We had a shocking weekend. I am only new to the team, but the others have been doing it for a couple of years. We had carby problems, qualified 32nd and came 19th outright. Not too bad, but far from what we can do!

How amazing was the drift action but!?! I thanked Brayden for organising the skid pan day for CC'08, helped me out a heap!

But, back OT now, send me a PM if you want and we can discuss it further.

Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:23 am

Sydney Show was a no go last year. the first question they ask is how many other shows have you entered? then you have to meet a selection of other criteria before they let you enter. they choose who they want there, so its not as broad a group as in canberra. Also they want you for basically 14 hours a day over 4 days i think from memory. too much even for me.

Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:57 am

Not to mention that they have preliminary judging thin the herd throughout the competition. Only the top 20 or something actually make it to the final judging.

A bit too elitist if you ask me, but I might give it a crack next year. Even placing in the top 20 of such a difficult comp would be rewarding.

Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:17 pm

Well the Canberra Ute Show is over for another year, and because a bunch of rednecks decided to do some massive skids and fishtails on the main arena in front of the RNCAS president, the event will probably be shit-canned!

I'm in the process of writing a couple of letters to the organisers and the president at the moment, because I was less than impressed with the organisation of the day. What a shit fight!

Thanks to Shane for making the effort to come down this year - it was a bit disappointing to come away empty-handed though.

Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:21 pm

As you said: A shit fight.

Proper organisatin wouldn't have left out an awards class.

And yes, there's a place for fishtails and burn outs and in a main arena with pedestrians isn't it!

Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:54 pm

After you left, that guy next to us that was flogging his missus with a thong decided to do some fishtails. The organisers caught him and gave him a lecture, so he took off harder than before and ended up sideways through the exit gate and out into the carpark. Nice one bruvva!

Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:33 pm

Yeah, when the utes were coming out near the top car park (about 3.15pm yesterday), a couple of the bogan utes damn near ran some pedestrians down as they flew on by (I was one of em they nearly hit)... talk about d*ckheads.

Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:36 am

Pics are up:
http://www.tamon.org/gallery/v/events/CanberraShow08/

Didn't bother to put up many - no point really!

Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:53 am

You guys really missed not having me there, didn't you!?

Kinda glad I managed to double book that weekend by the sounds of it. So both of you cam away empty handed? What was the go with that?

Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:36 pm

No mini truck category got awarded!!

Maybe more mighty boys need to show up

Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:58 pm

Just had a quick look at the photos, and they're not bad!

Ahhh the memories!