Friday, 7 March 2008

Round 6 - Teretonga - Testing 1



It's cold down here in Invercargill today, so its jackets all round. Cloudy, but only a couple of drops of rain so far.

The Zoom Zoom race car has had a bit of work done on it this week. Monday/Tuesday was panel & paint c/o Ballantyne Auto-Paint - repairing the damage from Race 2 in Timaru (which made the national TV news last Sunday night, so I've heard!). We've also replaced the Turbo as the last one was down on boost last weekend.

Dodge gave up his last few days of work this week for a road trip. He flew down to ECUTek in Napier and picked up the Red Mazda3 MPS (which they've been using for computer testing) and drove it all the way down here to Invercargill. Why? Rolling spare parts! :-) There's no MPS' on the yard here in Invercargill, for us to sabotage, so we were forced to bring an organ donor. He quite enjoyed the drive by the sound of it. The MPS with a tricked-out computer is a real little rocket, apparently.

Dale had a good run in the 1st test session this morning, with the best times in his class. The numbers are close though, so no real surprises.

We've got another test session this afternoon at 1:50pm.

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