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Luke Bell
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Orange, NSW
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Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 10:23 pm, by:  Luke Bell (Silhouette) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Any Soarer guys making the trip out here to Bathurst this year? Be wary, there is a lot of highway patrol presence this year! I must have seen 10 people pulled over just today!

As I work for Bathurst Council I have to work at the event so I thought I would post up some pictures of how things are going for those that are interested. This first lot were taken on Tue & Wed mostly as the cars were been unloaded from the trucks.
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www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/11.jpg
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These few I got today
www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/13.jpg
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www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/15.jpg
www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/16.jpg
www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/17.jpg

Hope you enjoy the pictures! it funny after all these years living in Orange, this is the first time I have actually been to the Bathurst 1000!
Mike Beck
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Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 10:40 pm, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Quite exciting this time of year.

I've been watching old Bathurst clips the last few days, always nice to relive those final laps!

Looking forward to watching it on Monday (Can't watch it live on Sunday, so I'll have to record it, Sigh)
Ben Lipman
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Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 10:43 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The TV coverage is so rubbish up here I am considering driving down tomorrow to find a channel that broad casts the lot. Channel 7, 10 and 1HD all have the indian games thing. Channel 7 keep saying that all their normal programming is on 7two, but that is a lie. They also made a big song and dance about how good they are at bathurst but I just don't see it up here. The first bathurst coverage we get is the top ten shootout. When ten had it last time I lived up here I watched everything from lunch time friday onwards.

End rant. Sorry. I just wish I was there.
Matthew Sharpe
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Friday, October 08, 2010 - 09:51 am, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wouldn't you get bogun lynch mobbed rolling up to the mountain in a Toyota?
Luke Bell
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Friday, October 08, 2010 - 10:03 am, by:  Luke Bell (Silhouette) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Haha, not driving the Toyota there!! Driving a Mazda 323 from orange then get a council commodore
James Eitmann
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Friday, October 08, 2010 - 11:32 am, by:  James Eitmann (Samej007) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A bit late for us to organise one this year but if we can get enough people interested maybe next year as a Soarer Central Event we could try to organise for a soarer contingent to be at the mountain, It would be an awesome road trip.
Ben Lipman
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Friday, October 08, 2010 - 06:06 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

club..?
Luke Bell
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Friday, October 08, 2010 - 09:59 pm, by:  Luke Bell (Silhouette) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A few more pictures I got today, some of Whincup and Richards cars after their crash.

www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/18.jpg
www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/19.jpg
www.silhouetteamps.com.au/images/2010v8/20.jpg
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Aaron Casey
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Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 11:03 am, by:  Aaron Casey (Blownminiturbo) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

gee they have a bit of work to do to get that back in shape for the race. i was going to head up this year but didnt have the spare cash
David Goldthorpe
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 09:23 pm, by:  David Goldthorpe (Sprocket82) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Luke Bell wrote on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 10:23 pm:

Be wary, there is a lot of highway patrol presence this year! I must have seen 10 people pulled over just today!




Wish I had read this before I went up... Got pulled over at 131km/h in a 100 zone between Lithgow and Bathurst. Thankfully the cop was a descent type and reduced the fine to <10km/h over (1 point demerit and $90 fine). I then got pulled over in Bathurst for an RBT and had the Channel 9 crew film the whole thing so look out for a white Soarer on this week's RBT show (8:00pm Friday). No, I hadn't been drinking .

It was kind of a last minute decision to go up there as I finished work at 5pm Saturday, hit the road at 6:30pm from Newcastle and arrived at Mt Panorama just before 11:00pm that night... Lucky a mate was already up there with the tent set up at McPhillamy Park. Drove home at the end of the race on Sunday night and back to work Monday morning... so, yeah a bit of a mission.


Matthew Sharpe wrote on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 09:51 am:

Wouldn't you get bogun lynch mobbed rolling up to the mountain in a Toyota?




Thats what I expected too, but the crowd is becoming more family oriented these days. I've been up for the race the last 5 years and every year there are more and more police there. This year they even had gaming rooms set up for the kids to keep them occupied.

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