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BA’ATHIST 1000
“Where’s Tim?” asks concerned reader Blogstrop. “Gone to see some cars burning around Mt. Panoramadan?”
For those unaware, Mt. Panoramadan is the site of an annual Australian religious festival. Many attendees shun food for the duration. Mt. Panoramadan is located near the holy New South Wales village of Ba’athist.
We have set up a holy shrine here for Ford
The Ford flag is up and I’m sitting here waiting for the start in five hours - 10am here in Oz
I have time to light a candle for Brockie and also read up the form guide
As my very favourite driver is doing the rookie thing with trucks before he bolitzes NASCAR in the US (Marcos Ambrose), I’ll be cheering for Lowndsie to win
And I might just go and sniff some petrol to get me in the mood
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 07 at 03:07 PM • permalink“Many attendees shun food for the duration…”
But not beer. Hey, this is OZ!
If the Muzzies are ever going to take over Oz they will have to relax the prohibition against beer. “You can have my XXXX when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 07 at 04:33 PM • permalinkMany attendees shun food for the duration.
#4 Yes, my exact thought Michael L. Shun food, but not grog.
I was at Bathurst for the James Hardie 1000 in 1986. A recent innovation then was the Valsac and Clarsac, little pouches of white or red wine (I don’t drink beer). Then there was the bottled spirits we smuggled in. It was a great long weekend.
#5 I’m lookin real hard, mate; nope, still can’t see the humour…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 07 at 07:59 PM • permalinkSome of my ‘86 Bathurst nostalgia.
I had forgotten how many people were there - check the crowd along the track at a distance in the second photo.
#13
Hmm, I can’t remember, I know that Mike Bergmann died that year, we didn’t even know until we were driving home on the Monday when we heard it on the radio.Looking at the book I have of the race, Bailey and Grice won.
Bill Tuckey wrote that? One of my favourite journos ever. Did you ever read his road test of the street sweeper? Or the letter of complaint he wrote to Porsche, complete with picture, complaining that their 911 model coudn’t fit a hay bale into the boot(trunk)?
Interestingly, the winner in 86’ (Allan Grice) shared his first Bathurst start with Bill Tuckey in a Fiat 124s (1968) according to my big book of Bathurst 1995The Bride and I still can’t work out if her single trip to Bathurst (not counting non-race weekend visits) was ‘86 or ‘87. I ditched my ‘80s diaries a couple of months ago, so we are at a loss. She has vivid memories of the experience though. My usual practice was to start the day at the bottom (pits) end of the circuit, and end it on the mountain - at Forrest Elbow or thereabouts. The to walk down Conrod Straight after the race back to the camp site.
So, when I took the Bride we followed the same pattern, and she was particularly impressed with the drunken carnage on the mountain. One fellow had apparently passed out in the act of relieving himself, and judging by the thickness of the dust upon him, had spent many hours “out to it” on his back with his private parts exposed to the Australian sun. Assuming he wasn’t actually deceased, he would have had a hell of a sunburn when he awoke!
#18
I also have his 1985/6 Bathurst book.I haven’t read his letters of complaint, etc.
Assuming he wasn’t actually deceased, he would have had a hell of a sunburn when he awoke!
*wince* that’d be a pain that’d linger.
We (my friend, his girlfriend and my other friend’s son) only went down to the pit section for a shower, I was with a friend who was the President of the Falcon XW/XY Owners’ Club. He had a pass. I don’t think there were any showers on the hill then.
I spent two afternoons floating on clarsac. Happy. We were camping up on the mountain.
My friend’s 6 year old son was with us, at one stage he was whinging about something and I lost my temper with him and told him that if he didn’t stop griping I’d belt him. A woman on the mountain heard me and looked at me like I was some sort of child basher. I said to her “It’s OK, I’m not his Mum, I’m his aunty.” (He had a bad case of the ‘I wants’.) Otherwise he was pretty much well behaved. I think he’d chucked a tanty once there and I just walked away… he snapped out of it pretty quickly, too easy to get lost in all those people.
Man dies in raceway jet car crash
October 08, 2006 news.com.au aap link
The car was travelling at about 300kph when it crashed into a railing during a weekly “test and tune” event at the raceway in central Victoria.Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 10 08 at 07:09 AM • permalinkMark Porter, seriously injured in the qualifying round on Friday at Bathurst has died.
News Item.#1 -
I think that we haven’t seen Tim lately as he’s just been busy helping his 3-yr-old work on the kid’s newly-bought pink caddie.
Probably an Escalade to carry around all of her My Little Ponies.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 10 08 at 01:17 PM • permalink
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I don’t know if this is truly Tim, Tex Lovera:
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I think that we haven’t seen Tim lately as he’s just been busy helping his 3-yr-old work on the kid’s newly-bought pink caddie.