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Originally Posted by boxhead
Sounds good, would love to know when next years is on, as I have plenty of Family that way.
Pity it wasnt advertised a little more.
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Hi, just got back home from 2 weeks away, 1 week in cairns doing the precision rally, fantastic event very well run and 1 week in townsville cruising and doing the townsville 400.
The inaugeral australia classic precision rally wasent advertised outside of nth qld i dont think but this will grow into a huge event purely because of the money they invested and the effort they put in to make it a success. the unprompted standing ovation that zoltan recieved at the award night was a testimony to that. They are going to market this rally internationlly and i didnt meet one person who particapated that wont be back next year.
The entry fee cost was $550 and it ran at a huge loss with only 33 cars entered.
In future years there will be some beautiful and exotic machinery trailored in for this event.
The date probably wont change, around the end of june and innisfail to cairns to port douglas and the atherton tableland travelling up and down those 4 ranges, the parmiston the gillies, kuranda and the rex is probably the best cobra motoring country in australia. 600klms in 2 days with 13 timetrials timed down to the 1/100th of a second spread along the course, arriving and leaving the checkpoints exactly on your timed minute certainly kept my navigator and myself on our toes and we enjoyed every inch of it.
The organizers sent an invitation email to drb cars who forwarded it on to wazza at qld cobra club who forwarded it on to qld members and i forwarded it on to andrew and others, thats how we found out.
Its good to see Nth Qld getting a quality motoring event to participate in and not just another car show, its been long overdue.
Congratulations Andrew on your win and i feel proud to have participated in the inaugeral event and came 4th, it certainly wasent easy, i won about $600 worth of prizes for winning one of the timetrials exactly to the 1/100 of a second, which is a zero, by rolling downhill in neutral through the timebeam,a complete fluke.
Boxhead i know you have driven over from Alice to Nth Qld before in your cobra, if your interested ill keep you posted, ill be back next year.
