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[CLuTZ]

hows the bloody hippies putting rocks on the road on stage six

CRAZY

Eco terrorists lol

[thirteen]

The fucktards also cut fences so cattle would wonder onto rally stages.
Looks like Rally Oz should be moved to the South Coast of NSW.

Anyone catch some rally Oz action on channel 10 HD?

[GVR40]

here are some teaser shots from my phone, got heaps of photos and videos over the weekend.










the protesters were pretty harmless, but it puts a bit of a dampener on the whole weekend. good news is the event is locked in every 2nd year until 2017.

[thirteen]

good news is the event is locked in every 2nd year until 2017.

is it alternating with Rally NZ?
Watched Channel 10's coverage today.
Best part was the Tommi Mak highlight.

[GVR40]

yep, alternating with rally NZ

[DOUGMO]

loeb had an illegal cage and has been given a one minute penalty dropping him from first place.

[Hypo]

here are some teaser shots from my phone, got heaps of photos and videos over the weekend.

I was at all those stages as well. Also managed to get out to Monroe for the first run through.

Had a great weekend and comparing to other events things can improve. It was there first attempt and it can only get better.

[Velocity Racing]

loeb had an illegal cage and has been given a one minute penalty dropping him from first place.

It was actually a non-homologated (which made it illegal) anti-roll bar (swaybar) link. It was longer and had more ajustment holes that the homologated item.

All 3 Citrones had the part fitted and were all given the Penalty, so Hirvonen won, with Seb Loeb 2nd and Sordo still was 3rd. However Seb Ogier dropped to 5th which meant Jari Matti got 4th..

Go BP Ford WRT!

It seemed to be an awesome event, wish we could have made it over! Unfortunatly there are a few sad looking evos.. with Brett Kipling and Nathan Quinn both pretty well destroying their Evo 9's..

Im sure Dre is very happy with the Kiwi's pace! Haydon Paddon was very impressive and Richard Mason 2nd GpN!!

Edited by Velocity Racing, 06 September 2009 - 10:41 PM.

[SakeMan]

Wow, what an event!

I am absolutely totally stuffed, left up here thursday afternoon and have been on the go since, pretty much midnight bedtime and 4:30am rises for the last few days. But god damn was it ever worth it.

We had the most unbelievable weekend, starting out with SS6 Byrrill creek, we were going to be set up there for the day on a friends property, unfortunately as people have heard the hippies found it fit to roll bolders onto the stage in a point where the cars were travelling around 150kmh plus, as well as pelting 0 and 00 with rocks on the way through. They then also laid down on the road themselves at the end of the stage in an effort to stop the rally.

Simple really, the stage was canned altogehter, the hippies thought they won, but it was really only an inconveniance for the drivers, organisers and the like, it was a damn shame for us as Byrrill was our 'home' stage and we had put a lot of preparation into it. Either way, we moved onto plan B and walked into another stage in the afternoon and got some great shots there. The rally went ahead, the protesters kept being pests but in the end we just laughed about those idiots.

Either way I am still buzzing from this event and am so keen to get my photos rated and uploaded, I believe we came away with some very good stuff and I am stoked that all our effort into researching alternative access and good shooting points more than paid off.

Will get some photos happening in the afternoon.

-GVR40, some cool shots, how mad was that rollover, we were shooting in the field and properties opposite the spectator point, I was surprised to hear the crowd go off their head and though old mate just misjudged the corner, how badly he misjudged it I only found out when Nigel (my shooting partner) showed me the rollover, he was about 400-500m away, I was about a km off near the crest that you can see the cars come over first from the speccy point.

[rob323]

the protesters were pretty harmless, but it puts a bit of a dampener on the whole weekend.

Actually, some of the simple minded, idiotic things that the protesters did were downright dangerous, but only not to the rally competitors, but also the general public.
Things like pulling out guide posts with reflectors on them on the inside of corners so that if you cut the corner you would crash off the edge and down the hill. It wouldn't worry the rally guys one little bit but what about the many residents that live along that road that drive it at night with their children in the car?
Are the people responsible for removing them going to reinstate them now that the rally has finished? Are they going to put their hand up and say "Yes, I'm sorry, it was me" if someone drives off the edge and kills themselves in the meantime?
And what about dumping a smelly, rotting carcass on someone's property and concealing it with carpet, are they going to go back and remove it now that the rally has finished?

Or dumping a load of dirt on a public road to block it, while the road is still open to the public and preventing the residents from having access. Too bad if a local resident had a heart attack and they needed emergency care.
I could go on with more but they are not worth the air I would breath during the time it would take for me to type it.

Their protest was with the rally organisers, not with the competitors, nor the volunteers that offer their time to help out, nor the spectators, nor the locals that lived on the roads that were used. They did not do one single proactive thing to help their cause.

We still had a phat time though!
I have hundreds of photos at home, I'll put some up when I get a chance.

[thirteen]

Looking forward to more awesome photos lads.
Can I make a suggestion, download them to the site using 'Attachments' that way the pics are always on the site.

[SakeMan]

Couldn't help myself and had to flick through some of the images, here is a teaser for you guys to show the level of stuff we got ;-) Will have most of the images on our website midweek, will post selected shots here:

Edited by SakeMan, 18 September 2009 - 12:53 AM.

[CLuTZ]

This is how my friends rally started:



And this is how it ended:

[GSRSOL]

ouch

[GVR40]

sorry rob, let me rephrase that, the protestors we came across were pretty harmless. I didn't know about any of that stuff that went on.

Sake - they were just taken on my phone my partner had the actual camera, just about to download and see how they came out.

[Dean]

SHITTTT!!
Poor Bastard, was he allright?

[rob323]

Just for starters, highly compressed and un-editted.

[Velocity Racing]

Ah at least Mark Tappers car isnt to bad.... (no worse than ours was a few weeks ago!)..

faired a lot better than a few other Evo 9's..

[Velocity Racing]

here is one the Evo that didnt fair quite as well as Mark Tappers.

Nathan and David where both okay, pretty scary crash in 5th gear however..

[91LTI]

whoa !

thats a nasty crash.....

good to hear they were ok...

doesnt look salvagable though....