Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Its not wargaming. Its V8 supercars I enjoy it just as much.

On the weekend of the 6-8th of November I decided to shout dad a trip to the V8 Supercars in Auckland for his birthday. The track they were racing at was Pukekohe Park Raceway a 2.84km race track. The V8 super cars were competing in three races over the weekend 2 x 60km races and 1 x 200km race with pit stops. Both my Dad and I took over 300 photos here's a selection of some of them.

The best spot we found was at turn 6 most of the action happened here over the weekend.

The starting grid early Saturday morning.

All four of the Pro drive Ford coming up the hill.

A slightly used Holden. Parts for sale to fans of Craig Lowndes car after his crash in Saturdays Race.

Mark Winterbottom's Ford.

Kiwi Andre Heimgartner's Ford.

Fabian Coulthard's Holden.

Scott Mclaughlin's Volvo.

Will Davison's Mercedes.

Michael Caruso's Nissan.

Shane Van Gisbergen's Holden.

One of the drifting cars on display a Ford Mustang.

The V8s racing back up the hill to the start finish line.

My dad with Pro drive racing Australia boss Tim Edwards.

Me with Fabian Coulthard.

Greg Murphy and I in the pit lane.

Dad with Will Davison.

Dad and myself behind Mark Winterbottom's Garage.

The NZ V8 touring cars.

All the cars in pit lane ready for qualifying.

Action at the chicane on the back strait Cam Waters in the Ford and James Courtney In the Holden lead this angry pack.

One of the Setups in the pit garages.

Shane Van Gisbergen's car up on the jacks between practice and qualifying.
Late Sunday afternoon after the dust had settled we left the track having really enjoyed ourselves. We are already looking forward to possibly going next year.

2 comments:

  1. Very cool John. The V8 Supercars are the only motor racing I watch really.

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    1. Yea we are the same motorbikes and F1 dont do much for me. Although the WRC im starting to follow a bit now a kiwi is in it

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