WRC Repco NZ Rally
General, posted: 2-Sep-2008 17:08
Well, back safely - what a drive! Over 7 hours each way with no one to share the load.
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On European motorways that would be fine (just tedious!) - set the cruise control at 100 miles an hour and listen to CD's as you waft along a 6 lane glass-smooth motorway obligingly built with regular rest areas featuring quality food and fuel right along side. I used to do this annually on a boys weekend trip (well - it was a week actually!) down to Le Mans for the 24 Hr in June.
In Godzone? Ha - I wish! "State Highway" should be re-phrased "Back Road"! I felt every single mile and was wrung out by the time I arrived. Then found that most of Waikato's roads featured something new to me - a "washout"! One of them had apparently only been upgraded from an unsurfaced track to a proper road with tarmac a mere 6 months previously - now a big section is just AWOL somewhere down a hill!
Still, it was worth the endurance test. The Rally was great fun to watch - shame that we have to wait until 2010 for the next one (it now alternates with Oz, so they get it in 09).
Pictures can be seen at http://tlphoto.co.nz/WRC 2008 NZ Rally/
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