Western Circuit Points and News 15/05/2011


The 2nd round of the western circuit is now only 2 weeks away. The winter gathering, the Blue Balls Buggy Bash will be held at Port Waikato May 28 and 29. There will be points racing, speed trials, Dune riding and One make racing for the competitors as well as plenty of free riding and time for beer and generally catching up.

There will be 2 comps counting towards the points champs. “The Gate” Speed trial and a 1 hour technical course feature race. Racing will be on the beach on Saturday 28/5. The gate will be open for 1 hour from 1pm and the feature will take place immediately afterwards. If there is wind we will be riding the dunes in the evening and night. Sundays programme will be at the dune area.

The Gate is a radar gun speed trial. All competitors will run a standing 1km or 440mtrs and the speed at the end of the run will be measured as they ride through a gate made of flags. Everyone will get 2-4 runs depending on the number of competitors and the top individual runs will determine the placings. This is a points event.


BREAKING NEWS

There is a new racing series. Gannet from www.kitezone.co.nz/ is running one make racing around Auckland. There have been a couple of days so far, we are planning on running an event at the Blue Balls and I am sure there are more to come.
This is very cool. We now have 2 buggy racing series, I am unsure if there will be a points tally or if its just for fun but the Auckland rounds will counting towards the Auckland points champs.
Please get involved with this if you possibly can. Bring your buddies. Bring anybody that ever seemed half interested. Get them along and get a kite in their hands. This is a great opportunity to get new people into the sport and for the old hands it just levels things up a bit.



POINTS and BORING STUFF.

The circuit got off to a brilliant start with a new event. The Naki Nut Buster in January was a spectacular success. Excessive winds battered the crew on Saturday and we had a near perfect wind on Sunday. A full competitive programme was completed including a Time Trial, Board Race, Ball Tag, Long Jump, Restaurant parking and a feature race. It was a great event and huge thanks must be given to Mr Plummet Plumtree for stepping up and making it happen.

At the Nut buster there was a small meeting.
Charlie Watson was elected Chief Steward.
It was agreed there would be 3 rounds in the 2011 champs with 2 points comps at each.
The meetings are. The Nut Buster, The Blue Balls, The moose.
Plummet and All were deputised as stewards to collect results from land comps in The Naki and Auckland so a points champ can be declared at the end of the season. The season being from the Nut Buster to the Moose.
Points will be awarded 10, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.
There will be a board points champs for boards, doom wheels and all manner of stand up devices.
If boards run with the buggies the points will be counted separately. Lower placings behind that damned board rider will be bumped up.




Going into The Blue Balls the Buggy points championship is still wide open. There is potential for new riders to come in and steal the show. The young wild card from Wellington showed up everyone in the time trial and with points from the feature walked away with the points lead. Well done Thomas. Better get your game face on if you want to stay up the front.

2011 Western Circuit Buggy Championship Points after the 1st Round.

Thomas Martin 1st 13 points
Al Noblet 2nd 10
Perrin Melchior 3rd 9
Paul Drafar 4= 6
Brett Cudby 4= 6
Conrad Stephens 4= 6
Deano Beano 5th 1


2011 Western Circuit Board Championship Points after the 1st round.

Dave Plummet Plumtree 1st 20 Points.
Deano Beano 2nd 6
Dan Doom Spiegel 3rd 4

See you all at the Blue Balls.

But i want to race the buggiers for points too!!!,,,,,,,

but i suppose that would be abit unfair. As i'd be betting all your arses right now.!!! hehehahahah evil laugh.

So i'll do an unofficial count up on the side and tease you buggiers about it.....

ps loving the speed trap idea!!!!

I currently refer to you as "That damned Board Rider" Carry on with this train of thought and it might get nasty.

look on the brightside plummet, youv moved up from skuzzy landboarder
to be a damed landboarder just means that at somepoint in time you must have fairly and squarley, overtaken charlie

hehehe hoho haha.... thats fine i don't need points. I know where i come on the day! looking for that jimmy22 scalp this time round!!!

PS what about the chance to drop 1 result? ie the top 5 count towards the title. that way if you miss an event then your not so penalised.

plummet wrote:


Why the hell would you miss a round if you are planning on winning a championship.

more to the point if you were unable to attend... broken leg, mothers funeral, brothers wedding that sort of thing.

its fairly common with national series type racing to drop the worst result. that way you are not penalised for cercumstances outside your control.

nice, well recent racing has made me faster than ever before thanks to picking up some tips from the AK crew, but its mainly having some hard edged kites that keeps you at bay plumtree. ill be aiming to beat you and everything else is a bonus. a 1 hour race is right up my alley so we shall see. I can see its just a matter of time before i get a bridle break or big flip but ill hold on as long as i can

plummet wrote:


Good point. We have 6 points scoring comps over 3 meets. Counting your best 5 is fair.

If nobody objects to this I would second Plummets Proposal.

Well Jimmy. i'm sure if you bring your A game yourl wipe the floor with me. But drop a kite at a mark once and i'll be right there ready to pounce!

pitty no one will be able to make to the bbbb in a week and a halfs time.....

THE world is ending THis WeEK eNd

AAAhhhhHHHRRRRRRgggGGGG!!!!!!.

least now you wont get your ass wooped

The only ass yourl hear is the can of whip ass i'll crack open on you!!! nhahahhahah....

whip whip whip ass.... damn that sounds like perrins bearings again.

The only ass yourl hear is the can of whip ass i'll crack open on you!!! nhahahhahah....

whip whip whip ass.... damn that sounds like perrins bearings again.

just finished mk2 xxgtr rims new larger brgs that may last more than 1 hour !! we shall see. faster ? hmm maybe i guess ill give it a go on the gate but im thinking the lightest buggy for that so i hit top speed as fast as possible, i guessing it will be set up for a buggy that doesn't take 1km top reach top speed

fast as possible, quick as possible? goto be a grunty kite. forget the shinangans about working as small race kite to speed. get out a big grunter and slingshort your arse towards the trap!

i have never got past 60 kmph with a big kite, but yeah ill take that concept and go up one size over normal

So if you set up the gate down wind in the dunes I can get the 17m yakuza out of the bag, that way I can grunt past the gate towing the buggy It's got to be a winner . Bigger isn't always better

well it depends on the run up. but if the run up is short then for me the bigger kite gets me to speed sooner than the working a smaller one. Ultimatley the smaller one will most likley go faster if the run up is long enough.

ps i'm interested in a short drag race against the buggiers. i recon i can kick your arses in a drag race!!!

pss.... time to start postering about the weather.....
www.windfinder.com/forecast/port_waikato

windguru has 20 knots westerly for sat .

www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=25739


" drag race " do we have to dress up for this

Gannet wrote:


its called the BLUE BALLs, i guess the hint is in the title? That means the weekend isn't complete without some testicle shrinking winter nude kiting!!