2009 EFS XI, "Seeonee Park" 8 day.

[vanbox]

Can we buy a spectator 8 day ticket with dinner after you leave this wknd?

[XTREME MMM]

Tickets will be available to purchase right up to the start. But an email to info@xtreme4x4sport.com.au would make my life a lot eaiser.

Cheers
David

[ratbagpatrol]

come on dave where the start list and yes dave i will bethere with bells on talk to ya soon

[vanbox]

Anyone going up from the sunny coast wanna convoy/car pool for the week?

Is seonee park 2wd accessible? Are all the SS 2wd accessible?

cheers

PAUL

[XTREME MMM]

Anyone going up from the sunny coast wanna convoy/car pool for the week?

Is seonee park 2wd accessible? Are all the SS 2wd accessible?

cheers

PAUL

Seeonee Park is 2wd accessible. Stages on site are only a short walk from camp if you are there for the week. The away site is only 30 minutes by car.

Cheers
David

[vanbox]

Didnt know there was an "away" site? Can you elaborate a bit?

Hows the tickets going for sat night dinner? Many left?

cheers

PAUL

[XTREME MMM]

Didnt know there was an "away" site? Can you elaborate a bit?

Hows the tickets going for sat night dinner? Many left?

cheers

PAUL

Yes at the moment we have 1 day about 30ks away, all bitumen. This site will only be open to people who purchase a weekly pass.

Dinner tickets, still have some.

Have finished setting up GPS SS today.

There are appox 7 night SS over the XI.

The away site is unreal, 2 multi winch SS (hour DNF on each) & 1 Sprint SS (if time premits)

Cheers
David

[unpaid help]

Have you got a list of the competitors that is current and how many nights out competing ?

Didnt know there was an "away" site? Can you elaborate a bit?

Hows the tickets going for sat night dinner? Many left?

cheers

PAUL

Yes at the moment we have 1 day about 30ks away, all bitumen. This site will only be open to people who purchase a weekly pass.

Dinner tickets, still have some.

Have finished setting up GPS SS today.

There are appox 7 night SS over the XI.

The away site is unreal, 2 multi winch SS (hour DNF on each) & 1 Sprint SS (if time premits)

Cheers
David

[XTREME MMM]

Have you got a list of the competitors that is current and how many nights out competing ?

Didnt know there was an "away" site? Can you elaborate a bit?

Hows the tickets going for sat night dinner? Many left?

cheers

PAUL

Yes at the moment we have 1 day about 30ks away, all bitumen. This site will only be open to people who purchase a weekly pass.

Dinner tickets, still have some.

Have finished setting up GPS SS today.

There are appox 7 night SS over the XI.

The away site is unreal, 2 multi winch SS (hour DNF on each) & 1 Sprint SS (if time premits)

Cheers
David

List is still to be finalized.

There will be a single night Sprint SS:- Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday.

Friday night will have the usual 3SS. 1 Sprint & 2 x winch

Cheers
David

[XTREME MMM]

Now for the serious stuff that is happening in Rocky.

Set up for "away site" finished yesterday, make sure you bring plenty of water. You will need most of your 1 hour time limit on both these SS.

The away site is only open to people holding "Week Passes"

Seeonee Park will be open to Spectator's:-

Saturday 19th
Sunday 20th
Wednesday 23rd
Friday (evening) 25th
Saturday 26th

Who will be the last "Man or Lady" standing come Saturday 26th ?

Dinner tickets are available ($35) for the Presentation Dinner.

This event proudly supports Angel Flight Australia

Information:- info@xtreme4x4sport.com.au or call 0418 745830

Sponsored by:- EFS, Exedy Clutches, Superior Engineering, Dynamic Wheels & Tyres, Hema Maps, Staun Racing

Cheers
David

[vanbox]

competitor list yet?

[XTREME MMM]

competitor list yet?

Not at the moment, they appears to be a couple of vehicles still being worked on and will not know until later.

I can say that we have 12 starters plus those still swinging spanners.

Weekend extra starters see another 5 if all goes to their plans.

We spent all day setting up 6SS for Saturday; 2 sprint SS & 4 different SS. Tomorrow we finish tidying up those that need some clearing, then we start marking Sundays SS.

Due to numbers we will be running 2 SS at a time, Saturday will see both groups of 2 SS starting in the same start box and competing very close together.

The spectator days will be very visible and require very little moving around.

Competition vehicle will start and finish in the spectator area.

By doing this everyone will be able to view the vehicles and get to talk to competitors while they are waiting to run.

This will also give the Teams a chance to show off their sponsors.

Cheers
David

[Mosko111]

Good luck to everyone competing hopefully make it through the whole week withough to much carnage, and not to many worries, and go Troy and Troy from gladdy

[digsy]

No Competitor list yet?
They should be just about at the gates?

[XTREME MMM]

No Competitor list yet?
They should be just about at the gates?

Friday night & here is the list.

I would like to thank the Teams and people from CQ that have supported this event.

We have 13 starters for the 8 day & only 2 extras for the weekend runs.

But in saying that I am very pleased with the list of experienced competitors that are going to have a go.

EFS XI Starters are:-

Christian Trusz & Terry Kane
Lynda & Aaron Ward
Ben McCamley & Shai Reynolds
Brad Drummond & Phil Macready
Joel Thompsen & Paul Espig
Michael Camac & Jason Enright
Reece Burgess, Sam & Anthony Dow
Jason St John & Greg Ward
Mark Thomas & Luke Ingram
Shane Marsden & Trent
Troy Tenheggeler & Troy Carriage
Cameron Johnson & Sam Okeif
Brad Dukes & Mick Upham


From tomorrow I will be posting udates at

http://www.xtreme4x4sport.com.au/The-Blog.php these will go nightly.

Cheers
David

[nicGQ]

good luck to ben and shai,, and to all other competitors

[BigrigCQ]

Day One!

Dave ran 7 Stages today 3 sprint, 4 winch stages

Overall Good start for the event!

Not some damage to report so far!

Goodluck to all competitors!

Only Seven days to go! UNREAL

[Giggles83]

Goodluck to all the rocky guys competing. Mark and crazy stop goin so hard and breakin stuff, hold those rigs together and give em hell wooooot

[bigoll]

what a start 7ss on first day 3 speed & 4 winch stages bring it on. damage so far, a number of rear nissan axels, alternators, lots of cv's including 1 super long feild, 2 arb lockers 1 front 1 rear and more. as i did my front locker to day on stage 2 along with 2 cv's i am home until the shops open in the morning to get parts. come on down and see them fly!

[BigrigCQ]

Day Two

Good spectator stages today 5 winch and 1 speed run!

Nice sharp Gully' s on ss2/3 and final stage!

Swamp Donks put on a great show keep it going!

Tommorrow, Will be interesting!

[XTREME MMM]

Scores are up.

Still to down load some Team Photos.

GO TO:-

http://www.xtreme4x4sport.com.au/The-Blog.php


Cheers
David

[Slick_CQ]

Had the opportunity to get out and see quite a few stages over the weekend. Like Olly, I was surprised at the amount of mechanical damage as the tracks didn't really look like they should have had that sort of result. I guess that the old saying about "Tracks don't break cars - stopwatches do !" must be the explanation.

Congratulations to Metcalfe and crew - the tracks are well layed out and the flow of cars was great. There was no big "gaps" in the action and the tracks that were designed with spectators in mind worked really well. Next Friday night under lights will be a real spectacle - GET OUT TO SEEONEE AND WATCH THE AWESOME "OFF ROAD MAGIC".

Had a quick look at the scores from Metcalfe's link (Thanks Dave) - I even sorted them into order (HINT !): AFAIK "parts" type penalties have not yet been deducted - these progress scores are purely for the Stages and SS Penalties.

1045 - Christian Trusz & Terry Kane
928 - Brad Drummond & Phil Macready
917 - Michael Camac & Jason Enright
895 - Jason St John & Greg Ward
892 - Mark Thomas & Luke Ingham
865 - Shane Marsden & Trent Wuft
807 - Lynda & Aaron Ward
797 - Joel Thompsen & Paul Espig
769 - Cameron Johnson & Sam O’Kieffe
729 - Brad Dukes & Mick Upham
566 - Reece Burgess & Sam Dow
543 - Ben McCamley & Shai Reynolds
357 - Troy Tenheggeler & Troy Carriage

With another 6 days of competition remaining who knows what the table will look like by the end of the week.

I couldn't help but notice that EIGHT of the 13 cars are from CQ. What a great indication of the strength of the sport in our area and a huge "thumbs up" to Dave for bringing the XI to Rockhampton. I guess that's where the market is now !!!!!!

Good luck to all of the teams for the rest of the week.

Vince.

PS: Congratulations must go to our local MLA's Paul Hoolihan (Keppel) and Robert Schwarten (Rockhampton) for taking time out of their extremely busy schedules to attend the Drivers Briefing on Saturday Morning to welcome the Teams and mix with the competitiors and spectators. Robert and Paul also took the opportunity to grab a Co-driver seat for a 1st hand look at what the sport has to offer. I am sure that both of them left with a far better understanding of Off Road 4wding as a sport.

[Slick_CQ]

C'mon Dave ! Put that Corona down and pick up the keyboard.

What was the carnage on Day Three ? Is Crazy Eyes gonna make it past Wednesday or will Skip win that bet ? Did Troy H and Troy C keep it on it's wheels ? Did CJ cause ear trauma to any other Marshals ? How about Reece in the wheel standing GQ Shorty ?

[BigrigCQ]

Crazy is still going strong!

Cj Crushed one of the exhaust pipes, it is so noisy,but it sounds top notch!

The Troy's left it on its feet today! Those two are a laugh!

Reece got stuck on the main log with a rooted right CV, front and rear winch's down had to be winched aside!

Two gps runs and one very long Creek run with an 1hr DNF today!

They Head out to Private property tommorrow, there will be carnage to report and to see who survive's

Keep going Donkees, Houndy and Crazy, GOOD LUCK!

[XTREME MMM]

Scores are up. Total points up to end of day 3.

All Team Photos are now up..

GO TO:-

http://www.xtreme4x4sport.com.au/The-Blog.php


Cheers
David

[Slick_CQ]

Thanks Dave,

Here they are in place order (for numerically challenged individuals like me).

1290 - Christian Trusz & Terry Kane
1151 - Brad Drummond & Phil Macready
1108 - Jason St John & Greg Ward
1069 - Mark Thomas & Luke Ingham
1065 - Shane Marsden & Trent Wust
1039 - Lynda & Aaron Ward
1017 - Joel Thompsen & Paul Espig
999 - Michael Camac & Jason Enright
947 - Cameron Johnson & Sam O’Kieffe
928 - Brad Dukes & Mick Upham
680 - Reece Burgess & Sam Dow
634 - Ben McCamley & Shai Reynolds
485 - Troy Tenheggeler & Troy Carriage

Looks like Christian and Terry kept it together again today - well done ! Michael and Jason must have had an absolute shocker thought, grabbing only 82 points from 3 Stages and dropping from 3rd to 8th in one Day - OUCH !

Apparently Crazy Eyes must have let Wardy operate the GPS (either that or he used his good eye to focus on the screen ).

From all accounts tomorrow will sort the Men from the Boys (which side does Barbie go ?). I overheard Metcalfe Psyching someone out by threatening winch hills over 200 metres long (with several anchor points of course). All will be revealed tomorrow !

Good luck to all - thanks for the swift work on the progressive points Dave (I hope that they're right !!!! )

[XTREME MMM]

Thanks Dave,


Good luck to all - thanks for the swift work on the progressive points Dave (I hope that they're right !!!! )

Hi Vince. thanks for the comments.

Teams get to look at all point and time sheets as we go, this keeps it very open.

If there is a mistake made with the scoring it is sorted very quickly.

Its not bad have 26 proof readers.

Yes today is where men are made. I hope everyone tackles these SS with a bit of care.

Hopefully we will finish there today if not back again on Thursday.

I will have a full report on todays SS tonight at:-

http://www.xtreme4x4sport.com.au/The-Blog.php

Cheers
David

[suttygu]

go the striped tomato...

[Slick_CQ]

QUICK UPDATE FROM DAY 4 VENUE ....

Word from Dukes'y is that it is TOUGH out there. Quite a few DNF's due to missed turns/markers on one SS in particular. The BIG winch hill saw some cars winching up to 10 times (anyone wanna buy a slightly secondhand 6HP motor ?). According to Brad, CJ has claimed bragging rights for the BIG hill so far. Apparently the light weight vehicle and massive torque from the 355 stroker was just what the Doctor ordered.

More info to come ...

[XTREME MMM]

Total Points and story are up at

http://www.xtreme4x4sport.com.au/The-Blog.php

Cheers
David