Saturday 21st June.
Gail and I caught a bus at 10:00am, arriving at the track at 10:35am. The advantage of coming by the free bus as opposed to driving the car are many. Firstly we do not have a parking problem at the circuit, but most importantly the bus drops us right at the gate.
As the circuit is located in a natural amphitheatre patrons are advised to bring a chair for their comfort. We took the two folding chairs on the bus plus a picnic lunch and frozen water bottles.
Upon arrival at the circuit we made a bee line for our chosen viewing spot and set up the two chairs on our travel rug to ensure we a had staked our claim so to speak. We then went for a walk to look at the merchandise outlets, the food and drinks stalls and some static displays by the army.
Today there are two 100km races for the V8 Supercars superseded by qualifying for both races.
Due to the anticipated heat here these two races are scheduled for mid afternoon for the first one then late in the afternoon for the second race. In between our arrival and these races there are demonstrations by the Hot Wheels drift cars and motorcycle stunt men as well as races for the F3's, V8 Utes and production masters, all of which were great and entertaining.
Jamie Whincup won back to back pole positions and then went on to win both races.
The only disappointing aspect of today's racing was that a number of teams were definitely preserving tyres for tomorrow's big 200km race. There were no incidents requiring a safety car intervention and no compulsorary pit stops consequently the cars pretty much finished in the order they started from the grid.
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