On the weekend of July 10th - 13th, Townsville played host to the inaugural Townsville 400 V8 Supercars race. And what a weekend it was! We had three day Grandstand tickets, and headed down early on Thursday morning to beat the crowds.
We stayed at Nathan & Di's place, which was wonderful. You couldn't get accommodation in Townsville for love nor money over that weekend, with everywhere booking out before the V8 tickets had even gone on sale. One local girl I sat next to on the bus described how they were staying at a friends house as well, having rented out their house for the weekend. One great thing about staying with Nathan and Di (apart from seeing them and the girls, of course!) was how close their place is to the Stockland shopping centre, and it's frequent bus stops. Big thanks to Nathan and Di, who was odds-on favourite for having the baby just as racing got underway on the Sunday. Thankfully (for Nathan's race-watching, anyway) the bub decided to wait till the next week! They're now the proud parents of another little girl, Sarah.
The race calendar for the 3 day event consisted of the Mini Challenge, the V8 Utes, the Fujitsu cars, and the main act, the V8 Supercars themselves. So there was always something happening to keep us entertained. The utes are always fun to watch, since they're a spec class, and the cars themselves are basically stock-standard. Obviously they run roll cages and such, but they retain the full interior trim and exhausts, and run a standard tyre and wheel package (some of them even running the factory wheels).
Anyway, enough of the rambling - here's the photos!
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| 2009-07-14, V8 Supercars - Townsville 400 |
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