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Dust has settled & jet lag recovery completed on another very successfull APC in Qld.

A very big thankyou to all the Queenslanders for their great hospitality to make it such a pleasure to compete with some of the best slot racers in Aus & of course Komura,the Tokyo Tornado for being so helpfull in sharing his setup tips with everyone.

As usual Gary Johnson proved once again to be the best race director in Aus,keeping to racing moving along & making the tough decisions to keep everyone happy with his dry humour.

Thank you Andrew Bartholomew & Werner for all their hard work in making the APC an event for all to remember fondly.

I was especially impressed with the high standard of driving from all the Rookies to APC & all looks good for the future of Plafit racing in Aus.

Torque Ford again provided a fantastic venue for the APC & it's great to see a major car dealer ship getting involved with Slot Racing.

Finally thanks to the guys from Dapto for the great company & help pitting on another away trip,plenty of laughs & many a good moment to remember.

Cheers Jimmy :D

To finsh first,first you gotta finish

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Great to spend a few days with all the people from other states, its always hard to make the trip but its always worth it, you boys from Dapto are good value, I will have to make a trip down some time in the future

 

This was my second APC in 4 years and it has made me want to be involved a bit more, I will have to get to Andrews a bit more than once every 3 months ;)

 

Big thankyou to Werner, Andrew, Gary and all the rest for a great weekend

 

Cheers

Paul

Paul NZ - Scale with Detail!

 

Narangba Club Local

 

Gold Coast Raceway 09

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I can only repeat what everyone else has already said, what a fabulous weekend....I still haven't come down yet.

 

Werner, Andrew B, Garry, Torque Ford deserve full credit for a great event. Awesome to meet Akira and Komura, very humble and helpful.

 

Special mention to Paul Stevens in his first APC, top bloke and a great racer.

 

Looking forward to the next one.

 

- Cam

Hoo Roo

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Great weekend. Always winners and losers and this weekend i was a big loser. If it could go wrong it did go wrong for me. Also realised i have raced once in nearly a year other than the nationals so i need to get back into race mode as i over drove every car. Learned lots about car builds and how to improve them. I think this type of car now has a decent following of good drivers and enthusiasts nationally that any win is to be cherished. Looking forward to Hornsby in november with improved cars and a controller that works.

4x national champion 6x national runner up. I come second most often but my girlfriends happy.

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I can only echo all the above sentiments . Great weekend all round . Like Camber said , still on a high .

 

Having the chance to meet everyone has definatley inspired me to travel to other major events . Hope to catch up with evryone in the future . Lots of good memories and some great racing with high tension and drama along the way .

 

Cheers

Paul

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Sounds like it was a great weekend and well done Paul at your first major meeting ,by the feed back and results you were the stand out driver for this years APC,congratulations.

 

regards shane a

 

team thunderbird

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Thanks Shane , Standout is probably a bit strong , I'd say lucky . A few of my cars had good pace but some classes I just got lucky . In Historics I qualified midfeild then circulated in a heat that was very clean and drove to 4th on the track only to leap frog Noel on Concours points . Div 2 I was lucky not to get tangled in a masive 2nd lap pile up and just drove off into the distance . Andrew B was away for most of practice so that finished his campain . I think Simon was missing his mechanic also . The only bit of bad luck I had all weekend was in F1, I got taken out at the end of the last heat by a back marker to let Troy Boldy through , but still managed to podium . Lucky . Talking to Noel and Kim after it sounds like they spent alot of time under a marshalls armpit :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

If anyone else has any stories of epic crashes or great drives please share . The pit area was quite spread out so I didn't get down to the other end with every thing that was going on . Would be nice to here some other racers stories .

 

Cheers

Paul

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Yeah sorry about that bump Cam coming on to the main straight.. That's racing I guess. Full credit to every one involved in the event you all did a great job.. Also to all the racers it was a pleasure to race with you all and to be done in great spirits with no one losing the plot.

 

Noel..

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