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[fat64]

Anybody heard about this years Mundoo meet. Only 4 weeks till its usual date.

[Carlz87]

Whats a Mundoo Meet?

[581 ESP]

We get permision to close the Mundoo airstrip and hold an 1/8th mile drag day/night

Not happening this year tho

Edited by cactus, 19 September 2006 - 02:17 PM.

[KRB 88]

oh

[Carlz87]

Oh ok, is the mundoo air strip in Townsville? Sorry I have never herd of it before

[581 ESP]

Carlz87, on Sep 19 2006, 02:41 AM, said:

Oh ok, is the mundoo air strip in Townsville? Sorry I have never herd of it before

no its about 10mins south of Inninsfail. which is about 45mins south of cairns

[fast_babe]

so why isnt it being opened this year? thats pretty crap, know a fair few people who wanted to go down

[581 ESP]

long story...

but basicly the older guys that are in the club were sick of copping flack over how it was run and decide that they didnt want to do it.

[fat64]

Man, that is not good news. I allways thought it was a pretty good event.

Buggar. So there's no hope at all?

[fast_babe]

damn it... seems all the commitees that run car events are cancelling... firstly the burnouts and now mundoo... no good!

and they shouldn't let people opinions of how it was run get to them. but no one complains bout the number of people that rock up

Edited by fast_babe_89, 19 September 2006 - 07:40 PM.

[CJE55]

isnt there already a thread about this or an i imagining things?

(its been known to happen)

[fat64]

fast_babe_89, on Sep 19 2006, 05:15 PM, said:

and they should let people opinions of how it was run get to them.

Yeah, we know you meant "shouldn't" Chloe.


A bunch of us were planning on bringing down some some very nasty yank tanks for a bit of match racing and burnout fun.
I was looking forward to putting my Galaxie up against the purple Plymouth, now that I've got the fuel and gear problems sorted out.


The issues surely can't be a money thing. There seemed to be a good size crowd.
The only thing I could see that was a little bit of an issue amongst the drivers was the long dinner break. Most just wanted to get out there and keep having fun.
I think a 6.30-7 dinner break would have been plenty. Other than that, I had great day.

[w9cuda]

fat64, on Sep 19 2006, 05:01 PM, said:

Yeah, we know you meant "shouldn't" Chloe.
A bunch of us were planning on bringing down some some very nasty yank tanks for a bit of match racing and burnout fun.
I was looking forward to putting my Galaxie up against the purple Plymouth, now that I've got the fuel and gear problems sorted out.
The issues surely can't be a money thing. There seemed to be a good size crowd.
The only thing I could see that was a little bit of an issue amongst the drivers was the long dinner break. Most just wanted to get out there and keep having fun.
I think a 6.30-7 dinner break would have been plenty. Other than that, I had great day.

Fat64, there were a couple of clubsport boys who were continuing to heckle Les and the boys about minor issues on a couple of forums relating to mundoo. They said they would rather drive 4 hours to a decent track , LMAO.

Now there is no mundoo this year, maybe you could get them down to the king of the hill on the 11th november.

[fat64]

w9cuda, on Sep 19 2006, 07:40 PM, said:

Fat64, there were a couple of clubsport boys who were continuing to heckle Les and the boys about minor issues on a couple of forums relating to mundoo. They said they would rather drive 4 hours to a decent track , LMAO.

Now there is no mundoo this year, maybe you could get them down to the king of the hill on the 11th november.

I'm not sure the others are interested in going all the way down to Townsville. Innisvale is great because of the closeness. Don't have to worry so much about transport costs, accomadation ect and just the fun sort of atmosphere.

I was hoping to get down to Townsville for either the October meet or KOTH. Are you thinking of taking your Plym down for a run?
Looks like it was running great down Makay. Nice couple of shots in the Street Action mag.


Come on guys, can't someone do some sweet talking/groveling/ whatever to get this Mundoo thing happening?

[fast_babe]

sorry bout that Fat64, i corrected my mistake lol

i have been informed that noone would help out Les and the boys with the organising. They wanted to take their cars on the strip themselves but couldnt as they were too busy organising everything else. maybe in future if they were offered a bit more help in the organising and the running of mundoo drags that it might happen next year.

looks like king of the hill is the next best thing

[RH9]

haha decent track.. must say i prefer running full 1/4 rather than an 1/8th

[w9cuda]

RH9, on Sep 19 2006, 10:26 PM, said:

haha decent track.. must say i prefer running full 1/4 rather than an 1/8th

Well we all do, but it is one of those things where it needed to be supported, for it to grow further, not whinged about, cause its all we had within a reasonable distance.

[581 ESP]

It wasnt really a Help thing it was the fact that all the wingers that were saying "do this better", "you should do thi" dont want to help. If you think that your ideas can improve it then we would welcome you all to a meeting to share your ideas... at the moment we have about 15 people in the commitee and its alot of work to get this thing happening. and everyone in the commitee has a car that would love to be out there racing but we are too busy organinsing brackets ect.... and Les and a few others were sick of flogging there guts out and then having the shit baged out of the club. So they said its not worth the effort.. We get othing out of the weekend. we would all much rather be out on the track. ans as for it only being an 1/8 mile... You cant have a tempory 1/4 because you need concrete barriers and lane deviders and i'm sure the Mundoo Airport would just love that down the middle of their runway......

but hey when we do get around to organisning the next one. i;ll let you all know and you are all more than welcome to come and express your ideas to the commite and you can all see how many months of work go into organising it.....mabe then the clubsport boys wont shoot off at the mouth so quickly

my two cents

Edited by cactus, 20 September 2006 - 09:32 AM.

[nqkjw]

Good post cactus - I don't imagine it would be much fun to put a lot of effort in for very little return and then being told it's not good enough.

My sympathies are with you and your club. I've never run at your airstrip as I've been out of it for a while and I was looking forward to running at one of your 1/8 mile events.

Out of interest I know Les. He bought his ex car "resurrection" off my brother many years ago. Originally that car used to run at Savannah under the name of "Draggin' Fly" with a 6 cylinder Holden. We were intending to fit a 6 cylinder hemi Chrysler but the project was too ambitious for our experience at that time.

As for whingers about 1/8th mile racing these short tracks have their advantages in that they are a real challenge for those who really are drivers. The first 1/8th mile is where all the driving is done. The second 1/8th mile you're really only along for the ride with your right foot nailed increasing speed. There's no real skill unless you're in the sub 10 second class.

Another point I've made elsewhere, these 1/8th mile meetings are a good opportunity for those with lower horsepower cars to mix it with the top guns as there is literally not enough length of track for the hotshots to run down the slower car once they stop spinning.

Out of interest at last year's Ingham 1/8th mile meet I saw a 6.0 second pass by a race car so this is what all of us can aspire to.

At this year's Ingham meeting there was a street WRX that turned a 7.32 from memory and it looked very quick.

Anyway, hope the problems can be sorted at some time in the future and racing can continue in far North Queensland.

[Sivart]

cactus, on Sep 20 2006, 09:31 AM, said:

mabe then the clubsport boys wont shoot off at the mouth so quickly

mmmmmmmmmmmm Im thinking thats directed at me because I voiced my negitive opinion/s about how the event was ran last year.
Like I said in the other mundoo thread I have never directed my opinions about anyone in particular in the club just the overall orginisation of the entire event. In no way did I ever want anyone to take it to heart, only use my concern an opinion to help improve the event (first step being drop the entrant numbers). I will allways stand by any of the coments I made and would have thought you of all people Jack would understand where I was coming from as you an I have ran together many times at other "events"

ps: I will never step foot into one of the commitee meetings cactus... you know why.