All in all 2018 wasn't a bad year.
( My 2018 )

Yesterday was the biggest day of the year for V8 Supercars - the annual pilgrimage to the mount. Random comments below; just the stuff that I want to remember.

( Compilation of my thoughts from throughout the day )

Short working week but all the busier for it; was supposed to go out for drinks tonight to say goodbye to my retrenched area manager but really didn't feel alive enough for it. Most nights this week have seen me collapse here in front of my monitor. I've been following my flist but not commenting much - the old brain cells are just too tired. Still ( Read more... )

Less than a week until the biggest event on the Australian motorsport calendar, and with impeccable timing my son last night gave me a fantastic book about Peter Brock. It has replicas of all kinds of memorabilia in it - but there's one thing included for which I already have an original. In 1981 the Bathurst Chamber of Commerce and Industry minted ( Read more... )

Bathurst ramblings for my own benefit only - everyone please cheerfully ignore.
(edited to fix typos; can't watch typing and watch screen at the same time!)

( I don't know who to cheer for, Murphy or Lowndes. )

This.
For anyone who's never been to the mountain, who's never felt the allure of this tourist road in a central-western town, who's never understood why the faithful go back again and again and again...

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"That's a Brock drive - that's as good a drive as you'll ever see."
Mark Skaife, praising his co-driver Craig Lowndes today after they took the chequered flag in the Super Cheap 1000 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. It was Lowndesy's fifth victory in the race; another five will see him eclipse Peter Brock's record at the mount. Wonder if that will ( Read more... )