08 December, 2009

Season 3 Opener – Race 25, Baker's Delight


September 20 2009: back to one of our favourite tracks, and the now–traditional venue for a new season curtain-raiser. That’s right, it’s the fabulous and fearsome Mount Sugarloaf downhill drop, as AIGRF enters its third year of mechanised madness…

Luckily the laws of gravity haven’t changed since last season, well maybe they have for D-Max, seen here heading for the bush on the first corner… and no, those boots were not made for walking…

Yes, it’s a quick one, and straight into the early morning sun…

With steep drops on both sides, it’s good to see those safety barriers along the way. It looks like a miniature metal hut on wheels, but Dogmatic hits top speed on the long straight stretches…

As usual, the sibling rivalry continues for Bootylicious and Ton o’ Fun; you can be sure they’ll still be neck and neck at the finish line…

… that’s if anyone can see what’s going on in this light. As if steep slopes and breakneck speeds weren’t scary enough:

Ah, there’s the line – or it was, until Death Machine got there:

On the second run, Quicksilver had a guest driver. Maybe some-one should have showed them how to use the brakes. Or the steering wheel…

Some racers like a sleek, ground-hugging, low-drag aerodynamic body shape to help them down the hill. Some don’t…

It might be from the future and employ hitherto undiscovered technologies somewhere in its fabrication, but The Force is not immune to that curse of the 21st century – the punctured tyre…

Official results:

  1. Kymbo
  2. Death Ray
  3. Ton 'O' Fun
  4. Bootylicious
  5. Dmax
  6. Death Machine
  7. The Force
  8. Enterprise
  9. Dogmatic
  10. Chariot of the Dogs
  11. Quicksilver



Gratitude as ever to our loyal pit crew, camera-folk and protectors of small fluffy creatures (see the race movie).

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