well I did get it finished - just. The paintwork was the time consuming part, but that was never going to stop me from racing - just a matter of wether there was some patches still in primer or not. But I did manage to get it painted so it looked good for the pics. I don't have them yet, but they're coming.

Saturday's practice was wet, but it cleared up for Sunday, just leaving a couple of wet patches on the corners where water was seeping out of the bush keeping sections of the corners wet all day.

Car ran well and felt alot better with the wider track and new gears, but I wasn't real happy with my driving on the day and only got 1 half decent run on the board with a best time of 50.1, a few hundreths away from my best time, and only good enough for another 2nd place, about 2 tenths behind the winner in a Datsun 1600. All my other runs were 1.5 to 2 seconds slower for various reasons. oh well, there's always next time...

A friend of mine rolled his Civic (that makes 4 rollovers at MtCotton this year!!!) on the first run on Sunday after loosing it on one of the wet patches just before what they call lover's leap, which is where the road drops away from underneath you as you are exiting the first loop and starting the first run downhill. It's his road car and did not have a cage. He was OK - cleared of a suspected broken arm which was sort of flailing about out through the window when it rolled, but the car is a write off.