Fun and games at Hamilton Island
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Fun and games at Hamilton Island
Gather round kiddies, while Uncle Binos tells a tale.
A certain island resort has race week for the grotty yachties every year about this time, and odd things are occasionally known to happen. Allegedly. This year Audi were a major sponsor and had a couple of dozen cars plastered all over the island.
And it came to pass that a certain V8 Supercar driver named, err, make it **** ***** happened to be on the island, and under cover of darkness and unknown to the airport owner, it was allegedly decided to test the capabilities of the high performance version on the 1760m runway. It was further allegedly discovered that the tyre pressures were a little wrong for the level of braking which allegedly occurred, but this discovery was made only at the time of applying the brakes from a speed in excess of 230kph, resulting in two blown front tyres.
Attached (I hope) is the alleged photographic evidence of what would have been an interesting ride. The skid marks start 225m from the runway end, another 30m across the sealed RESA, across the grass and the gravel road, and there is red paint on the rocks at the top of the rock wall into the sea. I suspect ****s may have been trumps.
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../Skid%20marks/
A certain island resort has race week for the grotty yachties every year about this time, and odd things are occasionally known to happen. Allegedly. This year Audi were a major sponsor and had a couple of dozen cars plastered all over the island.
And it came to pass that a certain V8 Supercar driver named, err, make it **** ***** happened to be on the island, and under cover of darkness and unknown to the airport owner, it was allegedly decided to test the capabilities of the high performance version on the 1760m runway. It was further allegedly discovered that the tyre pressures were a little wrong for the level of braking which allegedly occurred, but this discovery was made only at the time of applying the brakes from a speed in excess of 230kph, resulting in two blown front tyres.
Attached (I hope) is the alleged photographic evidence of what would have been an interesting ride. The skid marks start 225m from the runway end, another 30m across the sealed RESA, across the grass and the gravel road, and there is red paint on the rocks at the top of the rock wall into the sea. I suspect ****s may have been trumps.
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../Skid%20marks/
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come one give a clue
Binos,
how about a clue, with the number of asterisks could it be a pilot and v8 driver.....maybe TK?
Must have been a funny thing at the time for someone
Cheers
J
how about a clue, with the number of asterisks could it be a pilot and v8 driver.....maybe TK?
Must have been a funny thing at the time for someone
Cheers
J
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how about a small leak
Binos mate,
This is a rumour site after all. Now I have another guess, BJ, may have even been an Audi Guest, remember the old days. Or DC or RK. Cant get the number of letters to match any others.
Mind you another pilot/V8 driver is dumb enough to have done it, but he has one more letter in his name.
Might as well let a bit slip, sooner or latter someone will know.
J
This is a rumour site after all. Now I have another guess, BJ, may have even been an Audi Guest, remember the old days. Or DC or RK. Cant get the number of letters to match any others.
Mind you another pilot/V8 driver is dumb enough to have done it, but he has one more letter in his name.
Might as well let a bit slip, sooner or latter someone will know.
J
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Jarse, that is a mystery I grant you, but 280 metres of skid marks tell their own tale.
J430, I repeat; I know nothing...nooo..thinnggg. I shall have to ask my good friends Bernie James, Brian Johnson, Bob Jane, Bill Jensen and Bobby Jawolski if they have any idea. Sorry I can't help you.
J430, I repeat; I know nothing...nooo..thinnggg. I shall have to ask my good friends Bernie James, Brian Johnson, Bob Jane, Bill Jensen and Bobby Jawolski if they have any idea. Sorry I can't help you.
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Initials MS fit the asterisks just nicely!
What about TK, RK or BJ...
What about TK, RK or BJ...
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Spelling?
Hi there Howard,
Skaife is 6 letters not 5. MS is a bit more sensible than that. The one I expect to be that silly is a Queenslander who cant drive out of sight on a dark night, begins with P ****** but my guess earlier might just be the one I mentioned earlier who also has an old affiliation with Audi (as did the aforementioned Qlder) His name fits the bill, just I thought he was older and smarter than that.
He might need some BOC bucks to pay for it!!!!
Really would like old Uncle Bino's to share some of his knowlege with us.
Cheers
J
Skaife is 6 letters not 5. MS is a bit more sensible than that. The one I expect to be that silly is a Queenslander who cant drive out of sight on a dark night, begins with P ****** but my guess earlier might just be the one I mentioned earlier who also has an old affiliation with Audi (as did the aforementioned Qlder) His name fits the bill, just I thought he was older and smarter than that.
He might need some BOC bucks to pay for it!!!!
Really would like old Uncle Bino's to share some of his knowlege with us.
Cheers
J
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is the key in the number of letters
If Bino's would confirm the numebr of letters we might have a chance but AG is a 4 letter surname.
Come on Bino's......throw us a crumb!
J
Come on Bino's......throw us a crumb!
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Originally Posted by J430
..... AG is a 4 letter surname......
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Originally Posted by J430
Skaife is 6 letters not 5.
Spelling and counting don't seem to be my strong points!!
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I've been watching this thread and wondered:
Hasn't Bino's "already told us" the name anyway??? Maybe not using the actual name per se, but with his reference to asking his mates all with the strikingly similar initials ..............Bernie James, Brian Johnson, Bob Jane, Bill Jensen and Bobby Jawolski.
Seems to me, we sometimes can't see the forest for the tree's.......or is that the other way around?
Hasn't Bino's "already told us" the name anyway??? Maybe not using the actual name per se, but with his reference to asking his mates all with the strikingly similar initials
..............Bernie James, Brian Johnson, Bob Jane, Bill Jensen and Bobby Jawolski. Seems to me, we sometimes can't see the forest for the tree's.......or is that the other way around?