All systems are GO GO GO
The Olivers Lake is unusable so we will be heading to the airport at Waraknabeal.Some restrictions on the roads but thats changing daily.
Saturday 22 JanuarySummary Min 13 Max 31 Mostly sunny. Mostly sunny. Winds southeasterly averaging up to 20 km/h.

Sunday 23 JanuarySummary Min 13 Max 32 Sunny. Sunny. Winds n...ortheasterly and light.

Monday 24 JanuarySummary Min 15 Max 28 Shower or two. Partly cloudy. A shower or two developing. Winds northwesterly averaging 15 to 30 km/h tending south to southwesterly up to 25 km/h during the evening.

Tuesday 25 JanuarySummary Min 12 Max 25 A little rain. Cloudy. A little rain. Light winds.
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as per SI Saturday will still be practise registration and scrutineering day.
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This is the way I have been told it will be OK to get to the airport,



Take the Henty HWY B200 from Horsham to Warrick, NTH.



Turn to Rupanyup B240.



Once at Rupanyup, turn NTH to Sheep Hills.



At Sheep Hill continue NTH to Warrick.



Once at Warrick drive STH down the Henty B200 to the airport.



At this stage this is a go from what I am being told, & will add 10min to the trip



This may change as the water starts to fall, as it due to peak at Warrick yesterday

Looks promising for some good sailing days and Sunday being the day of rest!

Just talked to warracknabeal police mans wife and she talked to him. We can go past the road block to get to the airport only !!! The north easterly approach that was posted earlyer will get your feet wet, at least 200mm about five klm from warracknabeal. I can only vouch for the last leg as I did not come from horsham, the end of the horsham turn off was just over the road so the blue ribbon Rd is the best and safest option.

good winds , company and sailing folks, top effort on the backup plans!!!!

Well, day one of the racing. Bad news is that there wasn't any. The expected 8-10kts did not arrive, but there were enough sucker puffs to give everyone an opportunity for a bit of fun.

Tomorrow, the forecast is for a cool change and the winds we are hoping for.

Well done everyone. Good luck for tomorrow. How many people are competing all together as I noticed there are only four classes??

Final results from the 2011 Australian Blokart Association Open

Production Middleweight
1 Cameron Moore 13.5 points
2 Perry Hall 21.5 points
3 Alan Brunton 28.5 points
4 Michael Hockley 36.75 points
5 John Buzo 39 points

Production Heavyweight
1 Rod Jackson 15.75 points
2 Richard Geange 17 points
3 Barry Mason 31.75 points
4 Rod Jenkinson 40.75 points
5 Brenton Emanuel 41 points
6 Daryl French 49 points

Performance Middleweight
1 Ben Lazzar 11.25 points
2 Barry Cole 20.5 points
3 Danny Hall 31 points
4 Anthony Francis 32.5 points
5 Cliff Clarke 46 points
6 Ray Brett 56 points

Performance Heavyweight
1 Wayne Osborne 8.75 points
2 Don McKenzie 21.75 points
3 Russell Whitehouse 33 points
4 Graham Oliver 35.75 points
5 Teddy McDonald 50 points
6 Simon Payton 62 points
7 Jon Guymer 66 points
8 Tim Vance 73 points
9 Greg Devine 74 points

Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully next time you will be a competitor. If foot steering was better, cars would use it.

Anyway, we got a two page spread in the Wimmera Mail-Times.

Aircraft also use foot steering

Yes, I believe I heard the same thing. The Lefroy mini plans have some info like that if memmory serves.

I think I detect a bit of a 'stab' from Test Pilot but I dont think foot steering would change the handling or performance of a Blokart any. Not that there aren't other things you can do to get better performance if you have the dollars

EDIT: Awesome write-up you guys recieved in the paper, looks like it nearly does the event itself justice. Chalk a PR point up for the Blokart community.

I think your writing skills are perfectly adequate as they are TP1