Richmond/Vancouver Road Trip

[Blake]

About the Ferries, they were saying on the radio this morning, it may be busy this weekend as its the last one before all the kids go back to school. But we are catching the earliest there is right?

Yes, Daryl and I have reservations for the 7AM boat on Saturday morning.  It is the earliest possible boat, and there is a buffet onboard.  We have to arrive at the terminal by 6:30AM at the latest otherwise we forfeit the reservations.

I would think that the following weekend will be the busy one because it's Labour Day and school starts on Sept 8th.

Blake

[Blake]

So does anyone know if there is food near by for lunch, or should I bring my BBQ and we could all pitch in and get dogs, or get yourself burgers but you do them yourself....lol....

I don't mind doing a lunch run with my van if we have to.  Like Daryl said, there is a mall about two mins drive away, with several fast food options.


Blake

[Blake]

Tomorrow Morning - Blake's Carpool

Just a reminder that I need Gerry, Gord, John, Tom, and Trevor at my house at about 5:40AM tomorrow morning.  Only Gord should have his racing gear with him.  There is room to park cars on my street and it is safe:

4080 Tracey Street, Victoria BC
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=4080+Tracey+Street+Saanich+BC&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=ca&ei=AgOPSv_-A4rANfTfhLAK&ll=48.481797,-123.380585&spn=0.11629,0.307961&z=12&iwloc=A

We'll pick Vince up at 6AM and be at the ferry by about 6:20AM.

See ya bright and early....


Blake

[dajracer]

Truck is loaded and we had to cut out a few things. I sure hope someone else will have room for "Dog Ball's" stuff on the way home.

[gotnitro]

Well the day has been good its a little slow but they have done a good job getting the races going thanks to tom and blake. Seeking of blake. Was starting the 3rd qualifier in the c due to glitching.

[weekend camper]

If I remember right, Blake won nitro, Phil won Pan and not sure who won Touring.


Good race and great people.

[Big_gord24]

Mike Mitlestead won the touring stock and superstock. Eli Won Mini. I hope you guys had a good time. Hopefully next year we start planing for a race earlier and can get some more sponsors on board. Would have been nice to give out more hardware but we did the best we could in the amount of time, (4 weeks) people couldn't fit us into their budget with such short notice. You guys are a great group. Thanks go out to Tom and Blake for teaching the guys about the computer and to Craig for the syrup application, this race wouldn't have even happened without the support of your club.

Ryan

[gotnitro]

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[Blake]

It was a great weekend!  I was surprised at the number of entries... somewhere around 95 by my count!  IROCC accounted for about 30 entries, and there were two guys (Franko and Ron) from Washington State.  So that shows that there are a good number of Lower Mainlanders interested in the racing scene.  Hopefully they can take this event and use it as a big stepping stone to building up their club.  Stock and Nitro were the most popular with 28 in Stock and 34 in Nitro!  Crazy.

Mario, Eddie, and Bak Choi are probably still sleeping after doing a LOT of work over the weekend.  Same goes for Jessie (Eli's girlfriend), and the rest of the "BBQ Staff".  I also saw Ryan marshalling a lot of extra races.  They'll need more help from other members, but things are started in the right direction.

Thanks to Gord for helping call quite a few races over the weekend.  That helped them out quite a bit.


We arrived at the ferry terminal on Sunday at about 5:30PM to find a 2+ sailing wait and a completely full compound.  After John sweet talked the ticket agent things were looking up for us and we SQUEAKED on the 8PM in the last 5/6 cars.  We ran into Brian's buddy Oliver Jervais and he was not as lucky... he ended up on the 10PM sailing.  Yikes.


Blake

[Danny]

Hey,

Sounds like you guys had a really great trip.  I wish I would have joined up sooner so i could have come and enjoyed the fun.

          ~Danny

Congrats to Blake for winning Nitro and Phil for winning Pan. 

[Gorden]

It was a lot of fun. we got to see a lot Richmound in our big red limo as Blake took us on the tour of the area.

on another note who's is going to Kamloops? and will we still have a club race that weekend?


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vince is a zombie

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