Two days have passed out on the salt and what an experience it has been. The place is quite indescribable you really have to see it to fully appreciate the scale and vastness of the place and I would imagine the eerie stillness when there aren’t hundreds of people honing all over the place.I haven’t been able to view all the kiwi teams but the Harris Family Racing (car 397) have run faster than the current record in their class – this means that they have qualified to try and break the record by backing up that run with another that must also be higher than the current record. If they do that then a new record has been created.The Kiwi-a-salt team (car 2761) has also qualified in their class to have a go at the record. These runs will be done in the first group to run tomorrow morning from 7am – so that will be another early start for us. Although we are all awake by then as the ground under the tent isn’t the softest in this part of the country.
There are plenty of amazing sights to see, the classic cars, the hotrods, the motorbikes, the race cars all buzzing around the place heading somewhere - all have a coating of salt stuck to their undersides or sprayed over them, but luckily because it isn’t wet it doesn’t seem to stick like it has done in the past.
Enjoy the pictures until I can get another update done.
Cheers, Rob.