Well here I am in sunny(!) sydney... Was raining when I arrived on the 3rd then we had a couple of good days, rained yesterday and is cloudy today but I guess it could be worse. Hoping it perks up a bit over the next few days so I can get some quality time over at Bondi and can also get some good pics of the city. Went to see "Blood Diamond" yesterday with a mate which was not bad and went to the Maritime Museum. Also been for a walk round the botanical...

So onto Friday (at last) - should have done this ages ago as its all a bit hazy now but never mind. Took it fairly easy in the morning, nursing a hang-over and missed most of the fujitsu V8 qualifying which is a kind of feeder event for the main V8 series, though given the times they were posting there can't really be much of a difference in the specs of the cars. Watched the first round of the historics which lasted for only 5 of its 7 laps before the red fl...

Bathurst report!OK first a bit of info for those of you who don't know what happens in this sleepy country town once a year...Originally at single 500 mile endurance race on public roads, through the years the bathurst 1000 (km after oz went metric) has become one of if not the motor-racing event in the aussie motorsport calendar.The main event is now a race solely for Holdens (vauxhall to you poms) and ford over 161 laps of this crazy 6km circuit that goes&n...