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    finke desert race

    Hi all

    off to the finke desert race again this weekend.

    this year there is 440 bikes and about 80 buggies/cars should be good


    440k of pure hell of a track!

    http://www.finkedesertrace.com.au/

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    Take photos please!!!!

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    Sounds good, i second the photo request. Matt
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    G'day Well you certainly don't have to travel very far to see the action :roll: but it would be good to see, i drove the track to Finke in 1993 on one of our (3) trips to your part of Oz and mate some pix for the rest of us to see have fun be safe cheers Dennis

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    Some posted pics would be great. A mate of mine raced in it several years ago and if I remember rightly finshed second overall in the bike on his first attempt on an XR600 Ballards modified Honda. Needles to say I actually bought this bike from him and had it for a few years.

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    Not a good start to this years one unfortunately!

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    What happened 8O
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    Originally posted by DiscoTDI
    What happened 8O

    Fatality during the prologue. I don't know exactly what happened, but the bush telegraph works really well up here in the NT!

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Finke race death investigated
    Saturday, 11 June 2005. 16:57 (AEST)Saturday, 11 June 2005. 16:57 (ACST)Saturday, 11 June 2005. 17:57 (AEDT)Saturday, 11 June 2005. 14:57 (AWST)
    A minute's silence has been held at the Finke Desert Race at Alice Springs after a rider was killed in a crash.

    Finke Desert Race officials say the motorcycle rider, 54-year-old Greg Lincoln from Trafalgar in Victoria, died of injuries sustained during a crash while racing in the prologue.

    Another competitor, racing at the same time, stopped to alert emergency personnel but they were unable to save the rider.

    No further details have been released.

    A minute's silence was held at the start-finish line in respect for the rider and an investigation is being held into the accident.

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    That I guess is the item in question
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    Sorry folks, didnt get many pics of the race this year. I have truck loads from previous years. I spent this year enjoying the race, and keeping track of children, we had 17 kids in our camp at one stage. Was a good weekend!

    Even though we got drowned in rain. The rain kept the dust down. (Over he finke weekend, we had more than half the amount of rain than we have had over the past 12 months! farmers loved it.)








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