2024 Whangarei Mega Street Sprint

What an event! What a turnout, especially considering how, apparently, little it seemed to have been advertised. Massive crowds. It’s difficult for me to comment knowledgeably about it as I know next to nothing about the classes. There clearly were several, which included go karts, the only ones allowed to put a group on the track at the same time and do a number of laps. Their events were hotly and skillfully contested. The rest were doing, one at a time, two laps of the course under the stop watch and against each other, for the best overall time.
There were some utterly amazing and, at times, brutal cars there, but at the time we left, before it all finished, the best time seemed to be with a little Toyota of unknown heritage. Not spectacular, but bloody quick.
Perhaps the highlight for spectacle was the show put on by the “drift” guys. Rubber and smoke everywhere.
An incredibly well organised and run event with something for just about every “bent” of petrolhead, even if it was just browsing the competitors’ and “display” cars.
A two day event and despite it raining solidly most of the first day it was, by all accounts, well attended both days. Tempting as it was, I resisted some urging to put the Fiero in for a blast.
For those into this particular variation of the motor sports, a great event all round. Roll on 2025.
Greg & Val Keenan.