WTAC Saturday kicked off with setting up the Zen Stand, which supplied awesome shade from the blazing sun. The crowd was huge and the action was relentless. After their first sessions, Indy’s EVO was out with a blown turbo and best time of 1:33.7810 (11th in Open Class), and JDMyard’s civic blew a box retiring with a respectable 1.33.03 lap time (8th place in Open Class). David Dalrymple did well with a 1:45.5750 finishing in 18th place in Clubsprint Class, Mazzy went on strong for Adam (1:44.2096 ) and Hayley (1:48.9386) in Open Class and Nathan Antunes finished strong with a 1:35.0470 in the Bilstein Racing S14 (14th in Open Class).

I spent some time introducing Zen sponsored Formula Ford driver Trent Grubel to some key figures in an attempt to get him a drive next year. Trent does hold the lap record for the fastest Formula Ford on Eastern Creek Raceway, and we think he would make the transition from Formula Fords to cars really well!

Time flew, fast, was an action packed day and my sunnies tan is mad.

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Zen Stand on the skid pan.

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Race Car Drivers talking Race Car Talk.

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Boso!

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Hey James! Hey Lei Na!

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Souvenirs!

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Sharpline Paints NA.

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House of Stance RPRSNT! Tony’s NB is looking amazing.

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Brent’s awesome two tone EF looks so good on my old BBS rims (which are now re-barrelled and so much hotter).

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Hey Joelski!

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Acquired Taste.

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Twins. Still have to do a shoot with this FC and RB26.

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Bodyform.

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Indy from IS Motor Racing strapping Trent into his WTAC EVO.

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Trent being strapped in to the Top Class Tyres WTAC WRX.

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Fairlady spotted out back.

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The live feed was one of the best new features of WTAC this year. So pro, so good.

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Smokey, David and Tarzan!

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Luke from Maiham Media interviewing Top Fuel Boss.

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And Nobuteru Taniguchi.

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John from Barrel Bros giving me a lift back to the carpark in their rad mini-van.

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Haha, David.

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RS-R jackets.

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Beau Yates.

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Daisuke Hasegawa.

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Daisuke Hasegawa x Acquired Taste. So trippy to think that just a few weeks back the same shot was taken but in Japan!

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Hey Gwyn!

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Onto the Drifts!

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Mazda 767B Le Mans with my Golf! Couldn’t resist!

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Owner of the 767B removing his front splitter in prep for transport.