Off Road Racing in Mangawhai

We had a major event happening over the Easter Weekend here in Mangawhai, the “Off Road Racing”. We decided to join the crowds and went along on Saturday morning. The weather was stunning and they could have not asked for better weather. I have to say the event was extremely well organized and had everything going for the visitors, from ice cream and burger trucks to Rubbish bins and enough toilets. The event was held in a huge paddock; where our future Shopping Industrial Park is suppose to be developed. It has been raining lots in the last few weeks so the ground was fairly wet, however we found a great dry spot up on top of the hill and could overview the whole track. Usually I am not that fond of Car races, but they did have 6 different racing categories and each category had to do six rounds. It all happened reasonably fast and there was lots of interesting things happening on the track. We had little push over’s and rollovers, mud flying high into the crowds, cars dying on the track and lots of dust in the air when the cars were flying around the corner. Carlos and I were fascinated by it, Julia was tired and had a bit of a hangover since she had been on a sleep over party the night before and Sven was enjoying the sunshine and the crowds and burgers. We all enjoyed our time on the racetrack and we stayed much longer than planned, it was a great day, something else to do then the usual staff around Mangawhai.