Thursday, April 17, 2008

Tuff Truck Challenge [non truck pics]

After driving the 850 Kms overnight on thursday i passed the small town of Bulga not far from the Tuff Truck site on friday morning.

Pics from Friday:

The Pub at Bulga...


The sponsors campsite with the 5 event courses held in amongst the trees behind...


One of the competitors enters the Tuff Truck site, the show and shine area is off to the right with the mud run behind it...


Simon from 4WDTV attaching one of his stickers during the show and shine ...


The Team Barbie fan club ...


Spare wheel ...


Video interviews by 4WDTV ...


Portraits by Offroad Images ...


This bloke spent all day attaching sponsors stickers to the competitors vehicles ...


The crew at 4WDTV ...


When the Friday night entertainment started at the Mud Run this Yabbie was one of many washed up on the bank ... i should have collected them all and had a great feed!


Working hard in the Mud Run ...


Lights, Camera, no action ...


With none of the first few Trucks getting past the first rock pile and long recoveries taking place it was decided to modify the track and lets them run again ..


Not so squeezy ...


Helping Hand ...


High water mark ...


I don't think i should have stopped here ...


Because now i have a mobile mud bath ...


At the end of the night it was good to relax around a roaring fire ...


Saturday:

oops, one of a kind rear steer broken ...


Sunday:

"funny thing happened on the way to the shop dear!" ...


Offroad ...


Hailstorm on the way home ...

Tuff Truck Challenge

Tuff Truck is the "Bathurst" of 4WD events with huge crowds and a fantastic atmosphere.
I was there filming for 4WDTV and managed to grab a few pics at the same time.

Friday morning saw the competitors start streaming in for scrutineering and then lining up for the show and shine..




Spectators had the chance to get a good look at the wierd and wonderful mods...


Friday night saw half the field tackle the Mud Run while the other half tackled the Mystery Night Stage ... they swapped over the next night.

The first rock mound stopped most of the first few competitors...


The large rocks under the mud were impossible to see and caught many out...


Trying to move one of the rocks out of the way...


despite some valiant attempts the rocks caused long delays to get the competitors out...


They decided to move the rocks and let the first competitors run again...


With the rock mound a bit easier the next long muddy hole had competitors driving the sides to avoid the deep soft mud in the middle ... some went a bit too high...


These guys were all prepared for a dip...


Most were completely covered in mud...


The first Mudhole was quite long and very deep...


The step up stopped most who got through to the end of the first mud hole...


Most just tried the old "if in doubt, go flat out" approach...