Gazzanats WA

Gary and Debbie Myers brought Gazzanats to Collie last weekend and I have to say, this event far out shines ALL others held in WA. This was an “Entrants Event” but the spectators also got a great show.

For two days, there were burnouts, power skids, and crazy cruising  in fact, anyway you can show off your horsepower, you could. A total of 7 burnout sessions plus the exhibition sessions and the cruises were nothing short of full lap burnouts.

Saturday Morning was the Show and Shine judging. Thankfully this was done very early before any of the cars hit the track.

The two day event had an awesomely laid back atmosphere, with the dyno working all day both days, the tyre fitters were run off their feet. One entrant went through 12 sets of tyres in the two days. The Go to Whoa was more GO than WHOA but was really entertaining with a lot of the old school muscle outshining the ABS equipped cars.

The cars attending were serious, everything from a turbo rotary to George Separovich’s NUTTR ute and Fred Watson’s FEAR Monaro. 6:71 Superchargers were everywhere and on everything including a Lexus V8.

The main event was definitely the burnouts. There were 2 classes; NA and Blown. Saturday saw the two qualifying rounds for each class to find the top 30 NA cars and top 20 Blown cars. Sunday was finals time for both classes along with a freestyle session for anyone who didn’t enter previously or didn’t make it into the finals.

The attrition rate wasn’t as bad as some events, although Fred Watson did terminate FEAR’s engine spectacularly During Saturday Nights exhibition Burnouts.

The cruises were definitely a slow paced cruise, well the pace was slow but the engines on every carere banging of the limiter with the Collie Motorplex billowing tyre smoke from every inch of the track. Something entrants aren’t allowed to do at any other Perth Event. There were rules, but not many and Fry the Tyres was permitted anywhere but in the pits.

Gary and Debbie have committed Gazzanats to the Collie Motorplex for another 4 years, and even though this was only the first, there weren’t really all that many problems, which no doubt will be rectified for next years event. As for the entrants, most are saying it is the best event Perth drivers have had, even eclipsing PC. And the majority have said they will be back next year.

For the spectator, there is something going on all day each day, with plenty of vantage points the entire length of the track, plenty of seating for the burnouts and the bar, well that’s right next to the Burnout Pad. What more could you want.

From an “official” photographers point of view, the perfect event. None of the rules normally put on us at these sorts of events. We could get as close as we liked as long as we weren’t on the actual track or pad. Which means closer better quality photos than ever before.

From my point of view, its well worth booking accommodation and going down for the weekend. From an entrants point of view, if you want to show your muscle and shred tyres for a weekend, this is one event you don’t want to miss.

600 photos have been uploaded to the Galleries so check them out and see what Gazzanats is all about.

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