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2012/01/09 13:10:37
3sc0rt

Gemini at summernats vid

Not a ford.. But an interesting watch

Hes in the wrong, but what would you do if someone kicked all your hard work?

http://m.youtube.com/#/wa...fb&v=XPPzJZaCX_E&gl=AU


Cheers Rhys.

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smallvan
Link wont work try this one.
What do you think. He was in the wrong . kicking the car, not on but it was stoved in on the left rear so he never hurt it. 
  [ ps\ their is some swering in the replys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPzJZaCX_E
What seems to have happened is that the driver Steve Nogas was told he was disqualified for reason stemming back to his qualifying burnout (disobeying a fire mashal), he forced his car through a group of officials and on to the track, and after the burnout he was escorted from the track and his car towed away.
2012/01/09 14:37:14
Phil
That video pretty much sums up why I'll never take my car to Summernats...Officials that shouldnt be officials, entrants that should be jailed, its just out of control in every way.
 
If the officials thought quick enough they would have given the intake a long shot of CO2 and that would have saved all the greif...with no harm done.
2012/01/09 17:23:10
William
this wont be the last we hear of this but this video may open peoples eyes a bit the advantages of on car video.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egZ4hZsJkqc
2012/01/09 18:45:10
maxrs
None of the officials passed year 8 science Phil.
Still my type of event.
Couldn't be worse than the early fast fours and rotory shows.
2012/01/09 20:47:58
Phil
Yeah, there is obviously more to the story than anyone will probably ever know and there's definately some controversy there...but the entrant blew any chance of having a case when he pushed his way onto the strip...should be a life ban in my book. Not forgetting the clown who kicked the car and pushed the entrant...he should be out for life too.
2012/01/09 21:20:35
laurie
Are these some of the hillbillies trying to stop the new modified vehicle laws from becoming a reality???????? I can understand why the pollies frown at this event
2012/01/09 21:55:01
Neale
Typical of the morons that go to Summernats. Make you wonder why the comentator was encouraging the crowd to cheer the idiot out. Also I would hate someone to kick my pride & joy, but then again I wouldnt jump on the roof or distroy the car doing burnouts either.
 
Honestly where is the skill in doing a burnout in a Gemini with a massive blown V8. Its like fishing with TNT. 
The hardest part of the competition for those guys would have been writing their name on the entry form.
 
If the cars that go into the burnout comp had an external battery cutout switch like most race cars then the officials could of then shut the car down before he entered.
2012/01/09 23:50:59
Wattsy
Typical of the morons that go to Summernats.
 
My friend and I both attended Summernats and I had a great time, Neale, and we are both reasonably well educated communications electronics technicians under the employ of the RAAF.
 
Branding all 100 000 people, which is the claimed attendance for Summernats this year, and over 1300 entrants as typically morons is moronic in itself, not to mention highly insulting and inflammatory.
 
Can you rethink these kind of statements prior to posting in the future?
 
As to your point about doing a burnout in that Gemini: the guy enters many burnout competitions in that vehicle and he still hit the wall, as did many others. There is little doubt in my mind that some of the entrants are very skilled at throwing their vehicles around a fairly small area.
 
Furthermore, enforcing the fitment of external isolator switches for burnout competitions when the vast majority are road registered vehicles, for the purpose of shutting down an unruly competitor, is in my opinion gross overkill.
 
In no way do I endorse the poor behaviour of Steve Nogas, driver, and believe sanctions against the "kicking/fighting marshall" should be swift and severe.
 
btw - the word is "destroy" not "distroy", but I will just assume that it's a typo.
 
Cheers.
2012/01/10 00:53:11
Juiceman
As people have said there is definitely more to the story, but I couldn't help but smile at how good the skid was. Having said that, I will offer no opinion of who's right and who's wrong as it is highly controversial.
2012/01/10 11:42:11
3sc0rt
Just nudging himself on the skid pan was a bit crazy, what was more crazy was the dickhead who kicked it and then wanted a blew. Burnout was masssive!
2012/01/10 20:02:37
Forte
I was there when this happened, and the day before (i believe) he was qualifying for the sunday, the competitors get 60 seconds to come down the skid pan do their thing and get out, after the 60 seconds, marshals put up a red flag so you know, and out you go, unfortunatly steve didn't do this, and kept going for a further minute-minute and a half  despite cearly seeing the red flags. i was a ripper of a skid, and yes he would have gotten into the sunday event, however due to not exiting the skid pan after the minute, he was disqualified. then on the sunday, he just decided to line up anyways.
 
Branding us all as morons is a bit over the top, this was my first year, and i didnt have any problemsdown there at all, this was the only issue with the officials that i witnessed for th days i was there. even through the night on the saturday with the entertainment, there was no trouble, and for that amount of people, especially some of them drinking all day, everyone was well behaved.
2012/01/11 11:19:01
Wattsy
Forte - after watching the video William linked that is mounted to the side of Nogas' car there was no sign that he was disqualified from his qualifier.
 
Nogas' lifetime ban has been lifted and I concur with the decision as I do not support making the rules up as you go along.
http://www.summernats.com...ID=17&ArticleID=22
 
I was unsuprised to see no mention of "kicky/fighty" marshall.
2012/01/11 16:45:01
cosmic
I think that regardless what they say about the rules you as an entrant have no say 
every time ive been there as a competitor it comes down to who you are talking to and what their mood is like on the day
even after we went to the office to complain and voice our opinion no one cared
so that is why the 20 plus cars that we all did enter are no more.
 
And why is the official not mentioned or saying he is sorry for his actions if that was you or me we would be banned or arrested.
 
 
2012/01/11 17:08:48
Forte
Ah righto, sorry about that.
I wasn't there on the friday, there was a car on the saturday that did a skid for over two mins, and the commentators said he wont be coming back, must have got the cars mixed up
2012/01/11 21:26:48
ratta tat tat
 Old mate Steve was just trying to keep it real hahaha.
 
Is it the cams causing that engine to snort angrily every second?  
 
And that marshall.... Dude needs some anger management classes. He's meant to be setting an example out there. Think safety first- If the situation becomes dangerous stand back and let the officials handle it.
2012/01/11 22:52:24
jimmyd
 In my opinion the competitors life ban should not have been lifted - forcing your car past officials is unpardonable. If he felt he had a legitimate grievance with being disqualified from running he should have followed the appropriate appeal process, not endanger people by pushing them out of the way with his car. His actions in this instance reinforce the stereotypical impressions that motoring enthusiasts are nothing but "hoons" with total disregard for public safety.
 
Its a sad situation that Summernats are now required to spell out in writing what is really a no brainer - you can not disregard officials/marshalls and endanger people with impunity, no matter how apologetic you are after the fact.
2012/01/12 09:03:48
KIZZA
I was also there and I have mates who are good mates with Steve Nogas as he is a local from my area. On saturday in qualifing a fire marshall signalled for him not to drive his car off the pad after he done his skid. However, he didnt realise this and neither did the officials at the end of the pad and they gave him the all clear and said you have qualified for sundays burnouts so off he went happy as larry. Then after lining up for 3hrs on sunday he was told at the last minute no your not allowed on due to disobeying a fire marshall. His ban has been lifted as stated on Summernats website. Wat he done and what security done should never have happened (he himself has publicly addmitted he was in the wrong and apologised for it).
2012/01/12 11:45:49

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