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22 Aug 2007, 02:35 (Ref:1994194)
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Bathurst Council painting over Brock and Porter tributes...
Today I heard on the radio that the Bathurst Council is painting over the memorial messages left for Brocky and Mark Porter who was killed on the mountain.
Has anyone written on the walls and is ****ed off the council are painting over YOUR message. I am for sure, i wrote a message for each and im extremely ****ed off that they are getting painted over. Does the council think that they will be too much of a distraction for Drivers? Why cant they just stick some temporary signs over the walls? To me it seems very inconsiderate of the Bathurst Council to paint over them. To many people Bathurst is a sacred place all year around.To have written on the walls in memory of these fallen souls is an honor, not a right. I think that the Bathurst Council has over stepped the mark.. I hope they have taken photos of everyones tributes so they can be displayed someway or another for years to come.. |
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22 Aug 2007, 03:20 (Ref:1994206)
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I thought they were doing that last year? It was on the local radio when I was passing through, the trouble was the messages etc were never going to last due to either weather or being scraped off by crashing cars. They were definitely going to take photos of the walls before they were painted though
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22 Aug 2007, 03:22 (Ref:1994207)
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Heard the Bathurst Mayor on radio.
He says it was done last Christmas! It's only now someone has oicked it up and run with it. He says it was done for a couple of reasons. First, safety...people were stopping on the circuit ( it is a road most of the year after all) to read them, causing traffic issues. Second, they have to sell the advertising space! He syas the tributes took up a sections of wall for about 1 km in all, so I guess if that's true, you can't preserve the length of wall. And yes they did take photos of all the tributes. |
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22 Aug 2007, 03:55 (Ref:1994211)
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"BROCK'S SKYLINE" and other corner signs are not advertising, there is no need to remove the tributes from those parts. Its not like its graffiti, which itself gives the Nordschleife character.
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22 Aug 2007, 05:17 (Ref:1994236)
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I also heard the Brock Foundation knocked back the initial council recommendations for the Brock statue
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"It was dry for the second go-around. Grice, nervous, worrying about his Bathurst jinx, ran 2:25.9. The amazing Brock, using every last centimetre of bitumen, yet keeping the car straight and balanced and at full noise, came back with a staggering 2:20.0 as if to say: "Match that". And people just shook their heads, bit their lips and wondered who would be second". RIP Peter Brock. 1945-2006
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22 Aug 2007, 05:31 (Ref:1994242)
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As previously stated that they took photo's of them, i heard a while back the photo's were going to be in the Bathurst Musseum, is this true?
I for one wrote a tribute to both, but if it is for public safety and then it is fair enough. When they paint the wall they just paint straight over the top of the existing paint, so you tributes will always be ther on the wall just not visible. |
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22 Aug 2007, 06:12 (Ref:1994253)
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I was up there 2 weeks ago, all the walls were clean @ skyline except for a couple of new tributes & a silver plaque glued to the wall
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22 Aug 2007, 06:46 (Ref:1994267)
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Obviously a slow news day cos I seem to remember this being mentioned around the time of the Motor Festival up there earlier this year, s'pose the general media takes a bit of time on these sort of things
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22 Aug 2007, 08:02 (Ref:1994307)
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22 Aug 2007, 11:14 (Ref:1994419)
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"It was dry for the second go-around. Grice, nervous, worrying about his Bathurst jinx, ran 2:25.9. The amazing Brock, using every last centimetre of bitumen, yet keeping the car straight and balanced and at full noise, came back with a staggering 2:20.0 as if to say: "Match that". And people just shook their heads, bit their lips and wondered who would be second". RIP Peter Brock. 1945-2006
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22 Aug 2007, 11:35 (Ref:1994433)
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Brock's were painted over months ago , Porter's were still there when I was last in Bathurst in June but they were always going to go.
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22 Aug 2007, 12:29 (Ref:1994476)
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Strangely enough I was at the track today and stood at Brock Skyline. One message written on the track edge next to wall still exists. Some can still be seen lightly under the paint aswell.
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22 Aug 2007, 16:07 (Ref:1994576)
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Would i be stupid in thinking that the wall itself could have been replaced, and the messages saved (and put in the musium, or at worst moved back a few metres)
Sure it would be costly replacing that much wall, but i don't really think you can put a price on how people felt about him. |
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22 Aug 2007, 22:30 (Ref:1994785)
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according to the V8SC website the photos of the wall will be displayed in the Peter Brock wing of the museum and will also be available for purchase
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22 Aug 2007, 23:01 (Ref:1994796)
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This site is asking for public comments on the proposed memorials. I've added my two cents saying that I don't like either idea.
http://http://www.bathurstregion.com...orama/?id=1977 at the same time you'll find photo's of the wall on there as well. |
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