Mt Dobson skifield turns 30 this year and it’s still a family operation.
The ski area is opening on Saturday, three weeks ahead of schedule, after better snow conditions than last year.
Mt Dobson has been owned and run by the Foote family since 1979 when they began developing it from a tractor-powered rope tow. Peter and the late Shirley Foote developed the road to the summit over four years, after a lengthy application process with the Department of Lands and Survey.
Mr Foote spent 7000 hours on bulldozers and graders…Â Details
As Brawn run away and even Red Bull’s Christian Horner admits catching them will be “very difficultâ€, the time has come for other teams to write off their 2009 campaigns.
“We have some of our technical big guns on next year’s programme because … Details
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has rubbished suggestions that Lewis Hamilton is not as brilliant as we all thought.
He also poured scorn on claims that Hamilton lucked into last year’s Formula One world championship because he had the best car.
Whitmarsh insisted this year’s under-par McLaren was to blame for the champ’s dismal run.
And he revealed the team is already ploughing vast resources into making sure next year’s car is worthy of Hamilton’s talent.
Whitmarsh said: “Lewis has done an extraordinary job this year in what is a new experience for him.†… Details
Although Dani Pedrosa didn’t have the best weekend in Mugello, he did win the title of the fastest man to ever ride a MotoGP bike. The Jockey sized Spainard was clocked in the speed trap at a phenomenal 217.03mph, shattering the previous record set by Makoto Tamada by 4mph.
Tamada, while also on a Honda, set his time on the 990cc variant of MotoGP bike, while at the Shanghai circuit in 2006. With the 800cc machines originally thought to be down on power when compared to their predacessors, we have seen them breaking lap records all over the series, and now they can claim the top speed honor as well… Details