Demolition Derby at Waikaraka Park Sat 28th Dec 2024

[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

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Its the last 2024 Demolition Derby time and this will have you splitting your sides with laughter as they are hell-bent on destroying each other until there is only one car moving. It will be a bumper-to-bumper race when every driver will be trying to win the title.

Plus we have an action from the Shannon Engineering Modified Challenge, Six Shooters, Saloon Masters, Super Stocks and Saloons, then ending the night with a whole lot of crashing and banging that will have you in laughs as we end it with our Demolition Derby!

Grab the family and friends then head to Prestige Pools Waikaraka Speedway for a night of exciting racing. You won't be disappointed!

Purchase your tickets online here from Eventfinda or at the gate on the night.

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/christmas-special-demolition-derby-modified-challenge/auckland/onehunga

Food is available at the venue serving up Hot Chips Chups, Hot Dogs, Burgers, Coffee, Hot Chocolate and much more are available to purchase on-site.

Children 7 years and under are free - no ticket is required!

A Gold Card Concession ticket is available for Sheepers but note ONLY at the main gate on the event day (ID required).

 

Main gate opens at 4pm. The racing starts at 7pm
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Back in our bogan days:

[Nominal]

Time to do it again?

[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

I've already done it three times.

It's more effort than you think, and assuming they're still doing jalopy racing, it kinda helps to have an engine that's running properly. I was more thinking about going along as a spectator. 

[shizzl]

I’d be keen to give a derby a rip if I can find a suitable car.

[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

20 minutes ago, shizzl said:

I’d be keen to give a derby a rip if I can find a suitable car.

The next one's in April, so you've got time. @sentra and @peteretep have both entered in the past, as per photo in first post.

I wonder what they're going to do with derbies now that end-of-life cars will be starting to include a lot of SUVs and EVs...

[igor]

Why not allow SUVs? Sure they're tall but so were a lot of 50s cars.

[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

Back when I entered, they were not allowing '4WDs', presumably because they get too much traction even on a wet track, so they can hit too hard? A car-based 2WD SUV like the Nissan Cashcow could be OK on that basis.

[sentra]

i still cant lift my left arm behind+above my head from that event for some reason - highly reccomended.

[Thphantum]

2 hours ago, sentra said:

i still cant lift my left arm behind+above my head from that event for some reason - highly reccomended.

Let go of your wallet.

[sentra]

Wrong overall pocket 

[tortron]

Imagine the fireworks display after an all lithium electric derby

 

Probably only 5-10 years left of them I guess

[fletch]

Been in a few derbys. Won once. Good fun.

You want a fwd carby car. Late 80s early 90s. Rip out all wires, dash, everything, and just wire alt, dizzy and starter. A small engined thing is good. Move radiator across to gbox side and long hoses to allow it to stay plumbed in after some re-modelling of the front.

Make sure the front guards can't get pushed onto the tyres.

Lots of psis in the rear tyres.

Cut exhaust short so it sounds like your giving it death.

Cut out heaps of metal so the car bounces off everything.

I think a honda odyssey is one of the best cars currently. The mechanicals are protected so they last. I seem to recall they are not allowed at some tracks.

[Nominal]

Nissan Serena should go good , mid engine?

[fletch]

Maybe. Lots of rwd vehicles get their front guards pushed into the tyres and they can't steer.

 

[Nominal]

9 hours ago, fletch said:

Maybe. Lots of rwd vehicles get their front guards pushed into the tyres and they can't steer.

 

The poms cut the front guards away like on that Jag. Is that against the rules here?

[fletch]

Pretty sure it's OK to chop them back. As long as there's no dangerous bits sticking out.

If you have some soft thing you might need all the protection you can get for the steering

[Nominal]

Depends on how tough the officials are I guess.

Rules:

 

[RXFORD]

If anyone is interested I can put you in touch with a fella who has a couple of roll bars/belt setups available. We salvaged one from the pulsar I derbied years ago.

 

 

[piazzanoob]

On 24/12/2024 at 21:22, fletch said:

Been in a few derbys. Won once. Good fun.

You want a fwd carby car. Late 80s early 90s. Rip out all wires, dash, everything, and just wire alt, dizzy and starter. A small engined thing is good. Move radiator across to gbox side and long hoses to allow it to stay plumbed in after some re-modelling of the front.

Make sure the front guards can't get pushed onto the tyres.

Lots of psis in the rear tyres.

Cut exhaust short so it sounds like your giving it death.

Cut out heaps of metal so the car bounces off everything.

I think a honda odyssey is one of the best cars currently. The mechanicals are protected so they last. I seem to recall they are not allowed at some tracks.

I did it once in a honda odyssey at waikaraka park. did the jalopy race going hard in the van and it stopped going on the last lap... didnt quite get to roll over the line and it ended up being i snapped the camshaft right by the spocket. 

not one dent and was sad i didnt make the derby haha so if i did it again would bother doing the jalopy race

[Thousand Dollar Supercar]

On 26/12/2024 at 20:24, piazzanoob said:

I did it once in a honda odyssey at waikaraka park. Did the jalopy race going hard in the van and it stopped going on the last lap... Didnt quite get to roll over the line and it ended up being I snapped the camshaft right by the spocket. 

Not one dent and was sad I didnt make the derby haha so if I did it again I wouldn't bother doing the jalopy race.

There was an Odyssey in the derby last night. It managed to complete both jalopy races and come close to winning the derby, but something started burning underneath it. The derby was won by what looked like the remains of a Primera.

The number of entrants in the derby was fairly low compared to what I've seen in the past - only around 25 cars. Maybe some of the entrants couldn't make the rescheduling, or there was less advertising, or it's already getting hard to find suitable cars. The racing was good though - a race leader blew an engine, there were a couple of rollovers etc, and they have a whole field of cars running the Buick V6. It sounded like a herd of cattle.

Next event is the 1st of Jan, and it includes a fireworks display.