Shot putters won New Zealand's only gold medals, Barbara Beable being the other winner.

Jeff Beable anticipating the Tour de Course a few weeks later was keen to put in a few good times at a circuit where he has not had a lot of luck.

Sarfatti has modified Bohm's formulation by adding back activity - as well as the pilot wave guiding the beable, the beable 'communicates' with the pilot wave19.

Guy Edmonds had a minor, yet terminal problem with his turbo and Jeff Beable after posting a very creditable 1:41:00 experienced some problems with the ABS resulting in four flat-spotted tyres.

In third place were club members Jeff and Nerida Beable in their 1997 Nissan GT-R V-Spec N1 some 20 seconds behind Fitzgerald and 42 seconds ahead of Neil Bates in fourth place.

Jeff Beable in fact was only 0.5 of a second back from Ojars Balodis and Simon Gishcus in his Nissan GTR Vspec (1:23.25) which of course has just returned from Rally Tasmania and is presently set up for Targa Tasmania.