Bogans. I love them. I think every guy has an inner bogan. Mine was satisfied at the D1NZ drifting out ASB Arena on Sunday.
There is something wrong, but so right, about a V8 heading towards a concrete wall at 150km/h then turning ata90degree angle and missing it by millimetres. To make it more insane, there's two of them doing it at once and the back one is trying to keep as close to the front one as possible. You and I would be dead at the first corner. It really is amazing to watch. It was equally as amazing to see close to 10,000 people turn up to watch it! My mother would say it's a waste of good tyres. Though she's not in the demographic and once stopped at a green light and went when it changed red. I come from a long line of below-average motorists.
Again, there's an event that you'd expect a bit of fighting, lots of boozing and offensive sights. I saw the opposite.
A third of the audience were female, maybe that's why? Most of the ones I heard cheering knew more about the sport that I did. Does that imply that I'm not a real man, or that women in the Bay are5per cent bogan? Both, maybe?!
I saw a guy get a clip round the ears, after one of the cars crashed sideways in to a wall, for suggesting to his wife that she parallel parks in a similar fashion! Okay, so there was a little violence. But it was warranted!
(Will Johnston is the host of Will and Bridget in the Morning-Classic Hits 95FM Breakfast Show in the Bay of Plenty. Listen every weekday from 6-9am).