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SnowBall Run 2010
SnowBall Run 2010 - The Burnout
Nick Burridge cutting loose on the SnowBall Run 2010.
If you listen carefully at 0:16 you can hear him clip the fence at which point he floors it....
Mike and Neen's awesome SnowBall Run photo montage.
The CannonBall Run 2012
07 / 01 / 2012
2012 was awesome, we had our biggest turnout yet with close to 1000 competitors on the day.
The Heroes and Villains theme went down a treat with some competitors thinking so far out of the box that they will need to go see a shrink to come back from the brink of insanity….
...You know who you are…
Hampton Downs was a great way to relax and cut lose in the afternoon even though it completely bucketed down the whole time we were there everyone keep saying how much fun it was blasting around the track and doing some skids and drifting on the skid pad.
We did lose a car at Hamptons, the lime green 1969 Mustang Fastback who is a regular at AMS events aquaplaned into a few barriers a looked a little worse for wear after it… After talking to the owner he is hoping to have it fixed and ready to go for next year, we hope it is…. Check the Photos section of this site for some photos of it.
I must say a “Big Up’s” to the three guys who turned up at Hamptons on their motorbikes and looked like they had just jumped out of a pool…. Good stuff guys for powering on.
Our afterpartys are well known for being in pretty cool locations but in 2012 we completely went leftfield on everyone and had a massive themed Horror dinner at Spookers in Kingseat.
We pretty much took over the main complex with our massive themed party and had our prizegiving there as well. Afterwards “The Pack” descended into the Spookers house to get the bejeebers scared out of them….. It was awesome.
CannonBall Run 2012 "Top 35" Results
| First Name | Last Name | Car Number | Total Points |
| Mike/Neen | Page | 004 | 9305 |
| Kevin | Davidson | 341 | 8760 |
| James | Armitage | 253 | 8610 |
| Richard | Prestley | 420 | 8605 |
| Melissa | Hannan | 275 | 8565 |
| Tasha | Jeffries | 311 | 8170 |
| Leon | Barton | 262 | 7970 |
| Walter | Rands-Trevor | 319 | 7770 |
| Scott | Runciman | 451 | 7650 |
| James | King | 32 | 7070 |
| Kevin | Seymour | 260 | 6950 |
| Steven | Worthington | 309 | 6895 |
| Chris | Hooker | 228 | 6615 |
| Claudia | Schmidt | 449 | 6290 |
| Diren | Singh | 243 | 6125 |
| Graham | Sharp | 1973 | 6090 |
| Brandon | Baker | 247 | 6035 |
| Gavin | Tills | 39 | 5800 |
| Mick | Dean-Freeman | 422 | 5770 |
| Hayden | Fraser | 105 | 5330 |
| Nathan | Munro | 314 | 5280 |
| Marc | Robinson | 267 | 5270 |
| Adam | Heath | 320 | 5105 |
| Darryl | Hutton | 282 | 5055 |
| Abby | Mills | 203 | 4995 |
| Troy | Wallace | 316 | 4950 |
| Joy | Chambers | 007 | 4950 |
| AJ | Bertenshaw | SoundQ | 4910 |
| Kevin | Mcrae | 45 | 4785 |
| Anita | Mathews | 65 | 4685 |
| David | Honey | 62 | 4485 |
| Luke | Patterson | 447 | 4265 |
| James | Ray | 002 | 4255 |
| Jesse | Davis | 115 | 4035 |
| David | Clarke | 140 | 401 |
The "Big Baller" Award
Overall winner of CannonBall. Congrats Mike and Neen for taking it out two years in a row.
The Best Theme Car & Team Award
Car number 4:20 - Richie and the Super Stoners
The Best Costume Award
The Sumo Suit Girls
"Mr Personality" Award
Car number 4:20 - Richie - The Stoner Leader
Top Muscle Car Award
Brent Marsh - Car Number "Mad Dog" - The Green Mustang
Top Jappa Award
UPFM2 - R33 Skyline - "ACUZED"
Top Euro Award
Enjoi Products Lambo
"The Beast" Award
The Mighty Hydrovac Truck
The "Biggest Shitbox" Award
Car 002
Just Not Low Enough Award
Ariel Atom - Atom Johnny
Biggest Hair Award
Victoria Heath - Moonshine Pickup Truck.
Dirty as a Mother Award
Dayle Bennett and the Supa Licka Girls.
Best Event Video / Doco
Coming Soon....
Best in Show - Overall Top Vehicle
Car 211 - The WRX with rocket launchers :-)
AMS Best Powerslide at Hamptons Award
Car number 211 again, well done guys.
A massive thanks to all of the 2012 sponsors, please support them for supporting the scene....
The CannonBall Run 2011
The CannonBall Run 2011 was our biggest event yet, with over 175 cars and over 600 competitors it was a laugh a minute.
We did everything from horsing around with the police, invading a pirate ship and tearing up a rugby field to Giving away a free Helicopter ride (which also helped us film the event from the air) and taking over a golf course for our massive afterparty.
I could sit here and write out 500 pages of awesome craziness but like they say a picture is worth a thousand words (or in this case 500 pages worth) so below is a teaser video for our DVD and also a monster photo collection of the day.
A big congratulations to Mike and Neen in their Holden Calais for taking out the big prize….. Also known as the Channel 4 News Team on the day.
Mike and Neen's CannonBall Run Video.
Track Sessions 2012
Track Sessions 2011 was a tester to see how you guys would make the transfer from Street based events to Track based events. We heard nothing but good things from the 100 or more competitors that turned up.
Our style of event management has always been very controlled, with every little detail looked at and assessed. So when we turned our attention to mixed motorsport and made sure that no matter what style of events your into and no matter if your all about the points or just cutting loose and having some fun we had you covered.
We will be making the Track Sessions event a regular on our list of events but due to Cannonball sucking up 6 months a year to plan we will need to hold fire until more time and money can be freed up.
Stay Tuned….
Jobs
Think you can add value to what we do? We want to hear from you.
We are always looking to "up our game" and if you have some skills that you think could help us, we'd love to hear from you.
Graphic Artists, Video Editors, Event Planners, Marketing Experts, Sales Guys.... and more, you're all welcome.....
The whole Auckland Motorsport staff are all volunteers, they do it for the love of the sport ( or the awesome bragging rights that you work with Auckland Motorsport and The NZ CannonBall Run )
So if you just love motorsport to the teeth and everything about it and are willing to put in some hard yards to help us put on some awesome events and help grow the motorsport scene in NZ then we want to hear from you.
Track Sessions
Hampton Downs Track Session 29th May 2011
It was an awesome day, sun was blasting for the whole day and more importantly of all the wicked fast cars that turned up no one destroyed their ride.... Even though a few of you did try.
For more photos check out ...... Freshly Whipped
Here's a few FaceBook photo albums....
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http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.205411232829483.51964.193803723990234
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