Today was set to be an easy day.... I wish.

9:00am we headed out to the start finish line for today's Prologue for the big race, the 700XX was still loaded up from Scrutineering last night so all we had to do was go out and race., after of course a quick trip out to Freddo from Three TORS Racing's house to drop off the remaining dry break fuel can for Smittys fuel stops that was kindly lent to us by Graham Murray. After watching the last of the Buggies do their prologue and once all the riders were signed in Smitty headed out to on a sighting lap of the track and to find out how the quad was going to handle after our lack of time with a running engine this week. Wanting to run a light load of fuel there was not much in the tank so it was decided after the sighting lap that maybe a small splash might not hurt (Thanks Wadey!).

Prologue turned out not so bad considering the week we have had so far and the little amount of time Paul has had on the quad, 5th in the Class and 43rd Outright make for a pretty early start time still and starting only 1 minute behind the top 3 quads and on the same minute as Cam Wade.

Top 5 Quads Prologue times:

931 Aaron Ovens Suzuki LTR450 5:41.06

988 Chad McKay Can Am DS450XMX5:42.62

937 Cam Wade Suzuki LTR450 5:45.53

901 Mick Roycroft Polaris Outlaw 525 5:49.51

927 Paul Smith Honda TRX700XX 5:50.40

For more detail on time as for updates during the race tomorrow you can check out www.finkedesertrace.com.au

After prologue was all done we headed back to our accommodation at the Desert Palms Resort for a little light servicing and to load up the truck for the service crew trip down to Finke..... it's never so easy though. Small thing kept cropping up throughout the service including the fact that the DMC muffler had a crack running right through its mount and all the way around it through the skin of the pipe.... good thing we know some people in this town and Smitty went off to get it repaired and braced whilst I finished the service.

The big TRX is now all ready for tomorrows race down to Finke and we have spent the evening with our mates from the Can Am X Team and fellow 47 Industries crew having dinner and discussing plans for a service crew convoy down to Finke in the morning. Here's hoping that the big TRX is up to the task of getting down and back in the hands of the red headed one.....

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