Todd Hazelwood kept his solid weekend going with seventh ahead of Cam Waters, Matt Payne and Andre Heimgartner. The Kiwi eventually got the job done, passing Davison at turn 7 on the penultimate lap. The battle for fifth was robust, though, with Will Davison trying to hold off Shane van Gisbergen in the closing stages. I was wondering if I was pushing too hard and not conserving but it was really fast."Ĭourtney came home in a lonely third, well behind the Erebus cars but solidly ahead of fourth-placed Chaz Mostert. "And then I don't know, I had a bloody fast car. "I got off the start alright, Dave got a good one but I was able to get him into 1," said Brown. The undercut proved powerless, though, Brown resuming with a two-second margin over Kostecki.įrom there there was no stopping the Coca-Cola Camaros, Brown charging to a second career victory ahead of Kostecki with 6.2s splitting them at the finish. The lead pack held station across the first stint, Kostecki the first to take his mandatory service on lap 20.Ĭourtney came in three laps later while Erebus left Brown out until lap 26. Out front the Erebus cars continued to run one-two, while James Courtney found himself running third. The contact dropped De Pasquale to seventh and Reynolds to 12th, with the former also copping a 15-second time penalty from race control for his efforts.
THE EREBUS DRIVER
The Shell Ford driver executed poorly, though, bumping Reynolds wide.
If ever finally completed, the Erebus memorial should also serve as a reminder that consultation is still paramount and the will of the people cannot be ignored.Reynolds initially dropped into second, however left the door open for a lunging Brodie Kostecki to sneak through at turn 7 on the first lap.Ī lap later Reynolds was too timid in his defence again as Anton De Pasquale tried the same move into turn 7 to grab third. With its serrated edges, the 11-kilometer-long ice tongue is the leading edge of a glacier that starts on the volcano’s flanks. To the south, the Erebus ice tongue stretches out into McMurdo Sound. They, too, have missed out on a much-anticipated memorial and a place to reflect on still unimaginable loss. The Mount Erebus stratovolcano rises 3794 meters (12,447 feet) above sea level. The memorial had its supporters among them respected historians, aggrieved families and even some neighbours of the park. He’d earlier found that the ministry acted unreasonably by not consulting more widely before forming a preference for a location for the proposed site. Only last month, Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier completed his investigation into complaints about Auckland Council’s role in the National Erebus Memorial project, finding it acted unreasonably in two areas.
Officials from then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage all the way to bureaucrats at the Waitematā Local Board have not only lost the fight to build the monument but also respect in the drawn-out saga. All have lost precious time and faith in due processes while having to object to the project. With construction due to start two years ago, the memorial to 237 passengers and 20 crew has been contentious with local Māori, residents, families of the victims and opponents further afield. The Erebus memorial planned for Auckland’s Dove-Myer Robinson Park was finally canned by torrential rain on Anniversary weekend with a large slip in the lower part of the park into Judges Bay raising more concerns about cantilevering a concrete and steel structure.
In the end, it seemed even nature didn’t want a memorial to New Zealand’s greatest aviation tragedy. The cantilevered Erebus memorial, Te Paerangi Ataata - Sky Song, was proposed for a corner of the Dove-Myer Robinson Park in Parnell.
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