“Every year everyone says it wasn’t as wild as the previous year,” Fairfax photographer Rohan Thomson said after covering this year’s show through the clouds of burning rubber. “But I think it’s stayed pretty consistent. If you go to the right spots, there’s still the same wild things going on.”
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There is a stretch of road dubbed “Tuff Street”. The infamous 100 metres-or-so is lined with concrete barriers and hundreds of intoxicated men who are there to see burnouts. View the gallery:
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