This Is The Pits Winton, Victoria, Australia
By docNwitchjy on 13-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5CW59

TFTC cool spot

Tftc! Good to be exploring around the track!

Added somewhere

Heading home today from Bright, I stopped along the way to break my journey and stretch my legs a little. Found quickly without any trouble. The log book was slightly damp, but nothing to worry about.My thanks to docNwitchjy for the cache.

On another return trip to Tumut, so couldn't bypass a few caches on the way without stopping for a search.In Mr SKI's younger days when the Supercars were actual Fords or Holdens that you could purchase from the showroom floors, he was quite interested in racing. Always wondered how a racing circuit came to be in a place like this, away from the masses and major towns. Logs signed as SKI Pair, SP.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache docNwitchjy.**SKI Pair****

Lovely spot that brings back memories of watching the V8s growing up. Saw many cool vehicles during those visits, including the Supercars themselves of course. Logbook ok but the rest of the cache contents are a tad damp, as previous finders have noted. Hopefully someone else can spare the time to let the contents dry out (we had places to be).Few noisy vehicles hooning around the raceway whilst we collected the hide - love that sound. Thanks docNwitchjy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their long lasting, and ongoing connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to Traditional Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Nice quick find thank you. TFTC

In the 1960's and 70's I used to race a motorcycle here. The pits were certainly not as big, or well set up as they are today. The entire infrastructure of the raceway has developed tremendously since then.I found the cache in a bit of a sad state from water ingression. I cleaned and dried the container, and the trinkets, but there is still dampness in the lanyard material.Thanks for the memories, docNwitchjy.

Found it.

Thanks

Tftc

Quick and easy. TFTC

Out with Geowife and Geodogs exploring the local area. All good here. Now onto the next one for the day. TFTC

A nice easy cache at the end of the day. Has been a great day exploring with geohusband and geodogs. Lovely sunny ️ weather. TFTC

I don't know how many times I have been to Winton since this cache has been published and never turned left when leaving the circuit! Well today was the day to finally do it, after setting up for the weekend race meeting I had a couple of hours to hunt some nearby caches and I broke tradition and turned left! I had an idea where this one would be and once parked close, I was proven right with the cache in hand quickly. Thanks to docNwitchjy for this one

Found on our journey home from the Rutherglen mega, thanks for the cache
Took nothing left nothing signed log

Found and log with Everlasting on the way to Mega detour docNwitchjy, Thank you so much for placing it.

Accompanied crank1 on the way to mega Rutherglen. Detour and find it and sign the log. Thanks for the cache and hunt ️

Easy find in a great location.. TNLN TFTC

*Found on the 16 Jan 2023 @ 9:11 am.*
*Cache find # 14059.*

After completing half of my mission yesterday, It was now day and it was time to find a few caches in the Benalla LGA before heading to the centre of the Wangaratta LGA and then moving on to Craig’s Hut for a CITO.
As I was passing by this one, I had to stop for a look.
This one was found without any trouble.

**Thanks to docNwitchjy for placing this cache.**

Caching on my way to Melbourne today. A quick find here today. Cache full of orange sluge. Urgggg

Found it!!

Found this on a nice trip around the area. Interesting area - love the V8's.

Nice one! Cheers

Travelling through the area briefly we couldn’t resist the opportunity to look at the racecourse and pick up a couple of great sized caches. This was another quality cache.

Thanks for an interesting view and cache.

Thank you for bringing us here Winton Moto raceway have been to Number Events over the years TFTC

In the Wangaratta area for a few days caching with my very good caching mate from Bacchus Marsh 6Hinemoa2 and great caching friend from Adelaide and his mate the Blackadders.
Due to COVID lockdowns and other problems this trip has been postponed a number of times but we are finally going. Once in the area we put 3B6 or Bushfire in our logs to save space.
With so many caches found I have to use the cut and paste method as we found so many great caches from so many different cachers, so a big thank you to all those folk.

THE LATE TO THE WANGARATTA MEGA TOUR. [:o)]
We were booked for November 21. [^] Didn't Happen.
Booking transferred to February 22. covid
Booking transferred to May 2022. Yah - made it albeit a tad late.

DAY 3: Some Winton Wetlands and back to Benalla:
The Fab Four of Bushfire, Blackadders, brisal5 and 6himemoa2 set off for a days of Geocaching adventures. Although we had a plan A, we progressed through Plan A, Plan B and ended up doing Plan -wing it. [^] So to save space in logs we signed BBB6 or 3B6 or similar. Sometimes I stamped logs, but that ended very suddenly. Here is what we found during plan - wing it.

A quick find once we got to GZ with it seems an event at the raceway ending, had many cars leaving and looking our way. No body bothered to come and ask so we moved on.

***Thanks docNwitchjy for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Day 3 of a trip to Victoria targeting around the Benalla area with Brisal5, Bushfire and 6hinemoa2. The forecast for the day was for showers however it ended up as a perfect day for caching.

As always the planned targeted hides were not visited due to time constraints but many more varied and fun caches were found. A number of disabled caches were also looked for and found to be there but in need of attention by the owners.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.




Thank you for the cache docNwitchjy, found 5/05/2022, 2:56:16 PM

Heading south on the highway and decided to stop by here to grab a cache in a missing LGA on my map.

Quick find.

No action in the pits or anywhere in there today so I could search in peace.

Thanks for the cache docNwitchjy.
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Find number 10413 at 8:37:42 am on Saturday the 16 April 2022
Up at Goughs Bay for the weekend but needed an Unknown for my calendar days challenge so it was a drive to Winton this morning for one of my closest unknowns.
A nice quick find here this morning, now for the drive back via the Mansfield Market.
**Thanks for placing this cache docNwitchjy**

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Very happy husband at the track. Very happy wife geocaching. Tftc

All quiet today. Thanks for the cache

Found by The Empire + H
On our way to Albury and the surrounding area for the long weekend! A quick pit stop here in Winton to check out a few of the caches around the raceway and cemetery. Some awesome old hot rods doing some laps today, a quick find. Thanks for the cache docNwitchjy.
- M

Not stumped by this one Tftc

Found on the last dying hours of summer to keep my monthly streak alive. Easy find at GZ. TFTC

After an overnight visit to Wangaratta we stopped by Winton Raceway. Geohusband loves his V8’s. TFTC

Today we found This Is The Pits on our travels. A super quick find as it was in the hands of a cacher! Too awesome.

Thanks docNwitchjy for being part of our geocaching fun.

Damaged container (as per photo) replaced until CO has the opportunity to check same. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. I’ll leave the more interesting & detailed log to Mrs Geo (aka: SeasonedBird, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird or Angry Bird) because she writes so much more eloquently than I and usually has much more time to do so while I’m driving. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC docNwitchjy
Find #8473

Found out caching with Wollaston following a great MEGA event at Wangaratta Mega.

Container found broken, replaced with a new one until CO can check if suitable
Log condition lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC docNwitchjy

Find # 6084

From one side of the track to the other! A quick find by Budgietas here as we made our way slowly back to Melbourne from the mega.
Thanks docNwitchjy

I had been set to attend another Victorian Mega but the damn pandemic began and for obvious reasons one was cancelled and one was postponed. I was pleased the postponed Wangaratta event went ahead but have to admit I was still apprehensive about the COVID situation. Although attending all events, (except 1 of the CITOs) keeping distance was still a priority. I had a great time touring with 1TOOLMAN and Budgietas although there was an empty void where SSR should have been.
As well as Wangaratta, we visited The Paps, Mt Buller, Benalla, Glenrowan, Winton and even popped in to Lex country, having dinner at Brady’s Railway Hotel. Our find numbers were low but our laugh count was high so I call that a win!

With the Mega in Wang done we snaked our way back to Melbourne Airport this was a quick find with the Goose and Budgie.
Beside the raceway but unfortunately today no screaming race engines.

Tftc

A quick stop by on the way back from the Mega to the Airport
Never been here before so it was good to see the raceway from different angles rather than TV

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The Mega in Victoria I had always planned to attend, but due to covid changes I was concerned, I wouldn’t be able to due to work commitments. As these commitments cleared up, I planned to go over and catch up with GoosenEgg, Stainless Steel Rat, and 1Toolman while in Wangaratta for a day caching to attempt to find 100 in one day. As things turned out Stainless Steel Rat was unable to go, so I was invited to join GoosenEgg and 1Toolman for the entire period. 1Toolman collected us from the airport and we immediately drove to Victoria’s 1st Geocache. From there during the 4 days, we visited Wangaratta, Mt Buller, Albury, Wodonga, Benella, Glenrowan, and Beechworth (although we didn’t make the bakery much to 1Toolmans disgust)

The trip was less about numbers and more about visiting places that I had only driven through before. We did manage to complete the Ned Kelly Helmet series and find a great Earthcache at Murmungee Lookout and another cache at “The Paps” which gave tremendous views of the area. The GPS maze, which I must say was one of the greatest attractions was also attended as with another cacher I was first through on the Saturday Morning at 8.15. It was great to get this icon on my profile.

Of the trip, it was certainly hot and humid, but we really didn’t get rained on in any serious way, with the major storm passing through at night time, otherwise it was just hot or very hot depending on the time of the day.

TFTC

Day 2 of the Mega for LuckyL10n and myself and after grabbing one or two more caches in Wang, we headed down to the NKH series to finish these off before heading off to Echuca on our round trip to Mildura before heading home.

On the way to Echuca we grabbed another 20 odd caches, while also visitng some of the silo art around the area as well Lake Mokoan for a few caches in there. A couple of interesting features were spotted, a bit of history learnt and a few dirt tracks where the AWD preformed very well.

Thanks to all the CO's of the caches we found. Most logs were signed SDL and L.L10n.

#12902 - 1:14:00 PM; Day 2 of the Wang Mega tour with Sol de lune. A quick visit to the Mega venue was followed by a couple more caches in town before heading out to finish off the Ned Kelly Helmet series (almost!). We enjoyed lunch at the Glenrowan Bakehouse, then hit the trails to the south before pointing ourselves north then west towards Echuca. This was our last stop on this side of the highway and a nice quick find in an area I've been meaning to visit for some time! TFTC docNwitchjy

Found with eighthknox on the mega weekend

A quick park and find as we checked out the raceway. tftc

I needed a find in the Benalla LGA, so came over and found quite a few... lol
This was one of them...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Easy

It's been a long time since my last visit to the Winton race track - the days of Moffat and Brock! Nice to hear the sound of activity on the track. This was a nice quick find. Thanks to docNwitchjy for the cache.

A detour down the back 'o' pit lane,
had me at GZ and revving for a cache find
A noice easy find as it turned out.
Yet a noisy find too !! [:o]
How on Earth do the nearby neighbours in the house,
and the skool put up with all the noise ??!!

TFTC !!

Quick find just before the rain gets heavy. Couple of bikes out on the track today. TFTC.

The lid is broken and everything was quite wet so might need some repairs. TFTC

A nice quick park and grab as we are driving on our way to Greta to collect some more caches. Making the most of school holidays. Thanks for the hide.

Always want to visit the Pits. placed your log in a clean dry bag with a new trackable. Maintenance- Lid needs replacing please.

Dalerious and l were heading back home from an awesome day of caching in Wang, and we both realised that there was a trad close by that had no smiley on it. Was happy to make the detour to rectify the problem. Cache found in good condition

No its not. [:o]
I mean it may not win any awards, but its a tidy little cache hidden in an interesting area. I certainly wouldn't call it the pits.
You just keep being you little cache, and don't let anybody put you down. [^]

TFTC docNwitchjy, catnap777 and I were only too happy to put our names to this one putting an end to its lonely status.

Cache lid is cracked and has a hole in it. This cache won't survive the winter and will need maintenance.

We've escaped from home for a few days -the first break for at least three years.
Day five -the trip home, via the long road.

Thank you, docNwitchjy, for this cache.
#4135. Log signed at 1531Hrs.
(I often sign the log book as "W+W" to save paper/time/ink)

Nice easy spot

Found it

Found with ease very clever hiding spot

Heading out camping for the weekend and stopped into grab this one on the way to the campsite. I’ve been to see the V8s many years ago at Winton. Shame they aren’t racing this weekend.

It was a quick find at GZ. There is a slight crack in the lid.

Thanks docNwitchjy for the cache.

Good find

Signed the log with the background noise of burnouts and an aroma of burnt rubber, quite appropriate really !!! TFTC

08:53
Our second stop of the day - signed the log to the roar of cars on the track. We could not believe the changes and development here since we lived in the NE.

Thanks docNwitchjy for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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With The ring of Swiss cheese coming down we could now catch up with our Metro Mates, so once again after many months I teamed up with Omegaman1971 and headed to the Winton, Glenrowan and Wangarrata areas to do the labs and several caches in the area, We concentrated most of our effort at Winterton Wetlands, it was rather dry there with not a drop of water to be seen, we enjoyed learning some of the history of the area and checking out all the wildlife in the area, thankfully we did not wee any snakes today as it was rather warm and some of the grass we had to walk through was waste high.

This was one of the caches we found today.

Thanks docNwitchjy for the cache.

This is what I call a drive by. It’s starting to get really cold and late in the afternoon so I think it’s time to head for home. Thanks Micheena, a great days caching!!!!! SL TFTC

Slight detour to get this one turned into a smiley.
Every year I come to the region school cross country here at the race track but never had time to come down for the find.
Nice quick find today.

TFTC

Easy find

Well done

Thanks

Thanks

I detoured off the main highway to find 2 caches at Winton.
Short drive down the road put red dust over my clean car but it was compensated by an easy find at GZ.
Cache in great condition.
Thanks docNwitchjy

Last full day in the Benalla area and exploring the countryside by searching for caches. Thank you to all the COs for placing and maintaining caches in this area for us to enjoy finding.

Must be a lot of noise here on racedayTFTC

Out travelling around today before leaving Benalla tomorrow , to go back home to Brisbane. Mainly caching in the Winton and Benalla area. Actually it was mainly quiet on the back country roads. Found the cache, signed the log and put cache back where found. TFTC

This fine spring day definitely not the pits! Must be exciting on race day! TFTC

TFTC

Left Adelaide heading for the V8's at Winton, what a better way to seek a few Yellow faces along our route.
Some have been interesting as others not so, but without having a go we wouldn't have been brought to those special places in the Geocaching World.

Thanks to the CO for maintaining these hides and getting us out of the car.
TFTC TNLN

I wouldn't say it was the pits - my 8yo and I enjoyed it! It was an easy find. TFTC.

Good place

Good hiding spot but the motor raceway sure was noisy. Lovely mural on the wall of the school in this road.

With the Creation Celebration in Wangaratta I had the excuse to get a few caches a bit further south west than I normally venture. With yesterdays cold weather in mind (the only reason I couldn't see the snow on Bogong from my back verandah was because of the cloud) the thermals came out for the first time this year and packed the geohound in the car and headed down the Hume. Aim was a few puzzles I had solved previously plus a couple of new D/T combinations while climatic conditions were suitable, plus pick up anything else in between.

Drove through the thriving metropolis of Winton (would be intrigued to know how big it was before the racetrack was created!) to this one. A quick find in the obvious spot - removed a fork from the cache that was causing troubles closing the lid. Otherwise all good.

TFTC docNwitchjy

A farmer was driving out of his gates and apparently had a huge smile on his face so I'm guessing he knew exactly what we were up too. There was a race on earlier that day but by the time we got there it was empty. Quick find and signed the log. TFTC

Easy find great spot

Nice

I haven’t been up this way for a while as I used to come up here regularly to watch the V8’s motor around the track.
When I was up here for the racing I used to always wander around the pits to check out the the cars in all of the catorgies.
A quick park and sign.
Thanks docNwitchjy TFTC

On my way already to the Parkville event in melbourne. Long drive today with a few detours. Weather is fine, low twenties, dry and not too sunny, almost ideal for driving and caching! Most caches were driveby's to break up the boredom and stretch the legs. Thanks to all the cache owners for putting them out there.
TFTC Wilbert67

We are on a road trip around Victoria this was great place to grab a cache and visit this historic little raceway. We even drove in, would be great to watch some racing here. TFTC

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Found when the trucks were racing.

**Total find count: 508**

Unfortunately it is time to head home from our geocaching & touristing holiday in Ballarat. We always planned to pick up some caches along the way, so today was Day 1 of our homeward journey.

Hubby from @HubbyandMrs is a RevHead and when I told him that Winton Raceway was just off the highway, he wanted to have a quick visit, plus the nearby TB hotel brought us here. A quick find with a view across the pits.

**TFTC docNwitchjy**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin

Quick and easy park and grab. A nice detour for our fellow geofriend revhead @hubbyandmrs as we head back home from Ballarat on our geocaching holiday. TFTC

On our way way home from a fantastic holiday in Ballarat we had to stop here at Winton.. As a tragic supercars fan, it was awesome to visit the track
Tftc

Tftc awesome

#2964 Passing through due to a highway closer from an accident overnight, the cache was a super quick find. Also managed to see some race cars go around the track during practice. Found with TW. TFTC.

Great find!

Nice easy find

Quick find while staying at Glenrowan.TFTC