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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:37 |
Well the team at Shady racing had a great first year, having a few wins and qualifying for the North Islands in Kihikihi being one of the many highlights of the season.
We purchased the ex Westbury superstock the previous season and began transforming it to stockcar specs in September 07. I wanted to do everything right and by not doing it the cheapest and easiest way as that can end up costing us more in the long run. It turned out to take a little longer than I had planned but we learnt a lot along the way and managed to get it there for opening night. . . but only just!
I would like to thank JV for sorting the engine for us and Tony at Hose Direct for all the hosing throughout the car, awesome job guys! Steiny at Central Auto dismantlers was a wealth of info as well as parts and a huge thanks to Pete from Rotorua Forklift Hire for the use of his workshop for 3 months.
We started the season off with some niggling new car problems that we eventually got sorted after a couple of meetings and started having some good consistent races. We ventured over to Waihi a couple of weeks after the final meeting at Rotorua, the World of Stocks, with 6 other Rotorua cars for a club day in which the crew and ladies got to race the car as a kind of thanks for their awesome help through the season.
It was a full on day of 8 races and 90 odd laps of fun to cap off the season. Can’t say thank you enough for the time my crew has spent helping me this year and without their support Shelz, Baldrick, Alan , Lil Jim, Reegan and many others and those of my sponsors Tony at Hose Direct, John at JV'S Car Shop, Steiny at Central Auto Dismantlers, Pete at Rotorua Forklift Hire and Paul at The Rock Fm I couldn’t have done it. Thanks guys and gals.
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2007-2008 World of Stocks @ Rotorua |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:34 |
This was the last meeting of the Rotorua season. There were 28 guys vying for the 2 spots available in the finals so it was always going to be tough going. The first race went well with a 6th placing but in the following two races, I got turned around so was out of the running for a qualifying spot.
Figuring it was the last meet of the year I decided I would have a go at blocking the out of town cars. Unfortunately, Mike McLachlan got me first and I was up and over. What a ride and another thing crossed off the list – thanks Mike hahaha.
Onto the second night and we had three races of absolute carnage. I took a fair few hits and put in a couple of my own during the night missing only one as he turned to the grass to avoid me and returned after I had gone past...
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2007-2008 Easter Champs @ Rotorua |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:28 |
With the New Zealand champs just weeks previous, we had the Easter champs at Rotorua. Although we missed out on qualifying for the finals on night one, we managed to just get second place in the 2nd tier championship on night two.
It came down to a run-off between me and Grendon Beazley. I drew pole position and put myself as close to the wall as possible so to cut down Grendon’s moves off the start line. This worked in my favour and I got the jump on him but not enough to get clear so I let him whack me in the rear so I didn’t get wound off twice in that corner (hahaha). Such was the hit that his rotor broke and there he stayed in turn 3.
So it was looking all good until I tapped the right rear bumper on the wall exiting turn four getting the white flag. My crank sensor was crying enough and backfiring something chronic so with it being the last lap I rode the clutch for a lap to keep the engine running and winner the race.
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