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Friday Dec 11th Club Night |
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Monday, 14 December 2009 20:02 |
Hi there race fans.....As the team headed up to Paradise Valley for another club night we were definitely wondering if it was going to happen as the weather was not looking flash but the rain pretty much stayed away so we should have got 3 races in but.....
The new track surface was looking a bit wet with the showers (and a shade of pink) so we were unsure how the car would handle on the new surface. Big thanks to Stan and helpers as i no it would have been a huge job to get the track usable let alone race-able for us all Friday night and what a race track we had... awesome.
Race one and we were off grid 1 and took off and made it through first corner things were going good until going into turn one on second lap and as i tapped the break to turn the car in it went right!!! Strange.. dropped a couple of places and same thing again a lap later so now had to compensate for it and picked up a few places as the car was hooking up well on the new surface.
Turns out the rotor parted company with the hub so we had no breaks on the front left wheel and as we were a little slow (out of practise) on the repairs we missed the second race by about one minute.
As we fired the car up for race 3 in the pits we also became aware that we only had second gear so it was decided to go out anyway and hope we didn't need reverse at some stage. The race went well and we picked up a few spots and had a play around with a few cars as it was only a club night and there wasn't much happening out there.
Next meeting will be on the 27th/ 28th of december for the Summit Aluminium UK Stockcars event in Rotorua. The team was intending to be in wellington for the NZ teams event but the Rascals are now in a year of development with new team members so will be back next year at the nationals bigger and better.
See you at the track Greg |
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 23:33 |
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Hi there race fans... Well we made it to opening night after a frantic few days to put the car back together in time for Rotorua's huge guy fawkes meeting.
Since the last update there sure has been some hours spent in the shed and the time involved in replacing my roof plate and hip plates was alot longer than i planed so the presure was on the last few weeks to get her finished. Big thanks to Carl from B C Engineering in Rotorua for helping me out with the plates as to say it was taking me a while to sort is an under statement.
Rotorua Guy Fawkes Meeting - Results page
We made it to the track at 3pm for the last greensheeting day and after the checks were complete we were informed of a minor issue that needed sorting.... a minor issue that now had us scrambling home to sort and we just made it back to the track at 645pm and make it out for our first race. Starting p10 on a slightly wet track we set off and lost about 5 or 6 places in the first corner but steadily came back to finish 9th which i was happy with considering it was just rolled off the truck and straight out onto the track. I think we got our fastest lap time ever in this race even though the setup was no where near where it should have been.... very interesting result.
Race two
From a pole position start i was hoping for a good result to get me up in the club points, all was going well with a good close race with Shannon Orr and Jeff Munroe until half way through the race i got a big push off the end and got turned around facing the wrong way. I recovered a few spots but it wasnt the result i was after and the new bumper didnt like it much either.
Race 3
Starting from p19 i definately had to make up a few spots to get some decent points and although i picked up 9 spots the setup still wasnt right and we just couldnt catch the front runners. Nothing to eventfull happened in this race but there are definately some quick stockcars in Rotorua this season so the team will have to have our setup sorted in order to try and keep up with the big horsepower boys or . . .
Next meeting is a club night Friday the 13th november, see you there... Greg
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The new season is nearly here... |
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Monday, 28 September 2009 22:41 |
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Well its been a few days and nights in the shed between updates so heres a little catch up.
We welcome on board a couple of new sponsors this season in Pirtek Rotorua in Tallyho st and Performance Machinery in View Rd Rotorua, thanks for your support for the 2009/10 season.
On the car we have replaced the front bumper with a more standard bumper that is a lot quicker and easier to make, we will wait and see if it lasts as long before we decide weather we stay with it. A new siderail has been put on and the seat moved back a couple of inches for just a bit more room in the drivers seat. We were on track for painting this weekend but I thought i would get my head plate checked for the correct measure of 6mm by John and you guessed it. . . its got to come out and be replaced as well as the hip plates as they also dont measure up!!! We will be going all out to keep on target for the painting schedule so keep checking back to see the progress. We have a few pics of the progress so far.
Big thanks to my family Tracey, Antz, and Cameron for putting up with me being down at the shed so much...
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