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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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