| Friday Dec 11th Club Night |
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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 |
