It's been a very busy year up to date we have already done 19 race meetings and burned threw 500 litres off race gas we put some new adjustable shocks on the car for this season to try and get a edge from the other guys
The new car made it to the last practise and performed well & I was trialing my new suspension out.
Unfortunately Nelson opening night was rained out so we went to Christchurch for their opening night the following weekend.
20th October - Christchurch opening night
The whole meeting went with out a hitch, my placings were two 1st and a 2nd
Also won my first trophy for the season!!
27th October - Nelson opening night
Once again the whole meeting went great, was adjusting my new suspension every race
and it was just getting faster, placings were 4th, 3rd & 1st
I was selected for the Tigers and made captain for the coming race against the Panthers.
10th November - Nelson, teams race against Panthers
The teams race didn't go how we planned it, we lost, but the car was still running and ready for the 3 open races.
Placings were 8th, 5th & 4th. I was happy with the placings, we had 21 cars turn up.
I also got reselected for the Tigers and was captain for the teams race against Wellington.
17th November - Wellington, teams race against the Wildcats
This teams race did go to plan with a win! The car was all good for the first two open races
but never raced the last one due to what I thought was the clutch playing up. Placings were 4th & 5th.
Got home on Sunday pulled car of the trailer & found out why we had clutch problems, the engine block was cracked. I had to pull out of the next teams on the 24th November. The engine is now out and getting a new block put in. Hopefully the car will be back on the track for the 1st December where we are heading to Christchurch for the South Island Champs.
1st December - South Islands Christchurch
The meeting went not to bad. 1st race I started on pole and finished up with the win.
2nd race started on grid 12 got up to 5th, got caught up in lap traffic & got right front flat, finished 9th. 3rd race started on grid 22nd, it was a messy race finished 6th.
Ended up having to have a run off for 3rd and 4th, it was a tactical run off but I won.
Finished up third over all in the South Island, the first time I've made top three
in that championship so I was pretty rapt with the result.
On Sunday the tigers selectors named the team for next weekend I made the cut.
8th December - Nelson Teams race against Wellington
The teams race went to plan & we finished 1st to 4th with no Wellington cars finishing. Unfortunately I broke my gear box in the teams race so I couldn't do any of the open races, a bit gutted but we still won the race that mattered.
12th December - Blenheim
Well seen as I broke my gear box in the teams race I wanted to go to Blenheim to try it out & make
sure it was going all good. There wasn't enough superstocks to run buy ourselves so we ran with the
stockcars. I wasn't to concerned with the races all I wanted to do was give the gear box a good run and it went well.
29th December - Nelson Club Champs
All I can say this wasn't the best meeting I have had but it wasn't my worst either.
1st race grid 15 finished 8th, it was a good race happy to move up that far.
2nd race grid 7 finished 8th, just didn't get the set up right in this one had to fight to keep my spot.
3rd race grid 5 finished 7th, got spun off the start, there was 18 cars made it back up to there so not too bad
A special thanks to Tony and my crew for helping get my car back up & running after the broken block.
The next meeting is the New Zealand Champs in Nelson on the 11th 12th January.
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