Not going to talk about the first night it was a bit of a fizzer only the one round of racing before the Sprintcars buggered the track completely.

So to the 8th of November shot over to Wanganui in the afternoon for there practise with our two bikes and the track was awesome, went out on the old one first and did about 5 laps then pulled into the infield and jumped on the new bike and did about 3 on that one, very happy with both.

So back to Palmy change the gearing on both bikes again and were ready for the night. 3 heats at the moment leading into the N.Z. Champs we were in the 2nd heat on the old bike managed a 2nd behind Cudge and Tony 62v, Cudge had his ears working overtime to hold us out lol.

We took the new bike out for the 3rd heat and the straight line speed it has got is very pleasing a couple of bugs to sort out but mostly good, that was until we got out of shape in front of Marcus 11p leaving him know where to go except into us Sally got winded with a few bruises but he was mainly alright.

The next 2 rounds we stayed with the old bike and we had a ball winning both races the top 6 race coming from 4th place at the start to win and then pull away from the others once we were in front. Thanks as always to Champ for sorting the clutch on the awesome old bike and now if that’s not enough all the work he’s put in on the new bike he’ll be bald like me soon pulling his hair out.

Now we have 1 bike painted and 1 bike not have had a lot of positive comments on how good the old bike is looking so we are needing a top painter to do the other bike if your keen come and see us.

Photos by Sportsimages.co.nz

Cheers Handbag and Sally 19v

We didn’t enter the first time this event was going to be on as this happened to be the same weekend as the N.Z. Superstock Champ’s, generally there is no other meeting on the same weekend as this, the rain put the 1st running of the event off allowing us to enter the 2nd time and take the now retired 1nz’s position in the field. The format allowed for 20 bike’s having 4 race’s each then the top 8 going to the semi’s then a 1 race final with the top 4 bike’s. Our first heat of the day up against 2nz 4k and 49a a big heat we managed a 2nd behind 2nz I was struggling to see and if it was a 5 lap race wouldn’t have finished. We won our next 3 heat’s to put us 2nd on point’s to have 1st pick of the draw for our semi , 2nz had 1st pick for their’s. In the 1st semi 9g Dean and Honk got the win over 2nz Les and Kervin then 21a and 66a. In our semi we got out of the gate’s last but coming out of the 1st corner we were 2nd behind 49a, a couple of lap’s later we passed them to win our heat and have 1st pick for the final. So to the final we picked grid 1 because 9g had been gating good all day he had the next pick and went of 2, 2nz had next pick and took 3 leaving 49a Russell and Andrew on grid 4. 3 Hawkes Bay based bike’s in the final all with a different track letter beside their number go figure. Anyway 9g get’s the gate us in 2nd but the race only lasted a 150 metre’s or so 49a and 2nz had a coming together with Kervin breaking his wrist. To the restart 9g get’s away 1st again us in 2nd followed by 49a, so during the next 3 lap’s we had to take some evasive action with the 9g bike near spinning out at least twice in front of us, coming into the final corner we had managed to get up enough momentum to get pass the 9g bike to take our “4TH” North Island Title in a row and 5th in 6 season’s yeha. One meeting left to go back at Rosebank for the Auckland Champ’s in 2 week’s time.

On this night we had a pair’s night 6 team’s of 2 with your partner not running in the same heat as you (good idea) we were lucky enough to draw our Wanganui team mate’s 35v Mick and Blick, well we thought we were lucky our team mates were ap’paul’ing . We managed to win all three of our races our ‘mate,s’ managed the 1 win and a 3rd for our team to win overall on the night, We all had a good laugh later which is the main thing.

Been slack again with the write up’s I know but here goes, the West Coast title is a championship we have never won 2nd and 3rd many times and so on, our gating has been on the improve so were backing ourselve’s for a good result. We had 12 bike’s here for the meeting and after 2 heat’s we had a 2 point lead over 62v Cudge and Tony and 3rd place 52w Budda Stu and Richie. Now by this stage the rain, drizzle wasn’t appearing to let up and afew of the team’s decided to load up, we stopped our championship because of this, and what do you know it started clearing up if we didn’t pack up it would of carried on raining can’t win, haven’t heard definately if we have won or not but Sally has the CUP say no more he he.

Sally headed (no pun intended) down to Nelson, so I roped in young Mitchell McHardy to swing for me, he had done a few lap’s around Ohakea with Wingnut and is one of our up and comer’s in the Solo rank’s the week before finishing 3rd at the G.P.

So to the meeting

Race 1 in our first race we had 3nz, 42p, 49a, three quick bike’s and we beat all of them.

Race 2 won that as well after two round’s we were equal 1st with me old meeanee mate’s Dave Millar and Lewis Cox 11b.

Race 3 not as good a start as hoped never mind 21b Dave Black and swinger out in front so had to chase him down, nearly did it but they piped us on the line by about 4 inches.

The race after us was Dave and Lewis heat they managed to take the win and the East Coast title with it, we were 2nd overall awesome result, Dave Black and Swinger 3rd (will get your name next time sorry mate) they were pretty happy also. Cheer’s Mitchell hope you had fun.

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Back at home base not a good day only had 2 ride’s didn’t even finish the second race, our track man too busy with his bizo to get the track up and ready, A big thank’s to you Spongy for the work you put into the track Top Man. While i’m thanking people a big round of applause to all the people in Wanganui who spent time in anyway in the staging of the N.Z. Superstock Champ’s, I wish I lived closer to of been able to of helped, that pretty good england aye.

Race 1 not a bad start had 35v in front of us got passed him within half a lap and we were gone. We had the lap box on this night the third lap was a 18.24 and the 4th lap a 18.36 the fastest lap by a superstock that night I think was a 18.8. Race 2 the S…t HIT THE FAN the referee must of gone for a hotdog when we were racing, we never hit anyone or got hit by anyone but there was alot of it happening, as well as start line irregularities this race should have been restarted or something. Race 3 42p got the gate this time round but got them by the first lap to get the flag again, so all going pretty well, bottom lip is getting off the ground now

We were ready to go for the qualifying night of this meeting the night before didn’t think the track was good enough, the other chap’s had ago for what it was worth never mind. So to the night of the 23rd won the first 3 heat’s having a ball then come the last heat we were ganged up on by our Palmy mate’s 11p and 42p the bugger’s, all good fun

Big crowd in as you would expect with a classy field of sidecar’s in attendance. Anyway had another good night won the first race easy going by the feed back, second race can,t remember now the after match may be the cause possibly, and the last race another comfortable win, took the chequered around as we do for the feature win and the crowd gave us an appreciative response which is a good buzz even after 19 year’s of racing

Had a good track to race on for this meeting helped alot as it was the N.Z. Modified Champ’s, so to the racing 13 bike’s were in attendance 2 heat’s of 6 with the old timer Chris Woodhouse making a return to the sport so he started of the back each time just to get his bearing’s again, we had three qualifying heat’s each then a top 6 final, we won all three races with the other heat’s having three different winner’s. Now to the final we were pretty confident of a good result but then we pulled grid 6 on the wall come out of the first corner last and had an uphill battle from then on. Managed to pass 2 of the bike’s to get up to 4th and couldn’t get passed the other three, to say we were gutted was an under statement the upside of it all was we were getting some win’s again. 3nz 1st, 6p 2nd, 35v 3rd