Important!

Attention all drivers attending Night Two of World Series Round 14 at Bunbury Speedway 12th of Febuary.

Any drivers attending this meeting MUST contact Martain by email with the following details;

-Name:
-Car Number:
-Sponsors:

Bunbury speedway want these details to put into their program and need the details.

Email to: club@limitedsprintcars.com.au

Deadline is this friday (04/02/2011) so get in nominate now and send us the info!


Crabby Jnr.

Who was the masked man who lent the Chisolm's a Wing?

From Stacci Chisolm.

Dad would like to leave a message for the unknown kind person who lent us a front wing for my car.

hello to the good fella that gave us a front wing for stacci's car. can you please either email (staccichisholm@yahoo.com.au) your number or give me a ring on 0447003880 so we can fix you up for it. cheers... Grant

Thanks again,
Stacci Chisholm

If anyone knows who Grant and Stacci are looking for can they please respond to them directly.

Crabby

Message for Mick Doble Car 40.

Hi Mick,

Can you please send me your bank account details so I can take out enough money for the repairs to the suspension on our race car transporter.

Parr Motorsport delivered the goods last night.

Mate you only told me half the stuff they put in the trailer.

All will be back in Mandurah early February.

Crabby (AKA; Pack Mule)

Great weekend for the Gero racers.

Hi all,

Well it was great to see the club pull off another great meeting in Geraldton.

We have not put on a bad show in terms of numbers or close racing yet this year.
Well done to all our club car owners and drivers, it makes me proud to be a part of this forward moving club.

Really though the efforts of Mick and Kim Doble and the other Geraldton Speedway committee should be commended, how this club keeps putting on such great shows is beyond me.
Also I personally would like to thank Mick Doble for the work he does up there, and for offering to help Annette while I was away and she was in Geraldton.

Most of you probably know I am in Warnambool and have been over this way for most of this year, we are nearly done and will be home mid next week.

I am keen and ready to go in the Armstrong Cup in Geraldton later this year, the 2day meeting will see me and Annette up there to reclaim some respect after Robbie Stephens kicked our butts at the muster.

Guys lets get those nominations in for Margeret River on the 5th of February, this is going to be another of those meetings where we will put our division forward as a serious alternative to the 360's or opens, the more cars we get the greater the chance we will be invited back next year, these clubs are paying tow money which is something we see very little of.

Well that's it from me, looking forward to resuming my racing in February after my drive last Bunbury meeting.

Catch you

Crabby

Doin it for the Old Boy.

Geraldton was a great meeting last night with about 20 drivers turning up for the meeting.

Congratulations to Gavin Davis who won the Old Boy race for the second year in a row. He was proudly showing off his trophies last night and nice big $5000 check in the window of his room at the hotel for all of us to see.

The track was slippery in hot laps with everyones tyres just spinning, however some fast times appeared.

Hot laps

Gavin Davis: 13.080
Jodi Waldron: 13.118
Robbie Stephens: 13.345

Round 1
The first round of heats was when the ruts started to begin.
Heat 1 was taken out by 360 driver Jodi Waldron, followed across the line but Gavin Davis and Mick Doble. Jodi Waldron pulled the fastest time in 13.522 seconds.
Heat 2 saw Andrew Pedler cross the line first follewed by Grant Chisolm and Brett Barndon.
Heat 3 went to Chris Ackland, then Robbie Stephens and Adyme Harvey.

Round 2
Heat 1 saw Gavin take the win over Jodi Waldron and Mick Doble.
Heat 2 Brett Barndon cross the line first followed by Andrew Pedlar and Grant Chisholm.
Heat 3 was won by Adyme Harvey followed by Chris Ackland and Justin Bell.

The track was graded before Round 3 due to quite a few bad ruts. The track that was left was first class. I had more fun in heat 3 then any other after we let the right rear tyre pressure down to 9.

Round 3
Heat 1 went to Ben Ellement driving Rocca Zemunicks car followed by Gavin then Mick.
Heat 2 Stacci Chisholm who took out her frist Limited Sprintcar heat win! Followed by Brett Barndom and Grant Chisholm.
Heat 3 was won by Justin Bell followed by Adyme Harvey and Chris Ackland.

The heats were very uneventful except for Round 2 when Stacci got caught up with Anthony Gaudio.

The feature started with Gavin on the poll and there were no doubts he wouldn't win. The first corner saw Mick Doble out and yours truely after 2 cars spun out. I tried going up high to miss Shane who just missed the 33 car (correct me if I'm wrong) but unfortunately ended up hitting Maskells left rear damaging my steering rod and radius rod, but it could of been much worse. The restart went well and it wasn't until about 12 laps to go Chris Ackland had a big tumble after challenging Adyme Harvey for second. It was devastating as Ackland had the momentum up and going, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. With 5 laps to go Robbie Stephens and Justin Bell had a coming together which saw Bell end up on his side, both were out. Gavin took the win with Adyme Harvey second and Ben Ellement third.

It was a great night, racing with some great people. Doin' it for the Old Boy showed us what racing was all about, Gavin Davis was constantly giving us tips with set up for the ruts, Chris Ackland and his crew were also very handy in helping myself and Mick find a good set up. Team Bam Bam were friendly and helpful in trying to get my car on the trailer, when eventually the radius rod snapped and they lended us one to get it home. Everyones help last night was very appreciated and this is what makes me enjoy racing. The fact that we have a great wide group out there, young to old, males to females, from all over the state and country.

Just a reminder, if you want tyres let myself or Dad know. For those who haven't yet told Martin if they are going to Margret River or World Series night 2 in Bunbury then please do. If you can't get a hold of him due to Martin being over east let Lillian know.

Hope to see you all in Margret River!

Crabby Junior.

Geraldton.

Good evening everyone!

Well what a stressful day I have had! It started off starting work very early today to take the truck to the Racecar Cave to get the #12 car and everything coming with, we then dropped it off at West Coast Wheels to get tyres done, service and make some sort of exhaust to last us the weekend, which we noticed we hadn't done at 7 this morning. We then bolted in some eyelets to tie the car down for now and put in the tool box and set up the spare tyre rack! It was a very busy day and without Tony or Haynesy this week I would not be sitting in our hotel in Geraldton right now! Mick, Chris and myself left at 2.30 and arrived in Gero at 9.

I have my race face on and I'm ready to go now, after Bunbury last week I have been bitten by that race bug that so many talk about.

I hear the Team Bam Bam will be leaving in the morning nice and early around 6, after his last meeting in Bunbury, I am sure Shane will be hungry for some more wins!

The Davis team were leaving this afternoon after work around 4:30, after doing a motor last meeting and having not a good run at the Motorplex, he looks hungry to get back on top.

I haven't heard much else but I hear Ackland will be making the trip up, and also rumoured Adyme Harvey to travel aswell.

I am looking to running with some fresh blood! We have locals like young gun Cale Sotoriff nominated, didn't see Mick or Mark Doble on the list, but I hope to see them there! We also have a few 320's joining us this weekend. I hope we can put on a great show up here as we have everywhere else.


Just a reminder we are selling tyres this weekend! Brand new American Racers.
34x18x15 are 250 each
34x17x15 are 240 each
All left rears, 30,29,28.5, and 28's are 220
No credit, correct cash up front only.

So Get your backside to the trackside and let's go racing!

Crabby Jnr


If you have any news for us or would like to tell us what your teams are up to, send us an update so we can let everyone know.

Bunbury 8th January 2011

Hi all,

Well we travelled to Bunbury Saturday night for some fast and furious action and we delivered that and more.

Again the club drivers and invited drivers put on a great display for the crowd, the Bunbury Car Club provided a track that was well prepared and maintained throughout the night, a faster surface you could not have asked for.

There were no major accidents in the limited division although a couple of near misses were spotted, yours truly mounted Shane Maskell at the start of the feature and lost 5 places, Michael Armstrong hit the wall whilst leading the feature race and that was about it.
In the invited 360 division the 4 Blackman Fabrication cars had a night that kept the mechanics busy, 3 front ends and 1 rear end kept Ewen Fellows busy on the spanners all night, he was glad when the last race was done so he could rest.

The 360's had their own heats and a feature with the final placings being
1st Tim Gardner
2nd Jodi Waldron
3rd Wade Randell

The limiteds had an eventful feature race, Michael Armstrong was fast and smooth until he hit the wall, this handed the lead to the ever reliable Chris Ackland who held on until the checkered flag, second was Todd Davis who had the Martin Engineering sponsored car on the floor, third was myself, who after a mishap at the start dropped back to seventh but clawed my way back to 3rd, the feature ran 20 laps green to checker at a fast pace.

Some of the highlights of the night were;
Bam Bam Maskel had his first heat win, and not through anyones misfortune, he had that car flying.
Shane Webster has got his little motor on the boil and was also fast.
Darren Higgins completed every lap in everyone of his heats, he had a smile from ear to ear but was just a little worn out from the feature race.
Crabbe junior has realized that to go fast you have to push the loud pedal, she was on the gas more than ever before.
Crabbe Senior made it through the night without a meltdown, that makes it 2 meetings in a row.

Limited results for the night were;
1st Chris Ackland
2nd Todd Davis
3rd Steve Crabbe

We are racing next at Geraldton on the 22nd of January and it would be great to get a few more cars there, or just a great number of spectators, so common and witness the Limiteds doing there stuff.


Catch you

Crabby

Blog feedback.

Hi Steve,

I posted this on your blog, I think.
I am sending it to you in case I have not done it right.

Sounds Like Kris is going well and I should see you at the Muster.

Cheers Mick


Keep up the good work Crabby.

I think that most members and supporters of the limited club like to follow what its members are up to and it is good to hear what is happening at other events around the country and how the local drivers are going against the big names over east.

It may be a limited site but don't we all follow other divisions of sprintcars??

Yes I have been slack in sending info in from Gero but with building a new canteen up here things have been a bit hectic over the last few months.

Mick

Blog feedback from old member living interstate.

Stefan has left a new comment on your post "Blog feed back.":

Hi, as a ex member [and Committee member]of the LSA now living in Victoria I would like to hear more about what is happening with the club in general. Also stories on individual members like Pete Woj [gidday Pete]. Maybe some of the history of this long standing club, some "where are they now' stories. Still do the race reports as it is good to see how it is all going.
Regards,
Stefan Trnacek

Posted by Stefan to Limited Sprint Cars at January 4, 2011 12:46 PM

Bunbury 8th January 2011

Hi all,

Well Bunbury next week looks good, we have some 20 cars nominated or indicated for the meeting, if you are not one that has expressed interest or nominated through the club then give Martin a call and let him know if you are going to be there.

Gates open at 2pm.
Drivers meeting at 4.30pm.
Engine starts at 5pm.

Hope to see a big crowd there to support the Bunbury Club.

Catch you

Crabby.

Sprintcar Muster.

Hi all

The Sprintcar Muster is all over and a good night was had by all.

We had 16 cars turn up which was second in numbers to the 410's, a great effort and showing how our club is one of the healthiest Sprintcar Clubs in WA.

As usual we were made to run all 16 cars in the heat, not sure why we get such a raw deal given the level of numbers we provide and more than that the tight entertaining racing our members provide, however I believe when approached the Motorplex stated they had 128 entries and would not have the time to run all the events.
I feel there are divisions that provide less entertainment, have less cars and they get split heats etc.

Heat 1 was slow on a greasy track and at the start we had a couple of cars come together which resulted in a complete restart, 3 of the field were out.
Mick Doble was judged as the prime cause of the stoppage and we were all bemused at that call, Mick had to check up to miss a near spinning car which caused the next car to loop, bit unfair, much like another decision at Fast Friday last run that saw Sarah Zemunick to be penalised.
Robbie Stephens was a run away winner.
Heat 2 saw the track starting to come on and again Robbie Stephens was a run away winner.

The Feature was over 15 laps with the fastest from the front, which is the way it should be in the big meets, we were all given our starting positions in person and we lined up for the start, again there are those that feel they should start where they want and we did 2 laps under yellows while it was sorted, I must admit it pisses me off that we have to stuff around because someone does not like where they are, my view is pull the reds and fork them off the track if they cannot comply with the rules of the meet, enough about that though.

The feature was a green to checker and there were cars passing and lapping cars everywhere, we had 6 320's in with us and it was close fast racing.

The final results were,
1st Robbie Stephens 2nd Mick Doble 3rd Justin Bell.

A great meeting and looking forward to Bunbury next week.


Crabby

Speedweek wrap up.

Hi all

Well speedweek is done and we are home again.

The last night of speedweek was at Warnambool and the racing was great, Warnambool Premier Speedway is the Holy Grail of Australian Sprintcar Racing in my eyes, the Classic each year is the premium event on the Australian calendar with only the Aussie title being more prestigious to win.

Again there were 6 West Aussie cars or teams.
Monte Motorsports, Milling Motorsports, Miller Motorsports, Kendrick Racing, David Priolo and Kris Coyle for Fisher Racing.

The top 4 teams are all good with consistent cars and each had a car in the A main with only Jason Kendrick not making it out of the B.
David Priolo up till this point had had a week he would like to forget but at Warnambool he was on the gas and made it into the A easily.

Kris again time trialled poorly but made the inversion, he ran 4th in the first heat and second in the second heat after Kerry Madsen slid him going into turn 3 on the last lap.

After the second heat Kris admitted he had never run so close to the wall in his racing life, and in fact he had the rear wheel touch it 3 times during the heat, it was a very Ryan Farrel like drive.

The fast boys took out the night with Jason Johnson winning and Craig Dollansky second.

We are really looking forward to the classic and the Aussie title over there later this month, it will be racing well worth seeing.

Crabby