Another update at last!!!

Hi all,

Well all is going well over here.

Night 2 of the 360 Nationals saw an Australian Brad Foster from Victoria running in the 360's.

He went ok but did not show up for the final night.

Gavin arrived and slept on the bench for the first half of the racing, don't know how as the noise is deafening.

Terry McCarl won the night 2 A main in a canter, not many crashes as the track is wide and cars spread out half a lap before the end of lap one.

Night 3 and the final night saw the 410's running 4 heats and a b and a main.

Greg hall from Albany was running and got into the B main, he was running well but had some handling issues with his new Schnee chassis.

Terry McCarl won the 410 a main and then went on to win the 360 A main making him the 2009 360 Knoxville Nationals champion and 10k us richer.

Sunday we headed off to look at a Schnee roller in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 520km away.

The car looks good and comes with heaps of spares, we then went over to the Schnee factory, about 15km further out of Sioux Falls, we met Brian Schnee and he seems like a great guy, we spent an hour chewing the fat and looked at some of the gear he builds, he has a CNC mill lathe centre and turns out some trick bits, without even playing poker he had around $800 us out of Gavin and I, look out for the trickest looking brake pedal you have ever seen in my car come October. I have the full list of components Schnee make to bring home, the items are the best made you will find and prices are cheap. Also have picked up the latest XXX catalogue which I will bring to the races this year.

After the tour of the Schnee factory we went to Hussets Speedway, this would be the shortest and highest banked track you will see.

The 410's get around here at an amazing speed, we watched in amazement at half time when a grader came out, do not believe the stories you here about not touching the track once the meetings start in the US, we also witnessed this at Oskaloosa on our first night.

Caught up with the Hall Motorsports team at Hussets, had a beer and a good laugh with Brian, Greg and Kent Roberts. Greg made it through to the A main and had a good run in the final, the Schnee chassis was working well, Greg prefers the Schnee to the Maxim's, Brian says David will keep running the Maxim's.

Tonight (Tuesday morning your time) we are off to Oskaloosa for the front row challenge, this is the start of the real racing for us.

The trip through the back woods of Nebraska and South Dakota was interesting, Glen just closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, my American driving is getting worse, only ran several stop signs, several red lights, drove on the wrong side of the road for a few miles, but no one else wants to give it a go, I just keep telling myself at each intersection, turn short or turn long, while I remember to say that we are almost safe.

Well got to go, we can hear Oskaloosa calling.