Hi all,
Tonight I received some feedback on the blog.
As I have previously said we have 350 individual people read the blog.
We have received 3 complaints over the time we have been writing the blog and 2 of those were from the same person.
We have asked on many occasions for people to send in info we can put on the site but receive very little, so to keep the interest in the site we put whatever info we can on the site.
So folks here is your chance to have a say.
Send in and let me know if you only want limited sprint car information on the blog.
I will share with you the comments received tonight with symbols replacing some of the letters in the expletives used.
"Since when does the car that Kris races have anything to do with the limited club or there blog site who give a royal f^*k about speed week it's a limited web site that ur f^*king up it's a limited site limited means limited not money bags like u u f^*k head cock head f^*k hole"
Sorry about the poor grammar but had to write it as it was.
So as you can see it started out as a complaint but became a personal attack as it went on, not sure why.
So folks here is your chance to comment, only named comments will be viewed and written up.
My view is 350 readers each month says they like what they see or get something out of our blog.
See you at the muster.
Crabby
Friday, December 31, 2010
Speedweek- Avalon
Hi all,
Well another nights racing has been run and again we had mixed fortunes.
We time trialled badly although ahead of a couple of other West Aussies.
43 was our position so we missed the invert and Kris started from the back of the field.
In both heats we made it forward and then went into the C Main.
We made a good start but again got caught up in someone elses wreck, we restarted and managed to get up into position 5 quickly but a spinning car brought out the yellows and again the C was declared so our night was over.
We now head to Warnambool for the start of four meetings here including the Aussie title.
Will let you know how we go.
Catch you
Crabby
Well another nights racing has been run and again we had mixed fortunes.
We time trialled badly although ahead of a couple of other West Aussies.
43 was our position so we missed the invert and Kris started from the back of the field.
In both heats we made it forward and then went into the C Main.
We made a good start but again got caught up in someone elses wreck, we restarted and managed to get up into position 5 quickly but a spinning car brought out the yellows and again the C was declared so our night was over.
We now head to Warnambool for the start of four meetings here including the Aussie title.
Will let you know how we go.
Catch you
Crabby
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Mt Gambier not a happy hunting ground for us.
Hi all,
Well we arrived in Mt Gambier last night ready to keep up our assault on Speedweek.
Kris again had trouble in hot laps, seems strange to me they put 12 cars out on these small tracks, it is ok for the guys who have raced here before but as a new team/driver it is hard to come to grips with a track when you cannot get in any fast laps due to traffic, but that's the way it goes.
Kris timed in at 29, again not good but ok considering there were 50 cars to run with.
Heat 1 had Kris out of 3 but the car was not set up right and we drifted out to end the heat last.
Heat 6 had Kris out of 4 and he went high going into turn 1, but a car spun in front of him and Kris checked the car up to avoid damaging the car, Steven Lines was not so lucky and hit Kris hard in the side, this resulted in some chassis damage and our night was done.
We spent the day fixing the car and are just about ready to head for Avalon, it will be good to get the car onto a bigger track again.
The team is pumped and really looking forward to our last 2 meetings of speed week.
Really looking forward to "The Muster" on the 2nd, this speedweek trip just gets the racing juices going.
Will keep you all updated over the next 3 days of our progress but looking forward to catching up at the muster.
Crabby
Well we arrived in Mt Gambier last night ready to keep up our assault on Speedweek.
Kris again had trouble in hot laps, seems strange to me they put 12 cars out on these small tracks, it is ok for the guys who have raced here before but as a new team/driver it is hard to come to grips with a track when you cannot get in any fast laps due to traffic, but that's the way it goes.
Kris timed in at 29, again not good but ok considering there were 50 cars to run with.
Heat 1 had Kris out of 3 but the car was not set up right and we drifted out to end the heat last.
Heat 6 had Kris out of 4 and he went high going into turn 1, but a car spun in front of him and Kris checked the car up to avoid damaging the car, Steven Lines was not so lucky and hit Kris hard in the side, this resulted in some chassis damage and our night was done.
We spent the day fixing the car and are just about ready to head for Avalon, it will be good to get the car onto a bigger track again.
The team is pumped and really looking forward to our last 2 meetings of speed week.
Really looking forward to "The Muster" on the 2nd, this speedweek trip just gets the racing juices going.
Will keep you all updated over the next 3 days of our progress but looking forward to catching up at the muster.
Crabby
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Speed week night 2- Murray Bridge.
Well night 2 has come and gone and the team achieved more tonight than we had even dreamed of for the whole trip.
Time trials were average with Kris out in the second last group, the track had gone off and we could only get 33 out of 46, still not bad after 5 hot laps with no clear track.
Heat one had Kris out of 2 and he drove away to a convincing win.
Heat 5 had Kris off pole and he had to settle for second off the start but worked his way into the lead on lap 4 and again he drove away, not bad considering the quality of the field he was up against, 5 contracted drivers were in his heats, there was not a slow car to be seen.
The heat wins put Kris off pole for the B main, again he had to settle for second off the start but early on he drove past Luke Dillion and pulled out a massive lead, Matt Egel soon had the outside line working and closed up with a few laps to go, but Kris again pulled away to win.
So we made an A main, unbelievable really, we have made both the shows, just doing that has been great, I am starting to think the 25 points we were penalized from Adelaide are going to come back and haunt us as we would be fairly high in the speed week points if we still had those, but we are not complaining, rules are rules and we should have been there on time.
So to the A main Kris went, starting out of 15 he got up to 8th and held out there for a while, but from the Crabbe perspective it looked like he tired after about 25 laps and we went back 4 spots to finish a creditable 12th, not bad for our second night out as a team and second night in the car.
I was talking to Kris yesterday about a name, you cannot be the Young Gun when you are older, Danny Reidy is "The Rockstar" the amount of time Kris has had the camera stuck in his face he will soon be known as "The Movie Star".
Well enough dribble for now, cars to clean.
Mt Gambier tonight, here we come.
Catch you
Crabby
Time trials were average with Kris out in the second last group, the track had gone off and we could only get 33 out of 46, still not bad after 5 hot laps with no clear track.
Heat one had Kris out of 2 and he drove away to a convincing win.
Heat 5 had Kris off pole and he had to settle for second off the start but worked his way into the lead on lap 4 and again he drove away, not bad considering the quality of the field he was up against, 5 contracted drivers were in his heats, there was not a slow car to be seen.
The heat wins put Kris off pole for the B main, again he had to settle for second off the start but early on he drove past Luke Dillion and pulled out a massive lead, Matt Egel soon had the outside line working and closed up with a few laps to go, but Kris again pulled away to win.
So we made an A main, unbelievable really, we have made both the shows, just doing that has been great, I am starting to think the 25 points we were penalized from Adelaide are going to come back and haunt us as we would be fairly high in the speed week points if we still had those, but we are not complaining, rules are rules and we should have been there on time.
So to the A main Kris went, starting out of 15 he got up to 8th and held out there for a while, but from the Crabbe perspective it looked like he tired after about 25 laps and we went back 4 spots to finish a creditable 12th, not bad for our second night out as a team and second night in the car.
I was talking to Kris yesterday about a name, you cannot be the Young Gun when you are older, Danny Reidy is "The Rockstar" the amount of time Kris has had the camera stuck in his face he will soon be known as "The Movie Star".
Well enough dribble for now, cars to clean.
Mt Gambier tonight, here we come.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Speed week night one-Adelaide.
Hi all
Well we arrived in good old SA and headed from the Airport to the track.
The pits were full and there were 6 of us West Aussies ready to race, well 5 actually as our transporter was stuck behind a motor vehicle accident and arrived late.
The new car was rolled out and looked a treat, hot laps went well and we time trialled 24 out of 45, not bad considering Kris had only done 6 laps in the car with an unfamiliar chassis.
Heat 4 was our first heat and Kris was up against it with several contracted drivers and Kerry Madsen also in the heat, Kris started out of 8 and finished in 5th, a good smooth drive.
Heat 7 was our next heat and we started out of 6, Kris went around the outside and was leading by the end of the first lap, he drove away from the field and only slowed after lapping half the field, a great drive.
We qualified for position 5 out of the B main, but we were penalized 25 points for being late to scrutineering, this then put us 7th out of the C, the C was a farce with less than 3 racing laps before being declared, we were in 5th.
So night one of speed week is done, we are now off to Murray Bridge.
Winners,
Tatnel
Madsen, Kerry
Dave Murcott
Matt Egel was fast, led the feature for a while until he had a coming together with Tatnel for the lead.
Catch you
Crabby
Well we arrived in good old SA and headed from the Airport to the track.
The pits were full and there were 6 of us West Aussies ready to race, well 5 actually as our transporter was stuck behind a motor vehicle accident and arrived late.
The new car was rolled out and looked a treat, hot laps went well and we time trialled 24 out of 45, not bad considering Kris had only done 6 laps in the car with an unfamiliar chassis.
Heat 4 was our first heat and Kris was up against it with several contracted drivers and Kerry Madsen also in the heat, Kris started out of 8 and finished in 5th, a good smooth drive.
Heat 7 was our next heat and we started out of 6, Kris went around the outside and was leading by the end of the first lap, he drove away from the field and only slowed after lapping half the field, a great drive.
We qualified for position 5 out of the B main, but we were penalized 25 points for being late to scrutineering, this then put us 7th out of the C, the C was a farce with less than 3 racing laps before being declared, we were in 5th.
So night one of speed week is done, we are now off to Murray Bridge.
Winners,
Tatnel
Madsen, Kerry
Dave Murcott
Matt Egel was fast, led the feature for a while until he had a coming together with Tatnel for the lead.
Catch you
Crabby
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Racer Update.
Kim Collins-9
Well it has been some time since we have seen Kim on the track but after a late night call tonight from Kim he tells me he is ready to go.
The shed doors have been thrown open and the car is ready to roll out and head on down for Fast Friday on the 17th December.
From memory I last saw Kim in Bunbury 2 seasons ago, he was having fuel problems and wiped the bearings with methanol contaminated oil.
Kim enlisted the services of Rocka Zeminuk to get his motor rebuilt and is looking forward to a shakedown at Fast Friday before tackling the Muster on the 2nd January.
Great to see Kim back, he is a good peddler who always races hard.
Fast Friday is looking good.
Crabby
Well it has been some time since we have seen Kim on the track but after a late night call tonight from Kim he tells me he is ready to go.
The shed doors have been thrown open and the car is ready to roll out and head on down for Fast Friday on the 17th December.
From memory I last saw Kim in Bunbury 2 seasons ago, he was having fuel problems and wiped the bearings with methanol contaminated oil.
Kim enlisted the services of Rocka Zeminuk to get his motor rebuilt and is looking forward to a shakedown at Fast Friday before tackling the Muster on the 2nd January.
Great to see Kim back, he is a good peddler who always races hard.
Fast Friday is looking good.
Crabby
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Hi all.
Well another week end over and more time spent in the cave.
My car is sitting awaiting the next engine to go in.
Have been thinking of running the very low budget 23deg head motor that was built by Naylor Race Engines as a spec motor to try for our division, this is most likely what we will do.
Went down to the Davis workshop Saturday and dropped off a motor to put a new rotating assembly in, this is the original motor I had put in my JEI, this will be it's third reincarnation from Sean Bradford's 360 to a top limited engine.
Monday we start putting a tow vehicle together for Annette, she has decided she will run all the meetings she can this year, we are away for a few during speed week and the Aussie title, so Annette needs her own way of getting to and from the race meetings.
Also it takes about 2 hours to pack the truck and trailer and then rehitch it after each meeting, and that's valuable socializing time that is wasted.
Sounds like Pithara was a great meeting, not often I miss a meeting but could not get there, well done to Jason Kendrick, he was looking good at the state title and has really stepped up this season.
Also good to see Kris Coyle have a change of luck, he was quick all night apparently, but had a moment late in the feature whilst dueling with the top three.
Catch you
Crabby
My car is sitting awaiting the next engine to go in.
Have been thinking of running the very low budget 23deg head motor that was built by Naylor Race Engines as a spec motor to try for our division, this is most likely what we will do.
Went down to the Davis workshop Saturday and dropped off a motor to put a new rotating assembly in, this is the original motor I had put in my JEI, this will be it's third reincarnation from Sean Bradford's 360 to a top limited engine.
Monday we start putting a tow vehicle together for Annette, she has decided she will run all the meetings she can this year, we are away for a few during speed week and the Aussie title, so Annette needs her own way of getting to and from the race meetings.
Also it takes about 2 hours to pack the truck and trailer and then rehitch it after each meeting, and that's valuable socializing time that is wasted.
Sounds like Pithara was a great meeting, not often I miss a meeting but could not get there, well done to Jason Kendrick, he was looking good at the state title and has really stepped up this season.
Also good to see Kris Coyle have a change of luck, he was quick all night apparently, but had a moment late in the feature whilst dueling with the top three.
Catch you
Crabby
Friday, December 3, 2010
Fast Friday
Well Friday again and 2 weeks to go until our next meeting.
Do you know you have to register for the Fast Friday and the Muster before the 8th December?
Racer update;
The King brothers are about to make a long awaited return to racing at the next Fast Friday.
Both have new cars to run and want to get them ready for the action in the New Year, although Anthony has said he cannot race the Muster as he has crew commitments with the Brady's.
No doubt they will both come out and be as quick as, which from my view point is a good thing, we are getting some seriously quick people racing and the pace has been red hot this season.
Catch you
Crabby
Do you know you have to register for the Fast Friday and the Muster before the 8th December?
Racer update;
The King brothers are about to make a long awaited return to racing at the next Fast Friday.
Both have new cars to run and want to get them ready for the action in the New Year, although Anthony has said he cannot race the Muster as he has crew commitments with the Brady's.
No doubt they will both come out and be as quick as, which from my view point is a good thing, we are getting some seriously quick people racing and the pace has been red hot this season.
Catch you
Crabby
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Manjimup almost wrap up.
Hi all,
Well I have had several calls asking why no info has been posted from Manjimup.
The reason is because I cannot honestly remember that much about it.
I know I won the first heat from Todd, and I think Gavin won all his heats and the feature with Todd second in the feature.
The Blackman 360's were there and I had to scrutineer the cars, they are first rate and a credit to Phil and the guys that own them, they put up a great effort and pushed us hard.
Old Phil himself still has the killer instinct, he was quick as around Manjimup and ran second overall in the feature.
The two Davis boys were quick all night, they know the track and had good setups although Todd was a bit off in the feature after being baulked by Annette it took him a few laps to get back into the groove.
Highlights
Shane "Bam Bam" Maskel was fast and is getting the hang of this quickly.
The other Shane, casual Webster was also getting mighty quick and started picking off some of the top boys.
Darren Higgins had a great run in the third heat until his motor let go, but it was good to see him really standing on it and showing he can drive.
Lowlights
My motor had a minor melt on cylinder 5.
Darren Higgins motor dropped 2 rods.
Next meeting is Fast Friday on the 17th December, it would be great to see some of the out of town boys there, come on Geraldton, let's see a couple of you there.
Crabby
Well I have had several calls asking why no info has been posted from Manjimup.
The reason is because I cannot honestly remember that much about it.
I know I won the first heat from Todd, and I think Gavin won all his heats and the feature with Todd second in the feature.
The Blackman 360's were there and I had to scrutineer the cars, they are first rate and a credit to Phil and the guys that own them, they put up a great effort and pushed us hard.
Old Phil himself still has the killer instinct, he was quick as around Manjimup and ran second overall in the feature.
The two Davis boys were quick all night, they know the track and had good setups although Todd was a bit off in the feature after being baulked by Annette it took him a few laps to get back into the groove.
Highlights
Shane "Bam Bam" Maskel was fast and is getting the hang of this quickly.
The other Shane, casual Webster was also getting mighty quick and started picking off some of the top boys.
Darren Higgins had a great run in the third heat until his motor let go, but it was good to see him really standing on it and showing he can drive.
Lowlights
My motor had a minor melt on cylinder 5.
Darren Higgins motor dropped 2 rods.
Next meeting is Fast Friday on the 17th December, it would be great to see some of the out of town boys there, come on Geraldton, let's see a couple of you there.
Crabby
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Manjimup time almost here.
Hi all
Well it has been a big fortnight since we last raced, I have not been so busy in all my life.
Anyway to the happenings inside the Crabbe shed.
We have Annette's car ready to go, completed late this afternoon after we headed down to the cave straight after work.
My car is sitting on stands with about 3 hours work before it is ready to go.
We have got some new wings to put together for spares as we somehow managed to sell our spare front wing by mistake with the JEI.
The wings will all be off to the powder coater later this week and finally there should be a spare in the Crabbe trailer.
Our container full of gear from the USA will be here by 30th November so when we get the final import charges I will advertise the tyres we have purchased and the cost, also the j and j for Jim in Carnarvon is in the container and the 358 we have for sale, we have 4 serious buyers for this engine all waiting for it to arrive so they can come check it out.
Annette has a new motor in there, it is one of the small budget motors Jimmy Naylor is trying to sell into our division, looking forward to see how it goes.
Manjimup is on this weekend, I am looking forward to seeing this track, they tell me it is frighteningly fast, some of the 410's have been clocked at above 200kms an hour down the straight, now that is quick.
We have about 14 cars going, should be a cracker of a meeting.
Hope to see you there.
Crabby
Well it has been a big fortnight since we last raced, I have not been so busy in all my life.
Anyway to the happenings inside the Crabbe shed.
We have Annette's car ready to go, completed late this afternoon after we headed down to the cave straight after work.
My car is sitting on stands with about 3 hours work before it is ready to go.
We have got some new wings to put together for spares as we somehow managed to sell our spare front wing by mistake with the JEI.
The wings will all be off to the powder coater later this week and finally there should be a spare in the Crabbe trailer.
Our container full of gear from the USA will be here by 30th November so when we get the final import charges I will advertise the tyres we have purchased and the cost, also the j and j for Jim in Carnarvon is in the container and the 358 we have for sale, we have 4 serious buyers for this engine all waiting for it to arrive so they can come check it out.
Annette has a new motor in there, it is one of the small budget motors Jimmy Naylor is trying to sell into our division, looking forward to see how it goes.
Manjimup is on this weekend, I am looking forward to seeing this track, they tell me it is frighteningly fast, some of the 410's have been clocked at above 200kms an hour down the straight, now that is quick.
We have about 14 cars going, should be a cracker of a meeting.
Hope to see you there.
Crabby
Monday, November 22, 2010
A Blog from our Narrogin racers.
THE VOICE OF ANOTHER BLOGGER
Hi All,
Out in the country you quite often miss out on the news and results of the club, so we always appreciate the effort that goes into the service Crabby provides. To break up the monotony that can be had by listening to the same voice over and over we thought on occasion we would keep the club up to date on the results at our local track Narrogin.
It may now be a few weeks since the LSA hostiles invaded our patch of dirt, but the response and feedback we are still getting back from the public is impressive. To say the display of racing was nothing short of awesome is an understatement. We as locals thoroughly enjoyed the competiion and revelled in fact that we had a full field of cars to keep us on our game. Thank you to all those who put in an effort to travel to our club and make it such a good meet.
We have only had one meeting since then on Saturday 20th. Unfortunately only 2 cars showed up, one of which we welcome back after a 2 year hiatus. Young Mr Bell certainly proved though that he still knows how to pedal a car. For us it became a test and tune day, with laps proving invaluable as we nutted out some new setups.
Our next meeting is the Christmas Cup meeting on the 18th of December, all are welcome.
Quick note before I go on the quality of racing amongst the Limiteds. I had the pleasure of attending Geraldton Speedway on the13th of this month, as I was up there for the harvest. I must say that on the night there were only 4 cars but they put on some of the best racing I have seen in a long time. Nows thats not a go at the other division that was racing at the time, but you 4 are a credit to the LSA, to put on a show that good with in tight racing and passing was an enjoyable spectacle, Well Done.
Regards
BMS
Hi All,
Out in the country you quite often miss out on the news and results of the club, so we always appreciate the effort that goes into the service Crabby provides. To break up the monotony that can be had by listening to the same voice over and over we thought on occasion we would keep the club up to date on the results at our local track Narrogin.
It may now be a few weeks since the LSA hostiles invaded our patch of dirt, but the response and feedback we are still getting back from the public is impressive. To say the display of racing was nothing short of awesome is an understatement. We as locals thoroughly enjoyed the competiion and revelled in fact that we had a full field of cars to keep us on our game. Thank you to all those who put in an effort to travel to our club and make it such a good meet.
We have only had one meeting since then on Saturday 20th. Unfortunately only 2 cars showed up, one of which we welcome back after a 2 year hiatus. Young Mr Bell certainly proved though that he still knows how to pedal a car. For us it became a test and tune day, with laps proving invaluable as we nutted out some new setups.
Our next meeting is the Christmas Cup meeting on the 18th of December, all are welcome.
Quick note before I go on the quality of racing amongst the Limiteds. I had the pleasure of attending Geraldton Speedway on the13th of this month, as I was up there for the harvest. I must say that on the night there were only 4 cars but they put on some of the best racing I have seen in a long time. Nows thats not a go at the other division that was racing at the time, but you 4 are a credit to the LSA, to put on a show that good with in tight racing and passing was an enjoyable spectacle, Well Done.
Regards
BMS
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Open state title.
Good morning all,
We headed to Bunbury last night to watch the 410's State title.
It was a good meeting with a small rain interruption before the dashes.
Strangely there was only one restart during the heats when Darren Mewitt had a biking moment and spun, that was the last heat.
Young Jason Kendrick was a man on a mission in the feature, he held second until about 3 laps to go when he had a small mistake on turn 2 allowing Shaun Bradford and Ken Sartori through, although Ken soon had a coming together with Bradford which saw Ken junk the car in a big way, Bradford sustained no damage and lined up outside of Kerry Madsen for the restart.
Kerry Madsen won from Shaun Bradford with Jason Kendrick third.
I must say the 92.9 cars looked quick all night.
We are running Manjimup next Saturday, hope to see you there.
Crabby
We headed to Bunbury last night to watch the 410's State title.
It was a good meeting with a small rain interruption before the dashes.
Strangely there was only one restart during the heats when Darren Mewitt had a biking moment and spun, that was the last heat.
Young Jason Kendrick was a man on a mission in the feature, he held second until about 3 laps to go when he had a small mistake on turn 2 allowing Shaun Bradford and Ken Sartori through, although Ken soon had a coming together with Bradford which saw Ken junk the car in a big way, Bradford sustained no damage and lined up outside of Kerry Madsen for the restart.
Kerry Madsen won from Shaun Bradford with Jason Kendrick third.
I must say the 92.9 cars looked quick all night.
We are running Manjimup next Saturday, hope to see you there.
Crabby
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Racer update - Carolyn Armstrong
Hi all,
Carolyn was at the Fast Friday meeting last night so I took the time to have a chat about her plans for this season.
Carolyn's car was destroyed in a big accident in Geraldton last season.
She has slowly been fixing her car and hopes to return to racing in the not too distant future.
The only thing needed to ensure a speedy return is an engine, if you are keen to see another fast lady driver on the track and would like to supply a motor you can contact Carolyn through the limited sprintcar club.
Subject to getting a motor Carolyn would like to run the big races starting with the Sprintcar Muster through to the Armstrong Cup.
Crabby
Carolyn was at the Fast Friday meeting last night so I took the time to have a chat about her plans for this season.
Carolyn's car was destroyed in a big accident in Geraldton last season.
She has slowly been fixing her car and hopes to return to racing in the not too distant future.
The only thing needed to ensure a speedy return is an engine, if you are keen to see another fast lady driver on the track and would like to supply a motor you can contact Carolyn through the limited sprintcar club.
Subject to getting a motor Carolyn would like to run the big races starting with the Sprintcar Muster through to the Armstrong Cup.
Crabby
Fast Friday wrap up.
Good evening all,
It has been a big day down at the shed, many visitors have come through to say hello.
Team Gavin/Jen Davis came up from Bunbury to pick up some wings for Darren Higgins in their new transporter, this transporter is going to be a nice unit when completed, it is huge, we chewed the fat over some ways to get the new motor back up to speed, it was a little disappointing last night, I reckon it was at about half the power it was before it went away to get rebuilt, we came up with a few ideas we will try for Manjimup on the 27th.
Then we had the Wodj's come in to talk turkey over some parts for Wodj's retransformation from shed to track take 2, although I must point out I am not inferring he is a shed racer in any way, he is slowly putting the car together as his budget allows, a sensible approach.
Then we had Chris Dicker from Mandurah Bolt Supplies turn up, Chris was wrapped with the performance of Michael Armstrong last night, Michael was on the pace all night and would have won but for a few unfortunate bangs which damaged his steering, Chris is also one of the sponsors of the upcoming trip East with Kris Coyle and also a sponsor of the SJ Crushing team, so Mandurah Bolt Supplies had a 1/2/3 result for the night, not a bad start to his year.
So to the results.
Heat 1 was on a track slowly hooking up, it was greasy during hot laps.
Glen Oliver was off pole with yours truly out of 2, Glen drove off into the distance with daylight a close second, then yours truly with Ian Dhu finishing 3rd.
Heat 2 had the 2 Watson Express 10's off pole and looked like they would run away with the heat, Watto pulled out early and Dhuy led the way for most of the heat with Michael Armstrong in hot pursuit, as they came up on Annette to lap her they baulked allowing Glen the chance to work his way under both of them, with the finishing order being Glen Oliver first, Ian Dhu second and Michael Armstrong third.
The feature saw the limiteds running with the 360's but we will only deal with the Limiteds.
Glen Oliver was off pole with Michael Armstrong off outside pole, Ian Dhu was off inside row 2 with tours truly off outside row row 2.
The track had absolutely no drive off the bottom of turns 3 and 4 so the inside row was never going to get away quickly, Michael Armstrong got the jump on Glen and I followed Michael away, it felt like we were pulling away as I could not hear another car close by, by mid race though the yellows came on, this brought out the double row restart and I was forced to start on the inside, at the start I watched Michael Armstrong drive away as I spun up in the slick area of the track, soon after Glen slid by me and all I could do was watch them up ahead.
Glen managed to get through into first as Michael sustained some damage in an incident with a 360 which caused him to slow dramatically on the last lap, Michael finished second with yours truly third, and this was the way the points went for the night as well.
Good luck to the 320's and the Limiteds in Geraldton tonight, if you read this Sunday and you have the results then let me know so I can post them.
Crabby
It has been a big day down at the shed, many visitors have come through to say hello.
Team Gavin/Jen Davis came up from Bunbury to pick up some wings for Darren Higgins in their new transporter, this transporter is going to be a nice unit when completed, it is huge, we chewed the fat over some ways to get the new motor back up to speed, it was a little disappointing last night, I reckon it was at about half the power it was before it went away to get rebuilt, we came up with a few ideas we will try for Manjimup on the 27th.
Then we had the Wodj's come in to talk turkey over some parts for Wodj's retransformation from shed to track take 2, although I must point out I am not inferring he is a shed racer in any way, he is slowly putting the car together as his budget allows, a sensible approach.
Then we had Chris Dicker from Mandurah Bolt Supplies turn up, Chris was wrapped with the performance of Michael Armstrong last night, Michael was on the pace all night and would have won but for a few unfortunate bangs which damaged his steering, Chris is also one of the sponsors of the upcoming trip East with Kris Coyle and also a sponsor of the SJ Crushing team, so Mandurah Bolt Supplies had a 1/2/3 result for the night, not a bad start to his year.
So to the results.
Heat 1 was on a track slowly hooking up, it was greasy during hot laps.
Glen Oliver was off pole with yours truly out of 2, Glen drove off into the distance with daylight a close second, then yours truly with Ian Dhu finishing 3rd.
Heat 2 had the 2 Watson Express 10's off pole and looked like they would run away with the heat, Watto pulled out early and Dhuy led the way for most of the heat with Michael Armstrong in hot pursuit, as they came up on Annette to lap her they baulked allowing Glen the chance to work his way under both of them, with the finishing order being Glen Oliver first, Ian Dhu second and Michael Armstrong third.
The feature saw the limiteds running with the 360's but we will only deal with the Limiteds.
Glen Oliver was off pole with Michael Armstrong off outside pole, Ian Dhu was off inside row 2 with tours truly off outside row row 2.
The track had absolutely no drive off the bottom of turns 3 and 4 so the inside row was never going to get away quickly, Michael Armstrong got the jump on Glen and I followed Michael away, it felt like we were pulling away as I could not hear another car close by, by mid race though the yellows came on, this brought out the double row restart and I was forced to start on the inside, at the start I watched Michael Armstrong drive away as I spun up in the slick area of the track, soon after Glen slid by me and all I could do was watch them up ahead.
Glen managed to get through into first as Michael sustained some damage in an incident with a 360 which caused him to slow dramatically on the last lap, Michael finished second with yours truly third, and this was the way the points went for the night as well.
Good luck to the 320's and the Limiteds in Geraldton tonight, if you read this Sunday and you have the results then let me know so I can post them.
Crabby
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Will the weather hold out for Fast Friday.
Good evening all,
Well late Thursday evening and I think we are close.
Annette's car is ready and I hope she brings some spare underwear as this engine is no slug, she will be hard as for people to get past this week.
My car is ready but I had to put the wrong exhausts on as the new mufflers are a bit trick but hit the nerf bars, we ran out of time to fit them up so the rusty ones have gone back on.
The engine fired up straight away and other than some idle adjustment it ran sweet, fuel pressures are good for a change, so I guess we are in for a slow run around Kwinana to run it in then get it ready for Manjimup on the 27th.
It looks as though we will have 8 Limiteds running assuming Watto is running with us, should make for a good nights racing.
It will be good to see how far some of the new guys have come as we started at Kwinana first meet this season.
I believe the field will be
Dhuy, Annette, Shane Webster, Shane Maskel, Michael Armstrong, Glen Oliver, myself and maybe Watto.
Not to much missing in the way of speed in that list.
Hope to see you there.
Crabby
Well late Thursday evening and I think we are close.
Annette's car is ready and I hope she brings some spare underwear as this engine is no slug, she will be hard as for people to get past this week.
My car is ready but I had to put the wrong exhausts on as the new mufflers are a bit trick but hit the nerf bars, we ran out of time to fit them up so the rusty ones have gone back on.
The engine fired up straight away and other than some idle adjustment it ran sweet, fuel pressures are good for a change, so I guess we are in for a slow run around Kwinana to run it in then get it ready for Manjimup on the 27th.
It looks as though we will have 8 Limiteds running assuming Watto is running with us, should make for a good nights racing.
It will be good to see how far some of the new guys have come as we started at Kwinana first meet this season.
I believe the field will be
Dhuy, Annette, Shane Webster, Shane Maskel, Michael Armstrong, Glen Oliver, myself and maybe Watto.
Not to much missing in the way of speed in that list.
Hope to see you there.
Crabby
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday night and still going hard in the cave.
Hi all,
Well at the end of work in the cave tonight we still have a way to go.
Annette's car needs some exhaust clamps on the mufflers and then firing up, check fuel pressures and fit up a new air cleaner, not a lot and we hope to have hers done early Wednesday afternoon, my car still awaits a new fuel pressure gauge and the mufflers clamping up and it too will be ready.
We are short on tires and rims, we used to have 4 spare right rears and now we are down too 1 for 3 cars, hard too believe that when people use your gear it is so hard to get it back, one was borrowed nearly 2 years ago and then the person just made it too hard to get it back, now we seem to have another that looks lost forever, makes you wonder why you let people use any of your gear.
We fitted up new tires this evening as Bunbury just chewed up all we had, the Davis boys used up about 7 tires between them as well.
We have around 7 cars racing at Kwinana this Friday possibly more, not bad for a non club meet, looking forward to running the motor in ready for a run at Manjimup on the 27th November, we have never raced there but believe it will be a balls to the wall track, we are really looking forward to it.
Catch you
Crabby
Well at the end of work in the cave tonight we still have a way to go.
Annette's car needs some exhaust clamps on the mufflers and then firing up, check fuel pressures and fit up a new air cleaner, not a lot and we hope to have hers done early Wednesday afternoon, my car still awaits a new fuel pressure gauge and the mufflers clamping up and it too will be ready.
We are short on tires and rims, we used to have 4 spare right rears and now we are down too 1 for 3 cars, hard too believe that when people use your gear it is so hard to get it back, one was borrowed nearly 2 years ago and then the person just made it too hard to get it back, now we seem to have another that looks lost forever, makes you wonder why you let people use any of your gear.
We fitted up new tires this evening as Bunbury just chewed up all we had, the Davis boys used up about 7 tires between them as well.
We have around 7 cars racing at Kwinana this Friday possibly more, not bad for a non club meet, looking forward to running the motor in ready for a run at Manjimup on the 27th November, we have never raced there but believe it will be a balls to the wall track, we are really looking forward to it.
Catch you
Crabby
Monday, November 8, 2010
Nearly ready again.
Hi all,
Well after getting to the cave at 3pm we have slaved and have removed Annette's motor, cleaned her car, taken the motor from my car, put it into Annette's car, got Psycho and put it into my car, got my car ready to just put in a new fuel gauge and fire it up, after I change a couple of rear tires of course, as we cannot start the car unless we get a few wheels and tires to put on it.
Annette's car has the engine bolted in and only needs the radiator plumbed up and it will be ready to go as well.
Thanks to Jarrod and Chris from Mandurah Bolt supplies we are going to be ready by Tuesday night, then we can rest.
The chassis for our Speedweek trip leave Melbourne tomorrow so we should be looking at starting to assemble cars from next week, then we will be real busy.
Catch you
Crabby
Well after getting to the cave at 3pm we have slaved and have removed Annette's motor, cleaned her car, taken the motor from my car, put it into Annette's car, got Psycho and put it into my car, got my car ready to just put in a new fuel gauge and fire it up, after I change a couple of rear tires of course, as we cannot start the car unless we get a few wheels and tires to put on it.
Annette's car has the engine bolted in and only needs the radiator plumbed up and it will be ready to go as well.
Thanks to Jarrod and Chris from Mandurah Bolt supplies we are going to be ready by Tuesday night, then we can rest.
The chassis for our Speedweek trip leave Melbourne tomorrow so we should be looking at starting to assemble cars from next week, then we will be real busy.
Catch you
Crabby
Bunbury another great weekends racing.
Hi all,
Bunbury was another good meeting for the club but was a little disappointing in terms of car count.
We had 7 members turn up to race and as usual put on a first class show with some very tight and entertaining racing.
Heat 1 saw Gavin off pole and yours truly on the outside, Gavin got away to a good start and led through out, I followed him home in second with Todd third.
Todd had a spin during the heat and was collected by new member David Claydon who has moved down from the North and looks like he is going to be at the pointy end.
Heat 2 was Chris Ackland off pole and yours truly again on outside pole, Chris got away to a quick start and I was chasing hard, Chris spun in the first few laps and I led the restart away, I was out to a comfy lead and greeted the white flag looking like a winner only to spin coming off turn 2, I managed to keep it going and finished 3rd to Todd and Gavin.
Heat 3 saw Chris Ackland take a comfortable win ahead of yours truly with Gavin 3rd.
Going into the feature the positions were,
Annette Crabbe off pole/Chris Ackland outside pole/Steve Crabbe inside row 2/Todd Davis outside row 2/Gavin Davis inside row 3 and Mark Miller outside row 3.
Chris Ackland stayed untroubled out front with Todd and yours truly chasing hard to find a way past, Annette had engine dramas and pulled out after the first few laps of the feature.
Highlights;
Mark Miller has come out to play although with a big engine while he waits for a Limited motor.
Darren Higgins finished a race in his car but still has a few teething issues.
Chris "Mr Smooth" Ackland again was hard to stay up with.
Annette continues to get on the pace although the lowlight was her engine drama in the feature, which sees a lot of midnight oil being put into the Crabbe workshop lamps for us to burn changing motors.
Todd and Gavin are still right up there poking their noses underneath anyone who even slightly gets off the gas.
And last but not least is me, who has found some speed and is looking forward to keeping on moving up and being able to harness some of the power the 14 deg engines make.
Ahh Fast Friday bring it on. Fast Friday is not a club meet on the 12th November but there are a few of us going for the run, about 6 to 8 cars have said they are going.
Catch you
Crabby
Bunbury was another good meeting for the club but was a little disappointing in terms of car count.
We had 7 members turn up to race and as usual put on a first class show with some very tight and entertaining racing.
Heat 1 saw Gavin off pole and yours truly on the outside, Gavin got away to a good start and led through out, I followed him home in second with Todd third.
Todd had a spin during the heat and was collected by new member David Claydon who has moved down from the North and looks like he is going to be at the pointy end.
Heat 2 was Chris Ackland off pole and yours truly again on outside pole, Chris got away to a quick start and I was chasing hard, Chris spun in the first few laps and I led the restart away, I was out to a comfy lead and greeted the white flag looking like a winner only to spin coming off turn 2, I managed to keep it going and finished 3rd to Todd and Gavin.
Heat 3 saw Chris Ackland take a comfortable win ahead of yours truly with Gavin 3rd.
Going into the feature the positions were,
Annette Crabbe off pole/Chris Ackland outside pole/Steve Crabbe inside row 2/Todd Davis outside row 2/Gavin Davis inside row 3 and Mark Miller outside row 3.
Chris Ackland stayed untroubled out front with Todd and yours truly chasing hard to find a way past, Annette had engine dramas and pulled out after the first few laps of the feature.
Highlights;
Mark Miller has come out to play although with a big engine while he waits for a Limited motor.
Darren Higgins finished a race in his car but still has a few teething issues.
Chris "Mr Smooth" Ackland again was hard to stay up with.
Annette continues to get on the pace although the lowlight was her engine drama in the feature, which sees a lot of midnight oil being put into the Crabbe workshop lamps for us to burn changing motors.
Todd and Gavin are still right up there poking their noses underneath anyone who even slightly gets off the gas.
And last but not least is me, who has found some speed and is looking forward to keeping on moving up and being able to harness some of the power the 14 deg engines make.
Ahh Fast Friday bring it on. Fast Friday is not a club meet on the 12th November but there are a few of us going for the run, about 6 to 8 cars have said they are going.
Catch you
Crabby
Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday night and can you believe it "we are ready"
Good evening all,
Well if everyone shows up at Bunbury who have nominated we will have another 14 cars ready to rumble.
Team SJCrushing are packed and ready to go, only have to mow the lawn in the morning and then we are off.
I must correct a small error from my Narrogin blog, BT did not come off the infield on the corner, the whole incident is on YouTube and clearly shows we came together in the first half of the straight, so I withdraw my comments.
Hope we see a lot of spectators at Bunbury, we have been putting on a show at all our meetings this year and it is well worth the trip to come and watch.
So good luck to all this week, wherever you are racing, bring it on.
Crabby
Well if everyone shows up at Bunbury who have nominated we will have another 14 cars ready to rumble.
Team SJCrushing are packed and ready to go, only have to mow the lawn in the morning and then we are off.
I must correct a small error from my Narrogin blog, BT did not come off the infield on the corner, the whole incident is on YouTube and clearly shows we came together in the first half of the straight, so I withdraw my comments.
Hope we see a lot of spectators at Bunbury, we have been putting on a show at all our meetings this year and it is well worth the trip to come and watch.
So good luck to all this week, wherever you are racing, bring it on.
Crabby
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Octobers blog results.
Hi all
Do you know each time you come to this site you activate a counter, it checks if you have been here before and also a total number of visits.
It is mind blowing each month how many people visit.
In October we had 995 visits from 368 different people.
This is an average of 32 people per day reading or checking for updates.
The point of the above is not to gloat, it is to point out what a valuable tool it can be, why not send in some info on what you and your crew are up too, perhaps mention your sponsors, even what you plan to do and meetings you will run this year, if you are a club member and just run at the country tracks why not send in your results or any funny happenings, it would be good to keep people informed of your progress.
Some food for thought.
Crabby
Do you know each time you come to this site you activate a counter, it checks if you have been here before and also a total number of visits.
It is mind blowing each month how many people visit.
In October we had 995 visits from 368 different people.
This is an average of 32 people per day reading or checking for updates.
The point of the above is not to gloat, it is to point out what a valuable tool it can be, why not send in some info on what you and your crew are up too, perhaps mention your sponsors, even what you plan to do and meetings you will run this year, if you are a club member and just run at the country tracks why not send in your results or any funny happenings, it would be good to keep people informed of your progress.
Some food for thought.
Crabby
No the Crabbe motor is not for sale.
Hi all,
I have had a couple of calls today about Pshyco being for sale, the answer is no it is not, but yes it is pictured on Racing Junk and yes it is a picture of my car.
Jimmy Naylor is just using the pictures for advertising.
On the carby front, a few 360 guys and some limited people have asked about those, currently the best deal seems to be a Quick Fuel Industries carb from Chevpower, but check around to get the best deal, but I am sure Chev power will do a great deal for you, manifolds is another area, there are some very trick manifolds on the market at some low prices, check out JEGS web site then get one of the local boys, and again I recommend Chev Power to order one of the good ones from the US for you, it is cheaper to get parts direct but freight costs a lot if you just order small stuff and the economy is not there, but get in now as about dollar for dollar makes good buying.
Crabby
I have had a couple of calls today about Pshyco being for sale, the answer is no it is not, but yes it is pictured on Racing Junk and yes it is a picture of my car.
Jimmy Naylor is just using the pictures for advertising.
On the carby front, a few 360 guys and some limited people have asked about those, currently the best deal seems to be a Quick Fuel Industries carb from Chevpower, but check around to get the best deal, but I am sure Chev power will do a great deal for you, manifolds is another area, there are some very trick manifolds on the market at some low prices, check out JEGS web site then get one of the local boys, and again I recommend Chev Power to order one of the good ones from the US for you, it is cheaper to get parts direct but freight costs a lot if you just order small stuff and the economy is not there, but get in now as about dollar for dollar makes good buying.
Crabby
Monday, November 1, 2010
Female racers.
Good evening all,
I was reading the latest SRN today and saw an article on Brisbane Speedway bringing a female racer into the country to race there.
It got me thinking about Annette racing and then Sarah Zeminuk and then Stacey Chisolm and then Caroline Armstrong and then "What is going on here"? We must have the most female racers in any single club/division in Australia, and all are capable of being fast, me thinks it's time to retire before I am outnumbered.
Seriously though what a great advert for our club, bring on more girls.
Crabby
I was reading the latest SRN today and saw an article on Brisbane Speedway bringing a female racer into the country to race there.
It got me thinking about Annette racing and then Sarah Zeminuk and then Stacey Chisolm and then Caroline Armstrong and then "What is going on here"? We must have the most female racers in any single club/division in Australia, and all are capable of being fast, me thinks it's time to retire before I am outnumbered.
Seriously though what a great advert for our club, bring on more girls.
Crabby
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Another Great Weekends Racing.
Hi all,
Team SJ Crushing had a great time in Narrogin.
Glen was working so could not bring the 45 car out to play, but Annette and I were able to make the trip in our Rolls Canardly truck and trailer combination, and given we have to go over the scarp/darling range there was plenty of the canardly, for those unfamiliar with this term, it means "rolls down one hill, can hardly get up the other", it was a slow trip up and back.
Annette continues to get faster, she has the car moving down the straights and is slowly getting the pace up into the turns, it was getting harder and harder to get by each race.
Annette had a 5th in the first heat a sixth in the second heat a sixth in the third heat and finished up rof in the feature, meaning she is near the top of the club points, we will soon have that changed.
My night was a bit better than last time out, I ran a second, a spin and come from the back fourth, then another second with a third place in the feature, we were running the leaders down in the feature but getting past them would have been an issue, I was a little out on the turn 1 entry and could not get it right.
In the feature I was introduced to the "bike track basher" who will from now on be known as BT. He crumpled my top wing with a radical inside maneuver that was never going to stick.
Well enough about me, now for the rest of the nights action.
Heat one was a fast affair with most of the fast locals up against BT.
BT was quicker on this occasion to record a solid win over Tony Bilman and Glen Carstairs.
Heat 2 was a stop start affair, soon into the racing Ian Dhu took a Kwinana outside line to be sucked into the wall, on the restart Stacey Chisolm tried to perfect the Dhu move and also got sucked into the wall.
Heat 2 was won by Chris Ackland with yours truly second and Mike Armstrong in third.
Heat 3 saw the locals take out first and second, Bilman from Carstairs with Shane (casual) Webster taking out third, Shane is still dialing in his loaner engines fuel system, but is getting quicker rapidly.
Heat four was more of the same with Chris Ackland winning over Dhuy who had replaced all the damaged bits and was keen to be in the mix, with Mike Armstrong taking third.
Heat 5 saw the Carstairs boy arrive at the pointy end for the first time this meeting with the old fella Bilman taking second over casual Webster in third.
Heat 6 and the Ackland team again stormed to the front to win ahead of me with Dhuy taking out third.
So to the feature we went, the top 6 were inverted for the start, which I loved because those local yokels were all behind me.
Starting positions were, Armstrong, Casual Webster, Rolls canardly Crabbe, Carstairs, old fella Bilman and Ackland, not sure about the rest of the line up though, sorry about that.
At the drop of the green flag Armstrong shot away with Casual on the outside with me behind, we worked hard to get by casual and just after that the smooth Ackland rounded me up and set after Armstrong, Mike Armstrong was holding a nice line but got a bit wide coming off turn two so I went by, at this stage one of the locals was starting to work me over putting his car inside and outside but we held him at bay, coming off turn four I noticed BT coming off the infield trying to get past and we had a slight moment of contact, as I drove hard away from BT I noticed a low purple satellite orbiting just above my car, the orange and red lights flicked on together then the oranges stayed on and the satellite landed and was shown the big round rump that always says "Go to the rear" lucky really as all that orbiting must have made him dizzy.
Well this all got sorted and unlucky for local yokel Carstairs as he was put back behind me and he had to work me over again, which he did successfully a couple of laps later and he held on for a solid second with Mr 100% Smooth Ackland taking the win, I finished third but was really getting the car hooked up and just starting to come on.
There were many highlights of the night but before we talk about those I would like to thank Narrogin Speedway Club on behalf of all the limited drivers, the track could have been prepared differently to suit us but it was not our night, we were there to support other divisions and we had a ball, it was a balls out night with lots of good clean racing and all passes were hard earned, even passing the back markers like "Cannon fodder Crabbe" was hard.
So to the highlights;
Hard to go past Mr Smooth here, no matter where he started from he got to the front, well done Chris.
Glen Carstairs and Tony Bilman also went really well and will be hard to beat at home, we would like to see you guys on the road this year, it was good to see Glen back after last years set backs.
Casual is slowly getting that motor sorted and put in his second best career drive, he was fast but needs that smoothness thing.
Michael Armstrong again was quick and is always at the front.
Bam Bam Maskel is starting to pick up some traffic craft and once this comes he will improve quickly.
Ian "outside line" Dhu put in some good races after repairing his car.
BT knows the shortest path is the quickest, but not for satellites as they crash into earth if shortcuts are taken.
Crabbe senior found some right rear bite and loved it, still cannot get this fuel thing right though.
The Chisolm's had a bit of an ordinary night but will get quicker this year.
And as we said already Annette is improving at a very fast rate.
Bring on Bunbury.
Crabby
Team SJ Crushing had a great time in Narrogin.
Glen was working so could not bring the 45 car out to play, but Annette and I were able to make the trip in our Rolls Canardly truck and trailer combination, and given we have to go over the scarp/darling range there was plenty of the canardly, for those unfamiliar with this term, it means "rolls down one hill, can hardly get up the other", it was a slow trip up and back.
Annette continues to get faster, she has the car moving down the straights and is slowly getting the pace up into the turns, it was getting harder and harder to get by each race.
Annette had a 5th in the first heat a sixth in the second heat a sixth in the third heat and finished up rof in the feature, meaning she is near the top of the club points, we will soon have that changed.
My night was a bit better than last time out, I ran a second, a spin and come from the back fourth, then another second with a third place in the feature, we were running the leaders down in the feature but getting past them would have been an issue, I was a little out on the turn 1 entry and could not get it right.
In the feature I was introduced to the "bike track basher" who will from now on be known as BT. He crumpled my top wing with a radical inside maneuver that was never going to stick.
Well enough about me, now for the rest of the nights action.
Heat one was a fast affair with most of the fast locals up against BT.
BT was quicker on this occasion to record a solid win over Tony Bilman and Glen Carstairs.
Heat 2 was a stop start affair, soon into the racing Ian Dhu took a Kwinana outside line to be sucked into the wall, on the restart Stacey Chisolm tried to perfect the Dhu move and also got sucked into the wall.
Heat 2 was won by Chris Ackland with yours truly second and Mike Armstrong in third.
Heat 3 saw the locals take out first and second, Bilman from Carstairs with Shane (casual) Webster taking out third, Shane is still dialing in his loaner engines fuel system, but is getting quicker rapidly.
Heat four was more of the same with Chris Ackland winning over Dhuy who had replaced all the damaged bits and was keen to be in the mix, with Mike Armstrong taking third.
Heat 5 saw the Carstairs boy arrive at the pointy end for the first time this meeting with the old fella Bilman taking second over casual Webster in third.
Heat 6 and the Ackland team again stormed to the front to win ahead of me with Dhuy taking out third.
So to the feature we went, the top 6 were inverted for the start, which I loved because those local yokels were all behind me.
Starting positions were, Armstrong, Casual Webster, Rolls canardly Crabbe, Carstairs, old fella Bilman and Ackland, not sure about the rest of the line up though, sorry about that.
At the drop of the green flag Armstrong shot away with Casual on the outside with me behind, we worked hard to get by casual and just after that the smooth Ackland rounded me up and set after Armstrong, Mike Armstrong was holding a nice line but got a bit wide coming off turn two so I went by, at this stage one of the locals was starting to work me over putting his car inside and outside but we held him at bay, coming off turn four I noticed BT coming off the infield trying to get past and we had a slight moment of contact, as I drove hard away from BT I noticed a low purple satellite orbiting just above my car, the orange and red lights flicked on together then the oranges stayed on and the satellite landed and was shown the big round rump that always says "Go to the rear" lucky really as all that orbiting must have made him dizzy.
Well this all got sorted and unlucky for local yokel Carstairs as he was put back behind me and he had to work me over again, which he did successfully a couple of laps later and he held on for a solid second with Mr 100% Smooth Ackland taking the win, I finished third but was really getting the car hooked up and just starting to come on.
There were many highlights of the night but before we talk about those I would like to thank Narrogin Speedway Club on behalf of all the limited drivers, the track could have been prepared differently to suit us but it was not our night, we were there to support other divisions and we had a ball, it was a balls out night with lots of good clean racing and all passes were hard earned, even passing the back markers like "Cannon fodder Crabbe" was hard.
So to the highlights;
Hard to go past Mr Smooth here, no matter where he started from he got to the front, well done Chris.
Glen Carstairs and Tony Bilman also went really well and will be hard to beat at home, we would like to see you guys on the road this year, it was good to see Glen back after last years set backs.
Casual is slowly getting that motor sorted and put in his second best career drive, he was fast but needs that smoothness thing.
Michael Armstrong again was quick and is always at the front.
Bam Bam Maskel is starting to pick up some traffic craft and once this comes he will improve quickly.
Ian "outside line" Dhu put in some good races after repairing his car.
BT knows the shortest path is the quickest, but not for satellites as they crash into earth if shortcuts are taken.
Crabbe senior found some right rear bite and loved it, still cannot get this fuel thing right though.
The Chisolm's had a bit of an ordinary night but will get quicker this year.
And as we said already Annette is improving at a very fast rate.
Bring on Bunbury.
Crabby
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Narrogin here we come.
Good evening all,
Well it's that time again and cars are being prepped for the trip to Narrogin.
This meeting last year I took out the Limited Feature Race at Narrogin, this year it looks a lot harder.
There are the local hotshots, Carstairs and Billman plus some I do not know, sorry, then there are the traveling hotshots, Gavin, Dhuy, Yours truly and Annette if you ask her.
I am sure there will be more than I have mentioned so come on out to Narrogin and watch some great racing.
We had 15 cars nominated but I believe we may lose a couple due to the usual speedway politics, wish this sort of thing was gone from our sport but it never seems to go away, enough about that though.
We have Annette's car all prepped and shiny ready to put on the truck, my car still needs a bit more work, we fired it up last night and fuel leaked from every new hose we had put on it, made for an interesting ride whilst trying to do up hoses by hand as I drove the car running back into the workshop, I had methanol in the eyes and a cab full of it, but we soon had the hoses done up properly this time and set about setting fuel pressures, by the end it was a crisp and angry sounding engine, amazing really.
Our gear that was ordered for the Kris Coyle Speedweek trip has left the USA this week and in the container we have almost 250 rear tires, when they arrive we will sell a few cheap to members of the 320 and limited club.
We still have the 358 for sale that is in the car in the container, the car is sold to a Northwester who shall remain nameless, but if the car is half as good as we believe it will be a weapon up there.
There is also a short motor in the container that is for sale, anyone interested should drop me an email and I can organize the details of the short motor to be sent to you, also the 358 details if you are interested, the 358 does not come with the injection though as we want to keep that for a special project we have in our shop.
Hope to see you all in Narrogin.
Crabby
Well it's that time again and cars are being prepped for the trip to Narrogin.
This meeting last year I took out the Limited Feature Race at Narrogin, this year it looks a lot harder.
There are the local hotshots, Carstairs and Billman plus some I do not know, sorry, then there are the traveling hotshots, Gavin, Dhuy, Yours truly and Annette if you ask her.
I am sure there will be more than I have mentioned so come on out to Narrogin and watch some great racing.
We had 15 cars nominated but I believe we may lose a couple due to the usual speedway politics, wish this sort of thing was gone from our sport but it never seems to go away, enough about that though.
We have Annette's car all prepped and shiny ready to put on the truck, my car still needs a bit more work, we fired it up last night and fuel leaked from every new hose we had put on it, made for an interesting ride whilst trying to do up hoses by hand as I drove the car running back into the workshop, I had methanol in the eyes and a cab full of it, but we soon had the hoses done up properly this time and set about setting fuel pressures, by the end it was a crisp and angry sounding engine, amazing really.
Our gear that was ordered for the Kris Coyle Speedweek trip has left the USA this week and in the container we have almost 250 rear tires, when they arrive we will sell a few cheap to members of the 320 and limited club.
We still have the 358 for sale that is in the car in the container, the car is sold to a Northwester who shall remain nameless, but if the car is half as good as we believe it will be a weapon up there.
There is also a short motor in the container that is for sale, anyone interested should drop me an email and I can organize the details of the short motor to be sent to you, also the 358 details if you are interested, the 358 does not come with the injection though as we want to keep that for a special project we have in our shop.
Hope to see you all in Narrogin.
Crabby
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Limited Sprintcars, being supported by the commercial community.
Hi all
Just want to say thanks to the Bunbury branch of Blackwoods.
They have donated 2 tool boxes complete with tools for prizes this season.
A chest with tools for the Club Champion, Dhuy wants this along with me, Gavin, and most of the club.
Also a wall mounted tool chest for the winner of the Krikke Boys night.
There is more of the same but it is still unofficial at this stage.
Great to see our club being supported.
Look out for the newsletter that will be out this week, it would be one of the best club newsletters in the country, thanks to Shane Webster at 88deg for the great work.
Catch you
Crabby
Just want to say thanks to the Bunbury branch of Blackwoods.
They have donated 2 tool boxes complete with tools for prizes this season.
A chest with tools for the Club Champion, Dhuy wants this along with me, Gavin, and most of the club.
Also a wall mounted tool chest for the winner of the Krikke Boys night.
There is more of the same but it is still unofficial at this stage.
Great to see our club being supported.
Look out for the newsletter that will be out this week, it would be one of the best club newsletters in the country, thanks to Shane Webster at 88deg for the great work.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Shed stuff.
Hi all,
Well today was shed day and with 3 cars in the wash que it was going to be a long day.
I turned up at 8:30am and Glen was already there, pressure washer in hand and going for it, amazing how some form can make you keen.
Glen is on the pace and with some help in the set up department he will be hard to beat.
Todd and Gavin Davis also appear to be fired up for a big season, Todd has already been on the fence literally this season.
Dhuy looks quicker and I think there will be any one of 10 or so of us pushing hard for the wins this year.
My blog Saturday morning said Dhuy was in Wattos car, they tell me it was Dhuy's car, and his picture in sprintcar world certainly shows him in a xxx.
Well in the shed today we got onto our favorite subject for discussion, Fuel Systems.
Despite numerous fit outs and changes we cannot stop my engine flooding at anything under full revs, so we got to the chat, 3 cars, each with a different way to get the fuel delivery right.
So we analyzed each system discussing fuel pumps, fuel line sizes, high speed pressure regulators, low speed pill canisters etc.
Then like a bolt from the blue it struck us, the pressure regulator on my engine is on the far end of the fuel log, this meant the carby feed pipes are on the high pressure side, then the fuel pressure is dropped and on the return to the tank is also the pressure gauge, the set up is as per the Barry Grant book but it is all that's different to the other cars, so after washing and removing all the power steering fluid it was off with the fuel system and we modified it the same as Annette's.
The next interesting topic for discussion was my chassis, Gavin and Glen reckon it is a Murphy, David Graham told me it was a J&J, we looked at all the bits and pipework and they almost had me convinced, however Jarrad says he saw the car come from Luche and it was purple when it got to the Graham teams workshop, so a J&J it is.
Well we have 2 cars ready to go but most of our team are away working for the next few meetings, Annette says she is going to Narrogin, Janette gets to drive the truck, this should be interesting to watch.
For me it is bullet dodging in Nigeria for a week.
So for all who want to race get up to Narrogin and support the club.
See you all at Bunbury on the 6th November.
Crabby
Well today was shed day and with 3 cars in the wash que it was going to be a long day.
I turned up at 8:30am and Glen was already there, pressure washer in hand and going for it, amazing how some form can make you keen.
Glen is on the pace and with some help in the set up department he will be hard to beat.
Todd and Gavin Davis also appear to be fired up for a big season, Todd has already been on the fence literally this season.
Dhuy looks quicker and I think there will be any one of 10 or so of us pushing hard for the wins this year.
My blog Saturday morning said Dhuy was in Wattos car, they tell me it was Dhuy's car, and his picture in sprintcar world certainly shows him in a xxx.
Well in the shed today we got onto our favorite subject for discussion, Fuel Systems.
Despite numerous fit outs and changes we cannot stop my engine flooding at anything under full revs, so we got to the chat, 3 cars, each with a different way to get the fuel delivery right.
So we analyzed each system discussing fuel pumps, fuel line sizes, high speed pressure regulators, low speed pill canisters etc.
Then like a bolt from the blue it struck us, the pressure regulator on my engine is on the far end of the fuel log, this meant the carby feed pipes are on the high pressure side, then the fuel pressure is dropped and on the return to the tank is also the pressure gauge, the set up is as per the Barry Grant book but it is all that's different to the other cars, so after washing and removing all the power steering fluid it was off with the fuel system and we modified it the same as Annette's.
The next interesting topic for discussion was my chassis, Gavin and Glen reckon it is a Murphy, David Graham told me it was a J&J, we looked at all the bits and pipework and they almost had me convinced, however Jarrad says he saw the car come from Luche and it was purple when it got to the Graham teams workshop, so a J&J it is.
Well we have 2 cars ready to go but most of our team are away working for the next few meetings, Annette says she is going to Narrogin, Janette gets to drive the truck, this should be interesting to watch.
For me it is bullet dodging in Nigeria for a week.
So for all who want to race get up to Narrogin and support the club.
See you all at Bunbury on the 6th November.
Crabby
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Fast Friday Wrap Up.
Hi all,
Well another season has opened up with our opening night at Kwinana last night.
Some of the cars had new paint schemes in the off season, of note were,
Michael Armstrong's car, black and signed beautifully.
Rob Watsons 10 driven by Ian Dhu, polished like a show car.
Gavin Davis new white and purple scheme looked fabulous.
Shane Maskel also in black with near flouro green sign writing.
We had eleven cars turn up and one was a 320, thanks to Troy Craig for making the effort.
Heat one was a torrid affair, Glen Oliver took it out with Todd Davis second and yours truly third.
Heat two saw Sarah Zemunic off pole shoot away with myself in hot pursuit, after closing up on Sarah going into the back straight and getting ready to work out how to get past my cab filled with lovely blue oil and that was it for me.
Todd Davis won from Gavin Davis.
The feature was on a very slick track with many near spins and some interesting maneuvers.
Todd Davis won, Dhuy second.
Overall nights results were,
Todd Davis first
Ian Dhu second
Annette Crabbe third
Dhuy has been to the Gavin Davis school of overtaking.
Glen needs some slick track tips.
Michael Armstrong needs some throttle control tips and ditto for new driver Shane Maskel.
There were 4 new drivers to our club out there last night and all raced well and held very good lines.
Sarah Z is no stranger to sprint cars, but the other 3 are all new and look to have the speed.
Annette has a head bigger than her car getting a third place trophy on her first night out.
Thanks for coming to all, another great night was had and good luck at Narogin on the 30th October, I will be dodging bullets in Nigeria.
Got to go cleaning cars,
Catch you
Crabby
Well another season has opened up with our opening night at Kwinana last night.
Some of the cars had new paint schemes in the off season, of note were,
Michael Armstrong's car, black and signed beautifully.
Rob Watsons 10 driven by Ian Dhu, polished like a show car.
Gavin Davis new white and purple scheme looked fabulous.
Shane Maskel also in black with near flouro green sign writing.
We had eleven cars turn up and one was a 320, thanks to Troy Craig for making the effort.
Heat one was a torrid affair, Glen Oliver took it out with Todd Davis second and yours truly third.
Heat two saw Sarah Zemunic off pole shoot away with myself in hot pursuit, after closing up on Sarah going into the back straight and getting ready to work out how to get past my cab filled with lovely blue oil and that was it for me.
Todd Davis won from Gavin Davis.
The feature was on a very slick track with many near spins and some interesting maneuvers.
Todd Davis won, Dhuy second.
Overall nights results were,
Todd Davis first
Ian Dhu second
Annette Crabbe third
Dhuy has been to the Gavin Davis school of overtaking.
Glen needs some slick track tips.
Michael Armstrong needs some throttle control tips and ditto for new driver Shane Maskel.
There were 4 new drivers to our club out there last night and all raced well and held very good lines.
Sarah Z is no stranger to sprint cars, but the other 3 are all new and look to have the speed.
Annette has a head bigger than her car getting a third place trophy on her first night out.
Thanks for coming to all, another great night was had and good luck at Narogin on the 30th October, I will be dodging bullets in Nigeria.
Got to go cleaning cars,
Catch you
Crabby
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Well they have awoken again.
Hi all
Guess I got the speedway net boys going again.
First to Mr Blockhead- your old motor has not been slagged, the reference to unleaded motor refers to the fact it's new owners crew filled the tail tank with unleaded fuel one night, horsepower 460 on the dyno, talk to Chev power, new owner never held it flat for a full lap, so my sensitive friend I will bring some concrete pills to Geraldton for you next time we are in town.
As to your mate, my motor was never passed by any of your members, none were at any of the meetings I ran it at, and as said before, skill will always win.
Finally to you knitters "harden up" most race with you because of 3 or 4 members in our club scare them, so what, these guys race wheel to wheel and have never bothered me with their tactics, one of them had a component failure last year causing a crash, other than that they never crashed into anyone, not to dangerous really is it.
Tim, Anthony, Gibbo and possibly Darren could hop in any of your cars and still be at the front, so what does that mean, it is mostly about skill.
By the way "Limiteds race for sheep stations" comes from your executive when we talk about the madness that is 1 strong club versus another not doing as well but close in speed and specs.
Like it or not common specs have to come, that is where the future lies.
We can fight it, we can slag each other, but reality, 15 or so years ago Limiteds changed to sprintcar quick changes, you guys did it 2 to 3 years ago, many years ago Limiteds went to 350 cubic inch, then the 320 club was born, it was from members who did not want to change or were unhappy with the club, now you are going to 350's, are you seeing a pattern here? Possibly we can go back, you can come forward, 1 club, 60 or so registered drivers, starting to sound like 358's in the USA now, they have hundreds of cars.
Well had my say and that's it.
Crabby
Guess I got the speedway net boys going again.
First to Mr Blockhead- your old motor has not been slagged, the reference to unleaded motor refers to the fact it's new owners crew filled the tail tank with unleaded fuel one night, horsepower 460 on the dyno, talk to Chev power, new owner never held it flat for a full lap, so my sensitive friend I will bring some concrete pills to Geraldton for you next time we are in town.
As to your mate, my motor was never passed by any of your members, none were at any of the meetings I ran it at, and as said before, skill will always win.
Finally to you knitters "harden up" most race with you because of 3 or 4 members in our club scare them, so what, these guys race wheel to wheel and have never bothered me with their tactics, one of them had a component failure last year causing a crash, other than that they never crashed into anyone, not to dangerous really is it.
Tim, Anthony, Gibbo and possibly Darren could hop in any of your cars and still be at the front, so what does that mean, it is mostly about skill.
By the way "Limiteds race for sheep stations" comes from your executive when we talk about the madness that is 1 strong club versus another not doing as well but close in speed and specs.
Like it or not common specs have to come, that is where the future lies.
We can fight it, we can slag each other, but reality, 15 or so years ago Limiteds changed to sprintcar quick changes, you guys did it 2 to 3 years ago, many years ago Limiteds went to 350 cubic inch, then the 320 club was born, it was from members who did not want to change or were unhappy with the club, now you are going to 350's, are you seeing a pattern here? Possibly we can go back, you can come forward, 1 club, 60 or so registered drivers, starting to sound like 358's in the USA now, they have hundreds of cars.
Well had my say and that's it.
Crabby
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Racing for Sheep Stations.
Hi all,
Who are the people in our club who are racing for sheep stations?
I have heard this many times since joining the club, now it is in a national speedway magazine.
How dare you race so hard, we need to start looking at some of the new buzz words that the education department use, an example is "deferred success", we could use it in our division this way "I did not lose the state title, I have just deferred winning it".
So there is now a class of sprintcars that you can join and defer your success as long as you like.
Thought I might look up the definition of Racing, it appears to mean "A contest of speed" except where you can go and race and have a contest that means you do not have to speed? In fact I guess we cannot call it a contest either, as a contest has a winner, maybe we can have "synchronised sprintcar racing" we could all just stay in order and roll around, we could do it on bitumen and then we would not have to wash our cars either. What is going on out there I ask.
It appears to me to be an easy thing to define:
To race is to try to win, the prize really does not matter, to race for sheep stations or to race to win for no prize at all, if you race you want to win.
Some of us, and I include myself in this, try to win but do not very often, we care but it is not the end of the world, that is racing for fun as well.
So I think the author of the story really meant " We do not race for sheep stations, and by this I mean there are not very many accidents in our division" and I can see how he has come to this conclusion, I reckon it is because there are so few cars in the division that it is hard for any to tangle up.
Come on guys, We don't race for sheep stations? Take up crocheting and knitting will you.
See you at Kwinana on Friday if you can put the knitting down long enough.
Crabby
Who are the people in our club who are racing for sheep stations?
I have heard this many times since joining the club, now it is in a national speedway magazine.
How dare you race so hard, we need to start looking at some of the new buzz words that the education department use, an example is "deferred success", we could use it in our division this way "I did not lose the state title, I have just deferred winning it".
So there is now a class of sprintcars that you can join and defer your success as long as you like.
Thought I might look up the definition of Racing, it appears to mean "A contest of speed" except where you can go and race and have a contest that means you do not have to speed? In fact I guess we cannot call it a contest either, as a contest has a winner, maybe we can have "synchronised sprintcar racing" we could all just stay in order and roll around, we could do it on bitumen and then we would not have to wash our cars either. What is going on out there I ask.
It appears to me to be an easy thing to define:
To race is to try to win, the prize really does not matter, to race for sheep stations or to race to win for no prize at all, if you race you want to win.
Some of us, and I include myself in this, try to win but do not very often, we care but it is not the end of the world, that is racing for fun as well.
So I think the author of the story really meant " We do not race for sheep stations, and by this I mean there are not very many accidents in our division" and I can see how he has come to this conclusion, I reckon it is because there are so few cars in the division that it is hard for any to tangle up.
Come on guys, We don't race for sheep stations? Take up crocheting and knitting will you.
See you at Kwinana on Friday if you can put the knitting down long enough.
Crabby
Friday, October 8, 2010
1 Week to go, the blood is pumping.
Well another stressful week has come to an end, the weekend is upon us and to the shed we go.
The trusty 45 has had it's usual neglect during the off season and is ready to go, it will appear at Practice this Wednesday for a final hit out before Friday is upon us.
12 needs some work on fuel pressure and idle speed, it needs it's new seat fitted and some final sign writing, then it too is ready.
77 well it is still sitting there looking very neglected, no seat, no panels, no fuel lines, valves still to be adjusted, timing still to be done, what a fiasco, just too much to do and no enthusiasm for the task.
Car 88w is also in our shed, it to looks sad and neglected, no throttle linkages, no radiator, no rocker cover breathers, what is going in this shed?
Hard to believe anything will be ready by Friday, but hey tomorrows another day, we are in the shed from after lunch Saturday and most likely will not surface until late Sunday, cars ready and looking forward to a big season.
Only one person has contacted me to ask about the eye and reflex testing, it was a joke, just wanting to see if anyone could work out who it was, I won't be telling anyone but the info is available on Facebook.
Catch you
Crabby
The trusty 45 has had it's usual neglect during the off season and is ready to go, it will appear at Practice this Wednesday for a final hit out before Friday is upon us.
12 needs some work on fuel pressure and idle speed, it needs it's new seat fitted and some final sign writing, then it too is ready.
77 well it is still sitting there looking very neglected, no seat, no panels, no fuel lines, valves still to be adjusted, timing still to be done, what a fiasco, just too much to do and no enthusiasm for the task.
Car 88w is also in our shed, it to looks sad and neglected, no throttle linkages, no radiator, no rocker cover breathers, what is going in this shed?
Hard to believe anything will be ready by Friday, but hey tomorrows another day, we are in the shed from after lunch Saturday and most likely will not surface until late Sunday, cars ready and looking forward to a big season.
Only one person has contacted me to ask about the eye and reflex testing, it was a joke, just wanting to see if anyone could work out who it was, I won't be telling anyone but the info is available on Facebook.
Catch you
Crabby
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Driver eye and reflex testing mandatory.
Hi all,
We will be conducting eye and reflex testing at Kwinana on the first fast friday.
It appears when the tests are being conducted by doctors there are some people getting through who really shouldn't.
Martin will be holding the eye charts and I will get to hit everyone with the 4lb reflex hammer.
We apologise in advance if this causes any stress to our drivers but when we cannot see race cars in our way it is one thing, but when we cannot see slow moving people on gophers then we are in serious trouble.
What are we to do with some of you.
Crabby
We will be conducting eye and reflex testing at Kwinana on the first fast friday.
It appears when the tests are being conducted by doctors there are some people getting through who really shouldn't.
Martin will be holding the eye charts and I will get to hit everyone with the 4lb reflex hammer.
We apologise in advance if this causes any stress to our drivers but when we cannot see race cars in our way it is one thing, but when we cannot see slow moving people on gophers then we are in serious trouble.
What are we to do with some of you.
Crabby
Monday, October 4, 2010
News from the North- Geraldton first meeting.
Hi Crabby,
We had the first run for the season up here in Geraldton on the weekend.
Five cars turned up these included Andrew Pedlar in his new car, Cale Sotiroff in the Reg Wells Ltd car Robbie Stephens in the Pete Smith Maxim car, a new driver to the limited's in Anthony Gaudio in a ex Pete Smith car and Mick in the trusty old XXX.
The track was fast and very smooth and with the first time running with the transponders we where able to get accurate lap times.
With hot laps came Andrews problems with his car busting the water pump drive belt for no apparent reason, Mick lent him another one only to have that bust in the first heat and his night was done.
The first heat had Mick out of pole, Robbie from 2 Cale from 3 and Anthony of the back, Robbie took the lead and all Mick could do was watch him drive away as he was to tight to be able to mount any sort of challenge. Robbie 1st Mick 2nd Cale 3rd Anthony 4th.
The second heat had Cale on pole Robbie out of 2 Mick out of 3 Anthony of the back again as he did all night. Anthony spun on about lap 6 also bringing Robbie to a halt after getting a handy break over Mick. On the restart after much tussling over position on the restart Robbie was put back to 3rd and the race recommenced with the results being Mick 1st Cale 2nd Robbie 3rd Anthony 4th.
The third heat came only to see more excitement with Robbie taking the lead again Mick in Second for all of a couple of laps until the right front wheel, stub and part of the axel parted company from the rest of the car coming into turn 1 and Mick took the first tumble of the season. the results are Robbie 1st Cale 2nd Anthony 3rd
The feature had Robbie from pole Cale from 2 Anthony of the back and finished the same way.
The track was fast and smooth all night and a credit to Pete Smith, Jacko and the crew.
The laps scorers are having a few teething problems with running the lap timing system but it is proving to be a good investment with accurate times instead if the old cuckoo clock we had before, and will be sorted out properly for the next meeting. The sprintcars were getting down to low 13 second laps.
Anthony and Cale the two newest drivers to sprintcars in Geraldton are getting faster every time they hit the track. Cale a very successful junior driver and Reg Wells grandson and Anthony a first time driver who got hooked after driving one of Pete Smiths cars at a sponsors day up here, both will be drivers at the pointy end and cars to keep an eye on.
Thanks to Kim Doble for the update.
Now for Moora to give us some info on there first meeting.
Crabby.
We had the first run for the season up here in Geraldton on the weekend.
Five cars turned up these included Andrew Pedlar in his new car, Cale Sotiroff in the Reg Wells Ltd car Robbie Stephens in the Pete Smith Maxim car, a new driver to the limited's in Anthony Gaudio in a ex Pete Smith car and Mick in the trusty old XXX.
The track was fast and very smooth and with the first time running with the transponders we where able to get accurate lap times.
With hot laps came Andrews problems with his car busting the water pump drive belt for no apparent reason, Mick lent him another one only to have that bust in the first heat and his night was done.
The first heat had Mick out of pole, Robbie from 2 Cale from 3 and Anthony of the back, Robbie took the lead and all Mick could do was watch him drive away as he was to tight to be able to mount any sort of challenge. Robbie 1st Mick 2nd Cale 3rd Anthony 4th.
The second heat had Cale on pole Robbie out of 2 Mick out of 3 Anthony of the back again as he did all night. Anthony spun on about lap 6 also bringing Robbie to a halt after getting a handy break over Mick. On the restart after much tussling over position on the restart Robbie was put back to 3rd and the race recommenced with the results being Mick 1st Cale 2nd Robbie 3rd Anthony 4th.
The third heat came only to see more excitement with Robbie taking the lead again Mick in Second for all of a couple of laps until the right front wheel, stub and part of the axel parted company from the rest of the car coming into turn 1 and Mick took the first tumble of the season. the results are Robbie 1st Cale 2nd Anthony 3rd
The feature had Robbie from pole Cale from 2 Anthony of the back and finished the same way.
The track was fast and smooth all night and a credit to Pete Smith, Jacko and the crew.
The laps scorers are having a few teething problems with running the lap timing system but it is proving to be a good investment with accurate times instead if the old cuckoo clock we had before, and will be sorted out properly for the next meeting. The sprintcars were getting down to low 13 second laps.
Anthony and Cale the two newest drivers to sprintcars in Geraldton are getting faster every time they hit the track. Cale a very successful junior driver and Reg Wells grandson and Anthony a first time driver who got hooked after driving one of Pete Smiths cars at a sponsors day up here, both will be drivers at the pointy end and cars to keep an eye on.
Thanks to Kim Doble for the update.
Now for Moora to give us some info on there first meeting.
Crabby.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Bunbury Practice- a great success.
Hi to all,
Geez it's so good to have things to blog about again.
We were off in Bunbury last night for a practice meeting, the track was hooky and fast, a credit to the Bunbury Car Club, the track preparation was first rate. Thanks guys we had a blast.
So on to the happenings;
Team T Davis was there and had his race face on, I did not actually see him smile after a couple of runs, but I saw someone who knows some of last years woes are past and a look of steely determination that plainly said "bring it on, were ready".
Team Bam Bam were also there and true to their name Bam was what happened, first run a couple of laps in and it was BAM, a good whack to the front right to say "hello Shane, welcome to the club".
Team Crabbe Jr was also out and got her baptism of fire with a quick outside pass on her and then dropping in on her front just to let her know the practice is done- Race Face and Pace time now kid.
A couple of dry cleaners are in for a terrible Monday when Bam Bam's and Annette's suits turn in for dry cleaning, they will be smelling by then.
Team Crabbe Snr had a run in Annette and Gavin's cars as he was not keen on dirtying his own.
Now I must apologize to Kris Coyle here, he drove Annette's car in Tom Price to second, now I know why, I had it flat all the way around Bunbury for all the practice session, it was quick, there is nothing wrong with this motor, but a killer it ain't.
I hoped in the Team G Davis car and had a run as well, it is running the 358 motor Gavin brought out from the USA last year, this motor is not the best 358 in WA, Michael Armstrong has the best one apparently, but I can tell you all now, stop wasting your money on engines, these things go hard.
I will give you a couple of comparisons of engine's I have driven.
Rockas car with a Watson owned Speed Torque motor, big budget engine.
Bombak engine in Glens car, big budget engine.
Ex Shaun Bradford 360, now in Annette's car and much modified to up horsepower, big budget engine.
My 14 deg performance unlimited motor, ridiculously expensive engine.
My first car with Kendrick motor, budget motor though, and most fun to own.
And unfairly Phsyco.
Gavin's motor sits at number 2, it beats the bombak motor in Glen's car because it pulls off the turns as hard but still has more mid straight, Glens pulls hard off the turns but runs out by half the length of the straight.
The performance unlimited motor with 14 deg heads pulls strong, no doubt about it, but it is a lazy motor that will not rev, when it needs a freshen at the end of this season we will most likely just park it up, when you can get the performance you can from those 358's at the price you can get them for all I can say is what I said above, keep your money in the bank, buy one don't build anything else.
It is amazing how something like getting back into a car can lift you, we have had a hectic last few months and it was all I could do to stay awake driving to Bunbury.
After 2 runs I was awake, refreshed and just wanting more.
Guess I did not really rank the motors
1- leave this blank for you all to guess at
2- Gavin's 358
3- Bombak motor in Glen's car
4- Daylight
5- My first 14 deg headed motor
6- A lot more daylight
7- Watto's motor in Rocka's car
"Where for art thou Phsyco", come home soon, I need help just to keep up with these guys.
Just for info Glen is practicing at Kwinana before fast Friday, so if your there come say hello.
Catch you
Crabby
Geez it's so good to have things to blog about again.
We were off in Bunbury last night for a practice meeting, the track was hooky and fast, a credit to the Bunbury Car Club, the track preparation was first rate. Thanks guys we had a blast.
So on to the happenings;
Team T Davis was there and had his race face on, I did not actually see him smile after a couple of runs, but I saw someone who knows some of last years woes are past and a look of steely determination that plainly said "bring it on, were ready".
Team Bam Bam were also there and true to their name Bam was what happened, first run a couple of laps in and it was BAM, a good whack to the front right to say "hello Shane, welcome to the club".
Team Crabbe Jr was also out and got her baptism of fire with a quick outside pass on her and then dropping in on her front just to let her know the practice is done- Race Face and Pace time now kid.
A couple of dry cleaners are in for a terrible Monday when Bam Bam's and Annette's suits turn in for dry cleaning, they will be smelling by then.
Team Crabbe Snr had a run in Annette and Gavin's cars as he was not keen on dirtying his own.
Now I must apologize to Kris Coyle here, he drove Annette's car in Tom Price to second, now I know why, I had it flat all the way around Bunbury for all the practice session, it was quick, there is nothing wrong with this motor, but a killer it ain't.
I hoped in the Team G Davis car and had a run as well, it is running the 358 motor Gavin brought out from the USA last year, this motor is not the best 358 in WA, Michael Armstrong has the best one apparently, but I can tell you all now, stop wasting your money on engines, these things go hard.
I will give you a couple of comparisons of engine's I have driven.
Rockas car with a Watson owned Speed Torque motor, big budget engine.
Bombak engine in Glens car, big budget engine.
Ex Shaun Bradford 360, now in Annette's car and much modified to up horsepower, big budget engine.
My 14 deg performance unlimited motor, ridiculously expensive engine.
My first car with Kendrick motor, budget motor though, and most fun to own.
And unfairly Phsyco.
Gavin's motor sits at number 2, it beats the bombak motor in Glen's car because it pulls off the turns as hard but still has more mid straight, Glens pulls hard off the turns but runs out by half the length of the straight.
The performance unlimited motor with 14 deg heads pulls strong, no doubt about it, but it is a lazy motor that will not rev, when it needs a freshen at the end of this season we will most likely just park it up, when you can get the performance you can from those 358's at the price you can get them for all I can say is what I said above, keep your money in the bank, buy one don't build anything else.
It is amazing how something like getting back into a car can lift you, we have had a hectic last few months and it was all I could do to stay awake driving to Bunbury.
After 2 runs I was awake, refreshed and just wanting more.
Guess I did not really rank the motors
1- leave this blank for you all to guess at
2- Gavin's 358
3- Bombak motor in Glen's car
4- Daylight
5- My first 14 deg headed motor
6- A lot more daylight
7- Watto's motor in Rocka's car
"Where for art thou Phsyco", come home soon, I need help just to keep up with these guys.
Just for info Glen is practicing at Kwinana before fast Friday, so if your there come say hello.
Catch you
Crabby
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Come on Friday 15th
Hi all
Well it seems like it has been ages since we went into our winter hiatus, went into bear mode, put on some weight and generally moped around hoping time would pass so we could again get the trusty 77 out onto the track.
Nothing fancy this year, we painted the car before Carnarvon in May and have had a couple of minor dents and scratches since then so it is not as nice as it usually is at the start of the season but it is going to be a lot quicker this year.
After much ridicule and being pig headed Team G Davis won and we have modified the fuel system, we have put some real timing back into it, we went conservative last year after we melted it first run out, now this is not Phsycho I am talking about this is the other engine I ran last season before and after Phsyco, we now have it pulling well off of the turns and actually hope to get it revving beyond 7000rpm, it has never pulled beyond 7200 since it was built.
We will be running this engine until January next year, then we will be bringing out my favorite engine, it has had a great holiday in South Carolina at Naylor Racing Engines, we have a new carby and fuel manifold on it and it has pulled some fantastic numbers on the dyno, boy can't wait until we get it all together again.
Shane Webster has taken his unleaded engine out and will be running a loaner for the first few meetings, his loaner has about 170 hp more than his original, should make for interesting watching until he gets used to it.
Team M Armstrong is ready to go, he will be out for the first fast Friday.
Team Todd Davis is also ready and looking to put in some serious meetings this year, they have joined the 21st century and have a roller cam in, Geoff must be pulling his hair out.
Team Tim Davis is working in Kalgoorlie so we may not see much of him this year.
The other Davis team have used up some of this years spares just starting the car, rumor has it they may have sent some panels back for repair.
Norbert has been working on his comeback vehicle, a 6.5hp bar stool racer, apparently some of our more experienced drivers should stay off of it, there has been a few minor mishaps shall we say.
No news from the North, they must be thinking they will ambush us when we go to visit this year.
If anyone is looking to upgrade a motor this year, we will have a 358 for sale early December, it is a good strong motor, refreshed 4 race meetings ago, it is coming in with all our tyres and spares, it is coming in an 05 j&j 87/40 raised rail which has also just been gone over with heaps of new parts in it, if you are interested in either give us a call.
Annette's engine is also in the container, it is a 23deg headed test motor with some reasonable gear in it, if we don't sell the 358 we may just give it a try in her car.
We had a call from our Eastern states limited members this week, they are keen as to get us to come over for a visit, not with the cars just to come over and talk and give them advice or maybe even take some from them, they also are keen to see a Limited Sprintcar Australian Title.
Anyone interested in a weekend away on the east coast? I will get some dates from them and let you all know if they fit in with any of our free weekends.
So finally to all you part timers and shed racers out there, a quote from the Migro clan;
"Get your backside trackside" and support your club.
I will get off the soap box now.
If you are going to practice in Bunbury this Saturday we will see you there, Annette has a race suit and seat of her own now so she will be out for her last practice before we hit the big time at Kwinana.
Catch you
Crabby
Well it seems like it has been ages since we went into our winter hiatus, went into bear mode, put on some weight and generally moped around hoping time would pass so we could again get the trusty 77 out onto the track.
Nothing fancy this year, we painted the car before Carnarvon in May and have had a couple of minor dents and scratches since then so it is not as nice as it usually is at the start of the season but it is going to be a lot quicker this year.
After much ridicule and being pig headed Team G Davis won and we have modified the fuel system, we have put some real timing back into it, we went conservative last year after we melted it first run out, now this is not Phsycho I am talking about this is the other engine I ran last season before and after Phsyco, we now have it pulling well off of the turns and actually hope to get it revving beyond 7000rpm, it has never pulled beyond 7200 since it was built.
We will be running this engine until January next year, then we will be bringing out my favorite engine, it has had a great holiday in South Carolina at Naylor Racing Engines, we have a new carby and fuel manifold on it and it has pulled some fantastic numbers on the dyno, boy can't wait until we get it all together again.
Shane Webster has taken his unleaded engine out and will be running a loaner for the first few meetings, his loaner has about 170 hp more than his original, should make for interesting watching until he gets used to it.
Team M Armstrong is ready to go, he will be out for the first fast Friday.
Team Todd Davis is also ready and looking to put in some serious meetings this year, they have joined the 21st century and have a roller cam in, Geoff must be pulling his hair out.
Team Tim Davis is working in Kalgoorlie so we may not see much of him this year.
The other Davis team have used up some of this years spares just starting the car, rumor has it they may have sent some panels back for repair.
Norbert has been working on his comeback vehicle, a 6.5hp bar stool racer, apparently some of our more experienced drivers should stay off of it, there has been a few minor mishaps shall we say.
No news from the North, they must be thinking they will ambush us when we go to visit this year.
If anyone is looking to upgrade a motor this year, we will have a 358 for sale early December, it is a good strong motor, refreshed 4 race meetings ago, it is coming in with all our tyres and spares, it is coming in an 05 j&j 87/40 raised rail which has also just been gone over with heaps of new parts in it, if you are interested in either give us a call.
Annette's engine is also in the container, it is a 23deg headed test motor with some reasonable gear in it, if we don't sell the 358 we may just give it a try in her car.
We had a call from our Eastern states limited members this week, they are keen as to get us to come over for a visit, not with the cars just to come over and talk and give them advice or maybe even take some from them, they also are keen to see a Limited Sprintcar Australian Title.
Anyone interested in a weekend away on the east coast? I will get some dates from them and let you all know if they fit in with any of our free weekends.
So finally to all you part timers and shed racers out there, a quote from the Migro clan;
"Get your backside trackside" and support your club.
I will get off the soap box now.
If you are going to practice in Bunbury this Saturday we will see you there, Annette has a race suit and seat of her own now so she will be out for her last practice before we hit the big time at Kwinana.
Catch you
Crabby
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Change of date for Bunbury practice day.
Hi all
The Bunbury car club has advised us that the practice date has changed from the 9th October to now being the 2nd October.
So change your calendars so you do not show up and be the only one there.
This is not good for team Crabbe, we are waiting for 1 seat to arrive and a race suit for Annette, my car is still in repair mode after the dump in Tom Price, we would have been ready for the 9th but not the 2nd, so we will not be there, hope it is a good night for those that do go.
Catch you
Crabby
The Bunbury car club has advised us that the practice date has changed from the 9th October to now being the 2nd October.
So change your calendars so you do not show up and be the only one there.
This is not good for team Crabbe, we are waiting for 1 seat to arrive and a race suit for Annette, my car is still in repair mode after the dump in Tom Price, we would have been ready for the 9th but not the 2nd, so we will not be there, hope it is a good night for those that do go.
Catch you
Crabby
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Some things of importance.
Hi again,
My ears are ringing from some verbal bashing I have received Saturday night and then a bit more today, "so read this and take some action".
Practice:
The committee would like all our licensed drivers to take the effort to come down to the practice meeting being held by the Bunbury Club on Saturday 9Th October 2010, starting at 4pm and running until 9pm.
Cost is $50.00 per car.
If we can get an idea of numbers then we would put on a BBQ after the practice.
Please come so we can have a good get together, check out cars, check out speeds and just have a great chat/beer/steak (or soup for some), even veggies for the Vegans.
Also the other thing my ears are rattling about is a complaint that there is no info going out to the members.
We sent out about 4 newsletters last season and also sent out our notice of the AGM, some people say they did not get them, it is up to you to check if your address is current, have you actually supplied us with your email address? All 2010/2011 fees are now overdue, you need to check if you have paid and then check your addresses are correct.
I have been a member of the LTD Sprintcar club for 3 1/2 years and it is only this last season we have sent the news letters out, ie; I never got one before so I assume no one else did either, so why am I hearing complaints from older members about not receiving anything!!!!!!
Instead of letting us no of your displeasure come give us a hand or even ideas on what you want done in your club.
Aahh my ears feel better already.
Shed racers- and you know who you are, get them cars out of the shed, dust of the cobwebs and lets go racing, only 4 weeks and its on for real.
Catch you
Crabby
My ears are ringing from some verbal bashing I have received Saturday night and then a bit more today, "so read this and take some action".
Practice:
The committee would like all our licensed drivers to take the effort to come down to the practice meeting being held by the Bunbury Club on Saturday 9Th October 2010, starting at 4pm and running until 9pm.
Cost is $50.00 per car.
If we can get an idea of numbers then we would put on a BBQ after the practice.
Please come so we can have a good get together, check out cars, check out speeds and just have a great chat/beer/steak (or soup for some), even veggies for the Vegans.
Also the other thing my ears are rattling about is a complaint that there is no info going out to the members.
We sent out about 4 newsletters last season and also sent out our notice of the AGM, some people say they did not get them, it is up to you to check if your address is current, have you actually supplied us with your email address? All 2010/2011 fees are now overdue, you need to check if you have paid and then check your addresses are correct.
I have been a member of the LTD Sprintcar club for 3 1/2 years and it is only this last season we have sent the news letters out, ie; I never got one before so I assume no one else did either, so why am I hearing complaints from older members about not receiving anything!!!!!!
Instead of letting us no of your displeasure come give us a hand or even ideas on what you want done in your club.
Aahh my ears feel better already.
Shed racers- and you know who you are, get them cars out of the shed, dust of the cobwebs and lets go racing, only 4 weeks and its on for real.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Pithara round up.
Good evening sprintcar fans,
Pithara was a great weekend, there were 6 cars running in our division, 4 genuine limited sprintcars and 2 Moora Outlaws, Watto won 3 heats and let Dhuy win one when he pulled out with minor engine dramas.
Annette went ok, only getting lapped twice in one heat and then holding here own against most of the others, by the feature she was starting to roll around at a reasonable pace for a beginner, most passed her going into the turns as shed rolled off the gas, the car was quick down the straights.
Shane Webster finished second in the feature behind Watto, Shane looks like he is ready for a repower something a bit better than the 450hp he currently has on tap.
There were 7 cars in the open/360 division, they put on a good show with Watto jr looking fast until some minor engine gremlins caused him to pull out of the meeting.
Phil Blackman won with a couple of spirited drives, he looked to have done a Crabbe (this is a reverse Bradbury) and got tired and dropped back, however he got his second wind and went on to win.
We are about to pull Annette's car down and get it painted and ready for the season proper.
Roll on the real season.
Crabby
Pithara was a great weekend, there were 6 cars running in our division, 4 genuine limited sprintcars and 2 Moora Outlaws, Watto won 3 heats and let Dhuy win one when he pulled out with minor engine dramas.
Annette went ok, only getting lapped twice in one heat and then holding here own against most of the others, by the feature she was starting to roll around at a reasonable pace for a beginner, most passed her going into the turns as shed rolled off the gas, the car was quick down the straights.
Shane Webster finished second in the feature behind Watto, Shane looks like he is ready for a repower something a bit better than the 450hp he currently has on tap.
There were 7 cars in the open/360 division, they put on a good show with Watto jr looking fast until some minor engine gremlins caused him to pull out of the meeting.
Phil Blackman won with a couple of spirited drives, he looked to have done a Crabbe (this is a reverse Bradbury) and got tired and dropped back, however he got his second wind and went on to win.
We are about to pull Annette's car down and get it painted and ready for the season proper.
Roll on the real season.
Crabby
Friday, September 10, 2010
Were off to Pithara for another run for fun weekend.
Hi all,
Well it is time for Annette's baptism of fire.
We are going to Pithara to put her out for some real racing, after 2 lots of practices hopefully she will not be cannon fodder.
There are 11 nominated sprint cars in the open division and 3 Outlaws from Moora, Annette is allowed to run off the back of the outlaws.
Shane Webster and team Watto are also going to be there.
We have a big season ahead and it is nearly time for the real stuff to begin, first race in a month, still got to repair my car after the big dump in Tom Price, we will be ready though and are already looking forward to the Fast Friday opening night.
Will let you know how it all went next week.
Crabby
Well it is time for Annette's baptism of fire.
We are going to Pithara to put her out for some real racing, after 2 lots of practices hopefully she will not be cannon fodder.
There are 11 nominated sprint cars in the open division and 3 Outlaws from Moora, Annette is allowed to run off the back of the outlaws.
Shane Webster and team Watto are also going to be there.
We have a big season ahead and it is nearly time for the real stuff to begin, first race in a month, still got to repair my car after the big dump in Tom Price, we will be ready though and are already looking forward to the Fast Friday opening night.
Will let you know how it all went next week.
Crabby
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Where are you Michael Armstrong esq?
Hi Michael,
If you go to your spare parts shelf in the secret location you keep your car, you will see a blag bag with a "Big Game Tree Stands" emblem on the front, it's for you, beware of whats inside, ti may not be entirely pleasant.
Crabby.
If you go to your spare parts shelf in the secret location you keep your car, you will see a blag bag with a "Big Game Tree Stands" emblem on the front, it's for you, beware of whats inside, ti may not be entirely pleasant.
Crabby.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Bring it on.
Hi all
Well it has been a great trip again, Knoxville was a race to remember with Sammy showing when he has the will and the gear he is fast, he showed all of them up and despite my thoughts on Sammy himself he sure put on a show, when he climbed from his car with 3 laps to go he got a standing ovation and the Crabbe was standing with the rest of them to applaud his drive, when I can I will load it onto the site for you all to see, didn't get the whole race but got at least 35 of the 50 laps and all the slide jobs for the lead.
Went to Williams Grove and was initiated into the PA Posse as a temporary member, they are crazy there, the drivers and the fans, we stood on the infield at turn one and I have never seen sprint cars going into a turn so fast, it was scary to watch, we went into the Posse stand, a guy we met last year at Knoxville let us sit in his seats, barrack for anyone not from Pennsylvania and your just as likely to get thrown off the stands, anyway the cars did not look slower from the stands, they fly.
Next night we went to Lincoln, it is about the length of Kwinana but only half as wide, they go quick here as well, 24 cars flat out into turn one and somehow they all get through.
Saw a guy called Brian Montieth win at both Williams Grove and Lincoln, he has his balls running on the fence the whole time, even when the track went slick and everyone else was running the gutter he managed to keep the high line working, it nearly tripped him up on a restart with one lap to go, they go green to checker and Lance Dewease tried to slide him from the bottom mid turns three and four, but Montieth just drove back under him, it was a great move to watch, saw lots of tricky maneuvers over here, now just have to work out how to make them myself.
Heading to Milwaukee to look at some crushing equipment and then we head home Wednesday Aussie time, another good trip watching some very impressive racing.
Bring on the start of the limited season, just cannot wait to get back into it.
Crabby
Well it has been a great trip again, Knoxville was a race to remember with Sammy showing when he has the will and the gear he is fast, he showed all of them up and despite my thoughts on Sammy himself he sure put on a show, when he climbed from his car with 3 laps to go he got a standing ovation and the Crabbe was standing with the rest of them to applaud his drive, when I can I will load it onto the site for you all to see, didn't get the whole race but got at least 35 of the 50 laps and all the slide jobs for the lead.
Went to Williams Grove and was initiated into the PA Posse as a temporary member, they are crazy there, the drivers and the fans, we stood on the infield at turn one and I have never seen sprint cars going into a turn so fast, it was scary to watch, we went into the Posse stand, a guy we met last year at Knoxville let us sit in his seats, barrack for anyone not from Pennsylvania and your just as likely to get thrown off the stands, anyway the cars did not look slower from the stands, they fly.
Next night we went to Lincoln, it is about the length of Kwinana but only half as wide, they go quick here as well, 24 cars flat out into turn one and somehow they all get through.
Saw a guy called Brian Montieth win at both Williams Grove and Lincoln, he has his balls running on the fence the whole time, even when the track went slick and everyone else was running the gutter he managed to keep the high line working, it nearly tripped him up on a restart with one lap to go, they go green to checker and Lance Dewease tried to slide him from the bottom mid turns three and four, but Montieth just drove back under him, it was a great move to watch, saw lots of tricky maneuvers over here, now just have to work out how to make them myself.
Heading to Milwaukee to look at some crushing equipment and then we head home Wednesday Aussie time, another good trip watching some very impressive racing.
Bring on the start of the limited season, just cannot wait to get back into it.
Crabby
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Knoxvilles' Main Event
Evening all, we are sitting in our stands waiting for tonights main event to begin. After today's World Challenge the track was left in an awful state so they were working on it all afternoon to get it back to where it should be.
E Main - 12 cars - 12 laps - Top 2 to the D Main. Flag to Flag.
Domain Ramsey starts in 4th and finishes 5th
Bruce White starts in 12th and finishes 9th
D Main - 22 cars - 12 laps - Top 2 to the C Main. Flag to Flag.
Trevor Green starts on pole and finishes 2nd
Mitch Dumsney starts 6th and finishes 4th
Paul Jeffrey starts 17th and finishes 15th
C Main - 22 cars - 15 laps - Top 2 cars to B Main.
Max Dumsney starts 6th and finishes 20th
Brooke Tatnell starts 16th and finishes 22nd with a DNF
Jamie Veal starts 20th and finishes 21st
Trevor Green starts 22nd and finishes 18th
Tatnell upside down in turn 1, after getting too high in the cushion.
B Main - 22 cars - 22 laps - Top 4 cars to the A Main
Ian Madsen starts 6th and finishes 8th
Restart due to Tyler Walker breaking the start but as soon as the amber lights came on he made contact with the wall. Damage to the right rear.
A Main - 24 cars - 50 laps
Kerry Madsen pulls top time for hot laps with Skip in 8th.
Jason Johnson is the 41 Haynes car starts 9th, pit stop 6th, 8th at restart, and finishes 9th
Kerry Madsen starts 11th, pit stop 11th, 6th at restart, and finishes 5th.
Skip Jackson starts 12th, finishes 23rd with a DNF after dropping out at 20th lap.
Lynton Jeffries starts 13th, pit stop 20th and finishes 21st with a DNF.
Joey Saldana out after 7 laps after he did an engine causing a restart.
We're at the half way break stopping for a 5 minute pit break. Swindell is out in front only just. Some great racing between him and Schatz. Schatz closed in on him whilst they started overlapping the traffic. Kinser was catching now sitting in 3rd, with Schaffer 4th and Brown 5th and that rounds out the top 5.
Madsen is the first Aussie at 11th. He and Davey Heskin have been close since the start battling for 9th.
Kinser out at 16 laps to go, blown his engine. Lynton Jeffrey out at 15 to go.
Restart at 6 laps to go as Brown stops in-between turns 3 and 4, right rear gone.
Sammy and Schatz battling for 1st after the restart, unbelievably great racing then 3 laps to go and left rear tyre goes, his taken a tumble and ended upside down.
After Swindells mishap it looked like it was Schatzs' for the fifth year in a row but it was not meant to be. Tim Shaffer was just that much quicker on turn 3 and 4 and slid Schatz with 2 laps to go.
Congratulations to Tim Shaffer, the Golden Anniversary, 50th Annual Knoxville Champion!
Night all, although I'm that amped up tonight that I don't think I'll be sleeping.
Crabby Jnr.
Location:Knoxville, Iowa, USA
Knoxville World Challange
After meeting up with Steve Bombak and his family at the Smiths house for the Aussie breakfast and the parade, we are finally at the track again ready for the delayed World Challenge.
The first heat of last chance qualifying sees Mitch Dumsney, Paul Jeffrey and Jamie Veal battling it out among 21 other cars for the spot.
Veal finishes 8th, Dumsney finishes 10th and Jeffrey finishes 14th.
In the second heat of last chance of qualifying, we have Brooke Tatnell, Domain Ramsey, Bruce White, Trevor Green battling 15 laps with 18 other cars.
White ends with a DNF after pulling into the pits at lap 12, Ramsey finishes 17th, Green finishes 5th, and Tatnell finishes 4th.
The feature qualifying race sees Tatnell starting 8th, Green starting 10th, Veal starting 15th, and Dumsney starting 20th.
Dumsney finishes 16th, Veal finishes 10th, Green finishes 11th, and Tatnell finishes 6th.
The next and final race we have is the World Challenge.
The line up is as follows;
Trevor Green
Lucas Wolf
Max Dumsney
Jonathan Allard
Ricky Logan
Ian Madsen
Craig Dollansky
Paul McMahan
Joey Saldana
Jason Sides
Lynton Jeffrey
Skip Jackson
Kerry Madsen
Jason Johnson
Sammy Swindell
Toni Lutar
Mitch Dumsney
Brooke Tatnell
Jamie Veale
Domain Ramsey
Paul Jeffrey
Bruce White
Donny Scatz
Colin Entwisle
Sammy Swindell was out due to a flat tyre before the race even started as he and Kerry Madsen came into contact.
Unfortunately we lost out, the line up across the line went;
Craig Dollansky
Lucas Wolfe
Max Dumsney
Trevor Green
Jonathon Allard
Kerry Madsen
Paul McMahan
Joey Saldana
Brooke Tatnell
Ian Madsen
Jason Johnson
Lynton Jeffrey
Jason Sides
Ricky Logan
Skip Jackson
Mitchell Dumsney
Toni Lutar
Colin Entwisle
Jamie Veal
Domain Ramsey
Paul Jeffrey
Bruce White
Trevor did well to hold off Dollansky until about the 8th lap. Kerry Madsen was going hard and got up to 3rd but in the final laps about 3 to go he slowed a little moving back 3 places on the last lap, looked like his engine was starting to over heat which is unfortunate. Hopefully they can get the car back up and roaring before tonights big night.
That's about it for today. Our next and final race for Knoxville is tonight at 7:30, Skip is in the A main, hopefully he can be the first Aussie to win The huge event.
Just an update back at home, Mr. Mike Armstrong asked me to buy him a Craig Dollansky t shirt, I asked him why on earth he'd want one of those. His reply was that once we all see his new paint job we'd know why. Keep an eye out. Just remember, if you have heard anything, or have any updates we can add to the blog then send Crabby an email so we can keep everyone else update.
Regards,
Crabbe Junior.
Location:Knoxville, Iowa, USA
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Knoxville rained out for night 3
Hi all
Well we got rained out last night, they have scheduled to run 2 shows Saturday, one starting at lunch time, then track prep and the main show, not much chance of it all getting run as the rain is everywhere and more is coming, but got to stay positive here.
Norbert has been the designated driver this year, and is managing to follow all the USA road rules, only one incidence of going up the wrong side of the road so far.
Saturday morning starts with the Aussie breakfast in Knoxville, it is at the start of the street parade, then to the track to try and get a couple of items autographed before the racing begins.
Catch you
Crabby
Well we got rained out last night, they have scheduled to run 2 shows Saturday, one starting at lunch time, then track prep and the main show, not much chance of it all getting run as the rain is everywhere and more is coming, but got to stay positive here.
Norbert has been the designated driver this year, and is managing to follow all the USA road rules, only one incidence of going up the wrong side of the road so far.
Saturday morning starts with the Aussie breakfast in Knoxville, it is at the start of the street parade, then to the track to try and get a couple of items autographed before the racing begins.
Catch you
Crabby
Friday, August 13, 2010
Knoxville Night Two
Evening all, night two has been and gone.
Tonight we had 5 Aussies racing.
Ian Madsen;
Skip Jackson;
Brooke Tatnell;
Paul Jeffrey and;
Mitch Dumsney.
Ian Madsen was the fastest out of our Aussies finishing 8th in the time trials over all. Danny Lasoski who is hoping to come racing in Australia time trialed second with a 15.29 and the King, Steve Kinser placed first in the time trials with a 15.233,
Tatnell was the first to run a heat in Heat 1. He started 3rd and had some go for a couple of laps till he lost some horse power. After going into the pits once the night was over we found out it was due his magneto moving. He finished 7th but still made it into the B main.
Heat 2 saw Skip finish 4th and straight into the A main, Madsen finish 6th, and Mitch finish 8th both through to the B main.
The only Aussie in Heat 3 was Jeffrey's and he finished 7th also into the B main.
They had the great Karl Kinser on stage talking about his greatest moments in sprint car racing and I just wanted to share a quote with you. "I've been all over the world, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania...... And no track compares to Knoxville Raceway."
Heat 4 saw Sammy Swindell start in 8th and go straight to first after some great racing.
B main saw Jeffrey starting 15th however he pulled off with a few laps to go and did not finish. Mitch started 11th finishing 12th. Tatnell starting 13th, and finishing 7th. Finally Madsen who started outside poll kept our Aussie spirit alive by finishing first. Unfortunately for the 55 team, it seems they did an engine just before he crossed the line.
A main had Skip starting poll, and Madsen supposed to start at the rear but they didn't get to change their engine so stayed in field.
Skip broke away on the first 2 starts but unfortunately cars either spun out or collided so on the the start of the 25 lap feature he got passed by Swindell and Schatz.
It was close just before the checkered flag on turn 4 with Schatz coming out of no where from at least half a turn behind and over took Sammy for first, however the yellow flag came out just before he crossed the line. With a restart Sammy got away and Skip moved to 2nd but it wasn't meant to be with yet another yellow coming out at the third turn as a car spun out on the track. People noticed Schatz right rear starting to go down, his pit crew were ready for him to come in field and change the tyre but with two laps to go in the A main it wasn't worth it, he'd have to tag the back and wouldn't make it far enough through the crowd to score as many points as he would if he just went for it. Sammy shot off on the restart with Schatz trying to catch him, unfortunately his wheel gave him difficulty causing Skip to over take him on the 3rd turn followed immediately by 21. Leaving him with 5th place and sure enough just after he crossed the line his wheel went. Skip got third as the 21 car just beat him by a front tyre on the front stretch in the dying seconds.
It sure was the best A main so far with only more to come. Keep tuned for tomorrow nights World Challenge, we will be taking the Ipad to the track so we can get the blog up quicker.
Night all.
Crabby Jnr.
Location:Knoxville, Iowa, USA
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Knoxville Night One
Good evening all, or rather morning to you guys back at home.
Night one has been and gone and there was some great racing. Our Aussies did really well in the qualifying stage.
Our Aussie racers tonight were;
Lynton Jeffries;
Max Dumsney;
Domain Ramsey;
Trevor Green;
Bruce White;
Kerry Madsen;
Jamie Veal
All our Aussies did well in the time trials with Madsen the top time out of our boys.
Heat one saw Dumsney in first place after a restart, and Jeffries chasing him the whole time.
Ramsey, White, Madsen, Veal all made the B main, while the rest made the A. Out of tonight Madsen was the stand out. In the mains you needed to place in top 4 to qualify for going onto the next main. In the B, Madsen had Jason Meyers lined up for fourth spot on the back straight but Meyers gave him a tap sending him back on the last lap to finish fifth. Unlucky for Meyers instead of weighing in he went straight to his car bay for 10 seconds then his crew wheeled him back for the weigh in. After lots of controversy and the Madman doing what his well known for, Meyers was disqualified leaving Madsen with the fourth place to go to the A Main. Madsen made it from 24th to 7th in 25 laps. He was unbelievably fast in the #3 Halls Haulage car, he just kept lining them up one by one running them down passing the likes of Jason Johnson, Joey Saldana, Brad Sweet, Tim Schaffer, Erin Crocker, max Dumsney and Lynton Jeffrey.
Across the line was Shane Stewart who won the A main and has 3 wins under his belt from Knoxville in the last 6 days. He has also claimed the Knoxville 360 title last weekend. Second was Craig Dollansky and third place went to Chad Kemenah.
Time for bed, we'll check in with you all tomorrow night after Qualifying night two.
Crabby Jnr. (because Snr is too busy snoring)
Location:Knoxville, Iowa, USA
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Arrived in Los Angelas
Good evening all, at least it is here anyway.
We are in LA and searching the web to see how we get from LAX to BR Motorsports, Gavin went there last year on the way home fro Knoxville and phoned me to tell me he was in Ti Heaven, so I am going up there to check the place out, I have had the accountant top up the visa just in case I get tempted to buy an item or 2.
Spoke to the Benkesser couple, Norbert was at Niagra falls looking for a barrel to ride the falls with, just couldn't find a barrel with a big enough diameter for him, length was ok though (cheap shot that one), Gail and Norbert were amazed at how much water goes over the falls, he also mentioned the size of the Great Lakes, when we came over for a crushing expo 3 years ago in Las Vegas we went to the Grand Canyon, as we flew up there I was telling everyone how big the gorges in the Pilbara were, it was what I expected to see at the Grand Canyon, but you could fit most Aussie Gorges in across the Grand Canyon, so I must see these great lakes, no doubt they will be huge inland seas.
Well must try to get into the time zone so goodnight all and hello to you Crabbe kids at home.
Crabby
We are in LA and searching the web to see how we get from LAX to BR Motorsports, Gavin went there last year on the way home fro Knoxville and phoned me to tell me he was in Ti Heaven, so I am going up there to check the place out, I have had the accountant top up the visa just in case I get tempted to buy an item or 2.
Spoke to the Benkesser couple, Norbert was at Niagra falls looking for a barrel to ride the falls with, just couldn't find a barrel with a big enough diameter for him, length was ok though (cheap shot that one), Gail and Norbert were amazed at how much water goes over the falls, he also mentioned the size of the Great Lakes, when we came over for a crushing expo 3 years ago in Las Vegas we went to the Grand Canyon, as we flew up there I was telling everyone how big the gorges in the Pilbara were, it was what I expected to see at the Grand Canyon, but you could fit most Aussie Gorges in across the Grand Canyon, so I must see these great lakes, no doubt they will be huge inland seas.
Well must try to get into the time zone so goodnight all and hello to you Crabbe kids at home.
Crabby
Saturday, August 7, 2010
We've made Sydney.
Hi all
Took the midnight horror and arrived in Sydney ready for the international part of our flight.
Sleeping on the midnight horror is near impossible so we are tired as.
Got my copy of the latest SRN magazine and read with interest the story on Danny Lasoski looking for a drive in Australia this year, there was no mention of him doing the WA big meets for Luche but Danny certainly told the boys on the Speedway Star tour he was coming and driving for Luche.
Will have to get the real story when we hit Knoxville mid next week.
Well time for a coffee and breakfast.
Crabby
Took the midnight horror and arrived in Sydney ready for the international part of our flight.
Sleeping on the midnight horror is near impossible so we are tired as.
Got my copy of the latest SRN magazine and read with interest the story on Danny Lasoski looking for a drive in Australia this year, there was no mention of him doing the WA big meets for Luche but Danny certainly told the boys on the Speedway Star tour he was coming and driving for Luche.
Will have to get the real story when we hit Knoxville mid next week.
Well time for a coffee and breakfast.
Crabby
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Last sleep before we go.
Hi all
It,s nearly time to head off to the USA for the Knoxville Nationals.
This year it's the Benkesser,s and the Crabbe,s only, looking forward to seeing the super stars of our sport going toe to toe fighting it out for top spot.
This year looks to be anyones title but I am expecting the Schatz man to make a resurgence to top form for this special meeting, however you will here me barracking for "The King", I am an unashamed Kinser fan, also I need to support the oldies like myself.
Have 2 orders for signed Kinser flags this year, my one from last year hangs proudly framed above our cars in the cave.
We have a heap of orders for parts to get and send home to Aus.
I am intending to blog my way through/during each nights racing, so keep an eye on the site for the latest info as it comes to hand, especially keep you all in touch with how the Aussies are doing.
Well folks need to go to bed and dream of the big trip, this time tomorrow we will be on our way, BRING IT ON.
Catch you
Crabby.
It,s nearly time to head off to the USA for the Knoxville Nationals.
This year it's the Benkesser,s and the Crabbe,s only, looking forward to seeing the super stars of our sport going toe to toe fighting it out for top spot.
This year looks to be anyones title but I am expecting the Schatz man to make a resurgence to top form for this special meeting, however you will here me barracking for "The King", I am an unashamed Kinser fan, also I need to support the oldies like myself.
Have 2 orders for signed Kinser flags this year, my one from last year hangs proudly framed above our cars in the cave.
We have a heap of orders for parts to get and send home to Aus.
I am intending to blog my way through/during each nights racing, so keep an eye on the site for the latest info as it comes to hand, especially keep you all in touch with how the Aussies are doing.
Well folks need to go to bed and dream of the big trip, this time tomorrow we will be on our way, BRING IT ON.
Catch you
Crabby.
Monday, August 2, 2010
BIG BUDGET RACING COMES TO TOM PRICE.
Hi all,
Just thought I would show you the Crabbe racing big budget machine I am running this year, its only missing the holes in the floor for my feet to poke through.
Crabby
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Anyone for Ellenbrook on 8th August?
Hi all
Rob Watson is running a meeting at Ellenbrook for sprint cars on 8th August.
Hi is keen to get a heap of cars there, support him and Ellenbrook as it is a great venue to run at in the off season.
Team Crabbe will both be in the USA for Knoxville but Glen will be taking the 45 car to defend the title he won last year.
Well the wash up from Tom Price is we need to strip the j&j again, bent one of my winters light weight hubs, bent the axle beam, bent a few radius rods, wrecked both wings, damaged the new body work, tore the down tube where the top wing spud sits below the roll cage, so a bit more work needed to get it back to pristine.
Broke the team Crabbe first rule as well, rule 1 in the team handbook is 1) If car is damaged head to the bar.
I was restrained from indulging by the crew as they worked frantically to get us back out there for heat 3, they succeeded and jammed me into the car despite my wanting to find the esky.
Ran from the front and led for 2 laps until Glen steamed by on the outside off turn 2, he was nice enough to throw me a jar of Vaseline as he went by to stop the wind burn.
I watched heat 2 as we put the car back together and Glen was flying into the turns, thought he would not get around but his car was on rails all night, it would hook up as he went into the turn and then start a gentle push from 3/4 corner allowing him to get on the gas early off the turn, this stops anyone from getting a run on him in the straights or going into the corner, it was something to watch, not bad for an old Pino Priolo Maxim running second hand bits, still the motor is absolutely first rate, it is the one I borrowed to Anthony King mid last season.
Got some heads in my trailer for another new car joining us next season, it is for Matt Muir who brought my old JEI.
Catch you
Crabby
Rob Watson is running a meeting at Ellenbrook for sprint cars on 8th August.
Hi is keen to get a heap of cars there, support him and Ellenbrook as it is a great venue to run at in the off season.
Team Crabbe will both be in the USA for Knoxville but Glen will be taking the 45 car to defend the title he won last year.
Well the wash up from Tom Price is we need to strip the j&j again, bent one of my winters light weight hubs, bent the axle beam, bent a few radius rods, wrecked both wings, damaged the new body work, tore the down tube where the top wing spud sits below the roll cage, so a bit more work needed to get it back to pristine.
Broke the team Crabbe first rule as well, rule 1 in the team handbook is 1) If car is damaged head to the bar.
I was restrained from indulging by the crew as they worked frantically to get us back out there for heat 3, they succeeded and jammed me into the car despite my wanting to find the esky.
Ran from the front and led for 2 laps until Glen steamed by on the outside off turn 2, he was nice enough to throw me a jar of Vaseline as he went by to stop the wind burn.
I watched heat 2 as we put the car back together and Glen was flying into the turns, thought he would not get around but his car was on rails all night, it would hook up as he went into the turn and then start a gentle push from 3/4 corner allowing him to get on the gas early off the turn, this stops anyone from getting a run on him in the straights or going into the corner, it was something to watch, not bad for an old Pino Priolo Maxim running second hand bits, still the motor is absolutely first rate, it is the one I borrowed to Anthony King mid last season.
Got some heads in my trailer for another new car joining us next season, it is for Matt Muir who brought my old JEI.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Done and Dusted
Well all, it seems that Crabby Snr doesn't want to post the blog now he found out Jnr can. We got his car back up and running although as usual the engine isn't really pulling a lot of revs.
Glen won the feature and 2 heats, the old 45 car was on song all night.
Kris Coyle ran second in the feature.
Tom Price local Norm was third.
It has been a great weekend but I am feeling somewhat sore after tagging the wall in the first heat.
Catch you
Crabby
Glen won the feature and 2 heats, the old 45 car was on song all night.
Kris Coyle ran second in the feature.
Tom Price local Norm was third.
It has been a great weekend but I am feeling somewhat sore after tagging the wall in the first heat.
Catch you
Crabby
Location:Tom Price
Saturday, July 24, 2010
First Race
Hello all,
Here we are in Tom Price, all the cars have been off loaded, including our trailer with much difficulty. We have had hot laps and our first 2 heats.
Heat one saw Crabby Snr tip, after 3 laps you would think he would've learnt to avoid the pot hole on turn 4 but he didn't. He hit the pot hole and went straight for the wall ending up on his side. They are still fixing the car and we are almost at the third heat. Front wing is ripped up and will go straight to the tip, the front axle was also badly damaged along with all the front wing too, lucky we carry some old spares. 77 almost looks back together, should be out for the 3rd heat.
My lucky number 12 has been doing great, Kris pulled up in the first race due to not being able to get the car in gear on the restart, apparently a nut fell off, I blame dad, his trying to sabotage me. He was doing great though, before Crabby decided to turn right he was catching Glen, chasing him down for first place. The second heat he placed first after a great race. I've let him know that the trophy tonight stays with the car and not the driver, he has also retaliated saying that there is no excuses from me, the car is running too well to be blamed.
Glen won the first race and came third in the second, his car has been running well, it's just unfortunate he couldn't catch Rib and Kris.
Rib's been doing well, second in both heats, car seems to be going great and unlike dad he learnt to avoid that pot hole after a few run ins with it. We would also like to wish Rib a very happy 22nd birthday tomorrow.
Dhuy, poor Dhuy never has much luck. First heat they couldn't get the Watsons' 10 car going because they had the gears back to front which ended up stuffing the diff. Second heat they unfortunately broke a shocky, I am assured by Sandra that the car is ready to go for the third heat very shortly.
One other car has shown up, a 360, number 12, they are a local Tom Price car. His definitely on the peddle keeping up with the others.
One last word from Sandra, if you don't want to crash don't take your car on the track.
Got to run, got 3 cars to push out for heat three that's about to start, Crabby Snr is getting in ready to go. I'll see you all out on the track after America.
CJ aka Crabby Jnr
Here we are in Tom Price, all the cars have been off loaded, including our trailer with much difficulty. We have had hot laps and our first 2 heats.
Heat one saw Crabby Snr tip, after 3 laps you would think he would've learnt to avoid the pot hole on turn 4 but he didn't. He hit the pot hole and went straight for the wall ending up on his side. They are still fixing the car and we are almost at the third heat. Front wing is ripped up and will go straight to the tip, the front axle was also badly damaged along with all the front wing too, lucky we carry some old spares. 77 almost looks back together, should be out for the 3rd heat.
My lucky number 12 has been doing great, Kris pulled up in the first race due to not being able to get the car in gear on the restart, apparently a nut fell off, I blame dad, his trying to sabotage me. He was doing great though, before Crabby decided to turn right he was catching Glen, chasing him down for first place. The second heat he placed first after a great race. I've let him know that the trophy tonight stays with the car and not the driver, he has also retaliated saying that there is no excuses from me, the car is running too well to be blamed.
Glen won the first race and came third in the second, his car has been running well, it's just unfortunate he couldn't catch Rib and Kris.
Rib's been doing well, second in both heats, car seems to be going great and unlike dad he learnt to avoid that pot hole after a few run ins with it. We would also like to wish Rib a very happy 22nd birthday tomorrow.
Dhuy, poor Dhuy never has much luck. First heat they couldn't get the Watsons' 10 car going because they had the gears back to front which ended up stuffing the diff. Second heat they unfortunately broke a shocky, I am assured by Sandra that the car is ready to go for the third heat very shortly.
One other car has shown up, a 360, number 12, they are a local Tom Price car. His definitely on the peddle keeping up with the others.
One last word from Sandra, if you don't want to crash don't take your car on the track.
Got to run, got 3 cars to push out for heat three that's about to start, Crabby Snr is getting in ready to go. I'll see you all out on the track after America.
CJ aka Crabby Jnr
Location:Tom Price
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time to go North
Hi all
Well after many weeks of work and lots of help from others we have 5 cars on the road to Tom Price.
I thought I was running late but Watto was still putting a motor into Ribs car as the trailers were being loaded, talk about last minute preparation.
Tried to call Watto this evening to check he had loaded the 4 drums of methanol but couldn't get him, hope he remembered or we will all be in the bar drinking after heat 1.
Have to thank Gavin and Geoff Davis for helping me put Annette's car together, it was a mammoth effort, especially those mongrel panels, what a piece of shit they were. Reckon I had them on and off 50 times, I did not even paint them they fitted so poorly, after Tom Price they are headed for the tip. I will get a set from the USA when I am over there for the nationals.
So sorry to Kris Coyle for the not to good looking race car, not up to my standards at all, but it will still go like a bat out of he'll, should be an interesting tussle between Kris and Rib, they will be up the pointy end in the low budget cars while Dhuy and I will be in the 2 biggest budget cars down the back, Glen will be in the car with the second hand pieces, but has 2 x new wings, reckon they are the first new bits that car has had in the last 2 seasons. He has had to pick through all the pieces off my car at the end of each season.
When I was doing my apprenticeship I had a mate whose dad must have been a Scotsman, the oil started out in the car, then got handed down to my mate Paul to put in his motorbike, from the motorbike it went into the lawn mower, that's how it is with Glen's race car, now he will have to line up after Annette to get the bits.
Hopefully Sandra Watson can load some film and pictures direct from Tom Price onto the web site on Saturday night, check the blog as we will try to keep it up to date heat by heat, we are taking our little blogging machine to the Knoxville track with us as well, so we should be able to keep you all updated as it happens.
Only 16 more sleeps till we go, bring it on.
Straight from the horses mouth- Danny Lasoski is coming over to WA to race for Luche Monte this year in some races. Source D Lasoski.
Catch you
Crabby
Well after many weeks of work and lots of help from others we have 5 cars on the road to Tom Price.
I thought I was running late but Watto was still putting a motor into Ribs car as the trailers were being loaded, talk about last minute preparation.
Tried to call Watto this evening to check he had loaded the 4 drums of methanol but couldn't get him, hope he remembered or we will all be in the bar drinking after heat 1.
Have to thank Gavin and Geoff Davis for helping me put Annette's car together, it was a mammoth effort, especially those mongrel panels, what a piece of shit they were. Reckon I had them on and off 50 times, I did not even paint them they fitted so poorly, after Tom Price they are headed for the tip. I will get a set from the USA when I am over there for the nationals.
So sorry to Kris Coyle for the not to good looking race car, not up to my standards at all, but it will still go like a bat out of he'll, should be an interesting tussle between Kris and Rib, they will be up the pointy end in the low budget cars while Dhuy and I will be in the 2 biggest budget cars down the back, Glen will be in the car with the second hand pieces, but has 2 x new wings, reckon they are the first new bits that car has had in the last 2 seasons. He has had to pick through all the pieces off my car at the end of each season.
When I was doing my apprenticeship I had a mate whose dad must have been a Scotsman, the oil started out in the car, then got handed down to my mate Paul to put in his motorbike, from the motorbike it went into the lawn mower, that's how it is with Glen's race car, now he will have to line up after Annette to get the bits.
Hopefully Sandra Watson can load some film and pictures direct from Tom Price onto the web site on Saturday night, check the blog as we will try to keep it up to date heat by heat, we are taking our little blogging machine to the Knoxville track with us as well, so we should be able to keep you all updated as it happens.
Only 16 more sleeps till we go, bring it on.
Straight from the horses mouth- Danny Lasoski is coming over to WA to race for Luche Monte this year in some races. Source D Lasoski.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Another weekend over.
Hi all,
Well a weekend spent in the cave playing with race cars was just the thing for my stress levels.
Saturday the Coyle brothers came down to help get Annette,s car ready, Kris is going to drive the car at Tom Price, so they helped put it together and fit up a seat for Kris.
Phil Jonson also came down and gave us a hand, Phil is putting a Maxim together as a roller to sell, so if you are interested in a roller give him a call at Big Gun Trucks during the week.
Today Gavin and Jeff Davis came and gave me a hand, we got heaps done and other than wings and a bolt check it is ready to fire up, lots of little challenges as we put the car together but we got through it all.
Shane Webster came down with his car for some minor works, we have put it into the shed and will sort it during the week.
Now I am not an expert on the subject but people have told me how to recognize a Steve Kinser Maxim, well I have checked out a few from what they have said and Shane's car has all the mods they speak of and also one thing they did not tell me about, the front bumper is not the same width as the standard ones, so we are putting new spuds on to bring them online with standard.
For all who have not heard yet the results of Shark Bay are,
Damien Joyce first.
Grant Chisolmn second.
Mick Doble third.
Not bad Limited's filled the first 3 places.
Catch you
Crabby
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Come on Knoxville
Hello again,
Well it has been a year since we started blogging, it was Knoxville last year we started.
Well we are almost on our way back to the US for another round of the Nationals, there are a few people we know on the Speedway Star tour as well.
Before I go I have a bullet dodging trip to Nigeria to start work on a new crushing plant, this should make the Knoxville trip a pleasant relief, we should only have to dodge dodgy food there.
Team Crabbe Jr has almost got a car ready for next season, it is on the stands with a front end, a rear end and brakes, dash fitted, side panels fitted, should be just needing the panels painted and then sent to the striper early next week, we are taking the car to Tom Price for it's first run.
The guys going to Shark Bay have left and all seem to be looking forward to a great weekend.
Watto has his car and Ribs and are going to run up there, they have also signed up for the Tom Price round on the 24th July.
We are not sure if any of the North West cars are going to turn up for the meet but with 3 local cars and our 5 it will be a good night in town for the locals, looking forward to seeing if there are any of the old sidecar guys Glen and I used to race against up there, last trip to Tom Price for Glen and I was a win on my bike in a sidecar meeting, pity I was not riding at the time, I was a little under the weather from the amber and had a guy called Mark Spencer riding with Glen on the chair, they won 3 heats and tipped over in the second but still won the night, we were invited to the after meet party but somehow got lost in town and never made it.
Glen is looking forward to the run as he has not raced since the State Title and did poorly there.
Well will keep you updated as we move towards the Tom Price weekend and then on to the Knoxville Nationals.
Catch you
Crabby
Well it has been a year since we started blogging, it was Knoxville last year we started.
Well we are almost on our way back to the US for another round of the Nationals, there are a few people we know on the Speedway Star tour as well.
Before I go I have a bullet dodging trip to Nigeria to start work on a new crushing plant, this should make the Knoxville trip a pleasant relief, we should only have to dodge dodgy food there.
Team Crabbe Jr has almost got a car ready for next season, it is on the stands with a front end, a rear end and brakes, dash fitted, side panels fitted, should be just needing the panels painted and then sent to the striper early next week, we are taking the car to Tom Price for it's first run.
The guys going to Shark Bay have left and all seem to be looking forward to a great weekend.
Watto has his car and Ribs and are going to run up there, they have also signed up for the Tom Price round on the 24th July.
We are not sure if any of the North West cars are going to turn up for the meet but with 3 local cars and our 5 it will be a good night in town for the locals, looking forward to seeing if there are any of the old sidecar guys Glen and I used to race against up there, last trip to Tom Price for Glen and I was a win on my bike in a sidecar meeting, pity I was not riding at the time, I was a little under the weather from the amber and had a guy called Mark Spencer riding with Glen on the chair, they won 3 heats and tipped over in the second but still won the night, we were invited to the after meet party but somehow got lost in town and never made it.
Glen is looking forward to the run as he has not raced since the State Title and did poorly there.
Well will keep you updated as we move towards the Tom Price weekend and then on to the Knoxville Nationals.
Catch you
Crabby
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Latest updates
Good evening all
Well a lot has happened in our club and we are about to post the draft (note draft) calender to our web site next week.
It looks like we are in for an even bigger 2010/2011 season than the 2009/2010 season was.
We have been given the last night of both the Krikke Boys and the Bunbury round of the World Series, with a guarantee of the laps not being cut short.
We have the usual great Geraldton meetings locked in and some nights at new venues.
Have you been on crabbetube, oops I mean youtube lately, just go into youtube and type in limited sprintcars and see what pops up, last year we had some members sign up from NSW and they have got some of their racing posted up, they have even run in Brisbane.
So the club continues to grow in numbers, latest count is plus 40 drivers/cars.
That elusive Aussie Title race seems closer than ever.
The Armstrong clan are getting cars ready for next year, Caroline's car is/was at Murphy's getting straightened, not sure whats happening on the motor front, perhaps another box from the good old USA?
Team Rickster/Ackland can be spotted on the Schnee web site getting 2 new frames, 1 x custom and 1 x standard I believe, Todd Davis will be green all year, he is a Schnee lover.
Todd's boss ran into me at Settlers road house several weeks ago much to his dismay, 10 minutes I spent convincing him of the need to bankroll Todd into a bigger sponsorship deal, if this comes off Todd I should be OK for 20% I reckon.
Norbert built a trailer for Shane's car and promptly sold it on him, they are building another I believe but it could also go on the market, Shane may have a new trailer each week the way it's going.
Shane Webster is looking to bring the old Farrel mobile down to Mandurah before next season, we will fix those brakes so he can go a bit quicker.
Team Oliver 45 are going to powder coat their chassis after Tom Price, big budget next year, new wings as well and a fresh motor, now that torque tubes bolted in properly he may just get a move on.
Team Dhu has a couple of chassis that he is going to have Murph look at to get a new car together, he is having a couple of runs in Watto's car before the season proper to get back into the swing of it.
Team Crabbe junior has still not advanced much, the chassis is still sitting on the ramps in the shop untouched and unloved, seems she may have to show some more enthusiasm before any one does any work for her.
Team Crabbe senior has acquired some new go fast goodies from the Naylor shop in the USA, we have got a trick fuel system and carby from C&S that Jimmy Naylor is fitting up prior to the engine coming home, thanks team G Davis for the good oil on carby's.
We still have 2 motors coming in from the US if any one is interested in buying a good 580 to 600 hp engine, these engines will be right up there for specs and at a good price, both are all new.
The JEI has had some interest from all over the state, each person says they want to run in the limiteds, we are getting more and more known in the sprintcar world.
Tom Price looks on, we have 5 cars going up to have a run, looking forward to getting back into the seat, hope we don't run more than 10 lap heats and 20 lap feature though.
Catch you
Crabby.
Well a lot has happened in our club and we are about to post the draft (note draft) calender to our web site next week.
It looks like we are in for an even bigger 2010/2011 season than the 2009/2010 season was.
We have been given the last night of both the Krikke Boys and the Bunbury round of the World Series, with a guarantee of the laps not being cut short.
We have the usual great Geraldton meetings locked in and some nights at new venues.
Have you been on crabbetube, oops I mean youtube lately, just go into youtube and type in limited sprintcars and see what pops up, last year we had some members sign up from NSW and they have got some of their racing posted up, they have even run in Brisbane.
So the club continues to grow in numbers, latest count is plus 40 drivers/cars.
That elusive Aussie Title race seems closer than ever.
The Armstrong clan are getting cars ready for next year, Caroline's car is/was at Murphy's getting straightened, not sure whats happening on the motor front, perhaps another box from the good old USA?
Team Rickster/Ackland can be spotted on the Schnee web site getting 2 new frames, 1 x custom and 1 x standard I believe, Todd Davis will be green all year, he is a Schnee lover.
Todd's boss ran into me at Settlers road house several weeks ago much to his dismay, 10 minutes I spent convincing him of the need to bankroll Todd into a bigger sponsorship deal, if this comes off Todd I should be OK for 20% I reckon.
Norbert built a trailer for Shane's car and promptly sold it on him, they are building another I believe but it could also go on the market, Shane may have a new trailer each week the way it's going.
Shane Webster is looking to bring the old Farrel mobile down to Mandurah before next season, we will fix those brakes so he can go a bit quicker.
Team Oliver 45 are going to powder coat their chassis after Tom Price, big budget next year, new wings as well and a fresh motor, now that torque tubes bolted in properly he may just get a move on.
Team Dhu has a couple of chassis that he is going to have Murph look at to get a new car together, he is having a couple of runs in Watto's car before the season proper to get back into the swing of it.
Team Crabbe junior has still not advanced much, the chassis is still sitting on the ramps in the shop untouched and unloved, seems she may have to show some more enthusiasm before any one does any work for her.
Team Crabbe senior has acquired some new go fast goodies from the Naylor shop in the USA, we have got a trick fuel system and carby from C&S that Jimmy Naylor is fitting up prior to the engine coming home, thanks team G Davis for the good oil on carby's.
We still have 2 motors coming in from the US if any one is interested in buying a good 580 to 600 hp engine, these engines will be right up there for specs and at a good price, both are all new.
The JEI has had some interest from all over the state, each person says they want to run in the limiteds, we are getting more and more known in the sprintcar world.
Tom Price looks on, we have 5 cars going up to have a run, looking forward to getting back into the seat, hope we don't run more than 10 lap heats and 20 lap feature though.
Catch you
Crabby.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Anyone want to go racing in Tom Price?
Hi all,
Anyone interested in racing in Tom Price on the 24Th of July?
We are possibly sending a double road train up to demob some gear and may be able to cart 4 cars on trailers, depending on trailer sizes, we have light vehicles in Tom Price which can tow the cars to the track.
The next weekend after this is the FeNaCl festival in Karatha, we may also be able to run this 2 night meeting.
If we can get the cars I will organise the rest.
Crabby
Anyone interested in racing in Tom Price on the 24Th of July?
We are possibly sending a double road train up to demob some gear and may be able to cart 4 cars on trailers, depending on trailer sizes, we have light vehicles in Tom Price which can tow the cars to the track.
The next weekend after this is the FeNaCl festival in Karatha, we may also be able to run this 2 night meeting.
If we can get the cars I will organise the rest.
Crabby
News from Carnarvon
Neil Fancote has sent through the results from the North West Championship meeting held in Carnarvon over the long weekend.
Jim (One I) Andreoli won with Steven Lyall second, Burke Holla ran third.
The Carnarvon boys are running Shark Bay and the Karratha FeNaCl festival.
How about some news from Geraldton?
Catch you
Crabby
Jim (One I) Andreoli won with Steven Lyall second, Burke Holla ran third.
The Carnarvon boys are running Shark Bay and the Karratha FeNaCl festival.
How about some news from Geraldton?
Catch you
Crabby
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Hi All
Well it has been a big week.
Tuesday and Wenesday in the 28 deg temps in the Pilbara and then Thursday in the 4 deg temps of Kalgoorlie.
How I hate quoting on work, keeps you away from the fun stuff like family friends and racecars, not necessarily in that order I might add.
Still others have had bigger weeks, Gavin had his throat to stomach valve rebuilt and is enjoying his soup diet, he should go underweight next season.
No one has sent me any info on what is happening in their sheds, why is this? I need some good info to put on this blog, give me the good oil you lot.
If you do not know my email you can reply to driver@limitedsprintcars.com.au on our web page.
Steve
Tuesday and Wenesday in the 28 deg temps in the Pilbara and then Thursday in the 4 deg temps of Kalgoorlie.
How I hate quoting on work, keeps you away from the fun stuff like family friends and racecars, not necessarily in that order I might add.
Still others have had bigger weeks, Gavin had his throat to stomach valve rebuilt and is enjoying his soup diet, he should go underweight next season.
No one has sent me any info on what is happening in their sheds, why is this? I need some good info to put on this blog, give me the good oil you lot.
If you do not know my email you can reply to driver@limitedsprintcars.com.au on our web page.
Steve
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