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