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.