Carnarvon Wrap Up.

Hi all,

Shane Webster asked me to post this, for memories sake.

Carnarvon was another weekend of fun, first night was rained out and we hit the local pubs, just like the old days of playing rugby when we travelled around the Pilbara there were plenty of crew members and family out and about but the local drivers were conspicuous in there absence, we had plenty of amber fluid and food but all got out of there early enough to be fit for a 2pm double meeting race day on Sunday.

Sunday came and the track started to dry out, at 1pm we started wheel packing but it was to no avail, the mud just would not pack, the track was too wet for a grader so we waited some more, about 40 mins later 4 super sedans went out and started to try and run a line in, they succeeded and we took the sprintcars out again to help out, we rolled a 1.5 car wide line in and we were muddy but ready to go.

Not sure who won all the heats as we were bum up and head down in our camp but I can tell you Annette lost a fuel pump drive coming off of turn 4 which put her into the wall gently, the race was called after we got about 3 racing laps in which pissed me off no end, after getting several tonnes of mud on the car to get the race meeting going it appeared we were going to be given the short shift all night which is exactly what happened, there was no crane or anything else sent out to get Annette's car, it was left on the wall and we had to go and get it ourselves, thanks for coming 900km's to support our club, in the words of Sheldon from the big bang theory "that was sarcasm".

I won heat 3 and started off the back of heat 4, a big move on Robbie Stephens down the back straight on the outside had me tearing out the Jacobs ladder mounts on my chassis, my night was run, we got my power steering pump into Annette's car and my headers off and onto Glen's car being driven by Cory Gilpin and got them back out for the last few heats and the feature.

There were no other problems for the others and the track dialled in very fast.

The feature had Mick McGinnes off pole and Mat Peaker from Karatha on the outside pole.
Mick got away quickly and the positions really did not change from there, although the track was a bit one lane, the speed of the surface ensured unless someone made a big mistake it was a drag race for the brave.

1st Mick McGinnes
2nd Mat Peaker
3rd Robbie Stephens.

In summary we had a great time, but if the sprintcars run with the North West Championship for Sedans next year then we will be giving it a miss, it is just to far to go to be messed around.

The crowd may not have seen too much passing but they witnessed some of the fastest sprintcar racing you will see.

Steve (prima donna) Crabbe