7B Superstock

2008 NZ Superstock Champs Wanganui 21/22/23 February 2008

Thursday morning 7am, Terry, Hayley and Carl leave for Wanganui in the PlaceMakers truck and 7b Superstock on the trailer behind, Thanks to Craig for the trailer. Jeff, Elyse, Ashtyn and Shane leave at a descent hour. They arrive in Wanganui around 4pm, so with practice a few hours away decide to have a bit of a lie down. 5.30pm we head out to see how the track is and get the car going around that tight little Wanganui oval. First practice and the car is set up really lose (wants to spin around) so we make a few little adjustments and go out again, and now when the brakes come on the car pulls to the right so hold on what’s going on here? We decide to load up and check the front left brake out in the morning. We would like to thank 591P Wayne Hemi for his help and advice at practice, hope we can return the favour one day.

Friday morning we get up and unload the car. We start going though the left hand brake and find the rotor has seen better days so off goes Shane, Terry and Carl to BNT while Tony True, Groomey and Jeff check the set up. We get back and find they have fixed the brakes. So we now have a spare brake rotor. So give the car a quick set up check and polish and off the scruitineering. Thanks to Tony True. Mike Groome and everyone else for their AWESOME effort, it is much appreciated.

Now the serious part with Grid draws done at scruitineering we ended up with 6-16-10 not the best on the outside all night long but we will get through that.

Race 1. Grid 6 Flag drops and Shane gets straight over to the inside and spins 24P Russell Harrop(by mistake) Sitting in 2^nd place nicely the red lights come on and 58p 77p and 96h sneak a few spots. Green again and soon the right side exhaust system gets knocked off 7b and man is she loud. 5G Joe Faram decides he doesn’t want Shane near the front so turns Shane into the concrete, back to last with 2 laps to go and not much we can do so 13^th..

Race 2 after the exhaust fitted back up. Grid 16. Once again the plan was get to the inside so that’s what we did and it worked, made our way up to approx 10^th and kept going forward and finished a very good 5^th place.

Race 3 currently 9^th in group and 6 go though so there was 1 goal FINISH and finish well.

Grid 10 again same plan. Managing to stay out of trouble and making up some good positions coming home about 8th. Finishing 7^{th= with} 16B Steve Jude in our group unfortunately not enough to get through.

Saturday morning off to Murray Longs father- in- laws, to wash the car and repair the exhaust, which we managed to do, thanks to Jeff for his hard work. Murray for his knowledge and everyone else who helped we couldn’t have done it without you.

Saturday Afternoon off to the track for scruitineering and the all important winner take all repocharge. Grid 3. Well with Wanganui’s famous tight 1^st bend we had to get out of there as quick as possible. We did and turn 3 Shane was leading. A few laps into the race 23C was seen waiting and yes sure enough it was for 7b. Swing and a slight touch but not enough to slow Greased Lightning. 2 laps later again here’s that 23C and again swing and a miss. Unfortunately it all went downhill and a spinning car left Shane no where to go but into him. 492C Campbell McManaway took the lead and the white flag. Shane’s qualifying hopes over, then 24 B Gary Foley took the 23C car into that tight corner, setting him up nicely for Shane to give him a bit of pay back, accordingly Shane grabbed the chance taking off part of the 23c  bumper as he  carried on.

Back in the pits it was  congratulations, hand shakes and a well done to Campbell, that’s what Stockcar racing is all about. 7B having to much damage to finish the rest of the night (crew wanted to watch finals) it was onto the trailer, and up to the bank to watch  what was 3 awesome Superstock races.

Congratulations 92R Kyle Fraser for winning the most prized trophy in NZ Superstocks 1NZ, Wayne Hemi for his well earned 2NZ. And Darryl Taylor a very well deserved 3NZ.

Thanks Shane, Terry and the greased lightning Superstock team

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