A Superstock in the stable As you see there's another superstock on the go. Rob and Clive Lintern and myself have got this baby up and running and had our first run at Stratford Saturday night 21-11-09. Great to get behing the wheel again and looking forward to when we've go it set up and humming how we want it. Will be trying to juggle this and the modified over the next few weeks to see what works best for us. Cheers  Roydon C Pleased with our first run . . . Thanks to Drew at Stratford for this infield photo. Good start for the season, got a few things sorted, very happy with how weve started, but some tuning still to do, its a real difference from the super but its got us excited . . . . . Cheers Roydon C   New Drive 2009    17-10-09 Yes the rumors are true, and aren’t they great,  I will be contracting to Stratford and racing a mod this season. Not only me, but Ill be sharing the drive with Rob Lintern. The car has finally come together and only the weather has stopped us from getting on the track and setting it up for speed Hoping to be at the Stratford practise and green-sheeting this Wednesday eve to get a few laps in. Thanks to our sponsors Lintern Engineering Collingwood Civil Construction Guthrie Bowron Hawera Energy Honda Mahoney Hire Shane Reid Auto Electrical Hawera Yuasa batteries D-Licks   Wings & things Zodiac Signs – Cameron Hurley   08-09-09 7s Ministock ready to rumble . . A couple of pics of the finished product, and Larissa having a spin in the back paddock. Thanks so far to Guthrie Bowron Hawera, Lintern Engineering, Mahoney Hire,  Harvest Centre Taranaki (CLAAS), Hydraulink Mobile Services (Jim Gould)  Shane Reid Auto Electrical, Collingwood Civil (Dad), Nickel Engineering Sandblasting,  GT Engineering     24-05-09 Next generation of Collingwood’s begins  Yes its started, Larissa, my 12 year old daughter will be racing this year at Stratford in a new ministock.  We have put together a new chassis, an engine which is the standard Nissan/Datsun ( thanks to Paul Woods of Guthrie Bowron Taranaki) and a nice shiny body to go over the top, design and colour to be finalised.  Its all ready to go together this week when I find the time, and with a few practise runs out the back will be ready to go well before the new season.   As for me? Due to have an op on my collar bone soon, the break didn’t heal, in fact it didn’t even come close to knitting, The bone still sits about half an inch apart, so they are going to plate and pin it, should be stronger than ever, the diagnosis was that it snapped in the accident in a place I had broken it a few years back, which they told me must have never healed. So all should be good there. Bit of a bummer really, it was one of the contributors to not heading to the World F1 finals in the UK this year, but on the other side it will give us time to fine tune for next year all going well. Good luck to  Malcom Ngatai who will be headed over flying the Kiwi flag, Im sure he will find it an experience and a half, the people, the speedway culture and the cars themselves. Some speculation as to what I may be doing next season, I’m looking at a bit of a change at the moment, and it looks pretty exciting, but I haven’t finalised anything yet so all I can say is WATCH THIS SPACE. . . . . . . . Cheers Roydon C