What a meeting !! first night the GB team put in a hell of a display of teams racing, and without any major damage. Qualified in the top 4, but just when you think its all good, the throwout bearing crapped itself, so just before the 1st race on the finals night we had the gearbox out and we replaced the bearing with a borrowed one.
The GB team had a win against Waikato, Tom got right into the blocking thing in this race. The boys put in a hell of an effort to get the car right for the final only to have the borrowed throwout bearing die on us again, so Tom jumped into Stu's car and with the team brought huge respect to finish runners up.
A BIG congrats to the Nelson Tigers, I know the dedication and determination they had to win this event and it showed on the night against the Panthers and the GB team.
This was a disaster as we finally found after the meeting that we had moisture in the computer, but the boys rectified this and we were ready for the Palmy teams champs.
The following weekend was the NZ Superstock champs at Kihikihi, I had promised my nephew that I would go to the Woodville motocross with him which coincided with this, so I missed that, but looking ahead who knows what will happen on Feb 27th ( just need a car Ha Ha..). . . .
Cheers
Roydon C
World 240s 2010 Rotorua 28/01/10
Tom Harris drove the car really well to be top on points going into the 3rd heat, which is de-ja-vu for me as this is where I was at last year at the same point and ended up with a 4 day vacation in Vegas hospital.
Payback from Peter Bengston (Tom got him last year ) came swiftly in the final which slowed things a little, but pleasing to see Tom come home 6th overall.
Cheers
Roydon C
A Superstock in the stable 18/11/09
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
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