Hi Guys,
HRC Puke & TAUPO Summer 2009
Two weekends in a row at this time of year is becoming the norm It’s a pity the Puke meet clashed with the A1GP but it was a terrific meeting anyway. Puke was FINE and hot 350 odd entries with 40 or so in the historic grid including 11 formula Vee’s from Australia was great. Another large field of 5000s made for an entertaining weekend of motorsport.
4 sports car on the historic grid and we all had a reasonably trouble free weekend in the sun. Perhaps the biggest incident for the sports cars was Bill Stone losing part of his nose to the rear wheel of a Vee that came down on him at the hairpin in the handicap race. A rare racing incident in historic racing but I suspect that Bill was in a bit of a blind spot and just hadn’t been seen. We all double entered into New Zealand Sports Car Grid and practiced with them but when they combined that with the Super Historic’s our cunning plan for more racing for the same price was put on hold.
TAUPO
A repeat of Puke really but on the big track at Taupo. Once again huge fields, lots of entries, lots of heat and lots of fun. The organization once again was superb. Again over 40 on the Historic grid and 4 sports cars but this time Bill Stone stayed at home and Steve Sharpe took his place. No real problems for the four of us and as we all got used to the track lap times dropped and lead places swapped. Bill Roughan had a few minor overheating problems and a broken throttle cable both easily fixed. Brian had minor oil leak in the diff once again an easy fix and Steve lost the clutch in the Historic handicap race. Not quite so easily fixed but he completed the race and I’m sure will have it fixed in no time. This time the cunning plan to race with the NZ Sports cars worked so we had 2 practices and 6 races. Although some of those sports cars are seriously quick the Historic’s often weren’t last and we weren’t unwelcome on the grid so I guess we will be doing that again.
Next meeting is Pukekohe in March entries online now see you there.
Alan Service
Sports Car Coordinator
McRae U2
Albo@woosh.co.nz
