this old girl is still circulating, just but still wins races.
my mate who's the mechanical genius that keeps her together won a grade, very few entries and all the big boys ventured to whyalla as it was the last meeting there before they hold the state titles.
me,
the whole game has changed for me.after the first heat its reverse grid positions for the next heat, us b graders are first out and the tracks mud threw being watered to handle all grades racing for that round. I end up now rear of field and have to fight my way threw the pack in mud.
edge of your seat stuff. one mistake and there goes my chances of winning the meeting for my grade.
yet i have to really push as i encounter some questionable defending of position.
there's two heats of my grade each round, the fast boys from the previous round in 1 heat. the slower times in the other.
guys win the slow heat, then get good grid position in the next round in the fast heat and in mud its easy to hold your position.
i win my race i end up rear of field in the fast heat, yet others with same points and wins in the slow heat get front row.
so she's gonna be hard to take out overall honours this year in meetings.
i did try something sneaky but it didn't work.
I had obliterated one race and the last 2 laps i slowed down to sneak across the line with the slowest time possible, thus get better grid position for the final round.
they stuck me at back anyway.
But there is a positive, I'm learning my craft, overtaking skills, being clean and fast and patient
we had dramas with the car, there's a nice article in this forum about improving reliability.
well it speaks of water pump, ours packed up sunday
it speaks of throttle cable
ours snapped on me in the my final heat after i had one of those starts from the rear of field you dream about.
it speaks of alternator.
the bearings are shot in ours.
we also had a fuel line split, it sucked shit in the Holley, causing drama's.
just about ripped the diff from the floor on the left side, we put fresh rubber on for the last round and well.......
our taco, the needle would hit 4 grand and go backwards.
got a very nasty new dent, fighting my way threw traffic i got up the inside of a cortina out of a corner and had the line to the next two corners, there's only room for one car threw these corners, he refused to budge. on the second corner he went in too hot on my outside and i threw my car into a slide for the corner and i hit him with my rear bumper fair and square in the middle of his drivers door,
he shouldn't of been where he was nor was he going to make the corner, even with pipe in the bumper the rear quarter panel creased a fair bit.
all in all I'm very contented with my driving, after last meet i had concerns but this meet i clearly see myself developing.
Ive finished seven heats this year won 4 of them.
two races ive had to battle from rear of field and only got points, another i got filled in with mud but forgot my tear offs and couldn't push.
the other my throttle cable snapped as the race was opening up for me.
yet last meet the handling of the car went crap, and we believe we might be getting only about 70% out of the 308 atm.
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