V8supercars and Round 2 Tas Super Series 2012

I guess I should do what I said I would and fill you all in on the last month or so. So the story starts a bit over a month ago, actually it starts last year since I forgot my passwords and stuff to get in here to post!! After winning my first round in May 2011, things went downhill again. The car was getting hot at that meeting, but it wasnt till we did a ride day shortly after that we found it boiling into the overflow bottle. We wasnt sure what was going on and to make a long storty short, it was the head gasket. But we tried other things first over the next 2 race meetings and it finally cried enough and spatt a welsh plug out of the rear of the cylinder head. So we took the head off, had it cleaned up, replaced the gasket and put it back together. Then it was V8supercar time again. I didnt have enough money to test the car or get it tuned before hand, so we went to the event with fingers crossed. I tried to get some more sponsors, but in the end it was 2 other drivers who helped us get there. Numbers were down this time, only 20 cars entered when the V8's really wanted 26+. Good reason for that being if there are a few break downs, there is still a healthy sized field. Well what happened was just that, more than half the field having dramas of one kind or another. I was one of the lucky ones this time, really lucky! I felt the car wasnt running up to full power and it wasnt. It turned out to be a good thing and probably saved us more headaches! The races were fairly tame, had a couple of good dices, but mostly everyone left me behind due to running around with prob 230kws instaed of 300kws! http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.P4 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.Q1 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.R1 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.R4 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.R11 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?01/04/2012.SYMM.R16 You can view all the results here. This time it was a lucky win, but after what we have been through, Im not complaining!!! Kim Barwick was the outright winner and I was Class B winner.

IM BACK (and in the winners circle)

I finally remembered my login details to this blog! Ill be back with an account of the last 9 months..when I remember it all. Safe to say the highlight was this weekend past In the Targa Invitationals at the V8Supercar event at Symmons Plains, where the car ran almost faultless and we came away with the class B win!! All the details on that and more in the next few days!