Sandfly Alley and Race Team, New Zealand

Thats right it race night at the ole rattle track, Pony boy will be gagging to get some points back after his little weekend trip. Most of the guys have been busy doing other things as well as myself spending time on the camper rebuild. So till tomorrow.

Sorry no pics from last night's meeting, however, to say things didn't go right would be true. Racked the cars up for qualifying and found all the cars going slower than last time here, not a good omen. The racing was very close with the sandfly crew struggling to get some decent speed from the track. The crew made 4 finals and only achieved one win.
Not sure how it happened but the Mac's tools top fueler got beat and ended up 3rd, pie and chips went to Jungle Jim, The Ghost and the 52 chev.
We didn't go hungry with the cuda doing its thing again. I must do some prepping of these cars as its race night at Sandfly next week, so am hoping for some better results.

Well the Upper Hutt weather didn't disappoint, just before kickoff it started raining and never stopped, like it's still raining now.

Pony boy got me this sign, not sure what it means but looks great on the beam.




The crew did some work but not very well on some new/old cars that belonged to ole Kiwi Dave,






Both these cars need to take a good look at them selves



The catering crew checking on progress in the shed before the lads arrive.

So on to the racing, the sandfly crew did an ok job a qualifying with tq's in nostalgia Jungle Jim, inline Cuda and truck 52 Chev.
With only 5 racers turning up, po the ice man had a dog's birthday or something more importanter than racing to attend to.
There was some very close races and i mean close, the sandfly team came unstuck in Pro mod with the Ghost, a 0.000 r/t and a way faster e/t only for the win light to show for the other lane, we are not sure about this but it happens a bit, never mind, the Ghost has a healthy lead, must admit tho it sounds like the cluster gear is on its way out, finishing with a 3rd.

Before the race meet the team owner told the sandfly drivers to keep away from the red drinks which worked as no red lights for us last night.

So who wants to know, well lets say it was better than last week, we were eating up a storm. Sadly, the top fueler Mac's Tools only managed a pie and chips.
A record for the 52 chev taken from Paul in truck and a chicken dinner as well.
Other chicken dinners went to Jungle Jim, The cuda and the Willies in Vintage Gass.

Next week we do it all again at camp mothers Moonshine park.

Well lets just say it was cold. 
Six racers turned up including the ice man, he must have run out of family things to do. 
As we all know cars go slower the colder it gets but this didn't detract from an excellent night's racing.



Camp mothers skite cabinet with his old fast cars in it.

The sandfly team entered 12 cars for the nights racing, the lure a green arm 3 gear was back in action along with the ol yella truck.
Top qualifiers were Jungle Jim, The Cuda, The 52 Chev and Mac's Tools.

Well, we didn't go home hungry, but didn't get everything we wanted.

From the bottom, the altered in Pro Mod finished 4th along with the Crown in inline. 2nds went to The Lure, The Ghost, and Mac's Tools.

Chicken dinners went to Jungle Jim, The Cuda and the 52 Chev which also lowered the track record twice.

So not a bad night's racing, will need to find where the speed has gone in the Mac's Tools car it is running about 1/2 a tenth slower from where it should be so more work for the weekend.
Speaking of the weekend its race time in Texas, we will all be following the races so bring it on.

Next week see's us back at the ice man's cave. See you there.

Pouring over here.

You know and i know its race night and guess what its NOT raining, yea. The sand fly team is back home with some testing and tuning done on sunday and last night, track is running awesome, so wait for tomorrow, FYI pony boy wont be there, so let it rip potato chip.