Sandfly Alley and Race Team, New Zealand

That was the best tour I've been on in a long time. I'm always excited to see who shows up and how things went.
You can tell Paul I know he knows how to get on here he can give us a race report next week. It's his punishment for missing this week lmaooooo.

Here we go I am new to this, I will try my best.


Great nights racing at MPR with some old and newer records broken.

The first red light of the night came in the second class eliminations of the night when the Impala Raceway Chevelle gave an easy second round win to the Stolen Tudor. Driver Po was a little disappointed to receive an actual cold Lion red. With summer coming, that there’s a challenge!



The night ended with a modest eight recorded red lights.

The class fields were small due to the absence of the Sandfly Alley champion race promoter. He had left to spend the weekend in Straya watching Supercars in sunny Queensland.

Only one incident in the 3 gear b final when Ron’s Firebird ran Al’s Challenger down and kept going over the towel and into the steel back stop. Leaving the Challenger hiding in fear.



Due to a deal Paul made, we had an MPR supper of pinwheel scones. Seen here on its knees and finally Ron takes the one we left for Richard.





While Richard was yucking it up in Oz, Paul and Matt were breaking records!

Paul ran his Motorcraft Funny car to 0.96 breaking Snap on’s long held record.

Matt ended the night with a Top fuel win over “maximum points” Paul’s Optima car and got Richard’s record with the a 0.869.



Kinda smacked em both really!!?

Although Paul really seemed to cope ok with it.



What a pal!!?

Next week we move on to the very fine Impala Raceway track.

Awesome job! Red lights and red lions... congrats on the records. Thanks for keeping us there with you guys.

And there i was welcomed back into the fold like i had never been away, yea right. 7 racers were in attendance, so it was bound to be a good night.

Qualifying was frantic with most of the racers looking like they had been there all day, but never mind, tq's in nostalgia jungle jim, inline cuda, pro mod ghost, truck 52 chev and top fuel mac's tools.

Not a bad haul. 

 

The ice man Po puts on a good race meet and never lets anything get in the way of a good time.



As usual the racing was hard and fast with a number of red-light winners esp Pony boy Paul.



As can be seen here with his red-light prizes stacked up and double parked.

With the sand fly team on point we didn't want to miss out on the refreshments so helped myself to a few as well. Also helped Camp mother, to the first red light prize of the night.



The racing, boy the racing, the sand fly crew fought hard for their places, in 4th was the crown inline and the altered in pro mod. No 3rds. 2nds went to the lure in outlaw and you guessed it beaten by pony boy again in top fuel.



A very happy lawn mower man Alan, i have no idea what this was about, but involved the ice man.

Ok to the chicken dinners and we were well fed, with the jungle jim nostalgia, Cuda inline, ghost pro mod and 52 chev in truck.

So all in all, a good night's racing. Next week sees us back at the fastest rattle track, Mustang Alley.

well that sounds like a cracking idea, will ask him.

Some say if you can turn at the end of the track your not going fast enough.
Qualifying went as expected tho i forgot how slow my cars go on this track. TQ's went to the cuda, and the ghost i think, i should take notes on who does what in qualifying.

There were a few incidents of tactical warfare carried out by some of the races




As can be seen here with the lawn mower man clearing the area with some bad chemicals.

It was good to see more cars racing and a few that upset the expectations of the 7 drivers.



Pony boy seen here dislodging a long-time record of the lawn mower man in funny car from the board.
There also seemed to a new mustang in pony boys fleet, took him a while to spot Matt the Crumps present.



All joking aside back to the racing, the sandfly crew returned an ok performance for the night with a couple of red lights amongst the 20 recorded.

With a total of 14 sandfly cars racing things were going to be tight. 4ths went to lure in outlaw- 3 gear green arm @ 20v, 3rds to the scribble in nostalgia, crown in inline and the mini in outlaw, 2nds went to jungle jim in nostalgia, 52 chev in truck, nash in prostock and you guessed it mac's tools in top fuel.
So to the ever-hungry crew for their chicken dinners, gtx in funny car- 4 gear standard chassis run @20v, cuda in inline and the ghost in pro mod.

Thats all she wrote.

Next week see's the unveiling of a temporary track at lightning park, its another rattle track at 1/4 mile distance, so records will be made. Till then.

Looks like stumble distance to me.