It must be nearly Tuesday down there and no race report
come on Brian, we want pics as well.
Sam.
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Geez!
Your onto me Sam.
The week didn't start to well.
Pat my passenger/mate has been having some back pain for awhile and got the results of his MRI on Thursday.
Unfortunately it looks as though he has ruptured three vertebra and may not be able to race again.
As you could imagine the news put a bit of a damper on the whole show.
Pat and I started racing dirt track chairs back in 1981 and I have not raced with any other passenger on a regular basis.
I parked my ass in a corner after the news and decided to pull the pin.
Pat wouldn't have a bar of that and after a few hurried phone calls organised a replacement for this meeting.
Young Kane is the son of one of our toughest rivals and although he hasn't had much experience he was very keen to mix it with his old man.
Saturday's racing consisted of three races combined as a point score.
After some pretty hectic racing Kane's dad pipped us by a couple of points overall for the day, but Kane had some bragging rights as we managed to win two of the three races. But a bad start resulting in a midfield finish cost us in the end.
Pat spent a lot of time between races helping Kane get up to speed with what was required on the bike, so I was a little tardy acquiring photos but I do have some and we will be racing at Winton in four weeks and I promise to do better then.
24 sidecars lined up for the Victorian Historic Titles on Sunday and we all had a great days racing.
The title race was run over 7 laps and we where happy with our second placing considering the circumstances.
7 laps was just a little to far for an old fat fella like me.
MRieck's new cam is the ant's pants.
It has improved our bikes acceleration and torque lower in the rev range, making it a lot easier to ride.
Even with Pat unavailable we still managed to shave off 1.5sec. on our previous best time.
Thanks Mike.
Cheers,
Brian
*Will post pics separately
