Yanks American Weekend 2-3 June 2007

Incorporating 29th Gary's Picnic

Shakespeare County Raceway

Entrants

Qualifying

1. OA 1        Paul Wright                   8.18 / 169mph
2. OA 16      Peter Ashworth             8.82 / 152mph
3. OA 82      Richard Colby               9.18 / 149mph (p.b.)
4. OA 14      Ian Norman                   9.33 / 141mph
5. OA 344    Ray Guy                        9.78 / 136mph
6. OA 84      Dave Sidaway              10.39 / 135mph (p.b.)
7. OA 54      Bob Hancox                 10.65 / 119mph
8. OA 81      Simon Barlow              11.25 / 120mph

Ray Guy won the Moving Parts  Reaction time challenge

Bloompy & Sqeaky's Caddy motor "let-go" big time, putting a rod out the sump about 330 ft into their 1st qualifier.

Rob Stone had some Issues with his motor during the warm-up & decided to investigate further.

1st Round

OA14  Ian Norman  v  OA344  Ray Guy

Ray, this events reaction time winner, left on Ian by a tenth, Ian passed him at 300ft to post a winning 9.12/143mph. Ray's time 9.82/135mph

OA16 Peter Ashworth   v   OA 54 Bob Hancox

Pete had been gradually leaning his newly rebuilt motor throughout the weekend 8.72/154mph was another step in the right direction. Bob's first competitive outing in the superb new Prefect ended in this round with a 10.75/120mph.

OA1 Paul Wright   v   OA 81 Simon Barlow

After an eventful qualifying day with only 1 full pass the Guv Drag Racing team were hoping to have ironed out all the bugs a 7.86/179mph showed they were back on track. Simon continued with his new motor set-up posting 11.56/117mph.

OA16 Peter Ashworth   v   OA 54 Bob Hancox

Pete had been gradually leaning his newly rebuilt motor throughout the weekend 8.72/154mph was another step in the right direction. Bob's first competitive outing in the superb new Prefect ended in this round with a 10.75/120mph.

OA82 Richard Colby   v   OA84 Dave Sidaway

Semi-Finals

OA1 Paul Wright  v  OA14 Ian Norman

7.70/184mph for Paul took the win over Ian's 9.37/138mph

OA16 Peter Ashworth  v  OA 82 Richard Colby

Richard suffered broken blower pulley fixings during the first round & was unable to continue. Pete ran a solo 8.74/154mph to progress to the final.

Final

OA1  Paul Wright  v  OA16 Peter Ashworth

The final was a 2-part affair, a timing system issue at the first attempt, resulted in a thrash to turn-round the cars before the curfew. With minutes to spare the lights went green Pete laid down a stunning 8.27/164mph (p.b.) by adding a shot of nitrous. Paul however hsd it covered with a 7.79/180mph to take the event win.