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Extract from last weeks Auto Action.

Jamie Howard took his 1st career win at oran park August 30-31, round 2 of MoPro Cup Championship which introducted a new format endurance race with pit stops. Howard took the win over Kegg with Jones 3rd. Kegg and Baker were directed into wrong grid positions and both Howard and HANDLEY capitalised.

Duncan then battled with 3 others poofs and then something must have happened cause he doesn't get a mention after that.

Neil.

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Funny, we did 2 races that weekend, both times I was gridded up in the wrong spot, 3 spots back first race, 1 forward 2nd race - pretty frustrating when you've given it a big run in qualifying...

anyway, sure did capitalise :) was running 2nd until about 20 min into the race. A commonwhore pulled out of the pits directly in front of me, instead of giving way to the car on the racing line, he thought it would be a good idea to just cut in front of me. I went so far off the track thru kitty litter I needed a map to find my way back :(

And something did happen as I battled the other poofs (didn't realise pete was out there :) ), the engine mounts broke and it kinda fell out :(

Man those cars must be crap to drive,,,shit every race they brake cv's,,,crack chassis rails and engine mounts. That Pony-tailed little clown that runs the class must be laughing all the way to the bank. Someone should pull him aside and give him a good flogin.

Neil.

Actually, I had a disastrous start to the year mechanically - first 3 races I had serious engine problems that kept me out of contention. Once there was agreement that there was a problem.....they did a great job fixing it and it was very much up to scratch at the last race.

Of the 13 daewoo starters there were only 2 DNFs in this enduro, my car with broken engine mount and another with broken gearbox selector.

They sure did have a shocker at the Wakefield 500, something like 5 cars retired with cracked chasis (all in the same spot). ALl have now been strengthed in that area.

I guess I'm trying to say, it *really* hurts when something mechanical puts you out of a race. However, to be fair to these guys, things do go wrong with race cars, and on the whole I think their relibility is OK (W500 excepted...).

The saying is "that's racing", there are plenty of bad stories out there. I'll be running a car for myself next year, we'll see how it goes for reliability, but it won't necessarily be much better.

Vote 1,,, Duncan for your seat at the next State election. I knew you wouldn't bad mouth Mr Ponytail. Just wondering though,,,,who has ever got any prize money outa this bloke?.

Neil.

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I'll be running a car for myself next year, we'll see how it goes for reliability, but it won't necessarily be much better.

Hahaha... well we all know that perhaps you should have stuck with the daewoo! :(

Sorry for bringing this one back from the dead!

rofl teh daewoos are more reliable than teh GTR, farque.

There should be heaps more coverage of us this year, coz the state champs have a special section in Motorsport news after each meeting :(

:P

The series I'm (almost) racing in now is combined touring cars in the NSW State Championships, they're actually racing at Eastern Creek this weekend, but apparently I needed a working engine to enter :(

Last 2 years before that I was racing in the Daewoo series, they were doing rounds in the same comp. This year they are supporting the Konicas nationally

ok, combined touring cars are any car built to Group 3e (production car) specs. 2 other 3E series are (were) Procars Performance and Production car classes, only difference is they run on slicks.

Most of the field is Falcons and commonwhores 6 and 8, a familia, gtir, integras etc etc etc any damn thing you want really :P

http://www.combinedtouringcars.com.au/Comp...=&Directory=ctc

BTW check the first photo in the first gallery, thats me taking the daewoo down the inside of a commodore in a corner :(

If any of you are interested,,,the pony-tail clown is running a "Driver Recruitment Day" at Oran park on the 2nd of May.

Daewoo's $220

MG's $275

Lotus Elise $330

He say's you will get a minimum of 4 x 15 minute sessions in the class of your choice.

Contact 02 9681 2929 or

[email protected]

Neil.

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