News/Racing Updates

509p New Car is under way.

The Knight racing bus is getting the floor lowerd so the cars can go in a bit easier.

After a rugged week in the shed getting the 510p back to teams race ready we set off for palmy a little later than we had hoped we were ment to meet the rest off the steelers and head to the track together but as we were late I rung ahead and said  we would see them at the track.

All the Steelers cars passed scruntineering

 

Our first teams race of the night was against the Stratford Stormers we got a great start with Jayden Ward and Josh Prentice and Darrel Wallace making there way towards the front I came up on a Stratford car giving Wallace a hard time so I banged it in he turn1 wall as I got going Damien Heistand  spun me up and ended up on my side rail as I sat there I surveyed what was happening round the track and picked out who I perceived to be Stratfords leading runner car that was following the leading steelers I set out to slow that car but also play havoc with the block cars so my runners could keep knocking back the laps later in the race Sandy Fleet went to go round me as I was mucking round with a block car of Shane Kells I switched attention and proceeded to park him up the wall the other steelers blockers were doing the business as well giving 10 p Josh Prentice the win.

Steelers 135, Stormers 60
10p Josh Prentice, 408s Shane Kells, 34p Rob Mason, 404s Haydin Barker, 971p Jayden Ward

Race 2 we were against the Wellington Young Guns A tough race was predicted, and one of the best races of the night occurred with a number of lead changes. Jayden Ward was the initial front runner, the newest Steeler 16p Justin Kinane was blocking 54w Josh Kahui  which gave Prentice 2nd place . The Young Guns fought back well,  holding up Prentice then later on 55w Paul Gaskin tangled with Ward, allowing 52w Kyle Lane to take back the lead. He was in turn tactically blocked by 557p Darrel Wallace,Rob Mason was causing all sorts of head aches for the welly cars,not long after   the red lights were activated to remove Prentice from up the wall due to a nice block move by 53w Allen Levien, Jayden Ward was back in  front once again. good driving for the final few laps saw Ward take the victory in what was a major upset for the Welly team, ...

Steelers 135, Young Guns 60
971p Jayden Ward, 52w Kyle Lane, 34p Rob Mason, 54w Josh Kahui, 557p Darrel Wallace

this left us on 270 points the pumas had 280 so we had to watch and wait to see if any of the other teams got more than 270 points to knock us out of the final.(they didnt)so it was a Steelers vs Pumas Final

The Final

I cant really say much about this race as i was watching Jayden Ward most of the race he shot out to the lead and had 40m on Rees for most of the race untill Gavin Taniwha had a stab at him Ward hit the picks hard and Taniwha managed to puncher Wards front left tyre before rolling the tank with a little help from fellow Puma Alec Wilson.That punture hampered Wards progress allowing Rees to gain on him ,Ward got held up allowing Rees past with Wards fast momentum gone , he got going again he come up on Wilson who slowed him up enough for Ronald Tye to push Ward down the straight at the end of the grandstand straight Wallace latched on to the train and sent Tye and Ward into the wall Ward rolled over and Tye hurt his sholder ending both there races.Rees cruised to victory for the Pumas followed home by Steelers Wallace and Prentice.

1st: Pumas, 2nd: Steelers
32p Peter Rees, 557p Darrel Wallace, 10p Josh Prentice, 33p Gary Davis, 35p Alec Wilson

Thanks to the 8 teams that made the night such a great event and congrats to Waikato Raiders for 3rd place over the Wanganui Vulcans

Chris was racing in the consulation races his first race he was playing around with his good mate Sam Doyle doing some slow speed banging and crashing 

Race 2 didnt last long for chris as Young Gun   Josh kahui took his frustration on not making the final out on chris resulting in the 509p car on its side in turn 1,Kahui introduced his bumper to a few other palmy cars that race.

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Hawera Automotive Chev Vortec V6 all the good bits,HQ Holden gearbox,fully floating 9' diff,New body never being used,all spears go with car, ALL SERIOUS OFFERS CONSIDERED ph 06 273 8687  (minus seat)

509p FOR SALE

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Night 2

The Steelers team worked on there cars getting them prepared for night 2 ,id like to thank Chris Dad Pete and Wal for all the work they did getting the 510p car ready to race again .we knew we were up against the Gisborne Gladiators .we knew we were one man down due to Gareth Edwards broken wrist but that was ok his bumper was repaired and the car sorted incase we needed it for our last race.

The race started well for the Steelers a few laps in we were running 1 and 2 I came up on a Ian Barron slammed in the back of him got him out of shape and as I passed tagged his front wheel so he couldn’t try and wind me off in turn 3 I was as close to the pole line as I could get with going over it next thing another gizzy car comes flying up the inside of me his hole car was off the race track, he smashed in the side of me as I turned the corner and planted me in the wall bending the bumper back to the wheel I carried on with limited steering a lap or so on I took a swipe at a gizzy car and ended up sideways across the track Barron took his opportunity and cleaned out the front end in a textbook teams race hit (boy did that do sum front end damage) the car died so that’s were I sat watching Rob Mason , Graeme and Jayden Ward from my team do the business taking the win.

The damaged received to my car was to much to get sorted before our final race of the weekend against the Meeane Maulers so I got acustomed to 9p Gareths car I was very apprensive as I didn’t feel comfortable in the seat to start with and was a little worried about ending up in the bed next to Andy Powell but once it was race time the uncomfortable feeling disappeared I got the hang of the car ,im not really sure what happened in this race I just set about hitting any black and white car that I got near before I knew it the race was over and the Maulers had taken the win we finished 6th overall. Congrats to the Auckland Ally Cats the Waikato Raiders and Wanganui Vulcans.id just like to thank the Huntly club for the Great weekend and all those people behind the scenes that made it such a great event.

Jay 510p

Leading up to the Taranaki Champs for Stockcars the decision was made to flag it and concentrate on the BIG EVENT the Huntly Teams Invitation, as the car was practically race ready it wasn’t long and the Steelers team wing and body and bonnet were transplanted on the 510p chassis and she was ready to wreck.

 

Teams Night 1

After a nice trip up to Huntly the Steelers team arrived at the Essex Arms Hotel. Everyone laxed out till it was time to head to the track

The cars went thru scruntineering with only 34p Rob Mason needing minor work, a bar welded into the rear of his car to protect the fuel tank was all that was needed to rectify the issue.

The 1 st race we came up against Meeanee Maulers they got a great start with Regan O’Brien in the lead Andy Powell 2 nd and myself close behind a few laps in I caught Andy down the start finish straight as he turned the corner I drove him into the wall sideways the reds were soon activated unfortunately Andy was hurt and had to be taken from the track while still under red lights I was moved back around the track which turned out to be a good thing as there was a massive pool of oil under 97p Graeme Wards car I pointed to it and he pulled to the infield .when the green flag dropped again  O’Brien had a resonable lead I chased but wasn’t catching ,Gareth Edwards and Jayden Ward were causing havoc for the other Hawkes bay cars, the Steelers luck was about to change when O’Brien came up on the Rookie Ward who managed to slow him up and then spin O’Brien in turn 2 allowing me to pass and take the lead with great blocking from Edwards and Ward I managed to stay out of trouble and get the chequered flag.

 Race 2

We had the Home team Waikato Raiders who were looking the part in their new team bodies the race started well for us and after sum early jostling I was leading with fellow Steeler Gareth Edwards on my tail in 2 nd 1 of the Huntly blockers was battling with Rob Mason I went to duck up the inside and Gareth run wide the blocker picked up speed and managed to take Edwards into the wall while I snuck threw ,a couple of laps latter going into turn 3 I herd a huge bang my right rear had popped I slowed up just as a Huntly blocker come in for a hit I glaised the wall and in came another shot from a different moo loo car  I now couldn’t run for the flag so went into block mode taking swipes at any non Steelers cars hoping that we still had a car up on laps the rest of the team were doing all they could to try and get the win .in a crash Edwards hurt his wrist late in the race, I managed to take the race leadier to the wall on the last lap  last corner and hold him there for a bit but as Waikato were running 1,2 it was to little to late the next car thru took the chequered flag

At the end of the night we had missed out on a top 4 place by a small 10 points which inturn ended the Steelers championship hopes.

 

We later found out that Mauler Andy Powell had received a broken Hip and was  knocked out due to the hit earlier in the night  which was horrible news to hear we wish him well and hope he has a very speedy recovery. The next day while we were all fixing our cars Gareth decided the pain was a bit much and he better go get his wrist checked out, our manager Chris Watson received the bad news that Gareth was out for the night with a broken wrist.

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Called into the Knights place on the way to stratford and got a few shots of the cars in the garage

Knight Racing Update 7-11-11

The 5th of November meeting at Robertson Holden Speedway was the continuation of the Robin Pratt memorial for Stockcars as the week before was cancelled midway thru because of rain. as neither of the Knight Racing cars had raced the previous week we were racing in the consulation races.

With a big field of non qualifers both cars just wanted some track time to make sure we had ironed out all the little gremlins that have plagued both cars so far this season

This race went well for both the 509 and 510p cars with an early battle near the front with both the Taniwha cars of Gav and Chev and Pete Rees Tank as the race progressed Rees got out in front followed by Jay and Chris this is how the race finished,

The next race saw all the cars still mobile from the 3rd heat of the Robin Pratt memorial join in

Early in this race 99p Ronald Tye turned Jay around in turn 2 dropping him from 4th to a lap down Chris was flying and up in the top 3 until a red light late in the race he went to start and had no takeoff gear so by time he got going he slipped back a couple of spots but managed to claw his way back in the top 5 and Jay ended up climbing back to 7th even with the radiator hose splitting at the end of the race cause a nice steaming furry under the bonnet.

All in all it was a good nights racing for both cars

This coming weekend we are planning to head north to our old track Stratford for a skid as Palmy are not running a meeting this weekend and it’s the Taranaki Stockcar Champs.

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Knight Racing Update 28-10-11

After two weeks of racing at Robertson Holden Speedway the knightracing team hasn’t had the greatest starts to the new season with little problems dogging both the 509 and 510 cars.

A big push is being made to get the cars back to being reliable before our next outing .

The new season has seen a few new cars make an appearence at Palmy and a lot of new paint jobs to cars has brightened the pits with some spectacular paint schemes .With regular fields of up to 55 Stockcars being split into A and B grade races it means the fans are getting a lot of on track action .This week is the Robin Pratt Memorial for Stockcars so there will be plenty of action as this title is a very  Prestigious Palmy Trophy up for grabs.

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With the season fast approaching the two cars are progressing well, new steel work completed and a few minor changes to this and that. The cars are ready to head to blastways to be blasted and painted .The bus has had an off season birthday paint job thanks to our sponsors at South Taranaki Panel and Paint thanks Carl. If you need a paint job he is your man.

Carl and his team have painted the Bodies ,Bonnets and Wings and they are now at Abstrac signs in Stratford getting signwritten.

Knight racing is working with Go Slideways TV to bring some incar racing action to a computer near you this season thanks to Pete aka go slideways ,also Wal from www.stockcarscene will take over the website from chris56 so keep an eye out for all his wicked pics from around the tracks.

Knight Racing would like to thank the following Sponsors

* South Taranaki Panel and Paint

* Holden Heaven New Plymouth

* Century Batteries New Plymouth

* Hooper Engineering Kakaramea

* Bp2go Patea

*Khandikane Clothing

*R&S Rural Delivery

*Patea Tyres

* Go Slideways Tv

* www.Stockcarscene.co.nz