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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2018 13:23:48 GMT 12
Another one of the good guys and innovators of our sport gone forever.
He will be remembered for coming oh so close to winning the NZ Superstock champs at Meeanee with his NRP Millennium chassis and sadly also for a couple of dreadful incidents at Huntly. Hope the racing yields better outcomes upstairs Vic.
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Post by The Observer on Dec 22, 2018 14:18:14 GMT 12
Wow very sad to hear. My condolences to Blair and rest of family.
One of my favourite memories of Vic was seeing the low beast sneak out of the bus at Qualifying at the NZ title in Hawkes Bay, then watching his car show amazing pace and control, to be leading on points among a sea of Rotorua and Wellington cars intent on taking everything out.
Vic still rolled out the gate in heat 3, and I think Rodney wood got him up the wall in the 4 th lap or so after what was looking like a great run.
He built some awesome cars, and as one of the early adopters of the Toyota v8 really accelerated the shift to Japanese technology that I think has really helped the class grow again.
Thanks for the update Gordon, sad news
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 15:27:39 GMT 12
Some might remember Vic Neal actually raced sprintcars western springs speedway for little while #25. with highlight at that stage being 8 lap record holder 2m 4.6 secs. i think he was born UK came out new zealand as teenager around same time Tony and Mike Allen who raced stockcars uk. possibly about 1955 from memory little bit latter. he was very much incredibly gifted Sprintcar driver RIP Vic neal!!
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Post by hienekenno1 on Dec 22, 2018 17:21:14 GMT 12
I was at the springs in 82/83 when Vic had a big crash into the fence ripping the fencing down,alot of cool photos with the spectators reactions in back ground,alot of memories of Vic some of which has been covered.RIP Vic Neal.
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Post by midway on Dec 22, 2018 19:27:06 GMT 12
A quite gentleman at times who loved his sport of speedway ..
Both at the Springs and at Waikaraka park the presentation was one of the best and very hard to beat even to this day ..
That sound of the Toyota in the 165NRP Stockcar was at its time very hard to beat and the performance was just as equal.
R I P Vic ,condolences to the family ..
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Post by Roger Ex 35A on Dec 23, 2018 6:11:21 GMT 12
Sincere condolences to the Neal Family.
Roger & Anita kesseler
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Post by The Observer on Dec 23, 2018 11:43:43 GMT 12
Nrp165 and Pall Mall can catch up again soon and enjoy the history. I forgot to add Vic was one of the early star drivers to contribute to this board, and I always appreciated his insights he so willingly shared There’s a great link to the NRP cars on race cars MIA macgor.proboards.com/thread/3998/nrp-racecars?page=1 and History from vic and family, and hers a snapshot of the great Pall Malls comments macgor.proboards.com/thread/3998/nrp-racecars?page=1Vic started his stockcar racing around 1977, at a young age, another photo of his first car that is posted up above.  And this is possibly his second car.  And of course the catalyst to the Neal family being in NZ was the 1974 England Stockcar Team tour to NZ.   And when Tony returned to live in NZ he became a member of the Best stockcar team.   |
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Post by nrp271 on Dec 23, 2018 17:54:30 GMT 12
Thank you for all your messages. He will be greatly missed.
For those interested there will be a service for dad on Saturday 29th December at 11am at the Manakau memorial gardens.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2018 18:47:24 GMT 12
Very sad news , Rest in Peace Vic Neal .
NRP cars were all very sharp looking cars , i had the previlege of owning and racing one [ 41m @ Baypark ]
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Post by jayt6 on Jan 7, 2019 12:45:22 GMT 12
RIP Vic
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