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Post by westford on Feb 1, 2019 19:01:13 GMT 12
Is anyone heading along that can offer race updates etc for all us poor folk? Percy is there he could do them😜 Are you there to Shunta? You could do them. |
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Post by spdwayorthehway on Feb 1, 2019 21:07:15 GMT 12
Still running on Speedway live
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Post by magilla on Feb 1, 2019 21:08:20 GMT 12
So far the most impressive has been Jamie Larson. Next would be Kofoid and then Pickens.
Points don't mean anything until after last heat.
71a hit wall finished heat with flat right rear though given as dnf so he sure to protest that as did finish. 51m also had a dnf.
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Post by standman on Feb 1, 2019 21:28:42 GMT 12
Snz has ruled you cant use the wall as an advantage which is fair enough,However how do you ride this Cromwell wall when its completely straight with no lip.For Jmac to hit the wall and deem it as a dnf.Hard done by I reckon. wtf - you're kidding right............... |
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Post by brickie on Feb 1, 2019 21:28:55 GMT 12
Is anyone heading along that can offer race updates etc for all us poor folk? Percy is there he could do them😜 Percy did a great job mate........🤣🤣 |
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Post by powerbuilt on Feb 1, 2019 21:33:13 GMT 12
Snz has ruled you cant use the wall as an advantage which is fair enough,However how do you ride this Cromwell wall when its completely straight with no lip.For Jmac to hit the wall and deem it as a dnf.Hard done by I reckon. Looks like Livelaps adjusted to show JMac as finishing. |
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Post by hmac on Feb 1, 2019 21:43:14 GMT 12
Audio coyerage on speedwaylive was very good,sounded like a great night 1. Couple of hard luck stories with a few of the crashes, and the odd mechanical woes, but all in all, sounded impressive. Final night heats be more than interesting. Lotta tight points to be won or lost.
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Post by seatfiller on Feb 1, 2019 21:54:37 GMT 12
So is anyone going to post some results? Just got home and hoped to find something here!
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Post by magilla on Feb 1, 2019 22:04:36 GMT 12
I can't understand why that rule about using wall as an advantage is in open wheel section. It is a stockcar rule surely? Touching the wall in an open wheel car would never be an advantage
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Post by brettgrace on Feb 1, 2019 22:32:35 GMT 12
Don't tell Haudenscheild that
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Post by percy on Feb 1, 2019 22:33:08 GMT 12
Was doing live results on the Percy's NZ Speedway Facebook page. The Cromwell track page looked to be doing a good job of official results.
Don't tell Greg Mosen but Cromwell is my favourite track in the country. Tonight's Sprintcar racing enhanced that reputation. It's such a cool track. They do some small things well.
Hope they can handle the sunstrike better on night 2. I'd be rejigging the entire schedule to get the Sprintcar heats done before the sun becomes an issue. Also a great opportunity for some serious track work.
Standouts included 8usa Kofoid but for me the revelation was 57n Connor Rangi. 41t Jayden Dodge has potential and Luke Keegan was consistent without being spectacular.
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Post by seatfiller on Feb 1, 2019 22:38:45 GMT 12
Was doing live results on the Percy's NZ Speedway Facebook page. The Cromwell track page looked to be doing a good job of official results. Don't tell Greg Mosen but Cromwell is my favourite track in the country. Tonight's Sprintcar racing enhanced that reputation. It's such a cool track. They do some small things well. Hope they can handle the sunstrike better on night 2. I'd be rejigging the entire schedule to get the Sprintcar heats done before the sun becomes an issue. Also a great opportunity for some serious track work. Standouts included 8usa Kofoid but for me the revelation was 57n Connor Rangi. 41t Jayden Dodge has potential and Luke Keegan was consistent without being spectacular. Thanks for that information  Keep up the good work |
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Post by powerbuilt on Feb 1, 2019 22:49:26 GMT 12
Was doing live results on the Percy's NZ Speedway Facebook page. The Cromwell track page looked to be doing a good job of official results. Don't tell Greg Mosen but Cromwell is my favourite track in the country. Tonight's Sprintcar racing enhanced that reputation. It's such a cool track. They do some small things well. Hope they can handle the sunstrike better on night 2. I'd be rejigging the entire schedule to get the Sprintcar heats done before the sun becomes an issue. Also a great opportunity for some serious track work. Standouts included 8usa Kofoid but for me the revelation was 57n Connor Rangi. 41t Jayden Dodge has potential and Luke Keegan was consistent without being spectacular. Kofoid is amasing in traffic and I cannot recall any other driver able to open up a lead once in front, hope he takes out the title has will increase the chances of him coming back here next summer. Rangi is only 17 and just his second year in a sprintcar after coming out of Youth Mini Stocks and is not on a big budget. The War of the Wings series had ceretainly raised the standard of sprintcar racing down here and well as numbers racing, with the likes of Rangi, Dodge, Alicia Mclaughlan (running the smallest engine in the field), Keegan and Caleb Baughan all coming on in leaps and bounds in the two two season. |
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Post by charlie on Feb 2, 2019 5:29:53 GMT 12
I watched the pits stream, would recommend it to anyone not down there that wants to watch.
I think Leversedge's move on astle takes the award for dirtiest move of the night, just clean drove over him.
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Post by magilla on Feb 2, 2019 6:03:32 GMT 12
I watched the pits stream, would recommend it to anyone not down there that wants to watch. I think Leversedge's move on astle takes the award for dirtiest move of the night, just clean drove over him. he does that |
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Post by magilla on Feb 2, 2019 6:55:26 GMT 12
note change to format agreed to by all entrants.
1. Heats changed from 10 laps to 12
2. Championship Feature changed from 18 cars to 20. That means top 4 from B Main go through to feature.
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Post by lefthook on Feb 2, 2019 7:11:50 GMT 12
As a Western Springs regular, I gotta say how good is this young south islander Conner Rangi ? His last heat race must of been one of the best races of the night starting at the back and finishing 2nd. It will have to be elbows up from a Kiwi to stop Buddy Kofoid though. Bring on tonight !!
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Post by woodart on Feb 2, 2019 7:21:51 GMT 12
I can't understand why that rule about using wall as an advantage is in open wheel section. It is a stockcar rule surely? Touching the wall in an open wheel car would never be an advantage go back and watch coverage of gold cup at ruapuna. a couple of the drivers were putting right rear well up the wall, lap after lap. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2019 7:39:04 GMT 12
Good luck tonight to the competitions on AJ's bucket list. Fix the rolling R thing, then you can claim him...
IT'S TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
by AJ Batt (sprintcar and speedway doyen, author and track announcer)
It pains me to say this, but I've attended 38 editions of the New Zealand Sprintcar Championship, been on the announcing team at 12 of them, but never yet called a Mainlander home into victory lane - or in fact onto the podium. I'm getting old and if there's one last thing remaining on my speedway bucket list, well this weekend presents a grand opportunity for one of our boys - or Alicia (the only SI sprintcar lady driver) to stand up and be counted.
For a good number of years the South Island dominated what has now become the New Zealand Sprintcar Championship, but to be fair, apart from a couple of blips on the radar, the past forty years have been a benefit for North Island based drivers. The last South Island resident to win the nationals is Jamie Duff, who took out the 'big gig' at Palmerston North in 2015 but so desperate are the 'Rangitoto Yanks' to 'manipulate' the records they say (correctly) that Jamie was contracted to Auckland so the win is theirs. WRONG!!! Duffman is as much a part of Canterbury as a nor west wind, buggered buildings and winning sporting teams. Apply that previous logic of 'where you were registered' and the Jaffa's will also gladly claim Jonathan Allard and Sammy Swindell who are as American as apple pie.
We shall therefore claim Buddy Kofoid, a long time (3 weeks?) resident of Te Anau but I kind of get the feeling that we won't need to rope in the likeable, throttle heavy and super talented 17-year-old kid from Penngrove , California because 'the south, it is a rising'...but if we need to, then we've drafted Buddy onto 'our side'.
Sprintcar fever is alive and well on the Mainland, and it’s a frenzy fuelled by the highly successful Hydraulink War of the Wings. The northerners can only dream about having a domestic series that ticks the boxes- great competition, stunning growth in Sprintcar numbers, a $100,000 prize pool and regular 20 plus lineups in the pits. Our boys now know what it’s like to regularly do 25 lap features...they are well used to heavy traffic and above all else, they are regulars at Cromwell- a track that really is too tough to tame.
Jamie Duff is obviously 'the lord of the sprintcar ring' here on the mainland, but he's got some super talented racers who are really applying some heat- and they're young! Connor Rangi, Sam O'Callaghan, Steve Duff, Jayden Dodge, Caleb Baughan have looked in great form this season...but so too have the seasoned campaigners like Ray Baughan, Daniel Anderson and Matt Honeywell, and we all know that the 'Captain' Jason Scott will defend his patch here at Cromwell stoically. There's that other good Christchurch lad Matt Leversedge who has been racing it up with the big boys at Western Springs and notched up some great results...and then the unknown quantity of Invercargill born Jason Pryde who races in among the really big dogs on the World Sprintcar Series stage in Australia.
Only a fool would write off the North Islanders. Jamie Larsen and Jamie McDonald are both hugely popular down here- in fact they're the sort of 'good buggers' that we like down this way. Rodney Wood has won his two national Sprintcar crowns here at Cromwell and knows how to go around here super fast. Stephen Taylor's obvious talent is not on display as often as we'd like to see while the TAB pundits are likely to have installed Michael 'Slim' Pickens as a raging hot favourite. By all means forget the other drivers not yet mentioned, but that comes back to bite you firmly on the butt with few picking Kerry Brocas to win the nationals last year, and even fewer were behind Ben Finemore in 2005...but it only takes one good race.....a ship load of luck and every thing to click on the night. No pressure boys (and girl) but its time for someone to stake a claim for the biggest prize in NZ Sprintcar racing, and I can't think of a better track for a South Islander to do it, in this the 49tgh New Zealand Sprint Car Championship!
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Post by BarryB on Feb 2, 2019 7:54:02 GMT 12
I can't understand why that rule about using wall as an advantage is in open wheel section. It is a stockcar rule surely? Touching the wall in an open wheel car would never be an advantage go back and watch coverage of gold cup at ruapuna. a couple of the drivers were putting right rear well up the wall, lap after lap. That seems to be something you can do at Ruapuna and survive, maybe even gain, but not at Cromwell. If they thought JMac's hit, with both ends of the car, gave him an advantage? I'm wondering whether the hot dislodged his transmitter and he was manually inserted into the results later. The commentary missed it (it was virtually under the comm box) and he slowed immediately, so there was definitely no advantage with about 3 laps still to travel. Best drive I saw was Connor Rangi's last Heat, and Kofoid looked good, but then I got home late and missed the start and fell asleep in the middle, so only saw MP race once (the one with the flat tyre) so a little hard to judge how they all went. I'm with Percy. My favourite track in the country. Barry B |
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