Saturday night was the Christmas special at Baypark where, in between races,  the crowd was entertained with Santa flying into the stadium by helicopter.  There were 17 sprintcars lined up which was a good field although it could have been bigger as I heard the promotor had to turn a few cars away  as he wanted a reduced field in order to allow time for Santa etc.We had all heard about what had been done to the track surface over the last month with new clay being brought in then mixed with lime and cement to bind it.  However when I got there and looked at the track, to be honest, it didn’t look much different. That was my opinion until we got out and raced on it. The track is very different now.  Whether it’s good or bad, I’m not sure but it is now smooth and slick with very little drive in it even when it appears damp.


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 The team have had a big weekend on the road racing at Palmerston North Saturday night and Wellington on Sunday then back to Auckland Monday to wash the car and prepare for Baypark this weekend. Once again we were spoilt with two days of good weather in the lower North Island to complement the effort the promoters had put in down there to create two awesome nights of racing.


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I don’t want to put a jinx on the weather we are getting every Saturday night but again it was a stunning Auckland day with temperatures in the mid twentys and hardly a cloud in the sky – perfect for Sprintcar racing. The fact it was so hot may have had something to do with promotion dumping a massive amount of water on the track prior to warmup. We spent twice as long packing the track sliding around but, to my surprise,  what we ended up with, by the feature race, was by far the raciest track this season.


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