Thanks. It was an ordeal. We got down there on the Friday from Sydney. About 2.5 hours. Drove a bit on the Sat to find that the clutch and gearbox were talking less and less.
Eventually not at all. Decided to pack it up at about 3pm. Driving back Paul called me to say we might have to head back there. Why I thought? Because I can fix this overnight and get back here tomorrow morning.
He thought it was a spigot bearing off the crank. So they somehow got a hold of the guy who runs the bearing shop and convinced him to go back there, open up, and hand deliver the bearing the to workshop.
Bloody decent of him! As it turned out it wasn't that bearing but a cracked clutchfork. They were able to wriggle it out without having to remove motor and welded it up. Zipped up the clutch and in bed by midnight.
Drove back down to Wakey next morning and slowly snuck up on the time set by Nik Kallis on the day before. (60.296) In the last lap of the last session Paul squeaked home with the 60.207. To be fair to Nik Kallis
he would have won the event had they not dragged him out of the sandpit backwards and up the tiltray thereby destroying his front end and doing many thou$ands of dollars damage! It was pure bonehead cubed.
We were lucky but you can only beat who is in front of you. There's a lot of luck in Motorsport. Most of it is bad. We've had enough of our own so have to accept the win with good grace.
Eventually not at all. Decided to pack it up at about 3pm. Driving back Paul called me to say we might have to head back there. Why I thought? Because I can fix this overnight and get back here tomorrow morning.
He thought it was a spigot bearing off the crank. So they somehow got a hold of the guy who runs the bearing shop and convinced him to go back there, open up, and hand deliver the bearing the to workshop.
Bloody decent of him! As it turned out it wasn't that bearing but a cracked clutchfork. They were able to wriggle it out without having to remove motor and welded it up. Zipped up the clutch and in bed by midnight.
Drove back down to Wakey next morning and slowly snuck up on the time set by Nik Kallis on the day before. (60.296) In the last lap of the last session Paul squeaked home with the 60.207. To be fair to Nik Kallis
he would have won the event had they not dragged him out of the sandpit backwards and up the tiltray thereby destroying his front end and doing many thou$ands of dollars damage! It was pure bonehead cubed.
We were lucky but you can only beat who is in front of you. There's a lot of luck in Motorsport. Most of it is bad. We've had enough of our own so have to accept the win with good grace.
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