The Action Photographer. Ian Abrahams. Pics of Week 15

THE ACTION PHOTOGRAPHER
Ian Abrahams

Limited Saloon Nationals. Rain caused the meeting to rescheduled for Sunday 1p.m.

The winner was 46a Nigel Ross. 2nd 51a Brent McClymont and third 43a Tim Hood.
9a Steve Louden suffered a puncture in the right front after incidental and unintentional contact with Nigel Ross. In the last race he went from the back and after a scrap settled for last. The track had gone away and Steve had was running no stagger after running out of tyres. It was an astonshing sight to see the red corvette running at the back and one which will probably not be seen again.
Phil Towgood spun in one race and was unable to recover the lost ground on a very one lane track.

World 240 Stockcar Championships.
Palmerston North. 16th January 1999

Winner Tony McLanachan from Wellington. Tony Mac with his Nissan powered stockcar had 2 wins and a 6th for 73 points
There was a run off for second after 51r Rodney Wood and 7n Graig Boote each finished with 67 points. The run off was a cracker. There were two real smashing hits. The Rotorua car lost it’s front wheel and it’s wing and was too damaged to drive fast. Boote was leading although his front wheels were wobbling and his rear bumper was dragging on the ground. The engine was missing badly and the car stopped in the top bend. Wood was waiting in pit bend and wasn’t aware for some time that Boote was stalled. The Rotorua car then completed the two laps required using the wall to steer and grading the track with his front bumper. The immaculately presented car of Woods was pretty second hand but as Rodney walked the track back to the start finish line to receive his well deserved trophy the fans gave him a rousing reception.

1NZ Craig Pierce ran the third heat with a flat front tyre after being caught in a mighty shamoozle in the first lap that saw both Rotorua’s Barry Hunter and Wellington’s Brian Musgrove roll after the red lights had come on. Both the 37r and 11w continued althougth Musgrove was to retire a few laps into the race. Hunter struggled to the chequered and scored a total of 42 points in the night to finish 11th. Pierce had 66 points and finished 4th overall.
Shane Penn came 6th with 62 points and is now registered with Palmerston North. Next was Wayne Hemi from Wellington with 61, then Murray Hobbs, 63 points for the Waikato Toyota quad cam, Dave Tennant had 53 points and winner of the third race Kelvin Grey 52 points in his 46p V6.
Three Auckland cars were in the top ten. 4th, Craig Pierce, 9th DT and 10th Kelvin Grey!
The best of the poms was Frankie Wainmann Jnt who finished 5th with 63 points.
John Lund finished all three races for a total of 40 points. In the first race he took 7p Paul Perkins to the wall pushed him up onto the concrete and rolled the local over. Lund also used the power of the 8p tank to chase Stan Hickey into pit bend, whack him into the wall and push him onto the fence. Lund continued but Stan was perched high and immobile for the rest of the race hoping no one would smash into his cage which was exposed to the traffic.
Lund has had his revenge for the F1 World Championship last year at Coventry.

World 240 Stockcar Championships

No.	Driver	Grid Heat 1	Points	Grid Heat 2	Points	Grid Heat 3	Points	Points Total	Placing
94h 515r 55r 69p 66p 29p 75a 5p 58g 67b 35s 46p 79n 8p 57w 17n 7p 51r 3nz 99p 76s 1nz 59w 12w 31r 65s	Murray Hobbs Frankie Wainmann Stan Hickey Barry Podjursky Tony Whittaker Paul Demanser Dave Tennant Bruce Ward Joe Faram Steve Jude Neville Jolly Kelvin Gray Brendon Higgins John Lund Tony McLanachan Craig Boote Paul Perkins Rodney Wood Darren Gray Shane Penn Chris Uhlenberg Craig Pierce Wayne Hemi Brian Musgrove Barry Hunter Bruce Williams	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26	23 25 - 20 21 9 19 7 4 3 6 12 11 13 26 24 - 17 8 15 18 22 16 5 14 10	14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	18 19 - 17 - 10 16 9 - - 11 14 13 12 26 23 8 25 7 24 6 22 2 1 20 15 -	26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 25 23 21 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1	16 19 - - - 14 18 - - - - 26 - 15 21 20 - 25 17 23 - 22 24 - 13 -	57 63 - 37 21 33 53 16 4 3 17 52 24 40 73 67 8 67 32 62 24 66 61 25 42 10	7th 5th 26th 13th 19th 14th 9th 21st 24th 25th 20th 10th 17th= 12th 1st 3rd 23rd 2nd 15th 6th 17t h= 4th 7th 16th 11th 22nd

Limited Saloon Nationals

No.	Driver	Points	Placing
46a 51a 43a 67r 59a 25a 28a 21a 55a 83a 9a 16a 35r 79h 59h 28h 42a 24r 27r 61r	Nigel Ross Brent McClymont Tim Hood Brian Gibley Brian Skelton Chris Miller Phil Gladding Steve Williams Geoff Gentry Nigel Harlen Steve Louden Jamie Bryant Dave Crawford Mike Griffiths Gary Tuck Phil Towgood Chris Tombleson Wayne Garnett Ken Sones Dave Fenton	47 45 44 43 42 42 41 38 38 36 34 34 28 24 20 19 7 0 0 0	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th= 5th= 7th 8th= 8th= 10th 11th= 11th= 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 20th= 20th= 20th=

Saturday Results (as accurate as can be for unofficial results)

Race 1. Ltd Saloons. Repercharge 1. 51a, 35a, 7r, 11a, 17s.
Race 2. Ltd Saloons. Repercharge 2 . 43a, 10r, 87a, 41s, 79a. (Note that the two cars who scrapped into the field via winning their repercharges finished 2nd and 3rd in the Nationals!)
Race 3. Streetstocks. 69a, 8a, 12a, 45a, 7a.
Race 4. Super Saloons. 34a (Murray Baker), 45a, 98a, 96a, 5a.
Race 5. Std Stocks. 26a, 64a, 45a, 89a, 43a.
Race 6. Postponed because of rain
Race 7. Limited Saloon Consolation. 4a, 35a, 31a, 36a, 79a.
Race 8. Streetstocks. 92a, 69a, 8a, 9a, 29a.
The rest of the meeting was washed out.

Sunday’s free meeting Results (as accurate as can be for unofficial results)

Race 1. Saloons. 87a, 41s, 58a, 36a, 98a.
Race 2. Streetstocks. 92a, 29a, 12k, 69a, 64a.
Race 3. Std Stocks. 82h, 124a, 98a, 26a,66a.
Race 4. Limited Nationals Race 1. 9a, 46a, 51a, 35r, 79h, 25a, 16a, 59a, 55a, 28a, 83a, 43a, 67r, 42a,59h, 21a.
Race 5. Consolation Saloons. 87a, 58a, 36a, 98a,4s
Race 6. Streetstocks. 92a, 29a, 69a, 5a (Nevano Cowan), 64a
Race 7. Limited Nationals Race 2. 16a, 28a, 67r, 25a, 43a, 46a, 59a, 21a, 83a, 35r, 55a, 51a, 79h, 28h, 59h, 9a.
Race 8. Std Stocks. 66a, 82h, 99a, 26a, 64a (CJ).
Race 9. Consolation Saloons. 36a, 57a, 4s, 58a, 87a.
Race 10. Limited Nationals Race 3. 21a, 43a, 51a, 67r, 55a, 59a, 83a, 46a, 28h, 28a, 25a, 9a, 59h.
Race 11. Streetstocks. 29a, 8a, 5a, 64a, 12k.

Limited Saloon Nationals. Qualifying. Friday 15th January.
Results (as accurate as can be for unofficial results)

Race 1. Ltd Saloons. Red 1 10 laps. Time 3.32.12. 27r, 9a, 59h, 47b, 67r, 28a, 16a, 58a, 4a, 79a, 31a. 88k finished 2nd but excluded for ignoring board sending to the in field (excessive smoke).
Race 2. Ltd Saloons. Blue 1. 10 laps. No Time. 24r, 59a, 36a, 51a, 61r, 46a, 5h, 83a, 35r, 11a, 4s, 64b.
Race 3. Modifieds. 10 laps. Time 2.45.77. 0a, 21a, 19a, 43a, 33a.
Race 4. Stockcars. 10 laps. Time 3.35.40. 165a, 22a, 17a, 0a, 71a. Carlos Chesnutt in 71 and Clive Bracey in 0a.
Race 5. Ltd saloons Yellow 1. 10 laps. Time 3.00.83. 55a, 42a, 43a, 21a, 7r, 79h, 25a, 28h, 13k, 35a, 6b, 87a, 10r.
Race 6. Ltd Saloons Red 2. 10 laps. Time 2.53.43. 9a, 28a, 16a, 27r, 4a, 67r, 17s, 59h, 31a, 79a, 47b.
Race 7. Modifieds 10 laps. No time. 2nz, 21a, 0a, 33a, 43a. Scott Lane rolled away a big lead against the wall.
Race 8. Std Stocks Team Race. 10 laps. Time 3.49.36. 64a, 53a, 43a, 59a, 34a, 12a, 13a. Carlos Chesnutt Jnr in 64a. Orange Team Cars were 43, 34, 12, and 13.
Race 9. Ltd Saloons. Blue 2. 10 laps. Time 2.49.40. 46a, 61r, 59a, 24r, 36a, 35r, 83a, 11a. 36 relegated to last place.
Race 10. Stockcars. 10 laps. Time 3.03.47. 165a, 22a, 17a, 16a, 71a.
Race 11. Ltd Saloons. Yellow 2. Time 2.58.92. 35a, 28h, 25a, 7r, 79h, 10r, 43a, 55a, 21a, 42a, 87a.
Race 12. Ltd Saloons. Red 3. No Time. 16a, 9a, 31a, 67r, 17s, 79a, 28a, 27r, 4a, 59h.
Race 13. Modifieds. 15 laps. Time 3.55.37. 21a, 2nz, 33a, 43a. Phillip Games armchair turned into a shit ride after he had opened up a huge lead.
Race 14. Ltd Saloons. Blue 3. 10 laps. Time 2.54.93. 46a, 61r, 83a, 59a, 35r, 24r, 11a.
Race 15. Stockcars. 10 laps. Time 3.02.83. 165a, 17a, 22a, 16a, 64a (Std). Jnr in 64.
Race 16. Ltd Saloons. Yellow 3. 10 laps. Time 2.49.63. 28h, 42a, 21a, 79h, 10r, 55a, 25a, 7r, 35a, 43a, 87a.
Race 17. Modifieds. 10 laps. Time 2.41.51. 0a, 21a, 2nz, 33a, 43a.
Race 18. Stockcars. 10 laps. Time 3.01.25. 165a, 22a, 64a, 71a, 17a.
Run-off. 4 laps. No Time. 25a, 7r.
Come back later for pictures .

Limited Saloon Nationals.(Report written after the first night of qualifying.)

This meeting needed a Thunder Storm to drown the track and put the meeting out of it’s misery.
There was no rain.
The field was mostly Aucklanders. It is interesting to note the cars that run hot at their local track but didn’t front and face the Auckland scrutineers for the biggest event of the Speedway year for limited saloons.
The fans of the class turned out to support the event, it is shame that there are less than a thousand fans who pay to see them race. If ever proof was needed that although the limited class is popular with the fans, it is a support class, this boring meeting was ample. If the spectators are at a meeting they like watching the big field of limited saloons race. But those spectators will not come specifically to see the budget sedans go round and round.
The top six from each group qualified and there will be a repercharge tomorrow night to find the final qialifiers.

Pictures will be added later.

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