RACE REPORTS:
BENARABY CITY VERSES COUNTRY SUPERCHARGED OUTLAWS
Saturday 10th March 2007
Country versus City supercharged shootout at Benaraby Raceway was held under very hot and humid conditions with the test and tune being very well supported on the Friday night and the racing got off a little bit later then scheduled on Saturday 10th March.
All the four blown cars had done a check out pass earlier and Chris Hollingworth in the pro street commodore ute took on Nathan Peirano in the Lexus Real Deal Motor Sports Insurance Hot Rod. While Chris was familarising himself with the bottom end of the track and got off it early, Nathan had no trouble at all with a thundering pass, going the full quarter mile. We reminded Holley that it is not Warwick, it is Benaraby and it is a full quarter mile and we race the entire distance.
The whole meeting was in very good spirits and Wayne Hargreaves had the blown Chevy Commodore out having his best meeting and put down a good soft and easy first pass. The same could not be said for the Townsville traveller - Darren Piddington in the blown chevy Pontiac Firebird. The black beast thundered down with a late afternoon qualifying pass and the WIN television footage clearly shows the parachute dumping down into the wheelie bars and not opening, whilst the pilot spring just flopped around in the breeze. Piddo went real deep in the newly constructed sand trap or shall we call it ploughed gravel paddock trap. It certainly did its job, it sunk into it but it had an injector hat full of powdery white earth. A big clean up for Piddo, blower off, injector off and he fired it up late in the afternoon to honor his obligations.
In the round one qualifyer at 3.57 p.m. Nathan ran 8.283 at 161.291 MPH and Chris Hollingworth ran 8.692 at 129.63 MPH. First round the Lexus Hot Rod versus Darren Piddington, a win for the hotrod at 7.16 p.m. - 8.366 off it early at 138.46 MPH versus Piddo's 9.294 at 136.77 MPH.
Later on in the night at 8.44 p.m the Lexus Real Deal Hot Rod against the blue commodore ute of Chris Hollingworth, another win at 8.209 on a 8.20 dial in and virtually a PB on the MPH of 172.41 MPH. Holly went 8.334 - no MPH recorded.
Final round of the night we were up against the local commodore of Wayne Hargreaves and 8.223, again on a 8.20 dial in, off a little bit early at 150.50 MPH and Wayne put through a good 8.637 at 157.89 MPH on a 8.50 dial in.
All in all, a good weekend of racing, good crowd participation and the fun began afterwards during the early hours of Sunday morning when the bikies, as we like to call them, including Ken "The Killer" Peatey, Ross "Ned Kelly" Lemburg and son, carried out an early morning kidnapping of our mascot Penguin - Happy Feet. He was kidnapped from our tow car and is currently being held to ramson. We have had several phone calls and text messages and we have also sort help from ex officer Keith Mearns (the gnome smuggler) who is leading the investigation into the disappearance of Happy Feet. The team is rather distraught and as you can see in the attached photo, mother penguin and the three kids have hit the bottle because Dad is missing.
All because team captain - Peter (I wear ridiculously loud clothes) Peirano walks like a penguin, which is the actual reason for having the penguin as one of our many mascots. The games start off as fun and end up with the penguins life being tragically at stake here, rather should I save lifelessness at stake.
Regards
PETER A PEIRANO.
Text message from Ken Peatey received Monday a.m. believed to be from the penguin. - Peter help me, they are hurting me, sell the gen set and pay them.
Yet another message from Ken Peatey - Hey ?x*& - where is the gen set or happy feet is going to have a limp.
Yet another text received from the kidnappers - OK, Happy feet is now Happy Foot. Leave the ?x*& gen set in the park near Barra Jacks or else.
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