2009 Nats

[keith]

A huge thanks to James and the all the crew at HSC. Great Job by the Bramble clan and Peter, thanks heaps for your talent in the kitchen Kelly, I've never seen a bacon and egg roll be produced so quickly!

This was one of the best wing car races in recent memory. Why? Because Wayne as Race Director did a great job. What was great about it? The answer is simple, there were very few track calls. The marshals cleared the track quickly, the power went on as soon as the track was cleared and on the very rare occasion where a track call was granted, Wayne didn't wait around for cars to be braided or repaired. If you didn't fall off you were not penalised, if you did fall off then you paid the price. As it should be be.

The biggest benefit of this was that there was the best goodwill between racers at the end of the event than I have ever seen, everyone was happy with the outcome, the racing was far cleaner as a result of fewer track calls. It's to be hoped that this race will be remembered for what made it so enjoyable to be a competitor, the great racing conditions produced by minimising track calls. Hopefully this race direction style will catch on. Maybe there could be guidelines written so it doesn't get forgotten how to perform great race direction.

It was great to be able to chat over the weekend to the great ex-Nats winner of many occasions Peter Dight, welcome back Peter, hope to see you racing at Rocky in 2010.

Another great thing was, Johnson Systems Carbon Fibre Chassis performed very strongly and with recent development and tuning from racers these cars have improved markedly. Thanks for your hard work making these bullet-poof chassis Garry, and thanks for the loan of the Rear-end/motor in the G7 final, it was a freakin' bullet. A real blast to drive!

PS... Rumour has it that a CF car is going to make it's way to Brasil shortly in the very capable hands of Jose Mario. Lucky Jose I say. It's great to see international racers coming to our nationals, way to go Jose-Mario.

Keith

[Garry J]

Yes, I have to agree Keith. The weekend produced the closest and most enjoyable racing seen in years. Because the power was left on as much as possible we saw the best drivers making the move ups and winning and not the guys doing 800 qualifying laps and getting a track call every time they fall off.

It's always good to have a first time winner and no-one is more deserving than Peter Dimmers. We all know how good he is but at Hornsby, where he lived and worked for so many years, he's the king. While every one else struggled on red lane in the donut (god, how I hate that corner) Peter just nailed it and it proved to be the difference in a very close race. Nice to see my mate Keith leading the main for quite a while too, and finishing on the podium.

Thanks to James, Wayne, Kelly and Peter for looking after us all so well. Thanks to Wayne for a great job of race directing.

[il cavalino]

Yes and huge thank you to the crew at Hornsby for a great weekend.

Congrats to Peter "Switch" for the excellent results.

I also echo the words of Ketih And Garry J re: track calls or rather the lack of them, it made the racing that much better!!!

On a personal note it was great to see more people getting into Int 15 and to have such a hard fought race.

Thanks also to the worlds best pit man "Barney".

Roll on Rocky!!

Geoff

[fast_mick1]

Hi Wayne,

I really enjoyed the racing the track was great and the power was fast. You did a great job race directing too. cant wait for nsw to get it turn at the nats again.

michael