Just a short review of this meeting as there will no doubt be quite a few reviews of it here, here and here... one thing WP can't complain about is internet coverage! Anyway, when you have the pits bursting full of quality machinery it's pretty much assured you will have a good meeting and happy punters.
A huge field of MiniStox, 14 Saloons, 14 MiniSprints including the 1, 2 + 3nz for this class, 21 Stockcars, 18 Modifieds and 10 Streetstocks made for a pretty good nights racing which also included a round of the Ray White Series for Minisprints and I think the Saloons were racing for the Auckland Champs which was eventually won in a runoff by 77k Rossco Cresswell.
Again there were a few new Stockcars and also the appearance of two Whangarei cars although they ran with an 'H' next to the number which was interesting as previously we have had a few cars running with the 'WR' on the car, maybe they have an association with Huntly or something, if anyone knows the answer feel free to add it to the comments section below. Based on their performance hopefully we will see a few cars from the northern tracks appearing at the NZ Stockcar title in Feb as they weren't afraid to mix it up, particularly the 346h car of Bevan White. I'm hoping to make a trip up to the Northland Speedway later in the season and will get some pics of some of the stockcars they run.
The meeting did lose a bit of momentum towards the later stages and the final Modified race became a stop-start affair with five stoppages but Jamie Fox never looked like being challenged and predictably won. Good support from the Stratford drivers meant the field had some real class and apart from a few mishaps the 56a of Paul Blakeley was a standout.
One thing I did note that I have mentioned before is when "Randy the Trackchaser" was being interviewed about his hobby of going to as many tracks as possible that when he visited most New Zealand tracks he would be hard pressed to find a single souvenir badge, patch or even a blimmin' collectable spoon with the tracks name or the year on it. I think there is a HUGE market for this stuff, I know that if I was in Dunedin for the Superstock Champs apart from buying the programme it would be great to get a patch or badge that proves 'you were there' hope he enjoyed his collectable glow stick or whatever it was that he purchased... damn I wasn't going to mention Dunedin, the disappointment of not being at the NZ Superstocks meeting was softened a bit by having a good meeting at WP but thankfully there a few big meetings coming up that are a bit closer to get to!
Meeting rating : 6/10
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