Archived News Australian Nationals
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Round 2 FUCHS Australian Nationals Well we arrived in Sydney at 930 and picked up the hire car and drove to eastern creek raceway where Jason and Dad were already there. Haha that’s why they call me Hollywood. Friday morning started early for us, we had a few things to finish before we started the altered. Fired the altered up and she sounded crisp and mean. Didn’t miss a beat. Qualify 1, we towed around and pulled into the staging lanes. I was nervous as hell, don’t know why but just was. I had an awesome run nice and clean except for the braking area, as I pulled the chutes the car bounced all over the show ( remember no suspension in the altered ) and I tried to slow it down but just made the bounce worst so I just let it go and eventually it stopped enough for me to slow down and managed to get around the corner. As I waited for the crew I heard the horns beeping on our car and the crew hanging out cheering. It was like I won the round or something but actually I ran a 7.191 @ 185mph, my PB and it felt quick. So we were stoked to find that out. Awesome run!! Qualify 2, was put off till the next day due to cancellation, the track was dewy anyway and we wouldn’t have run. We ran the next day at 1 so it was good temp and also track temp was good. We ran 7.20 @ 184mph. was close to last run but thinking we had it a little bit too rich. Qualify 3; this one was later on in the day which was still ok just a little colder that’s all. I tried something different this time round. I ran 7.32 @ 184mph. was a clean run nice and straight. What I did different was tried shifting later but I don’t think it was any good so well forget about that I think. Round 1, was early on Sunday morning so I was up early keen as to race. I practiced on my porta-tree before I raced to get comfortable with the reaction times. But unfortunately I red lighted but I learnt something after this run. I had a chat to Steven Reed (Races Top Alcohol) and he explained that if you push too far forward as you come into full stage the you’re giving up your leeway. My light was only a -0.016 so really not much at all. But I was already shitted off with myself and didn’t finish the race I backed out of it and idled to the finish. Russell Mackay was the guy I was running, he top qualified with a 6.502. He had been running well all weekend so he would have been hard to beat anyway. Well that was really it for the weekend. So now we are off to MacKay in 2 weeks 2-3rd of October. Hope we do better there. Thanks to all our sponsors and crew for everything they do for Guy Watts Motorsports!!!
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