V8utes at Manfeild in New Zealand

Robert Ryan · 3 Feb 2006, 08:26 (Ref:1514626)

A good promotion by the Utes, could be a very successful event.
http://www.motorsport.org.nz/News/ne...PROMOTIONS.htm

jjd · 3 Feb 2006, 08:52 (Ref:1514637)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Ryan

A good promotion by the Utes, could be a very successful event.
http://www.motorsport.org.nz/News/ne...PROMOTIONS.htm

Would be good, I declined to go as the support racing was err crap

and I have to go to Waitangi to support err the happy days

promax · 3 Feb 2006, 09:27 (Ref:1514650)

the support racers are basically what you get at a typical truck racing meet at manfeild.. which is what this meeting is (with utes added)

the changes to manfeild are *cough* interest *cough* the right side embankment/grandstand is untouched. there is a freaking huge "important people" building/garages etc in the middle which blocks the view of the corner coming on or off (depending which side of the building your on) pit straight. the left side embankment/grandstand has been flatten.. it has been replaced with a new ply and plastic seat stand. it looks like it holds less people then what used to squeeze on/into the old embankment/grandstand. no signs of any new toilets or sheltered areas or anything else for the common people.

oh and it looks like the pits and the left side (97% of manfeild) maybe inaccessible unless you are willing to pay more.. if the signs all over the place are anything to go by.

promax · 3 Feb 2006, 09:33 (Ref:1514653)

there were a few super six cars in the paddock

http://www.hqmotorsport.co.nz/photos...hotos05-06.htm

guess they'll be running with the hqs

promax · 4 Feb 2006, 03:44 (Ref:1515205)

hmm it looks like the people i talked to at the track yesterday were wrong. a grandstand and the new pit area is off limits to the general public. also the jet sprint track has also been filled in?

i haven't got any times as far as the utes go.. they don't look faster than the nzv8.. although i could be wrong lol jason richards qualified on pole and took out race one.

Warwick · 4 Feb 2006, 04:07 (Ref:1515213)

We were told 20+ pit garages with the corporate boxes on top were going in which will mean the removal of pretty much all the seating on the front straight area except right at the end and that a new grandstand viewing area was going to be built over by Higgins/Toyota area

And that over the next year or three they are finally going to reseal the bumpy goat track at a cost of 1.3 million

Robert Ryan · 4 Feb 2006, 04:13 (Ref:1515217)

Combined Fastest Practice Times for Thursday and Friday.

Pos No. Driver Country
1 1 Dean Perkins NZ 1.21.57 Ford
2 3 Jason Richards NZ 1.22.59 Holden
3 69 Simon Wills NZ 1.22.60 Holden
4 3 Garry Baxter AUST 1.22.75 Holden
5 22 James Brock AUST 1.22.90 Holden
6 18 Matt O’Grady AUST 1.23.14 Holden
7 1 Damien White AUST 1.23.29 Ford
8 71 Aaron Slight NZ 1.23.31 Ford
9 6 Kirk Stoneman NZ 1.23.37 Ford
10 11 Jack Elsegood AUST 1.23.37 Ford
11 42 Garry McDonald AUST 1.23.40 Holden
12 27 Phys McKay NZ 1..23.62 Holden
13 55 Nick Ross NZ 1.23.78 Holden
14 10 Brendon Tucker AUST 1.23.95 Ford
15 5 Adam Brand AUST 1.23.98 Ford
16 27 Kim Jane AUST 1.23.99 Holden
17 69 Charlie Kovacs AUST 1.24.03 Holden
18 6 Ian McAlister AUST 1.24.08 Ford
19 22 Wade Henshaw NZ 1.24.08 Holden
20 7 Grant Silvester NZ 1.24.30 Ford

Australian V8 Ute Racing Pty Ltd Teams Draw FINAL

New Zealand /Australia Team 1 New Zealand /Australia Team 2

1 1 Damien White OZ F 1 Dean Perkins NZ F
2 3 Jason Richards NZ H 3 Garry Baxter OZ H
3 5 Adam Brand OZ F 5 Graham Beirne NZ F
4 6 Kirk Stonemam NZ F 6 Ian McAlister OZ F
5 7 Grant Silvester NZ F 7 Yanis Derums OZ F
6 10 Brendon Tucker OZ F 10 Patrick Cronin NZ F
7 11 Dean Farmer NZ F 11 Jack Elsegood OZ F
8 17 Rob Jarvis OZ F 17 Shaun Richardson NZ F
9 18 Michael Bristow NZ H 18 Matt O'Grady OZ H
10 22 James Brock OZ H 22 Wade Henshaw NZ H
11 24 Nandi Kiss OZ H 24 Boyd Norwood NZ H
12 27 Kim Jane OZ H 27 Rhys McKay NZ H
13 33 Denis Cribbin OZ H 33 Grant Shivas NZ H
14 40 James Harrigan OZ F 40 Brady Kennett NZ F
15 41 Garry MacDonald OZ H 41 Chris Pither NZ H
16 44 Andrew Fawcett NZ F 44 Greg Willis OZ F
17 55 Nick Ross NZ H 55 George Elliot OZ H
18 69 Charles Kovacs OZ H 69 Simon Wills NZ H
19 71 Aaron Slight NZ F 71 Marcus Zucanovik OZ F
20 88 Mike Eadie NZ F 88 James Bergmuller OZ F
21 98 TBA NZ F 98 TBA NZ F
22 99 Simon Beirne NZ F 99 Colin Dunn OZ F

jjd · 4 Feb 2006, 04:27 (Ref:1515225)

Quote:

Originally Posted by promax

the support racers are basically what you get at a typical truck racing meet at manfeild.. which is what this meeting is (with utes added)

The trucks have long lost the apeal they once had with me, since Inky left it is a no brainer as to who will win. Is a tier 2 meeting so meh, not worth it overall.

promax · 4 Feb 2006, 07:43 (Ref:1515287)

it wasn't a bad of racing day (unfortunately i had to leave early) you're right about truck racing though. porter's 2 half naked promo girls get more attention than the actually truck racing.

i read an article in the latest nzv8 magazine basically saying that programmes for nz meetings don't cater for the fans that buy tickets. people that buy tickets to nzv8's, brutes, etc go to see v8's race not porsches or single seaters. after seeing the reception the porsches and some of the other classes received i think the guy might be on to something. classes like central muscle cars, nzsupersedans might of been a better choice than some of the classes that were present. once the utes left the track people left the stands until something like oscar or the gt's came out. btw that super quick tvr lowered the gt track record for manfeild. damn that thing is quick!

simon wills won race number two.
nz-2 aus -0

jjd · 4 Feb 2006, 08:52 (Ref:1515291)

Quote:

Originally Posted by promax

it wasn't a bad of racing day (unfortunately i had to leave early) you're right about truck racing though. porter's 2 half naked promo girls get more attention than the actually truck racing.

i read an article in the latest nzv8 magazine basically saying that programmes for nz meetings don't cater for the fans that buy tickets. people that buy tickets to nzv8's, brutes, etc go to see v8's race not porsches or single seaters. after seeing the reception the porsches and some of the other classes received i think the guy might be on to something. classes like central muscle cars, nzsupersedans might of been a better choice than some of the classes that were present. once the utes left the track people left the stands until something like oscar or the gt's came out. btw that super quick tvr lowered the gt track record for manfeild. damn that thing is quick!

simon wills won race number two.
nz-2 aus -0

You hit the nail on the head dude

jjd · 4 Feb 2006, 09:05 (Ref:1515293)

Pity they don't realise there is more then the V8's that people want to see.

Super GT's and oscar are good supports but the res are lacking, trucks are gone now I can only see manfield saw this and tried to get the utes as the headline act, ahh the old days with sold out manfield and Calvin Bonney rolling the Gintys truck.

bwb1 · 4 Feb 2006, 14:55 (Ref:1515491)

Jason Richards took race 1 from Handlebars, and race two the 69 ute went one better with Simon Wills heading Marcus Zukanovic.
Incident between Jack Elsegood (still fuming) who was black flagged and Chris Pither, likely to stir the pot on Sunday.

promax · 4 Feb 2006, 21:28 (Ref:1515642)

Race 1
1. Jason Richards 11.11.64
2. Charlie Kovacs +1.884
3. Damien White +4.262
4. Kim Jane +4.596
5. Michael Bristow +5.407
6. Nick Ross +12.256
7. Aaron Slight +13.169
8. James Harrigan +13.834
9. Mike Eady +17.819
10. Kirk Stoneman +18.643
11. Garry McDonald +19.249
12. Colin Dunn +21.614
13. Brendon Tucker +22.523
14. Graham Beirne +25.402
15. Grant Silvester +26.185
16. Nandi Kiss +26.322
17. Dennis Cribben +26.758
18. Rob Jarvis +27.270
19. James Brock +29.810
20. Dean Farmer +30.277
21. Andrew Fawcett +38.864

Race 2
1. Simon Wills (Holden)
2. Marcus Zukanovic (Ford) +0.759
3. N Chris Pither (Holden) +8.553
4. Matt O’Grady (Holden) +9.434
5. Gary Baxter (Holden) +9.912
6. Rhys McKay (Holden) +10.368
7. Brady Kennett (Ford) +12.187
8. Dean Perkins (Ford) +13.968
9. Wade Henshaw (Holden) +14.830
10. Yanis Derums (Ford) +18.266
11. Ian McAlister (Ford) +23.208
12. Simon Bierne (Ford) +23.791
13. Grant Shivas (Holden) +27.152
14. James Bergmuller (Ford) +27.540
15. Jack Elsegood (Ford) +35.742
16. Shaun Richardson (Ford) +37.742
17. Boyd Norwood (Holden) +38.382
18. George Elliot (Holden) +2 laps
DNF 5a Adam Brand (Ford)
DNF 10N Patrick Cronin (Ford)
DNF 44a Greg Willis (Ford)

Robert Ryan · 5 Feb 2006, 03:01 (Ref:1515759)

Appears there is a British ASCAR racer involved as well:

Quote:

Hi Guys ...

Just to let you all know thet Shaun finished 16th in his first Ute race ... he was running much higher when a wheel bearing went and it was all he could do the bring the truck home on almost 3 wheels!

Just beforehand Rob Jarvis who is sharing the truck with Shaun had finished 20th in the first race of the day.

Dean Perkins who is the NZV8 Touring car driver that Shaun has been working with finished 8th in his first race.

Shaun and the crew have been up all night working on the setup of the truck and rebuilding it and are hoping for a better result in Sundays races.

storyline · 5 Feb 2006, 03:13 (Ref:1515764)

For those interested (Shaun = Shaun Richardson)

Quote:

2006 Australian V8 Ute International Manfeild Autocourse Feilding Feb 3-5 2006
Qualifying 1
1. Jason Richards (Holden Commodore) 1.21.749
2. James Brock (Holden Commodore) 1.22.215
3. Charlie Kovacs (Holden Commodore) 1.22.231
4. Michael Bristow (Holden Commodore) 1.22.305
5. Kim Jane (Holden Commodore) 1.22.514
6. Damian White (Ford Falcon) 1.22.726
7. Nick Ross (Holden Commodore) 1.22.822
8. Aaron Slight (Ford Falcon)1.22.987
9. James Harrigan (Ford Falcon) 1.23.278
10. Mike Eady (Ford Falcon) 1.23.327
11. Colin Dunn (Ford Falcon) 1.23.334
12. Andrew Fawcett (Ford Falcon) 1.23.344
13. Dennis Cribben (Holden Commodore) 1.23.433
14. Kirk Stoneman (Ford Falcon) 1.23.441
15. Brendon Tucker (Ford Falcon) 1.23.441
16. Garry McDonald (Holden Commodore) 1.23.648
17. Grant Silvester (Ford Falcon) 1.23.683
18. Nandi Kiss (Holden Commodore) 1.23.913
19. Dean Farmer (Ford Falcon) 1.24.044
20. Rob Jarvis (Ford Falcon) 1.24.210
21. Graham Beirne (Ford Falcon) 1.24.550

Qualifying 2
1. Chris Pither (Holden Commodore) 1.22.343
2. Simon Wills (Holden Commodore) 1.22.391
3. Jack Elsegood (Ford Falcon) 1.22.392
4. Marcus Zukanovic (Ford Falcon) 1.22.438
5. Garry Baxter (Holden Commodore) 1.22.838
6. Matt O'Grady (Holden Commodore) 1.22.841
7. Rhys McKay (Holden Commodore) 1.22.876
8. Wade Henshaw (Holden Commodore) 1.23.039
9. Brady Kennett (Ford Falcon) 1.23.177
10. Adam Brand (Ford Falcon) 1.23.520
11. Simon Beirne (Ford Falcon) 1.23.703
12. Yanis Derums (Ford Falcon) 1.23.878
13. Ian McAlister (Ford Falcon) 1.23.948
14. George Elliott (Holden Commodore) 1.24.231
15. Dean Perkins (Ford Falcon) 1.24.309
16. Patrick Cronin (Ford Falcon) 1.24.467
17. Grant Shivas (Holden Commodore) 1.24.498
18. Shaun Richardson (Ford Falcon) 1.24.688
19. Greg Willis (Ford Falcon) 1.25.403
20. James Bergmuller (Ford Falcon) 1.25.772
21. Boyd Norwood (Holden Commodore) 1.26.298

promax · 5 Feb 2006, 06:04 (Ref:1515779)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warwick

We were told 20+ pit garages with the corporate boxes on top were going in which will mean the removal of pretty much all the seating on the front straight area except right at the end and that a new grandstand viewing area was going to be built over by Higgins/Toyota area

And that over the next year or three they are finally going to reseal the bumpy goat track at a cost of 1.3 million

we were also told that there would be 16-20 tranzams at each round

nice drive by wade to win the 4th race (why hasn't that guy got a full time drive?) simon wills and kovacs took out the 24 lapper.

Race 3 (10-laps) NZ/Aus Team 1 driver
1. 41a Garry McDonald (Holden)
2. 69a Charlie Kovacs (Holden) +1.184
3. 55N Nick Ross (Holden) +1.578
4. 3N Jason Richards (Holden) +2.856
5. 27a Kim Jane (Holden) +3.043
6. 71N Aaron Slight (Ford) +4.929
7. 1a Damien White (Ford) +5.169
8. 40a James Harrigan (Ford) +7.602
9. 18N Michael Bristow (Holden) +8.955
10. 44N Andrew Fawcett (Ford) +9.591
11. 7N Grant Silvester (Ford) +10.786
12. 24a Nandi Kiss (Holden) +10.840
13. 88N Mike Eady (Ford) +12.347
14. 6N Kirk Stoneman (Ford) +13.135
15. 33a Dennis Cribbin (Holden) +14.215
16. 10a Brendon Tucker (Ford) +14.695
17. 5N Graham Bierne (Ford) +15.631
18. 11N Dean Farmer (Ford) +16.193
19. 99a Colin Dunn (Ford) +16.540
20. 17a Rob Jarvis (Ford) +16.851
21. 22a James Brock (Holden) 1 lap

Race 4 (10-laps) NZ/Aus Team 2 driver
1. 22N Wade Henshaw (Holden)
2. 69N Simon Wills (Holden) +0.538
3. 1N Dean Perkins (Ford) +3.091
4. 41N Chris Pither (Holden) +3.154
5. 18a Matt O’Grady (Holden) +8.815
6. 27N Rhys McKay (Holden) +9.423
7. 11a Jack Elsegood (Ford) +9.831
8. 3a Garry Baxter (Holden) +11.333
9. 6a Ian McAlister (Ford) +13.783
10. 7a Yanis Derums (Ford) +14.039
11. 55a George Elliot (Holden) +19.015
12. 10N Patrick Cronin (Ford) +19.195
13. 5a Adam Brand (Ford) +19.700
14. 71a Marcus Zukanovic (Ford) +24.711
15. 33N Grant Shivas (Holden) +27.743
16. 88a James Bergmulle (Ford) +32.619
17. 17N Shaun Richardson (Ford) +35.805
18. 44a Greg Willis (Ford) +37.221
DNF 99N Simon Bierne (Ford)
DNF 40N Brady Kennett (Ford)
DNF 24N Boyd Norwood (Holden)

Race 5 (24-laps)
1. 69 Wills/Kovacs (Holden)
2. 27 McKay/Jane (Holden +2.897
3. 1 Perkins/White (Ford) +13.026
4. 41 McDonald/Pither (Holden) +13.203
5. 22 Brock/Henshaw (Holden) +13.450
6. 18 O’Grady/Bristow (Holden) +14.517
7. 55 Elliot/Ross (Holden) +24.694
8. 71 Slight/Zukanovic (Ford) +28.020
9. 6 McAlister/Stonemar (Ford) +50.962
10. 7 Derums/Silvester (Ford) +51.597
11. 11 Elsegood/Farmer (Ford) +52.062
12. 10 Tucker/Cronin (Ford) +52.153
13. 5 Brand/Beirne (Ford) +58.107
14. 40 Kennett/Harrigan (Ford) +58.936
15. 33 Shivas/Cribbin (Holden) +1m21.659
16. 99 Beirne/Dunn (Ford) +1m24.702
17. 3 Baxter/Richards (Holden) 1 lap
18. 17 Jarvis/Richardson (Ford) 2 laps
19. 88 Eady/Bergmuller (Ford) 3 laps
DNF 44 Willis/Fawcet (Ford)
DNF 24 Kiss/Norwood (Holden)

bwb1 · 7 Feb 2006, 16:30 (Ref:1517357)

It would seem that the results are provisional given that some utes have been impounded for having high dyno figures.

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