Dragstalgia 2012

We had fun!
Friday night was a long wet, windy one and it was a long wait on Saturday before we could get suited and booted and go racing! As soon as we had the call to go Ian fired up the 'push' truck, his lovely 1949 Chevy in team colours, and off we went. 5.05pm, we ran a 9.38/143mph. Not bad. Back to the pits hoping for another. Oh no here comes the rain again! Just enough time for a Push & a Cackle! Great fun, topped off with flame burnouts and even a sunset!
Sunday came and we were woken up with the sun streaming in through the curtains. Perfect racing weather. Sadly Lynne wasn't well so she had to listen to our run info from the camper bed and miss the sun! We gave Claire a dial in of 9.20, hadn't really got much to go on! 1st run 9.35/144mph, 2nd 9.25/143mph, 3rd spot on(ish) at 9.204/143mph & the 4th was 9.24/142mph. All in all a pretty consistent weekend.
A good weekend for the Marras as they finally go their hands on the old LFR chassis! Wrathchild is on it's way!
A fab weekend for Harley blasting around in his Tot rod. Massive thanks to Lee Patrick for getting it running and to Lee & Martin for fixing it after the little bump and to the Marras for chasing little man around the pits in it all weekend and keeping an eye on him!
A great weekend for BallBreaker and all the crew as we received the Santa Pod Dragstalgia 2012 Showmanship Award for Best Appearing Team, sponsored by LA Racing Parts. Happy Days!
We all travelled home in a convoy, The Coulsells & BallBreaker, Marras & Wrathchild, Steve & caravan & Anna & Ada, imagine the conversations if we'd have had CB radio!!
Thanks as always for all of the support from friends and family and to all of the photographers for capturing some great shots of us having fun!

'Gangster' Fancy Dress

Mark set off for Shakey on Friday evening, in the rain! The rest of the team decided to have a decent nights sleep in their own beds (well apart from Marra 1 who was on nights, bless him!) and head off for the track on Saturday morning. Everyone arrived nice and early and started getting BallBreaker ready for action. The track was nearly race ready and down came the rain again. By the time Lynne arrived just after midday it had been announced that the whole meeting had been called off!
So the decision needed to be made: TO PARTY OR NOT TO PARTY!
We were there now and fully equipped with Gangster fancy dress so after chatting to other Wild Bunch teams decided TO PARTY ON!!!
We all 'clothed' up and very dapper we looked too! Off we set to the clubhouse complete with, boas, splurge guns & very dodgy moustaches!
We all had a good laugh and it was perhaps the stress free weekend that we all needed.
The team would obviously had preferred to race but we made the best of a soggy situation and went home without our spirits too dampened.
Looking forward to Dragstalgia on the 14th/15th July.

Nostaligia Nationals 2012

Happy 2^nd birthday BallBreaker and the team!

And what a birthday it turned out to be!

The team fired up the car on Sat morn but she didn’t sound too happy! The new fuel filter was removed to see if that was the problem. Fire in the hole, literally and then a nice rock fell out of the gear box! Must have been the flying object Mark saw on the last run in the return road but couldn’t find! Let’s try again – sounded sweet. Let’s go racing. Had to wait a while for a couple of oil downs but eventually we were ready. 9.11 @ 148 mph. A PB. That’s more like it! The Crew are very happy and return to the pits to get ready for another. Fire up road virtually empty, stands too! Must be lunch time. Solo run then, OMG 8.95@ 148 mph. We all go wild, our first 8 second run! Thank goodness Louis was there and forced Lynne to video it else we would not have had any footage of it (even if it is rubbish and Lynne and Anna are screaming all over the end of it! Comment by Lynne!). Get out the 8 second champers! No time for partying let’s go again. This time against Andy ‘nutter’ Hadfield! Mark did a great burnout but couldn’t be seen once Andy had done his! Mark pulled a huge wheelie but still managed a 9.14 @ 148 mph. One more and it must be party time! Last run 9.03 @ 148 mph. Consistency at last, what’s occurring! Scottie kindly offered us a push so we thought we would join in with the flag starts. Paired up with Darryl ‘Shag’ Howells with 12 psi in the slicks for a nice smoky launch. Ran a 10.2 still @ 144 mph! Champagne and cake at last! What an amazing birthday!

Sunday’s weather wasn’t being kind but after huge efforts from the track crew we set off for round 1. We dialed 9.08 and ran a 9.19 so not too bad. We had time for 1 more round and finished up with a 9.12 which we were all more than happy with. Just to top off the weekend we got Best Burnout Trophy! We would just like to say a huge thank you to all of our friends and family who support us constantly and hope that we can do all this again when hopefully they will all be there to see it. Happy days!

June Jubilee/Shakey Super Pull 2012

OMG - 9.20 sec last meeting 20.9 secs this meeting! Maybe deciding to wear Red, White & Blue was a bad omen. Fitted tank, fuel filter & front end parts on Sat morn and tried a new set up recommended by Good Vibes. Off we went proud in our Jubilee colours for our 1st run of the weekend - 16 seconds!!! Ok, lets put the set up back to what we know! No time for a 2nd run so we will wait for Sunday.
Sun morn we were ready to roll for 10am - 20 seconds - WTF! Lots of head scratching was going on and not many ideas flowing as to the problem. 3rd run was worse & the 4th no better. Mark noticed that the fuel shut off lever had moved so a check was made back in the pits and this seemed to be the issue. This was confirmed in Martin Chesworth's set of photos showing the position of the cable from the burnout to the launch - cheers Martin. Sadly rain stopped the team trying out what they hoped was the answer so they will have to wait to test their theory until the Nostalgia Nationals, BallBreaker's 2nd birthday!

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