Well guys it has been a long dry (wet) spell for racing.... The car shipped to Australia in Dec 23 to race at Lake Gairdner. We were in the middle of car prep, after the salt inspection when we got the word that it rained 2 inches on the road to the salt making it impassable. 2024 Speedweek AU was cancelled. Marlo had us pack up the car to ship back, and Mike Brixton, the Australian driver started working on the extension to let the car stay in AU.
As most of you may know Marlo believes that idle hands should become the devils workshop... since he didn't have his car to play with he built the Trailer Queen (the self propelled boat on trailer with the big alcohol Hemi) to keep himself occupied. It was at the Nugget car show... quite the piece.
All paper was finally blessed earlier this year and Marlo and Mike started planning to try it again. The team, Marlo and Nellie, Korey Bligh, Rob Bruins, Gary Geil, and I arrived Feb 12, Joel Jackson (Little Puke) was already here and Jon Treit arrived a week or so later. The job to unpack the containers, assemble the car, disassemble the motors, check everything.... not almost everything.... everything took a lot of time. After the car was assembled we ran the motors, no leaks, no issues. We started driver and crew familiarization training... Marlo and Rob in charge of motors and blowers, disassembly to check valves and plugs assisted by Korey and everyone not assigned to other work. Gary and I will be doing chutes and cameras, Joel will be measuring clutches then assisting motors. Jon and Korey will be handling data. Everyone is trained to do and assist as required, no one will work without a second set of eyes checking.
Mike has been relearning the cockpit and controls, the final training session was finished with Mike wearing a sleep mask and shutting down the car and putting out the chutes and engaging the fire systems without vision.
Monday we started disassembly and packing everything back in the containers... that was finished today (Wed) and tomorrow we head to the Lake. Friday we start unpacking and reassembly...
Of course while all this is going on, Nellie has been planning, shopping, cooking and freezing meals to feed about 20 people for 9 days at the salt.... not an easy task.
