22/03/2026
🚨 ORANZ CT CIVIL NATIONALS ROUND 2 🚨
Long post again sorry!
What… a… day! 5am Yesterday morning J&C Motorsport headed down to Waikato Offroad Racing Club’s amazing track at TECT Park. Straight away a huge Thankyou to Mat and Mike for driving the 2 ute’s there AND back! Upon arrival the track looked amazing and we got our pit setup with fellow Red Eagle Suspension racer Scott Mitchell and along side Hamish Kelsey who we managed to convince to drag his old wagon out for a skid. Seriously though it was awesome to see him back behind the wheel! 🔥
Race 1
I got off to a great start! The car was feeling awesome after Nick from Red Eagle Suspension had given our Fox bypasses a birthday. She was cornering and jumping the best it has done in a long time! A good battle ensued for the lead against Tony McCall, I think I got the move done on the final lap and the rest is history! 😉 No more needed on that.
I thought our day was done. Back to the pits to cool off and the team absolutely ripped into the car! Before long I looked up and there were so many people offering a hand to get us back out there! It was awesome to see, a few key people were Lyall Marino, Kevin Cooper, Nick Leahy, Andy Paterson, Leon Matich, of course my team was amazing and everyone else that came over to offer assistance THANK YOU!
Race 2
Lining up after a repair like that under pressure it’s always going to play on your mind if things are 100%. I got an average start and the first lap was really just feeling out the car, she felt great so we pushed on! I got the move done for the lead at the final turn at the end of lap 3 and managed to hold on for a win in race 2. The least I could do to thank everyone for their efforts!
Race 3
Another average start and it was a fair old fight to get back into P2. After a few mistakes on my own it took a few too many laps to get the move done. by then McCall had disappeared… bu**er, second place.
Race 4
I wanted to end on a high so focused on my start this race. Got a great start and went side by side over the first jump and into turn 1, I had the inside line and took the lead and drove away from there! A really smooth race, hitting all my marks and the car was feeling awesome. Brought home a clean race and another P1!
Unfortunately after the race 1 DNF I was only able to come away 3rd in class 1 for round 2. A little gutting and hurts our points for the 2026 season.
BUT on the bright side the car is feeling awesome and a testament to that was posting the fastest lap time of the day for class 1 and class 8 combined 💪 the little Cougar sure is still quick!
A HUGE Thankyou to the club, all the volunteers, marshals, track prep crew, photographers, everyone who makes these days happen! Great club and awesome track!
My team - Curly Davies, Mat Cox, Simon Honey, Michael Johnston - Thankyou for all your hours of preparation and organising, I will never be able to thankyou enough. I honestly wouldn’t be on track without you guys!
My Sponsors 👇
Kumho Tyres NZ (the main reason this season is happening!)
Red Eagle Suspension
Lucas Oil NZ
Tyre Shop Waiuku
Kraken Signage
SH Fabrication
N & J Wood Ltd
You guys are awesome, thankyou so much for all your support. Please if you guys need tyres, suspension, signage, lubricants, trucks/diggers - look after those who look after us!
Saskea Greyling, Jade Davies, Tash - thankyou for coming down and supporting us, putting up with the dust and getting great content! 👌 Also special mention to Sas for putting up with the late nights, early mornings and messy shed! 😘
Also a special mention to Neville at Cougar Race Cars for building one heck of a strong racecar 💪 ‘The Mustress’ can take a hit and still come back stronger!
Also to Paul at V-Dub Shoppe for the last minute supply of mud-muncher rolls!
Right… I think that’s everything! We’ll get the car stripped, assessed and fixed back to 100% and be ready for the next event! Speaking of which, what’s next? Short Course Champs or Woodhill? Let us know! 😎