15/04/2025
When your missus races the car for one meeting 😅🤦♂️
Queen Of The Clay 🏁👑
After getting rained out last year and not having a go in the stockcar since March 2024, I wasn’t really fussed on entering this years Queen of the Clay, after humming and haaing I thought bu**er it let’s give it a go. One practice in a friends paddock the weekend before and I was feeling pretty good about going out there. The day came and I was more nervous about doing this meeting than I was on my wedding day😅 Pulled grid 9 for race one, thankfully Moo Melissa pulled pole 😜, and I felt alright about a mid pack start.
Race one - Braden -“If something doesn’t feel right come to the pit gate.” What didn’t I do? Go to the pit gate when I couldn’t find any gears as soon as I got out onto the track 😆 Started the race after finding gears finally, tried to go to third during the race and the gear selector came out… thankfully where I ended up on the infield was in view of Braden and the boys so I waved it out the window at them like “uhh ok what do I do now” and hand movements of shoving it back in is what I got as a response. After a couple of attempts I somehow managed to get it back into the gearbox enough to get into a gear and finish the race! Came in to the pits afterwards stuck in second gear, thanks to Jack and the boys for sorting the gearbox out to get me back out for the night.
Race 2 - Started 15th on the grid, race went pretty smoothly slowly getting faster and picking up some confidence. Finished the race and had no damage, feeling good.
Race 3 - Started 2nd on the grid, mint, wasn’t sure how prepared I was to be off the front, I knew I was slower off the line and in general with this only being my third meeting so I didn’t want to get too much of a push and end up being a hazard. Managed to finish 9th out of 18, for me I was pretty stoked with that and got my lap times down from 22.5 seconds in race 1 to 18.5 seconds in race 3 so feeling good and confident after a clean third race.
Race 4 - Sh*ts and giggles race, first in best dressed for grids. Started off 5th, not right at the front but not right in the middle either. Felt confident starting the fourth race, first corner comes and I see Kylie has gone up on to her side on the straight, I forgot for a moment where I was and what I was doing cause my first thought was ‘Holy s**t how did she end up here?’ Quick jump back to reality and I thought ‘hmm if she comes back down and doesn’t flip on her lid I don’t think I want to be under her’ tried to get past her but just caught her on the front left corner as she came down and then with a couple of girls behind me they gave me the rear end hit and we were stopped and spun. It happened so fast I actually wasn’t sure what had happened at first, infield team came over to check I was alright and told me I was done as the front end was taken out. Bu**er, not even one lap in 😆 Got towed in after the race and a swarm of males followed to see the damage on the car, a few shocked faces and holy s**ts told me I had done a good job on it 😅 Maybe if Bear Craig hadn’t said ‘can you do something cool to make it worth watching’ before the race I would have put my foot down a bit more to make sure I didn’t get hit 😜😆
All in all I had heaps of fun! Good group of girls to race with, all friendly and bloody good drivers! Was awesome to be out with them being so new to racing. Big thanks to everyone who came out to crew for me, help with watching Sasha and to watch and support me having a go, means the world to have those people around. Can’t forget to thank all the lads who came round to help with repair duty on the car tonight, would have been a very long week in the shed otherwise (not for me but for Braden and Bear😜). Biggest thanks to Braden for letting me ruin your newly injected car on its first full meeting 😆😘
A very broken car, one broken thumb and a mild concussion later and I’d do it all over again 😁
Massive thanks to the sponsors of the night, Nelson Speedway for organising the meeting and to Repco for Sponsoring the Queen of the Clay, and to our sponsors;
24/7 Plumbing & Drainage Ltd
Oakleys Plumbing Supplies
Nelson Fire Protection
Nexen Tyre
Goodyear Autocare Nelson
Krammer Mechanical
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