83. Bank holiday mayhem...!

I have already mentioned that because of a lack of funds due to breakages etc and of course lack of crew for certain weekends that we as a team would not be attending all the race meeting this year, In fact I think we have only managed to get to one meeting so far and that was a bit of a disaster due to being rained and snowed on for most of the weekend. In total now we have missed three meetings so I guess we wont be fighting for the championship this year.

Because the weather was looking so good over the bank holiday I had a word with my number 1 son and crew chief Steve and asked him if he fancied coming up to Santa Pod to watch for the first time, he agreed, so on Saturday I met up with him just up the road form the Pod and we watched one of the best race meetings I have ever been to, unfortunately I didn't take my camera with me only my little cam corder.

Anita burning rubber on her first run of the weekend

I was surprised by the number of people at this event on a Saturday, traditionally the first day of qualifying is not well attended but the place was packed to the rafters, it wasn't too long after we set up camp that we could hardly move..good for drag racing though.

While I was there I took Steve round the pits and introduced him to a few of the racers and then went on the hunt for Roy Wilding, Roy was racing this weekend but in his other life he builds nostalgia dragsters and he was the man that built  the axle on our car and I wanted some info from him, Our axle is weeping oil and I wanted to know what seals he used it turns out that he has a packet of the seals we need but he did tell us to look after them as they don't make them anymore...oh!!! While I was there I had a look in the exhibition marque and there in the corner a pair of slingshots and guess what? one of them, John Webster's nitro burning beastie is for sale I had to drag Steve away from that place tout suite! and get him ot have a look at a nostalgia Funny Car instead.

So we watched some great racing in the sunshine we left in the early evening and made out way home, on the way home I get a call from Dave my brother asking me if I was going to take a ride to Shaky the next day? Dave was crewing for some good friends of ours, while waiting for our car to be race ready again. So decision made! up early on Sunday morning, upset the neighbours with the noise from my bike and of we go again.......

Andy Stones with my little bike in the background

So once again in the sunshine I watched some great racing and saw some great cars, a little more laid back than the Pod and a dam sight cheaper,

This drag racing community that I belong to is amazing, we have made some incredible friends in the short time I have been a member, 

This is Jim Tanner and the "Shindigger" Crew in their new team shirts

Our Friend Jim's dragster "Shindigger" blowing us away last year

We all help each other out when we can and some of the guys have been friends for many many years and it is tight knit bunch, so it came as a big shock to learn that one of our group had contracted cancer and that it was so widely spread in his body that it was deemed terminal.

Scottie Durrant is a great guy to know and he has a lovely family something like this should never happen to human being,

Scottie is self employed he runs his own vehicle transportation business he has three children and he is only 42 years old, We know him from being a member of the Wild Bunch and for building and racing along with his wife Georgina his neat little slingshot Tiki Munki.

There is a Facebook page set up for him now Called Support our Scottie which can be found here   

www.facebook.com/Support-Our-Scottie-1104039142952213

On top of this on Saturday all the guys and girls got together for a photo call also in support of Scottie and I also believe there is a fund being set up to try and help the family through as being self employed there is no money being earned at the moment.

Makes me feel proud of our little group, and I am sue that there are plans under way for some fund raising events to help the family out even more.