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First Practice

28-09-2020

After having our season cut short by Covid lockdowns etc it was awesome to finally get out on the dirt for the first of three practices at Koken Woodfordglen Speedway on Saturday 26th September. With the likes of well known Formula ford and minis competitor Bailey Paterson, former Black Cap cricketer and sprintcar racer Nathan Astle making a move to the class and Queenstown Sprintcar competitor Jason Scott doing double duties all joining the class along with regulars Mike Gourley, Dan Rae, Andy Naven, Kevin Ban, Hayden Corbett, Jake Ackers, Steve Sinclair, Evan Nichol and a host of others including our visitors from the coast Brandon Parkinson, Iain Whyte , Steve Thompson and Atama Holland its definitely going to be an exciting season ahead, Five cars came out for the opening practice with the Edge Parts & Performance 69c Modified of Andrew Naven,, Chucky Racings 22c of Hayden Corbett, The New chassis of 49c Horsepower Heads , 13 c Raceworks of Evan Nichol and The new 82c Modified of Stephan Sinclair all giving their cars a good run.. With two more practices scheduled on the 3rd & 10th of October, its likely we will see an increase in numbers wanting to give their cars a run before opening night on the 24th October. Have a great day everyone and lets flick some dirt

Second Practice

03-10-2020

An awesome field of cars turned out for the 2nd practice. with the former Steve Sinclair car now in the hands of 10c Nathan Astle have a good first up hit out, and putting the car through its paces, Kevin Ban had the 49c Modified humming as did Hayden Corbett in the 22c MDS sponsored car. Mike Gourley, Cassandra Massey and Steve Sinclair were all on the pace. Over on the coast Brandon Parkinson unveiled the new look 5GM Recreation Hotel car and we are looking forward to seeing the coasters at WFGs first meeting of the 2020 season. Down in Queenstown sprintcar competitor Jason Scott revealed the 88T Edge Parts & Performance car

Moller Young NZ Trophy Challenge 24/10/2020

23-10-2020

Opening Night of the 2020/21 season saw a good field of twelve cars turn up, But both Dan Rae and Ralph Godwin had pre race issues and didnt start the night. In heat 1 on what turned out to be a very good surface 49c Kevin Ban and 69c Andrew Naven started off the front but the 49c had to go to the infield with issues. The 69c car was definitely looking good out front with 82c Steve Sinclair in the former Maurice Headley car and 10c Nathan Astle driving the ex 82c & 1NZ car in hot pursuit making for some good close racing, Sinclair got to the front with a pass on turn 4 with 4 laps to go and pulled away to take the win from naven, with 18c Jacob Mitchell who made a last corner inside pass on Astle in 3rd spot but was relegated 2 spots handing the position to Astle with Gary Lennon home 4th and Mitchell 5th. Heat 2 In Heat 2 4c Mike Gourley in his Raceworks Chassis had the front row to himself and dominated the race with Sinclair and the 22c Chunky Racing car of Hayden Corbett leading the chasing pack. Gourley taking the win from Sinclair and Corbett with Lennon and Kevin Ban coming home 4th & 5th respectively . In the 3rd and final race of the night Nathan Astle from grid 4 got the jump on everyone and had a good battle with Sinclair and Gourley with Astle pulling away to a handy lead taking the win. The track stayed true all night with some very fast times including a couple of sub 16 second laps by Steve Sinclair and Mike Gourley recorded . Our Next Meeting is the very popular Brown & Syme Painting Contractors Fireworks Extravaganza which will feature the first round of the Garage 16 Modified Feature, Super Saloons, Superstocks, Streetstocks and Stockcars in attendance. we hit the dirt at 6.30pm Overall The top 5 placings for the Moller Young NZ trophy Challenge Stephan Sinclair Nathan Astle Mike Gourley Hayden Corbett Andrew naven Modifieds Heat 1 82c Stephan Sinclair 69c. Andrew Naven 10c. Nathan Astle 9c, Gary lennon 18c Jacob Mitchell 4c Mike Gourley . 22c. Hayden Corbett 13, Evan Nichol 11c Cassandra Massey 49c Kevin Ban dnf Heat 2 Mike Gourley Stephan Sinclair Hayden Corbett Gary Lennon Kevin Ban Nathan Astle Andrew Naven Evan Nichol Cassandra Massey Jacob Mitchell Heat 3 Nathan Astle Steve Sinclair Mike Gourley Hayden Corbett Andrew Naven Cassandra Massey Evan Nichol Dnf Garry Lennon Kevin Ban Overall Placings Steve Sinclair Nathan Astle Mike Gourley Hayden Corbett Andrew Naven

Brown & Symes Painting Contractors Fireworks Extravaganza 31/10/2020

31-10-2020

Good Morning Everyone ,Well its awesome to see we have fine weather today after rain put paid to half our meeting lastnight. . I have to say it was great to see a really good turn out of cars and with fields like this Im sure we can expect some fast racing throughout the 2020/21 season Huge thanks to Parky & Tomo for making the trip over from the coast. And it was so good to have Aaron Lewis, Vincent Jagers & the team from Garage 16 down for the meeting.. Sorry bout the weather guys. So because of lastnights rainout our next meeting is now the 14th of November which will feature The Brown & Symes Painting Contractors Fireworks Extravaganza, & Canterbury Champs for the Superstocks, Saloons & Production Saloons. with Modifieds, Youth Ministocks & Stockcars also set to race. In the only race of the night 54gm Steve Thompson from Greymouth took out his first win of the season from 24c Dan Rae & the 9c Lightning construction car of Gary Lennon in 3rd. Huge thanks to the out of towners for coming to Woodfordglen to race it was awesome to see the beautifully presented car of 88T Jason Scott, and two of our coasters 54gm Steve Thompson & 5gm Branson Parkinson

Garage 16 Canterbury Modified Champs

05-12-2020

Entry List 1NZ Brad Lane 2NZ Blair McPhee 3NZ Luke Brown 4C Michael Gourley 5GM Brandon Parkinson 9C Garry Lennon 11C Cassandra Massey 13C Evan Nicholl 17W Jonas England 18C Jacob Mitchell 21s Newton Gordge 22C Hayden Corbett 24C Dan Rae 46gm Iain Whyte 49C Kevin Ban 51C Brent Adams 69C Andrew Naven 82C Steve Sinclair 88T Jason Scott 99C Ralph Godwin On a mixed day as far as the weather was concerned 19 competitors made up of a mixture of north and south island Competitors including Huntlys current 1nz Brad Lane were split into 3 evenly matched groups which also included the likes of 2nz of Wellingtons Blair McPhee, the bright yellow 3nz of Auckland Luke Brown the 17w Garage 16 & coffee works sponsored machine of Jonas England,Stratfords 21s Newton Gordge and the very best from the South. The format was 3 12 lap heat races with group 1 v 2 ,2 v 3 and 3 v 1 with a weather dependant 30 lap winner take all final. Heat 1 was dominated by 18c of Jacob Mitchell but he had the misfortune of being involved in a racing incident on the last lap and Mike Gourley crossed the line in front but was relegated to 3rd place and the race awarded to Dan Rae with Brandon parkinson 2nd and Gourley in 3rd spot. A quick turn around due to the weather and Heat 2 saw group 2 v group 3 Hayden Corbett in the 22c car got away to a very good start and had a handy lead with the 3nz of Luke brown chasing him down and eventually taking over the lead and crossing the line in 1st place with corbett and 49c Kevin Ban in 3rd spot. Heat 3 and it was Group 3 v Group 1 This race was completely dominated by the 17w beast of Jonas England who took off and crossed the line with daylight to spare , Steve Sinclair came home 2nd with 1nz Brad Lane home in 3rd spot.. The Winner take all feature was scheduled to run over 30 laps With Steve Sinclair & Luke Brown starting off the front it was sinclair who got the jump at the start and had a handy lead whist being constantly challenged by Luke brown , with Dan Rae and Mike Gourley chasing hard. with drizzle falling and the track changing sinclair lost ground and slipped back with brown taking over the lead with Gourley and Rae not far behind. And so after a fantastic race reduced to 20 laps by the weather it was 3nz Luke Brown who crossed the line first with 4c Mike Gourley in 2nd and 24c Dan Rae 3rd.. An awesome meeting with huge thanks to all the competitors who braved the elements, packed the track and raced hard all night and a massive thanks to Steve Lennon and the crew at Koken Woodfordglen for taking the risk and not giving up on running the whole meeting.. Our next Meeting will be on Boxing day the 26th December for the Remembrance Champs when its likely we will see another awesome lineup of Modifieds all getting track time before the NZs in Feb 2021

Fireworks Extravaganza

14-11-2020

Fireworks Extravaganza plus Garage 16 Modified 30 Lapper Canterbury SuperStock, Saloon & Production Saloon Champs This meeting was a re run of the rained out 31st October Meeting. The format for the Garage 16 Modified Feature consisted of 2 heats over 12 laps with the Top 6 on points drawing grids for the 30 Lap Feature. Unfortunately we were missing our coast competitors 5 & 54gm but 12 cars lined up for Heat 1 with Jason Scott and Steve Sinclair on the front row of the grid. Steve got off to a flyer and left the pack to chase him , Scott & the 99c of Ralph Godwin pulled to the infield early on but the chasing pack of Mike Gourley, the ever improving Jacob Mitchell in the ex Glen Leech car & Gary Lennon did their best to catch the 82c car.. Heat 1 Result 82c Stephan Sinclair, 4c Mike Gourley 18c Jacob Mitchell 9c Gary Lennon with 24c, 22c,69c,10,13c & 49c coming home in places 5-10 and the 88T & 99T cars dnf Heat 2 Reverse grids With both 10c Astle engine problems and out for the night & Godwin who hit the turn 3 wall out ot Heat 2 Dan Rae & Hayden Corbett lined up on the front Row and with the track changing throughout the night Dan got the jump at the start being chased hard by the very impressive lightning construction car of Gary Lennon with Gourley and Mitchell chasing hard. Gourley passed Lennon with a hand full of laps left with the 24 car of Rae taking the win ahead of Gourley, Lennon, Mitchell and 22,82,88,49,69 & 13 . Points after two heats 1 4C Michael Gourley 22 2 24C Dan Rae 20 3 9C Garry Lennon 19 4 18C Jacob Mitchell 19 5 82C Steve Sinclair 19 6 22C Hayden Corbett 15 7 69C Andrew Naven 10 8 88T Jason Scott 8 9 49C Kevin Ban 8 10 13C Evan Nicol 7 11 10C Nathan Astle 5 12 99C Ralph Godwin 1 The 30 Lap feature Grid Positions had 22c & 82c on the front 18c & 9c on row 2 24 & 4 on Row 3 69c & 88T on Row 4 49c & 13c Row 5 10c & 99c off the back This race would be a test of the fittest and who had the best set up this would be a good rehearsal for the NZ Championships next February . Steve Sinclair got the jump at the start and they all got through turn 1 except 49c Kevin Ban who had a spin. on the restart Sinclair again got a flyer and soon pulled away from the chasing pack of Lennon, Mitchell and Gourley. as the track changed Sinclairs lead soon diminished and after several more restarts he was being challenged by gourley and mitchell who was driving the pants off the 18c machine. and Dan Rae who was trying his best to get past mitchell. . With Gourley making a well timed pass on sinclair he soon had the raceworks chassis in the lead and dominated the remaining laps with Sinclair and Mitchell fighting it out for the minors coming home 2nd & 3rd.. An awesome nights racing by the lads and a great fireworks display put on by the club. Our Next Meeting is the 2020 Canterbury Champs on the 5th December and another top field of cars is expected to put on a great show.

Greenstone Park Speedway

12-12-2020

Modified Points and Placings from last weekends Meeting at Greenstone Park Speedway Greymouth

2020 Remembrance Champs

28-12-2020

Heat 1 Result 1 9C Garry Lennon 2 24C Dan Rae 3 88T Jason Scott 4 82C Stephen Sinclair 5 99C Ralph Godwin 6 22C Hayden Corbett 7 49C Kevin Ban 8 69C Andrew Naven 9 11C Cassandra Massey 10 5C Bailey Paterson 11 13C Evan Nicol DNF 1NZ Brad Lane DNF 48G Atama Holland DNF 4C Michael Gourley Heat 2 Result 1 4C Michael Gourley 2 99C Ralph Godwin 3 82C Stephen Sinclair 4 1NZ Brad Lane 5 48G Atama Holland 6 9C Garry Lennon 7 24C Dan Rae 8 49C Kevin Ban 9 22C Hayden Corbett 10 88T Jason Scott 11 11C Cassandra Massey 12 69C Andrew Naven 13 13C Evan Nicol 14 5C Bailey Paterson Heat 3 Result 1 24C Dan Rae 2 99C Ralph Godwin 3 4C Michael Gourley 4 82C Stephen Sinclair 5 9C Garry Lennon 6 1NZ Brad Lane 7 69C Andrew Naven 8 22C Hayden Corbett 9 48G Atama Holland 10 49C Kevin Ban 11 13C Evan Nicol 12 11C Cassandra Massey 13 88T Jason Scott DNF 5C Bailey Paterson Overall Placings 1 99C Ralph Godwin 36 2 24C Dan Rae 35 3 82C Stephen Sinclair 34 4 9C Garry Lennon 33 5 4C Michael Gourley 27 6 1NZ Brad Lane 23 7 22C Hayden Corbett 22 8 49C Kevin Ban 20 9 88T Jason Scott 19 10 69C Andrew Naven 18 11 48G Atama Holland 18 12 11C Cassandra Massey 13 13 13C Evan Nicol 10 14 5C Bailey Paterson 7

2021 Garage16 South Island Modified Championships

05-01-2021

Entries Brad Lane 1NZ Luke Brown 3NZ Michael Gourley 4C Garry Lennon 9C Jamie Fox 11A Cassandra Massey 11C Evan Nicol 13C Jacob Mitchell 18C Newton Gordge 21s Hayden Corbett 22C Dan Rae 24C Iain Whyte 32gm Atama Holland 48GM Kevin Ban 49C Steve Thompson 54gm Andrew Naven 69C Steve Sinclair 82C Hayden McKay 88T Ralph Godwin 9 Race format – Qualifying (Dependant on number of entries)  Drivers will be split in to three (3) groups  Each group will race each other group once (12 lap heats)  Points will be awarded from 20 points for 1st place, 19 for 2nd place and so on down.  The top eighteen (18) point’s scorer’s overall after all three heats have been raced will qualify to the 25 lap final.  All non-qualifying drivers will compete in a Repechage race will be held to determine the final two (2) positions in the final. The first two (2) drivers to cross the finish line after 12 laps will qualify to the final and fill grids 19 & 20 respectively. In the case of a points tie, the count back system will be used. Race format – Winner takes all 25 lap Final  The driver highest on points from the qualifying heats will have the choice of starting position off the front row. The next highest points scorer will start in the left over grid position. The driver third on points will start from grid three (3) and so on down. In the case of a points tie, the count back system will be used.  The first driver across the finish line after twenty (25) laps will be crowned South Island Modified Champion Garage 16 Media South Island Modified Championships 9th Jan 2021 Koken Woodfordglen Speedway Another top class field of Modifieds gathered at Koken Woodfordglen Speedway for the running of the 2021 Garage 16 media South Island Modified Championships, With fifteen competitors split into three groups including three of our North Island friends and four time champion Greymouths Steve Thompson this meeting was another chance for everyone to get much needed seat time before the NZ Championships in six weeks time. Groups Koken v Garage 16 Heat one on a drivey track saw the only lady competitor 11c Cassandra Massey and 22c Hayden Corbett on the front row of the grid but it was the 1nz of Brad Lane who got an appsolute flyer dominating the race from start to finish with the 3nz of Luke Brown and Corbett in hot pursuit, Lane crossed the line in first place in a very impressive time of 15,72 seconds from brown and Corbett with Andrew Naven and Dan Rae rounding out the top 5. Groups Value Cars v Garage 16 Heat 2 saw 82c Steve Sinclair and 88t Hayden Mckay in the Jason Scott car off the front, Mckay & Fox had a great battle with Steve Thompson and Gourley chasing hard, McKay got the cheaqurered from Fox and Gourley who was put back to fourth place for a race infringment. With the track starting to slick off heat 3 lined up with Groups Value Cars v Koken. 18 c Jacob Mitchell and 24c Dan Rae lined up on the front row with Coaster 48gm Atama Holland and the 9c Lightning Construction car of Garry Lennon on Row 2. Rae and Mitchell had a good battle with Andrew Naven in the Edge Parts & Performance machine leading the chasing pack and having a very good heat, Unfortunately for Lennon, Godwin and McKay car issues and racing incidents caused them to dnf. Daniel Rae taking the chequered from Mitchell and Naven. Points after 3 Heats 1 24C Dan Rae 20 2 69C Andrew Naven 19 3 3NZ Luke Brown 19 4 18C Jacob Mitchell 18 5 54G Steve Thompson 18 6 11A Jamie Fox 18 7 1NZ Brad Lane 18 8 88T Hayden McKay 15 9 49C Kevin Ban 14 10 4C Michael Gourley 14 11 82C Steve Sinclair 12 12 22C Hayden Corbett 11 13 48G Atama Holland 9 14 99C Ralph Godwin 9 15 11C Cassandra Massey 7 16 46G Iain Whyte 7 17 13C Evan Nicol 4 18 9C Garry Lennon 1 Grids for the 25 lap Final 24c-3nz 1nz-11a 69c-54gm 4c-82c 88t-18c 9c-99c 49c-48gm 22c-46gm 13c South Island Modified Championships 25 lap Final Dan Rae off the front got a very good start and was chased by Aucklands 3nz Luke Brown with Brad lane in the 1nz , leading the chasing pack of Jamie Fox , Andrew Naven , Thompson and Gourley, At the half way stage the track was very slick and it was Brown who made the pass on rae and controlled the race lapping cars with every lap completed with Lane Gourley,Fox and Thompson still chasing hard, Lapped cars were definitely having an effect on the way this race would pan out with several pulling to the infield and on lap 23 Holland went round and was collected by lennon who was then the victim of a the 54gm car who had no where to go and collected the 9c car, all 3 cars on the infield sporting alot of damage. On the restart Brown got away and crossed the Line with Dan Rae and his never give up attitude runner up and the 1nz of Brad Lane in 3rd spot having his best meeting so far in his 3 trips down here with Gourley, Fox and Mitchell rounding out the Top 6. SO it was another title to the 3NZ of Luke Brown who 2 weeks earlier also won the Canterbury Champs and showed he is in top form with the NZs not far away. I asked Luke what it is about his car that really gives it the edge in the long distance races and he told me that even though the car is down on horsepower than alot of others its all in the way his crew set it up for the big shows that makes his car seem like a 4 laned highway and allows him to dominate. Congratulations to our New South Island Champion and to Dan and Brad well done . To all the competitors awesome job guys. We look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting on the 30th Jan See you all soon Many Thanks Mike Dixon