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 pete wood
 
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  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 11:05 AM | 
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 First outing to the drags last night! (WSID) 
 
 
Had my first crack at the drags last night in my buggy. Managed a 15:8et at 83mph in between missing gearchanges and being a total novice. I can
totally recommend it. Zak should have got an award for the ugliest, dirtiest car there. :P 
 
 
  
 
Look here for a full report... 
 
 http://www.geocities.com/peterwood7311/buggyproject/buggyproject17.html 
 
 
 
 
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  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 11:49 AM | 
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how did you go with that yellow ford was it a eight or turbo six? was there much time difference in it?  
 
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 pete wood
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 12:04 PM | 
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Turbo 6, he pulled an 11.9 and left me behind at 60foot mark. On the second run I stuffed up the 1-2 change, but still was quicker than a corolla next
to me with a 16:3.
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 01:29 PM | 
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Never thought I'd see you  in drag Pete.. ...AND you let a Ford
beat you?? C'mon....my Vdub engine did mid 13's:P Seriously..good stuff. Should be more of it.  :thumb
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 01:42 PM | 
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next time I'll try and select 2nd instead of 4th. :duh 
 
I reckon the car might have a 14 in it if the owner could drive. I'll have to start practising more at the lights  
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 03:01 PM | 
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thats sweet , isnt funny how hard it is to drive down a straight race track ,changing gears is alot harder , actually i found just leaving the line
hard... 
 was it a busy night ? how many runs did you fit in? 
 
 when we went a couple of weeks ago we stuffed about for a good hour after the track opened up for racing and still managed 3 runs each ,  apparently
it was a massive crowd due to the bad weather and people missing out from the week before.. 
 you must be pumped now for the 16th may
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 03:10 PM | 
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ok , just read the write up through the link you posted , well done good effort
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 03:11 PM | 
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the track was VERY crowded, and because it was school holidays there were stunt bike riders as well. Between that (an EVO driver in front who was
asleep in the staging lane!) and the rain I only got 2 passes in.   
 
Kind of a shame, but it was good too. It's the first time I've had the car on the rev limiter in 3rd. Next time I might try a bit of a burnout.
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on April 12th, 2007 at 07:02 PM | 
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Great report Pete! 
Hope this is the beginning of more fun in the future. 
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|  posted on April 13th, 2007 at 07:11 PM | 
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good on you pete hope to see you lineing up against some splitys on the dsk night out there 
 
  cheers murray
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