Tuesday 10th November - Bennett Racing

NFAA awards evening success: Tuesday 10th November

It’s been a few weeks since the NFAA award evening and this is the first blog entry since we won the championship. The awards evening was held in Solihull and was a really good night, the usual people went but this year my Nan and granddad (my dads mum and dad) came too, this was great, really good to have them there and for them to see my old man collect the winners trophy. We also got the trophy for the quickest ET in NFAA competition of the season too, which was a nice bonus. Not bad for an methanol burning Chevy motor.

Thanks also go to Lawrie for the flowers for my mum, women always love them and she is no exception, and she does put up with a great deal of racing talk and work pretty much 24/7.

Obviously the main talking point of the evening was the fact that Lawrie Gatehouse stepped down as promoter of the NFAA. This for us was a total shock and totally out of the blue, we would like to give him our genuine thanks for everything he has done for the class and for us, if it wasn’t for the class then we wouldn’t have got our first 6 second run in 2007 and be the 2nd quickest supercharged methanol altered in Europe. So many thanks from us all, put your feet up for a change.

Taking the helm for the future is Bob Glassup and I think its fair to say everyone there gave him sore ears by the end of the night with ideas and opinions about the classes future, us too, so thanks for listening Bob.

What next year holds no ones knows, what direction the class will go in, who will run in it? Any new cars…for me Id love to see more cars and some more competitors from overseas, obviously its hard due to costs etc but Id love to get the car over to Hockenheim, think the NFAA would go down pretty well there.

Back to England and were glad the season is over, this year was hard work, as it always is but trying to run like we are makes the car and us work more. And since the last event we have started work on extending our workshop, really cant wait to have more room anyone who has seen the NFAA DVD will have seen how small it currently is, it will be a big help for us as I can actually start working on my SuperPower Unlimited Bantam altered which I have had now for nearly 3 years. Really can’t wait to get going on it, lots of ideas for it, not only that but also my brothers slingshot too, both will be a welcome change.