Aero Racing Team

The Aero Racing Top Alcohol Altered will present this weekend for the Westernationals in Competition sporting a new D Series PSI - an upgrade from the B Series campaigned for years.

Night of Fire
Aero Racing came away from the Night of Fire with a trophy and damaged car this weekend. Triumph and tragedy on the same wind.
Six competitors fronted for Top Comp and our Q1 was a 5.947 off the trailer with PC short shifting. Q2 we tried a little adjustment to the tune that made the altered turn the tyres on the hit. That set us fourth overall for qualifying and drew the McClures in the turbo Torana.
PC managed the win with an improving 5.927 but unfortunately the parachutes got caught up after deployment and the altered ended up in the sand.
The team made the A Final but were unable to front with the damage from the beach and net.
Valuable points for the Championship, with a busy few weeks ahead before the next round.

Summer Slam

With the 2 weeks off, the team were keen to fire up the Altered and lay down some times to further our development. First pass mid arvo in the heat, saw the tyres smoke on the hit - “hmm track a little different from last meeting.” Paul mentioned
PC gave the launch re**rd curve with a fine adjustment for the compulsory qualifier - still a soft tuneup, and a nice straight 5.89 put the team in 5th position in Top Comp.
We drew the Gullotto Team and their Soarer for the first round - almost a second slower on handicap.
“The faster car has a big disadvantage on a pro tree, as there is no trigger point to start the two step process. I waited for the Soarer to leave, came up on the two step and waited for the orange. Seemed like forever, and a 0.085 light was good but the blower belt had different ideas and snapped in half. A little disappointed as the Soarer had difficulties on the run.”
The Altered ran perfect all day and crew were brilliant. We will take our Christmas break and come back for more development in the new year.

Photo credit Phil Reeve - Sports Photographer