The hospitality from HSRCA was amazing for our team OYII. It was the most challenging and great racing with the OYII ever... full drifts to the edge of the road ... braking to the limits...and fender to fender
at times as the "blokes" from Oz Land are hard- tough but good racers.

Had some brake problems with the left front "grabbing", as drum is not true.

We qualified in a very mixed group of 40 race cars and a few up to 1964 Formula racer... got 9th place which was the grid place for the entire weekend...and clocked a 2:05... and first race Saturday morning we  got to 2:01 lap time with a lot of blocking at the start and first laps..and then came a "carbie" fire and it was a tall vapor fire (not a full fire but just vapor/fuel mist fire), coming from the carbies and had to pull over as the corner workers saw the whole thing....

Saturday afternoon Race we got by the slower cars by one lap and for the next laps we clocked a consistent 1:59... 1:58... 1:57 *(amazing fantastic lap times for the OYII)...and pulled way away from everyone except two cars ahead... and whoosh again as the carbie fire came back to plague us and we had so many teams check out our car...

We were doing so well and we were 7 seconds ahead of the second place car in our race group. The Avon tires were the best I have seen ... the drifts and control was the best ever and the most fun again in racing after so many years.

Coming back Saturday from the Scrutineers.... a odd noise from the gear box area... I went to drive it up the road early Sunday morning before the race and the clutch crashed... thrashing sound... We should have caught it Saturday afternoon and some guys would have helped change out but too late Sunday...

The race fans were around the car all weekend and we handed out pins - cards- and story sheets on the OYII... I guess... "That's racing"...

Ernest Nagamatsu