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Mixed success at Westwood

for new NS racing team

Driving season winding down

A new North Shore
racing team made its
professional racing
debut at Westwood this
past weekend in the
CRC Trans-Am
Challenge event. Bob
Barg and Frank Quigg
of North Vancouver
drove their Jeff's Hi-
Performance Auto
Repairs Camaro to a
12th place finish in the
feature event as well as
an early exit from the

closed wheel event.
Since it was the first time

they have used the car ina

professional event the team

decided to play mt cool and
concentrate on being
reliable Bob Barg placed 11
twelve on a grid of twenty.
three which consisted mostly
of Corvettes but also had a
few Porsches and Datsun’s
mixed in to make for a very
good race

Pnor to the start of the
race the leam discovered a
broken suspension joint that
had to be hurnedly welded
up and that done — they

discovered a broken
alternator Connection that
could casily cost them the
trace As the other cars were
ining upon the grad this was
temporarily repaired and
Bary drove the cat out pustin

time

The big” thundering
machines provided an ex-
cellent show of driving skill
to the fans as they blasted
their way around West-
wood's 1.8 mile track. Bob
Barg held his ground in the
race, taking tt easy on the
car, trying to ensure a finish.

A rear end oil seal leak
developed about half way
through the race though it
caused few problems, more
importantly the brakes were
beginning to fade which
meant Barg had to slow
down even more as the race
progressed At the end he
brought wo ohome ino twelfth
having tuna good race

In the closed wheel event
Frank Quigg drove the cas

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which now looked a little
tired after having run the 1'%
hour Trans-Am race. At the
start he jumped into the lead
ahead of a sports racing car
who was hard on his heels
By turn two however,
Quigg’s cxuberance with the
already fading brakes proved
to be too much and he went
in loo fast, dropping a wheel
in the dirt. The sports racer.
thinking the Camaro was
going off the track, tned to
ap through on the inside,
only to be bashed in the back
end alter Quiggs car shot
back across the track [he
Camaro limped around to
the pits but had to retre on
the spot with a broken onl
cooler hone

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HOCKEY ACTION
has returned to the
North Shore as the
NorWes Caps took
on the North Shore
Winter Club Flames
in a pre-season game
at the North Van Rec
Centre. Caps, the
official farm team of
the New West Bruins
were decisive
winners over the less
experienced players
from the Winter
Club. (Terry Peters
photo)

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