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[CVW Manta Racing]

Hi guys,

just wanted to introduce you to CVW Manta Racing. We are competing in the Australian Performance Car Championship. You may have seen round 3 from Eastern Creek on Ch 10 Trackside yesterday.

We are the only team in Australia running the new HSV VZ and will be featured in Australian Muscle Car at then end of the month.

Steve Cramp is starting to get some really good finishes with the car and Round 4 sees us at Hidden Valley 1st-3rd July, which shoud be a great success! If any of you will be there, please drop in and say g'day. Forum members are more than welcome to have a chat to the team and check out the car.

The round after that is Oran Park and so on. Full details of the calendar are at www.performanceracing.net.au . Our own website is in the process of being completed but will be up soon.CVW Manta Racing

Please come and introduce yourselves and if you've got any questions, we'll be glad to answer them.

See you trackside!!

[CVW Manta Racing]

Hi again,
sorry, meant to add if you had any questions, happy to answer them on this forum!

Cheers

www.cvwmantaracing.com

[CVW Manta Racing]

HI guys
another post from us - monopolising the entire thread!

I have had a couple of PMs regarding our rounds for the rest of the year and beyond.

Hidden Valley, Darwin, NT - July 1-3

Oran Park, Sydney, NSW - August 12-14

Symmons Plains, Launceston, Tas - November 11-13

Phillip Island, Vic - November 25-27

Any other questions, just post them here if you like. If any of you are planning cruises to these AVESCO rounds, let me know, so we can organise an intro to the team.

[Dave82]

When you are racing at the island is it when the v8's are on?

[Matt H]

Dave.

yes that is the v8 weekend at the island november 25-27

[CVW Manta Racing]

Hi guys
thanks for the interest.
Here is the press release from the Performance Car Champ website (apologies for the length!)

Darwin 1, Cramp 0Posted : 04 July 2005, 18:12

SOME Days in the wild and unpredictable world of motorsport just don’t go the way you had planned - or hoped - when you had arrived at the track first thing in the morning full of cautious optimism and boundless energy to go out and get the job done.

For Donut King Australian Performance Car Championship driver Steve Cramp, Sunday July 3 will probably be remembered as ‘just one of those days’ after a torrid run of Mechanical dramas set the CVW Manta Racing VZ HSV GTS Commodore back time and time again at the weekend’s fourth round of the Donut King Australian Performance Car Championship held at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Raceway.

After first enduring a blown clutch and a failed power steering pump throughout Saturday’s Qualifying session and opening 25 lap race, Cramp was still able to set the third fastest lap towards the end of the race whilst making up for lost ground – giving the team some hope of an improved performance for the final two races that completed the round.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be; mechanical dramas again getting in the way of a strong showing from the CVW Engineering sponsored car at a circuit expected to be one of the stronger tracks for the heavier and more powerful Aussie made cars.

Cramp was able to set fourth best lap time in the second, 10 lap encounter, but was relegated to a final finishing position of 10th place after gearbox and diff problems slowed forward progress in the car, this weekend sporting sponsorship from Darwin restaurant ‘Crustaceans on the wharf’.

The mechanical dramas became progressively worse in the third race, the engine compounding the difficulties when in dropped onto seven cylinders, giving Cramp another 10th place position and an end to a weekend that he will be trying to forget as quickly as possible.

“It has just been a shocking weekend where we have had one mechanical drama after another,” Said Cramp. “The balance of the car was really quite good, and had we not had the dramas I’m certain that we would have been running right at the front and in with a chance for a podium finish - The lap times we set in the races proved that fact.

“We’ll get the car home, pull it apart and make sure that we don’t have a repeat of this weekend at Oran Park in five weeks time for the next round of the championship. Its not going to be a circuit that suits our car really well, but we need to make sure we finish all the races and get the car home to score points.”

The next round of the Donut King Australian Performance Car Championship will return to Sydney and Oran Park raceway for the 5th hit out this season, and one thing is for certain – Cramp and the CVW team will be aiming to have a vastly different scorecard after the Sydney round.

For more information about Steve Cramp and CVW Manta Racing’s Donut King Australian performance Car Championship, point your web browser to www.cvwmantaracing.com

Hope to see you at Oran Park for Round 5....