O'Hara Racing Superstock 23P

With the cold weather now upon us I have had a few people asking about our hoodies. GraphicsHQ have set up a website with my apparel options where you can order these from.

Options are:
Men's or Woman's Hoodies - $70
Sweatshirts - $70
Kids hoodies - $55
Men's and woman's T-Shirts- $45
Kids T-Shirts- $35

If you follow this link

http://www.23pohara.deco-apparel.com/

It will take you straight to the website, all payment can be made through the site and they will be shipped out to you.

Thanks for everyone's support over this long covid effected season.

Sheridan

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past few months. Opening night at Palmy saw the tank hit the track for the 1st time in 2021. The off-season saw a lot of steelwork on the car and we finally got the car together on the day of racing.

Heat one: 1st night rookie mistake, didn't put enough tape on the visor and was blind on the grandstand straight due to the sunlight. We didn't run a transponder but going off the cars we finished around we finished approximately 15th.

Heat two: starting 26. Go caught in a bit of drama early on but had a couple of good battles eventually finishing again around 15th going off others mylaps

Heat 3: grid 4 and hoping for a good result. Crew asked for a good start and to get down away from the wall for when the big push happened. The Tanker launched well, too well in fact and we ended up alongside the car that was on grid 2. Unfortunately the inside line came across on us and I ended up head on into the wall before bouncing around off a few cars and eventually stalling the car and unable to refire before the reds. DNF.

Last weekend we had a lot of commitments with friends and family so chose to sit the night out and focus on the family.

Thanks to all my sponsors who have again come on board to help get the car on the track.
Freedom Plus
TKR Electrical
Dane at Dewtec PN
ATD Services Ltd
Blake at LSR Engineering
UCOL Collision Repair and Refinishing
Go Slideways Tv
S.B. O'Hagan Photography
JetSpeed Motorsport, Tasman Design Manufacture LTD
Steve's Tyre Service

And thanks to the photographers that took the photos of the car out there. NZ Speedway pics, Sticky, and Pete thanks for the use of the photos on this post.

Hoping to be able to race this weekend but this will depend on the Dr's sign-off to get this vaccine as a medical condition has prevented Me getting it to date

So proud to take home this trophy last night. Rollover shield for the 20/21 season. What made the night even sweeter was being able to Share it with Charlie Ohara taking home Ministock Most improved.

As I said last night, it would not have been possible without my amazing Crew and Sponsors. Without your dedication and support over the past season I would not be able to do what I love.

Biggest thank-you has to go to Claire O'Hara for supporting me in this crazy sport and pushing me to be there every meeting we can be.

Thankyou to everyone who came down on the weekend and dropped some money in our Ronald McDonald House Charities New Zealand bucket. Another $42 raised for our house to house challenge for the month of March. So our speedway family have kindly donated $123 towards this great charity this month. 1 day to go and 11km to finish off my target of running, walking or biking 105km this month.

If anyone would like to donate to this great charity please contact me or jump on the link and show your support of this great charity.

Thank you for all who came along last night and added to the buckets on Charlie's Ministock and our Superstock for the Ronald McDonald House. A total of $80.60 was raised for them last night and has been added to their account which you can see in the photo below. We will have the buckets their again on the 27th so if anyone else would like to donate in person pop down and see us, or flick me a message and I can send you a link to my fundraising page.

Such a massive cause for Claire, Faelan, Imogen and I to get behind and so cool to have Damien, Michelle, Charlie and Shea support with the use of their car prior to the meeting. And so cool seeing so many friends getting behind us in the pits last night.

Teams Champs 2021 Done.

Being selected to race for the first time was an honor and has made a child hood dream come true. For that I have to thank Ian Parfitt and the selection team from the bottom of my heart.

Racing didn't go as planned but a young team with the added experience of Ron means we can keep pushing forward as a group and work towards great things in years to come.

Only getting the one race on qualifying night and finding myself going from a block role to running was definitely not on the pre race plans but with a good hit by Bexs taking out the lead car I was hopeful we mite get lucky in the dying laps. Unfortunately not to be.

All in all it was a great experience, and one that I can't wait to have another crack at. Thanks to all the Mustang Sponsors, the track promotion team, my personal sponsors, My Crew, and all the supporters that come down to say hi or gave us a cheer.

To Bex, Ron, Chad, Brendan, and Todd. Thankyou for welcoming me into the team and allowing me to chase my dreams alongside you.

To my Crew, your Partners and my Parents, thankyou for all the long nights in the lead up to the meeting, for all the nights away from Loved ones, and for always being there when I need you.

And to Claire, thankyou for always having my back and allowing me to get out there and do what I love. Without your extra push this really would not have been possible.

We will have a couple of weeks off now and come back later this month possibly for the 248s before North Islands and Auckland Teams if selected.

Photo credit to the amazing Go Slideways Tv , SportsWeb Photography , Wayne Belk

Last weekend the 23p team loaded up the bus and made the trip to Oceanview Speedway for our first teams race of the season and in the new car. It was a great experience and I feel the Mustang team members really worked well together as a team getting the Win against a good Warriors side.

For me, the car was excellent and handled the contact well. Coming away from the race with a bit of steel work bent jacobs ladder mount, and bent steering arm so very minor in the scheme of things.

Driver needs a bit more work to get his timing right but that will come with more teams races under our belt, but for our 1st time in a blocking role I feel we had a solid race.

With Imogen still in hospital we will have a weekend off this weekend and get the car ready for our next hitout in Palmy in a week or two.

Thanks to all my sponsors and Crew for getting the car out on track. Truly wouldn't be doing this without all your support

Thanks to Tayler Burke, Zaben CresswellPhotography and PS3 photography for the great photos