10 March 2011
An unfruitful second attempt at making an eight car Top Doorslammer field at last weekend's Westernationals hasn't fazed Boomeracing's Maurice Brennan, who has seen his team endure barren seasons in the past and doesn't even entertain the thought that they won't be able to bounce back to the success they have enjoyed in the past.
The K-Trans/Joondalup Carpet Court/Crown Integrated VT Commodore denied her pilot any clean runs over the weekend, but according to Brennan, “that’s just a phase she’s going through.”
“There is so much of our personality in this car that we almost feel like she’s alive, and after changing engines, she just hasn’t wanted to co-operate, but that’s typical of any pre-teen isn’t it?” a cheerful Brennan asked, referring to his homebuilt car that breathed her first breath in his back shed almost eleven years ago.
“I just hope my daughter Georgia doesn’t give me this much trouble,” Brennan said with only half a smirk.
“You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to find a baseline to work from, but what this proves is that we just keep underestimating how much power this engine really has,” Brennan said, while signing posters for the growing legion of fans of the World’s Quickest Commodore.
Boomeracing partner Keith Middleton from K-Trans sighted the weekend as “unrewarding for such a hard working team,” but was positive that a team of this calibre would bounce back once they found that baseline again.
“It’s a cruel sport drag racing, but there’s some clever people in that team an I’m very confident that they’ll be back in the running once they can work out exactly how much power is coming out of that monster of an engine!” he said.
Brennan’s next opportunity to tame the World’s Quickest Commodore will be on March 19 when he will return to racing in the hotly contested K-Trans Top Comp category at the Perth Motorplex as part of the Nitro Funny Car show.