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Sep 19th, 2007 A quick note to let you know I'm selling my truck - 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD with tow package! More details in the ad here:
I might be interested in a partial trade for a smaller truck (4 or 6 cyl) if anyone is interested.
Asking Price is a very reasonable $7700
Contact me at sweenrace@hotmail.com if interested
Sep 4th, 2007 Well, the dust has settled on a great weekend's racing for Sweeney Racing. Gavin made a perfect debut in a new car at a very tricky track completing two top 10 finishes and some fast lap times. Thanks to Bruce who's car ran flawlessly throughout.
As hoped, the changes made to the Crusader made a considerable difference to the handling. Ever since we bought the car its suffered from oversteer and nothing fixed it. It seems this last change has gone a long way to making it better. The end result was two wins and a fastest lap! More details in the video.
Sep 3rd, 2007 The picture says it all!
Aug 31st, 2007 We managed to get a couple of test sessions in this afternoon. The rear suspension changes we made seemed to have worked. Some tweaking is still required but we'll see! And yes, it was hot 35+C / 95+F. Here's some in car footage from glorious Sears Point....
Aug 30th, 2007 We're off to the races! VideoBlog Number 3 has all the latest details!
Aug 22nd, 2007 Enjoy VideoBlog Number 2 with all the latest news!
Aug 14th, 2007 Here's the first of the VideoBlogs. Light and Sound is not great but we'll work on that!
Aug 13th, 2007 I got a new camera pictured below which makes it a lot easier to record and get video online so i thought it would be fun to do a little video blog of the prep for the coming Sear Race. I'll do the first post in the next day or so.
 We have two cars here at the moment as Gavin is also going to race at Sears Point. Believe it or not it'll be the first time we've raced together. Bruce has kindly hired out his steed for the weekend so we have it here to get familiar with it.
July 11th, 2007 Pictured below, we've been testing a new driver lately who we believe will be a hot property in years to come!
June 19th, 2007 A friend of mine is trying to do something good and has set up a site to make it happen. Check it out and please pass it on to those who might find it helpful…
June 18th, 2007 Long time no speak! So we raced in Laguna at the start of May. Qualified 2nd, finished 3rd. It was kind of a boring race because I had terrible front wheel hop under braking. I couldnt brake hard anywhere which meant i was never in the running for a win...oh well, thats racing.
Since then I've been reviewing the data from my data logger to see what i can learn and it has been very interesting. With help from others more knowledgeable it appears there is still some work to be done with the rear of the car. My car has always stuggled with rear grip and is very twitchy at high speed compared to other front runners. Sooo, I plan to make some changes for the August race at Sears Point. Gavin is also hoping to run that race too, so watch out, two Sweeneys on track can be a dangerous thing!
May 2nd, 2007 Just two days till we go racing again! We'll be at Laguna for the opening round of the Inaugural FCM Pacific FV Cup. I'm looking to make amends for the mistake that lost me 2nd place in November at Laguna. Hopefully I can go one better this time and win!
April 16th, 2007 Things are shaping up for this season, better late then never! I should find out this week if I can make the first of the Formula Car Magazine Pacific FV races at Laguna in May. The car is pretty much ready to go so I'm pretty excited. The field promises to be good with rumors of Blake Tatum, Rick Shick and maybe Colin Cross making appearances.
Sweeney Racing is hoping to have two cars out at the following FCM Cup race in Thunderhill in late June. Gavin will likely race the Crusader and we will rent a car for me. It'll be a lot of fun to race against each other although I have no plans to let him beat me!
Thats it for the moment, more details as things get settled....
March 8th, 2007 We've got some video of the drivers school, thanks to Russ Meagher. Its 6Megs so be prepared....click here
March 5th, 2007 Back from school....lots of fun and succesful. Gavin's got his license and was fast (when we finally got the car running!). Pictures to follow. Many thanks to all who helped and to the other drives who graduated.
February 25th, 2007 We're done. The car is ready and the new nose is fitted (see the pic below). Bruce Fuchiwaki has kindly offered up his trailer. We'll roll out early Friday morning. Three days at the track...woohoo!
February 19th, 2007 We pulled the first piece from the mould today and it looks good! It hasnt been trimmed at this point so its a little rough but it looks great, especially in carbon fiber. 
February 12th, 2007 Preparations continue for the Drivers school. The new sway bar has arrived and the nose buck is complete. In fact its under a couple of layers of fibreglass right now. One more layer and we can pull the mold. Its going a little slow though because of the weather. I now also realise that I may have f*cked up with the gel coat and was....we'll just have to wait and see! A couple of pics below to whet your appetite......Roll on the season.
In other news, the Crusader is mechanically ready to race and we're focusing on cosmetics. We're still trying to find a powder coater for the rims and focusing on finishing the nose mold. Pics to follow....
January 23rd, 2007 The buck has been painted with sandable primer and is ready for final sanding. I'm hoping to have it waxed and buffed this weekend ready to start making the mold. I'll post some pics this evening.
We had planned to get some rims powder coated but it seems my powder coater has gone out of business. Anyone know of any racer friendly powder coaters in the bay area? Send me a mail if you do (ian at sweeney-racing dott com) .....thanks!
January 19th, 2007 2007 marks the promotion of a new member to race crew. Sean Sweeney, aka "The Boss", joins the team this year and is pictured in the center of the official 2007 Sweeney Racing Team Pic. We're expecing a lot from him this season!
Progress with the car continues. New rims have been procured, vinyl has arrived (trying it instead of paint) and the nose buck is nearing competion. I had started fine sanding but noticed one surface needed some additional shaping. Pics are below. I'm hoping to get it to the point of being ready for priming this weekend. 
For those of you visiting that are interested in classic and vintage cars of road and racing variety you should check out a new site a buddy of mine has started. Its called www.bringatrailer.com. The site showcases cars form all over the country that are for sale in various locations. There are some very interesting racecars including a couple of Healeys, an original Lotus Cortina and a sweet '65 vette...very nice!
January 11th, 2007 I just finished updating the results for the 2006 season and filled out some of the results from the late 90's that I can remember. Toting up the number of races and considering a few I know I've missed, it looks like over the past 10 years, I've raced 9 cars in close to 60 races in 3 countries at 12 different tracks. It would be cool to at least double those numbers in the next 10! MORE HERE.
January 9th, 2007 We've added RSS feeds to the site. What the hell is an RSS Feed I hear you ask? Its a technology that allows you do two cool things. We all have our favorite sites we like to surf. Instead of trawling all your sites daily for updates, you can get a piece of free software (RSS Aggregator) that trawls all the sites for you and lets you know when there are updates. By adding Sweeney Racing's RSS feed to your RSS Aggregator you will be notified when we add updates. (By the way I use Newsgator Online as my aggregator).
The other cool thing is that you can add our updates and content to your site if you wish. You do this just be adding a couple of lines of code to your site. Contact us if you have questions. If you'd like to add our feed to your aggregator click the rss link under "Latest news" above or just enter the following address into your aggregator: And now back to your regularly scheduled racing news!
January 6th, 2007 Welcome to the 2007 race season. Its Ians 11th season in cars and will be Gavin's first in cars. We just finished a day of working on the car. Ian worked on finishing the buck for a new nose (pics to follow) and Gavin worked on the brakes and general tidy up. We actually have a lot of work to get through for the driver's school.
Our tentative plan at this stage is for Gavin to run the school in the vee March 4-6th and Ian to run the Double National at the end of March. Fingers crossed we get everything done by then...
Archive of 2006 new >> here
Our Crusader FV pictured below in Formula Car Mag is for sale | ||||
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