Our Team - Chaparral/Gatorz Eyewear Racing.
The Team Chaparral "Team" started out like most Club Car team with a few mates deciding to go Racing. In the beginning, named "Team Harmston Racing" we took to the track competing in the newly improved "Improved Production Racing" here in New South Wales, and from our first "hit out" we knew that this is were we wanted to be. Our car's were basically modified street Mazda RX7's right down to the fact that the 16 (formerly 95 & 27) Team Harmston Racing RX7 ran out of it's street registration only a few months before it was entered in it's first IPRA Round.
With all the advice we could muster on board along with some interesting first up result's, we stumbled on a 12 month deal with Boost Mobile for both cars. Encouraging us to think up a new Team Name which suited both drivers and to get away from the usual "Last Name Racing" stigma that Club Car Racing had fallen into over recent times.
Then came the launch of our "Team Chaparral Racing" . Chaparral has a few different meaning's and anyone with a Dictionary search engine on their computer could more than likely quote every single meaning. "Chaparral" is actually the type of bird that the Looney Tunes "Road Runner" is.... But that's not why we called our team that...Beep Beep... There is also a town in the USA called Chaparral, it's also the name of a small shrub thingy..But.. We just liked the name...Beep Beep...
Our Goal is to do the best we without losing sight of the reason we love this sport so much. In 2003, we wanted to take our racing a little more serious (more so, just to have our car's at least on par with the rest of the field) and with determination, good results would follow.
We believe that the Improved Production Category will be the next "BIG THING" and looking at it's growth over the past 3 - 5 years, we're glad we've chosen our time carefully to try to peak when it's at it's premium.
The class is attracting some top notch competitor's with some of the grid's being filled with Current V8 Supercar Champions, National Karting Champions, Ex-Konica V8 Supercar competitors along with GTP and Bathurst 24Hrs Drivers, meaning that we've got to be at our best everytime we hit the track.
Here at Rockstar Gatorz Racing, we believe that if you can't promote yourself well, you can't promote anybody hence the reason why you'll always see our cars looking and performing at their absolute best everytime.
2010 will be known as the turning point of our team, we believe that we'll be back up front, but we've got to tick ALL the boxes when it comes to getting the best out of our team, both on and off the track.
We hope you enjoy following our progress |