Commitment to Venue Improvements
If it has four wheels, there is a good chance Paul Stubber has raced it. A lifelong devotee to anything fast, Stubber has now chosen Late Models for his high horsepower thrills.
Stubber has raced on many of the world’s great asphalt circuits, but said the dirt lured him back.
“I’ve done some wonderful asphalt racing over the years, racing at magnificent Formula One tracks through Europe – but at some point in time it is just asphalt,” he said. “After doing it for 20 odd years I really was looking for something different. I had a go back on the dirt and now it is my primary objective to get as good as we can in as short a period of time.”
Stubber does have speedway history, having formerly raced Sprintcars and Super Sedans. He laughed that he was quick around the oval, but accident prone.
“The way I describe my Sprintcar racing was all balls and no brains,” he said. “I did discover how to flip them from one end of the straight to the other. I was fast but crashed often.”
Acknowledging that he is on the wrong side of 50 to be racing Sprintcars, Stubber said the Late Models have proved to be an exciting alternative.
“I think it was the quality of the cars that attracted me more than anything, they are a great car to race on dirt with the engineering in the steering and suspension,” he said. “They reward a good quality driver. When I was introduced to Late Models I was impressed.
“They’re a very responsive car to drive and it is probably the most exciting car I have raced on dirt. I like the way we can move them around on the track. Sprintcars can get stuck in a preferred piece of track and follow each other nose-to-tail; in Late Model races there is a lot more track to work on. We can see ourselves three or four-wide regularly.”
To help build his experience, Stubber will be bringing the USA’s Glenn and Billy Moyer to Perth Motorplex for the Late Model Nationals in January to do some racing.
“We’ve raced with Billy in the USA, he is a very well credentialed racer and he will provide us with some more thoughts and understanding on getting around the track,” Stubber said.
But for now the immediate focus is on the Scardifield Smash Repairs King of Wings, where Stubber will be using a crate motor car.
“We are bringing a knife to a gunfight,” he said. “The crate motor is down 300 horsepower on the other front running cars, but we are doing that as a practice thing. If we can finish in the top five we would be rapt.”
The Scardifield Smash Repairs King of Wings sees winged speedway vehicles of all kinds hitting the dirt including the Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series, TW Mechanical 360 Sprintcars, Limited Sprintcars and Telf Promotional Products Formula 500s, plus the Di Candilo Steel City Late Models and the Carbusters Demolition Derby.
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