| More Strong Results For Robbie On The Wss Trail |
| Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:00 |
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Three sprintcar meetings in three nights, with Robbie and the Krikke Motorsports team again being stand out performers on the WSS tour. The Action Man has certainly been providing the race fans with Action, with Robbie taking out a sensational victory at Speedway City, a superb second placing at Murray Bridge and a disappointing seventh position at Mt Gambier
Boxing Day night and the WSS tour returned to Adelaide and this place must be Robbie’s new favourite race track.It was just over a month since Robbie scored his first WSS victory of the summer at Speedway City and he was back and again winning his second WSS round at the South Australian venue. Timetrails saw Robbie setting second best time with a superb 12.154 lap in the strong 23 car field. With him starting seventh in both his heat races, Robbie in the Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger ended up with a second and third placing giving him highest points going into the Pole Shootout. Robbie continued his brilliant form winning the pole shootout before going on to score another sensational A Main victory.
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| It Just Wasn't Robbie's Night At Parramatta. |
| Monday, 16 December 2002 00:00 |
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Well it was a evening that Robbie Farr would probably like to forget, with the Action Man striking major troubles at his Parramatta debut in the Krikke Motorsports Avenger. Saturday night’s round six of the World Series Sprintcars saw Robbie’s having what looked to be fuel problem’s right from the moment he went out for hot laps, he and the Krikke team were behind the eight ball for the rest of the evening.
With the #2 Avenger striking troubles Robbie missed his spot in time trails but with the team working quickly to firstly find then fix the trouble, the team did eventually get the sprintcar running reasonably well,
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| Robbie Holds The World Series Sprintcar Points Lead After Avalon |
| Wednesday, 11 December 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr racing the Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger picked up a solid fifth placing in last Saturday night’s World Series Sprintcar’s round at Avalon, giving the “Action Man” enough points to continue leading the championship points tally.
While the track was a little greasy Robbie clocked a very respectable time of 12.406sec in the time trails. In fact Robbie held quick time until the very last few cars went out for their time trail at the Avalon venue. The track dialled in late in the session so the “Action Man” ended up setting the fourth best time, Robbie was very happy with the way the Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger was working. With one of his sponsor, Quick Race Parts proprietors Rob and Jenny Richardson on hand to see Robbie race for there first time this season, Robbie wanted to put on a good show, and to fly the flag high for the other Krikke Motorsport teams sponsors, Bunbury Toyota, Krikke Motorsports, PWR Radiators, Revolution Racegear, Avenger Chassis, A1 Signs, Fortron, Central Districts Smash Repairs and the Mercure Hotel Parramatta.
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| Farr's Sensational World Series Sprintcar Victory |
| Tuesday, 03 December 2002 00:00 |
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Last Saturday night Robbie Farr and the Krikke Motorsports team served notice that they are taking the 2002/3 World Series Sprintcars tournament very seriously with “the Action Man” scoring a brilliant victory in round four of the 2002/3 series held at Adelaide.
Going into the Adelaide round Robbie and his Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger has been one of the most consistent runners in the rounds held so far and although Adelaide wasn't a happy hunting ground for the team at the recent Adelaide Sprintcar Masters, they were hopeful for a good result last Saturday. As with the normal WSS format time trails started the evening of after the hot lap sessions with Robbie setting the third quickest time with a 12.104 sec lap.
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| Another Great Night For Robbie And Krikke Motorsports |
| Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:00 |
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Round three of the prestigious World Series Sprintcars was held last night at the Kalgoorlie International Raceway and Robbie Farr in the #2 Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger ended the evening off with a sensational third placing in the A Main feature race.
Robbie had raced at the Kalgoorlie speedway back in 1999 but since then the Western Australian track surface had changed and the turns were now a little banked but as usual Robbie was in top form all night. With 25 cars on hand for the WSS round Robbie copped position 23 in the time trails and while the track wasn’t as good as it was in hot laps, the “Action Man” still set an excellent time with a 13.089sec lap placing him fifth fastest.
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| Another Strong Result For The Action Man In Perth |
| Sunday, 24 November 2002 00:00 |
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It was another good showing for Robbie Farr and the Krikke Motorsports team last night at the Quit Motorplex at Kwinana with the Action Man scoring a strong 5th in the A Main feature.
Robbie didn’t start the evening off too well in the Toyota Genuine Parts, Quick Race Parts, Krikke Motorsports Bunbury Toyota, PWR Radiators, Revolution Racegear, Valvoline, Avenger. Starting 21st in a 33 car field in time trails, saw Robbie ending up with only 14th quick time (14.199 sec) but the car was too high geared hurting Robbie’s chances of a very quick time. Then in his first heat and incident saw the #2 Toyota Geniune Parts Avenger bending a jacobs ladder leaving the Action Man to finish one position lower than he started and that was in eight position. In his next heat after coming out of position eight, Robbie was back to his usual “standin on the gas” and ended up with a superb second position at the checker.
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| Action Man's Great Start To World Series Sprintcars Campaign |
| Monday, 18 November 2002 00:00 |
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Well its here the 2002/3 World Series Sprintcars, the series Robbie and the Toyota Genuine Parts/ Krikke Motorsports Team wants to win and at last Saturday night’s Bunbury Speedway series opener Robbie and the #2 Avenger were in sensational form. After gaining pole in a brilliant Pole Shuffle run, Robbie ended up with third placing in the 30 lap A Main feature after breaking a shock and tagging the wall during the race.
As with the usual WSS format, time trails started the night off and with Robbie having a good run at Bunbury just two weeks earlier, he along with the entire Krikke Motorsports team were confident of a good evening. With a great time of 13.429sec, Robbie ended up with fourth fastest time out of the quality 31 cars on hand at Bunbury. Coming out of position 9 in the opening 10 lap heat, Robbie made brilliant forward progress to be in third position at the checker. The next heat saw Darren Jensen spin out early in the race, sending cars everywhere as they tried to avoid Jensen’s machine. In the incident Robbie’s Toyota Genuine Parts Avenger had the front wing torn off, but still the Action Man was able to finish up in a sensational sixth position.
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| Its Finally Showtime! |
| Friday, 15 November 2002 00:00 |
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Hi all and after a delayed start to the summer, we have finally hit the race track. At this time I’ve raced at three meetings in three different states and haven’t I had mixed results.
I was originally going to run the first three Parramatta Sprintcar meetings but with all that insurance stuff, the practice day plus the first two PCR sprintcar meets were canned and it looked like I would be a spectator at the season opener. Fortunately John Hart came to the rescue and offered me a ride in his #79 sprintcar. The car has all the right gear and I was able to quickly settle into what was a unfamiliar car but the night was full of small and annoying problems. I finished second in the 1st heat race but a leaking rocker cover dumped tons of oil on my driving suit late in the race. Not having a spare suit Andrew Scheuerle offered me his spare and while it was a little larger than mine I was still able to run the rest of the night.
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| Farr's Fifth Place In The Adelaide Sprintcar Masters |
| Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr fresh from his brilliant second placing at Bunbury was looking forward to Adelaide and the annual Sprintcar Masters event. The Toyota Genuine Parts/ Krikke Motorsports Avenger performed superbly at its debut meeting but after setting third quickest lap with a brilliant 12.677 time during the Masters event, Robbie had to settle for fifth in the feature.
The Action Man made forward progress in his two heats and with the promoters running a WSS format Robbie had to come from near the rear in both heat races. Heat one and Robbie started from sixth place, finishing one position higher in fifth while in heat three he came from position 5 to move up three places and greet the checker in second position. The pole shuffle saw Robbie dropping a position, with fourth highest points going into the shuffle he had hoped to go forward but it wasn’t to be, Robbie was moved back to fifth starting position in the A Main. In what could be described as a narrow track, Robbie wasn’t able to improve his position and finished where he started in fifth position.
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| Farr And Krikke Motorsports Second Placing At Bunbury |
| Sunday, 03 November 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr has started his 2002/3 Summer campaign in the Krikke Motorsports Avenger with a brilliant second placing last night at the Bunbury City Speedway.
With the prestigious World Series Sprintcars just about to start, Robbie and the Krikke Motorsports team were at the Bunbury round of the Car Craft WA Sprintcar Series to get in some valuable seat time.
Robbie found the WA#2 Avenger fast straight out of the box and improved with each race. With 19 cars entered Robbie set fourth quick time with a 12.720sec lap. He made forward progress all night after started from position 8 in heat 2, the Action Man showed his “standin on the gas” style to the enthusiastic West Aussie fans and finished in a sensational 4th position.
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| No Action For The Action Man, Robbie Farr |
| Sunday, 27 October 2002 00:00 |
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It certainly wasn’t the start to the new season that Robbie Farr was hoping for, with Robbie not even making it into the A Main field at Parramatta.
Last Friday night’s season opener at the Parramatta City Raceway definitely gave the Action Man his fair share of troubles, even though his #79 John Hart owned sprintcar was ultra competitive. Small problems plagued Robbie all night long and while comfortably leading the B Main, going into turn three the left rear tyre rolled off the rim, deflating the tyre and sending Robbie into the tyre wall and out for the night.
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| Winter Is Finished And Now It Is Time For Racing |
| Tuesday, 08 October 2002 00:00 |
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Hello all, and thank goodness the racing is set to start this weekend at Parramatta. It’s been a prolonged and hard winter off season and I’ve had a long enough break, to be honest I just want to go racing.
Well it hasn’t been that bad, I did have a few weeks racing in the States during August, after winning last season’s Parramatta City Raceway track championship the prize was a drive in the World of Outlaws and I was fortunate to run at two meetings. The first show was the big 1/2 mile track at Calistoga and it was a fast racetrack. I’ve never raced at that track before, the speed was something else, and I was doing over 130mph at the end of the back straight. It was a bit of a jump, getting into a 410 sprinter after 3 or 4 months off racing, all I can say it certainly opened up my eyes and I really enjoyed the experience. I think we all had a good time, having my crew from the past couple of seasons in Australia with me helped too.
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| Robbie Farr, Pleased With Gold Cup Performance |
| Monday, 09 September 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr was pleased with his overall performance at Chico’s Silver Dollar Speedway but disappointed to go out of the Gold Cup main event while running in a strong 12 place, Steve Kinser went on to win the race over Tim Kaeding.
While running in a comfortable 12th place behind regular Outlaw driver Donny Schatz things took a turn for the worst for Robbie on lap 27 of the 40 lap race. PJ Chesson had a loose right in front of the hard charging Schatz who inturn tried to take evasive action leaving Robbie with nowhere to go, he made contact with the #15 Parker Stores J&J sending Schatz into a series of rolls. Robbie was not able to take the restart due to a problem with the steering box and not enough time to fix it, putting him into the 23rd finishing spot.
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| Robbie On The Pace At Gold Cup |
| Saturday, 07 September 2002 00:00 |
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Last weekend was a testing time for Robbie Farr and his crew as they tried getting used to a 410 cubic inch motor and the big fast half mile race track of Calistoga. After a lengthy break since winning the Driver to World of Outlaws premiership at Parramatta City Raceway in March 2002 the team was not happy with their results but tonight’s results were much more rewarding as he felt like he was back home at PCR when he competed in the Gold Cup at Chico California.
After pulling the last pill # out of the bag which meant that he was going to be the last car of the night to Qualify and the track would be gone with 45 cars Qualifying in front of him the start of the night did no look to good.
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| Farr Goes For A Steady Start In America |
| Tuesday, 03 September 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie started his American trip with a few days of relaxation in Las Vegas before moving on towards California to prepare for his drives with the Outlaws in the Kinser car, courtesy of Parramatta Raceway and Brian Healy.
A possible drive in a 410 wingless car at Antioch speedway was passed up for a few laps in a 360 winged sprintcar at the Placerville County Fairgrounds speedway. This semi banked clay ¼ mile track was a good place to get back into the swing of racing again, 33 cars lined up for the night’s events. At the completion of the time trials Robbie was a little over ½ a second of the pace in the 7T car, qualifying in 16 place, this gave Robbie a start in heat four out of P7, moving forward only one spot was not enough to move through to the A Main.
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| Robbie Farr Heads To The Usa For The World Of Outlaws Drive |
| Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:00 |
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Early this morning Robbie Farr flew out of Australia to prepare for his upcoming drive in the World of Outlaws that he won as part of the his prize for once again taking out the very prestigious 2001-2002 Parramatta Raceway point score.
Robbie left today for approximately four weeks in the states to take up the drive with the Outlaws and to also have a short holiday. Robbie has a few travelling companions on this trip, his number one supporter, his mother Robyn and her friend Carol Lander will be there to keep an eye on him when they are not out shopping together. Also long time Aussie team members Carl troffa and Shan Finch have gone with Robbie to see what’s new and how the Americans go about their racing.
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| Robbie Farr, Australian's Call The Action Man |
| Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 |
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After being Sydney’s top sprintcar racer over the past two seasons, Robbie Farr has set his sights away from the Parramatta City Raceway.
It was recently announced that Robbie would be teaming up with Shane Krikke, making the Krikke/Farr duo one of Australia’s strongest sprintcar combinations with one goal in mind that is to win all the major Australia sprintcar events including the prestigious World Series Sprintcars. Greg Boscato caught up with Robbie to check out his plans for the upcoming season plus his thoughts on last year.
Greg Boscato. Was this past 2001/2 season your most successful?
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| Robbie Farr And Shane Krikke Team Up For 2002-2003 Aussie Season |
| Tuesday, 02 July 2002 00:00 |
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After being one of the most successful Sydney sprintcar racers in recent years, Robbie Farr has decided its time to travel and run against the nations best in the World Series Sprintcars tournament.
Robbie hasn’t done things in half measures and has joined forces with one of the best sprintcar outfits in the country the West Australian team of Shane Krikke. The Krikke team won the prestigious Australia Sprintcar Title last year so they are no strangers to winning the big events.
Robbie has been the stand out performer at the local Parramatta City Raceway with the “Action Man” picking up his second consecutive PCR Track Championship and Sprintcar Association of NSW points score series as well as the NSW Sprintcar Titles earlier this year but he now has eyes on the prestigious WSS crown, as well as the big shows across the Australia.
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| A Chat With Robbie Farr |
| Thursday, 06 June 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr has been enjoying his time in the motorsport game so far, with success throughout his go cart days to sprintcars then speedcars and back to sprintcars, in this interview Robbie speaks straight up.
Robbie speaks openly about his racing with Ian Vale
Q. Motorsport is your chosen hobby, mainly sprintcar racing, why?
Robbie.- Probably a lot to do with my back ground and what I was brought up with. I started with go carts but there was always a speedway car or a sprintcar in the garage and that was why when I was old enough it would be the choice that I was going to make. That’s the way of life and what I grew up with and what I have always been around. I enjoy the competition and so that why I do it.
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| Robbie Farr Thanks His Fellow Competitors |
| Saturday, 04 May 2002 00:00 |
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Robbie Farr Motorsport and the EWT Race Team were disappointed at not being able to race for back-to-back Queensland Sprintcar Titles due to the poor weather.
At the completion of the heat racing in this years Queensland Sprintcar title thing were looking good for Robbie and the team to be in a good position to challenge to retain the Title honors. But first the pole shuffle had to be contested for the final starting positions in the main event, after challenging and winning over Garry Brazier for the chance to go for the top spot against Max Dumesny the motor called it quits with a suspected burnt piston, putting Robbie out of the final run off.
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