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Marlborough's Eastern States speedway racer Paddy North has teamed up with Lovelady Race cars of Darfield to compete in the 2013 DHL Saloon Speedweek in early December. North usually peddling the bright red 46e Chev powered Monaro Super Saloon will switch to the Black LRC Ford powered Mustang Saloon. "I'll get some stick for driving a Ford" said North, however the opportunity to run as part of the LRC team was too good of an opportunity to pass up, I have raced Lovelady cars for the last 12 years and worked very closely with John Lovelady, I have a lot of respect for John and he has been a great mentor to my racing career"

LRC have built over 100 race cars predominantly speedway and have won several national titles, Like North, Lovelady is excited about being a part of Speedweek, "we are very passionate about our racing and thrilled to be teaming up with Paddy for this series" said Lovelady "the Saloon class is important for our car building business and this series is good promotion for our brand. We take our racing very seriously and an event like this will be extremely challenging and demanding on both car and crew.

The Saloon rules are more restrictive than the "Super Saloon" class, so North will be down on horse power and missing a few other higher spec components that he has become accustomed to, "however I'm under no illusion as to how tough or competitive this series will be".

Saloon Speedweek is the brainchild of Steve Williams and has been growing from strength to strength over the last 11 years; it's a gruelling seven different tracks over nine days covering the entire south Island from Blenheim to Invercargill featuring 24 of the country's top Saloon drivers. "I'm absolutly rapt to be a part of this extremely competitive series" said North, "I love my racing and look forward to being involved in Speedweek where driver skill, preparation and close racing potentially plays more importance than the higher horsepower, higher spec seen in the Super Saloon class".

The 2013 DHL Saloon Speedweek commences at Marlborough's Eastern States speedway on Friday 6th December, moving to Woodford Glen on the 7th, Greymouth's Greenstone Park on the 8th, Riverside Speedway Invercargill 11th, Island Park Dunedin 12th Cromwell 13th and the grand finale in Ashburton on the 14th December.

For more info check out the DHL Saloon Speedweek website or follow Paddy North Racing on Facebook.