Chris Crowe

Well our next profile report is all about our dedicated Pit Chief Crowey, who has been the go to man in the BYR pits since joining the team for the 2004 AIPP. As well as being a CAD Master who is responsible for drawing up almost every part of our 2009 Vehicle.

Crowey Hard at work for BYR.

1) Age?
A metric 23

2) Where do you live?
In Ormeau QLD, Home of the torrential downpour.

3) What is your job and where do you work?
I have just started work for PWR performance products in sunny QLD, as a draftsman/designer.
4) Number of Races both ridding and and in pits?
About 15 races all up, most from pit lane, making sure the wheels keep on turning, although I did ride in '06 and '09 at "thaggi".

5) As a draftsman how do your skills on Computer Aided Design (CAD) benefit BYR?
It can come in handy at times being able to draw up parts for the bike to give us an idea of whether they'll fit or not before we make them.

6) As Cheif Pit Crew of BYR you have been at alot of races over the years. What is your best memory/moment from HPV Racing?
There's been a lot of good memories from past events, Probably one of the highlights has been some of the really close clean fast racing we've had with a couple of teams over the years, when we've been battling lap for lap, that's always been good fun to track from pitlane.

7) What is the best thing about being involved in BYR?
The best thing about BYR for me is being apart of a team of highly motivated, passionate individuals who all strive for the same goal and achieve special things throughout the journey. Its the mateship as much as it is the building of the vehicles that really makes it worth putting a 150% in.

8) What is the Hardest part about BYR?
The hardest part at the moment is not being able to spend as much time working on the bike as i'd like too, damn the person who hasn't invented light speed travel and longer weekends. (enter fist waggle here)

9) And Finally BYR don't promote crashes but they are an unavoidable part of our sport. What is the most spectacular crash you have been involved in or seen?Probably one of the worst crashes that I saw the after math from was probably in '06 when floata careered into channel 7 corner, apparently barrell rolling a couple of times. It would have been pretty impressive to see. (PS for any of the punters out there that happen to have any photos of that crash please email to chooka at jhendo3@hotmail.com , it would be good to actually see it.)

Watch this space for more updates in the coming weeks.