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Where did the name Crazy Goat Racing originate?

I, Gareth Keith, have been involved in Speedway since 2001 as a co-driver with friends, Antony Gaunt & Joshua Keene. Joel Stephenson, Team Manager, had also been involved in Speedway since 2001 but as pit crew member for Super Sedan driver, Jack Childs #24.

At the start of 2003, Joel and myself started on an interesting journey of building a racecar for ourselves. Joel purchased a Mazda 929 two-door coupe from his eldest daughter. It was a little worse for wear though it had potential.

After many long nights and weekends, the two of us had finished the car to a point where it could be driven

Although it had all the safety gear installed, it very badly needed a paint job, some new tyres and a little TLC on the engine. However this didn’t stop us from taking the car out to Blackwater Speedway track for a practice weekend that friend, Craig Torr had organised.

So here we were, both trying to drive this Mazda around a WET track on semi-bald standard tyres and standard flogged out suspension. This made for some fun times with huge amounts of push, but then the push would turn to huge amounts of tail. I remember quite clearly trying to drive the wheels off the car and going from lock to lock from the exit of turn 4 to the entry of turn 1 with one last tank slap at the apex of the corner that had me facing the wrong way

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As we made our way back to the pits to evaluate the huge amounts of work left to do to the Mazda to get it to turn and drive the way a race car should, there were quite a range of mixed comments coming from our group of racing friends. Antony Gaunt said to us “the car looks like it drives a bit like a HAIRY GOAT!!” Chuckles from the peanut gallery followed. He followed the comment up by saying “Your both bloody CRAZY for even attempting to drive this thing around the track”.

We left the car to cool down a bit and walked over to the track to watch some of the other drivers having a practice.

Joel and I returned to the car only to find Gaunt had given the car a nickname across the top head plate. In big bold electrical tape letters were the words ‘CRAZY GOAT’

everyone thought it was hilarious and so did we. We spent the rest of the weekend referring to the car as ‘ THE GOAT ’ not knowing it would be a name that would stick like mud.

On finishing the car with a well needed paintjob, we decided that the car had been permanently branded the Crazy Goat so to complete matters we added new vinyl lettering which replaced Gaunt’s version. I also took the time to airbrush a goat head on the rear between the taillights just to give the car some extra character

The ‘GOAT‘ hit the track for the first time in July 2003 at Mac’s Speedway in Mackay, QLD with Joel behind the wheel. We continued to race the car throughout the season at many different tracks alternating the driving between each other. A small fan base began to build especially with the kids and the odd cheer of “GO THE GOAT” which was heard as we circulated the track. And so this is how TEAM CRAZY GOAT RACING was born.

By Gareth Keith