Jonathan Allard gives thanks following hard crash Saturday night at Groppetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway

By Gary Thomas

Tulare, CA – March 8, 2010…After being involved in one of the more vicious sprint car wrecks seen in recent memory on Saturday night Chico, California’s Jonathan Allard is okay and extremely thankful for the safety advancements seen in our sport over the last number of seasons.

The accident occurred while competing in the third heat race with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series on Saturday night at the Groppetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, California. While racing for position on the opening lap Allard and another car came together off turn four, which launched Allard’s machine into the catch fence and resulted in him flipping violently down the front stretch.

Author : Evan Griffen

American Sprintcar stars Ricky Logan and Jonathan Allard each won the two Sprintcar features on Saturday night at Western Springs Speedway. Allard spectacularly won his from the back of the grid after taking up the challenge to start rear of field for an extra $1000 bonus if he or Logan could win starting last, while Logan won a crash marred first Sprintcar feature for the Auckland Championship crown. A huge crowd enjoyed the action of twin features on a fast and flat Western Springs Speedway track.

Jonathan Allard scores third victory of New Zealand trip at Western Springs Speedway

By Gary Thomas

Aukland, New Zealand – January 7, 2009…Returning to the Western Springs Speedway on Wednesday night Chico, California's Jonathan Allard raced to his third victory in four starts at the track during his down under assault aboard the Kevin McGreal owned Hydraulink, Porter Hire No. 0 sprinter.

Allard's previous start in New Zealand had netted him a third place finish in the feature at Robertson Holder Speedway on January 1, where he closed in on eventual winner Sammy Swindell and second place Ricky Logan late in the going, but ran out of laps to make something happen.

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Jonathan Allard partners with Hydraulink Fluid Connectors and Porter Hire for 2009/10 New Zealand trip

By Gary Thomas

New Zealand, December 10, 2009…Chico, California sprint car driver Jonathan Allard is pleased to join forces with Hydraulink Fluid Connectors and Porter Hire in support of his annual New Zealand/Down Under trip for the 2009 and '10 season.

Allard is very excited to be a part of the Kevin McGreal owned No. 0 sprinter once again in New Zealand and looks forward to representing Hydraulink and Porter Hire. "We are extremely happy to have great companies like Hydraulink and Porter Hire come on board as marketing partners with our team this season," the 33-year-old veteran said. "This is the biggest sponsor I've been a part of and they have a huge racing background so it's pretty awesome to be associated with them. We have a great team down here and had a lot of success last year and I'm definitely expecting the same this season."

Tracing its beginnings back to 1945 Hydraulink has developed into a multi national hose and fittings company operating in Australia, Asia and the South Pacific basin. The prime activities of the company are the rapid repair of hose assemblies to a wide range of both mobile and static plant, in the field 24 hours a day 7 days a week, the supply of new hose assembles to original equipment manufacturers throughout all countries and direct on site sales from containers at large projects. The company undertakes this through a distribution network in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Any application where optimum performance from hydraulic systems and hoses is critical, Hydraulink are there, manufacturing and distributing hydraulic hoses, fittings, couplers, tube assemblies, adaptors and accessories.

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Noise limit takes Jonathan Allard out of contention in opening NZ race

By Gary Thomas

Chico, CA's Jonathan Allard competed in his first event since making the trip to New Zealand over this past weekend and had a great night of racing going, until officials deemed that he was exceeding the Speedway NZ noise limit in the 30-lap feature.

Allard was in action at the Western Springs Speedway and timed-in third fastest overall, before scoring third in his heat race and fifth in the dash. As the race got underway Allard battled right around the fifth position and then began to make his way around a couple cars to get up into third.

The former two-time King of California then set his sights on the top-two cars, which happened to be World of Outlaw veterans Joey Saldana and Craig Dollansky. As Allard was chasing down the duo, the black flag was waved at him due to what officials said was the 95db limit.

Allard was very upset with the call as it came right around the time he looked to be making his move on the two leaders. "We had a great car and it was getting better as the race went on so we're really dissapointed," he said. "Not very often do you see someone get black flagged for noise in a main event and obviously we don't agree with the call so we'll just come back next time and try to get some redemption."

The next race at Western Springs Speedway will be on December 26 and will be the opening round of the international sprint car series. Joining Allard at the event will be fellow American's Sammy Swindell and Ricky Logan.