Fortunes can change quickly in the sport of speedway - just ask Tauranga super saloon car racer Gavin Dyer.
Two weeks ago the opening night of the new Baypark season saw Dyer unable to finish a race. His Corvette would produce a few laps of promising performance and then frustratingly begin to misfire.
With the problem traced to the magneto, Dyer got his season started properly at Saturday's Fireworks meeting - after a painful workshop accident and a last-minute dash to the track.
Early afternoon Dyer was making suspension adjustments on the car when he lowered the car off a jack and trapped the tip of a finger between the coils of a suspension spring.
"Three hours later when I walked out of the doctors it was pouring with rain. I thought it (racing) was never going to happen," said Dyer.