February’s Wild & Wingless midget month of action seemed to kick off slightly earlier than the scheduled 9th of February when the boys hit the clay for practice last night. The Perth Motorplex dished up one of the fastest tracks so far this season and the Speedcars lapped it up. Thanks to a significant amount of wheel packing by the Sprintcars the track came up a treat by midway through the practice session. What I would normally see as a conservative practice session turned out to be a full on flat out affair with the crowd enjoying the spectacle. With nine cars on the tracks it seemed anyone was fair game and it looked like something from a Saturday night A main event. The highlight of the session was undoubtedly seeing Michael Figliomeni’s first and last cars out there. Ian Watts has done a fantastic job in restoring the Squiggle car (Michael’s first car) to its former glory while Michael’s brother Andrew was turning the laps in the last car. It wasn’t long until both drivers started sinking the boot in slightly with Wattsy starting to push the car along quite nicely. “Yeh the car goes well I was just having a play out there tonight it was a bit of fun” said Watts. Whilst Andrew (Figliomeni) had the emotions also running high it seemed hard to wipe the smile from his face after his first run. “Part of me just wanted to give it a good run but the other part of me was saying just take it easy you don’t want to do anything stupid” said Figliomeni. By the end of both cars second runs both had picked up the pace before putting them away in readiness for the weekends Magic Man 34. Both cars will be on display in the Speedcar pit area for the event with Michaels black car piloted by Andrew leading the field prior to the A main. So if last night was a taste of what to expect Saturday night at the Magic Man 34 then we’re all in for a huge night