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PLENTY OF ACTION STILL
TO COME IN SUMMER OF SPEED
There is still plenty of
exciting racing coming you way in the remaining
month of the season at Tyrepower Parramatta City
Raceway.
The most important event on the
Australian speedway calendar – the 2008 Rod Bowen
Prestige Smash Repairs Australian Sprintcar
Championship – was unfortunately rained out on March
29th and has now been rescheduled once again this
time to Saturday,
October 4, which will be the first mahjor speedway
event of the 2008/2009 season.
The National Championship will
now be finalised in a one night event and the title
will resume where the championship left off
following the running of the heats on Saturday,
February 2.
The original race dates of
January 31, February 1, 2 and 3 and the
re-scheduled February 9 and March 29 dates were all seriously
affected by wet weather, though on the first night
time trials were completed before the venue was hit
with a torrential downpour.
All heats were completed on
Saturday the 2nd of february before Sunday the 3rd
was also rained-out, so the re-running of the championship
final programme will consist of respective D, C, B
Mains, 2 x A and 2 x b main Scrambles and
title-deciding Rod Bowen prestige Smash Repairs
Championship Grand Final.
The top ten in the points at
the completion of the heats are as follows:
Garry Brazier (84 points); Ken
Sartori (83.5); Adrian Maher (82.5); Kerry Madsen
(81.5); Ian Loudoun (81); Ian Madsen (80); Robbie
Farr (77); Max Dumesny (76.5); Grant Tunks (75) and
Sam Walsh (75).
Brazier was the star of the
heats and emerged unbeaten from his two starts.
Despite the rain, there was
plenty of great racing during December and
January.
December was highlighted with
the return of the World Series Sprintcars
Championship to TPCR after an absence of several
seasons.
The series, this season run
with sponsorship support from Wanless Wastecorp,
provided a great night of sprintcar racing and Garry
Brazier took out the event with a slashing
performance.
While the Americans dominated
the international events at the high time of the
season, two of TPCR’s home-grown stars – Skip
Jackson and Robert Farr – really stood out against
the best sprintcar drivers in the world.
Skip took out the main event in
early January against the American onslaught, while
Sydney’s Robbie Farr drove one of the best races of
his career when he won Night Two (the final night)
of the East Coast Pipeline-sponsored Outlaws Down
Under V.
That was a red letter day for
Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway as Farr was
followed across the line by current national
Champion Brooke Tatnell.
The Australian challenge to the
Americans in the Outlaws events each year has become
stronger, so it was only a matter of time before an
Aussie made the breakthrough.
But to have two of TPCR’s
finest finish first and second was the added bonus –
and so indicative of the improvements made in local
sprintcar racing since the introduction of Outlaws
Down Under back in 2004.
Meanwhile, the NSW Sprintcar
Championship – that was originally set down for
March 29 before the Australian Championship
rescheduling, will now be held on April 19.
This will be the final
sprintcar show of the season, however the TPCR
2007-2008 racing term does not conclude until May
3.
The Grand Final of the Coca-Cola Sprintcar
Track Championship is set down for April 5.
The annual Speedcar 50-lapper
will be contested on April 26 as part of one of
TPCR’s annual big shows that features the annual
'Karavan 4 Kidz', caravan, boat and dunny derby.
This is one of the family
fun-filled entertainment nights each season in which
proceeds from the evening go to The Children’s
Hospital at Westmead.
TPCR’s final show of the
2007-2008 season will feature the running of the New
South Wales Formula 500 Championship and the RSA
(Restricted Streetstock Association) Australian
Championship.
Make sure you’re trackside at
TPCR for the remainder of the season because there’s
still plenty of exciting racing planned before the
curtain finally comes down on the 2007-2008 term. |
