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Pickens King of the Springs Febuary 56/2/2009
 

Kiwi Kidz:  Points leader Ryan Barry.

Race 1. 1st Connor Clarke 2nd Taylor Clarke 3rd Campbell Christie. DNF Mitch Watts, Matthew Leversedge 78C.

Race 2.  1st Taylor Clarke 2nd Ryan Barry 3rd Matthew Leversedge 78C. DNF Nathan Clive 4C.

 

TQ Midgets: No feature run. They were running the best races of the night going 3 wide with exciting dicing between Ricky Brett 9C and Ross Linklater. Anton Johnson had a massive tumble, he is ok, car badly damaged.  Heat winners: Brock Maskovich, Craig Todd 2NZ, Ricky Brett9C

 

Midget B Main/F2

1st Mark Oudney 2nd Shaun Insley 3rd Graham Strandring 4th Phillipa Melrose 21C

F2: 1st Jesse Porter 2nd Stuart McGough 3rd Craig Atchison

Davey Ray USA 88 DNS had problems getting the car to run.

DNF Trewen Joines 28 spun out.

 

Midget International Test:

USA 3 starters NZ 6 starters

1st Jerry Coons Jnr USA 2nd Michael Pickens 3rd Shayne Alach 4th Cory Kruseman.

DNS Dave Darland USA Jerry Coons Jnr USA. DNF Shaun Insley.

Coons points leader.  NZ leading points with 99 –USA 63.

 

Midget King of the Springs Feature 40 Laps:  20 starters.

Jerry Coons Jnr USA top qualifier started from pole alongside team mate Cory Kruseman, Pickens from Grid 3 Worboys from Grid 4. Coons lead the start from 54, 47, 96. Coons increased his lead from 54, 47, Alach kept charging , caught up and got past Kruseman on Lap9. Coons starts lapping tail enders, and kept increasing his lead from Pickens Alach Krusemam, long gap back to Buckley who got past McCutcheon who was doing well. Lap 20 on green Coons still leading, then Kruseman pulls out of race. Pickens now catching up to Coons, then Coons was out of the race. Pickens now race leader 2 secs ahead of Alach, Buckley, McCutcheon, Kendall. Lap 28 Pickens now in lapped traffic. Then McCutcheon got past Buckley.Lap 36 Picken’s car started smoking. First yellow out in the race when Brad Kuhn USA was black flagged for a loose muffler and would not pull out of line up. Race restarted with Pickens in front from Alach, Kuhn, McCutcheon, Buckley. Picken’s car held up to finish the race, his 10th feature win.

DNS, Davey Ray USA.  Dave Darland USA.    

DNFs Jerry Coons Jnr USA 23laps, Worboys 33laps, P Melrose 21laps, Kruseman 20laps.

 

1st Michael Pickens  2nd  Shayne Alach 3rd  Michael Kendall 4th

Brad Mosen  5th Chris McCutcheon 6th.

Brad Kuhn finished 3rd but later disqualified for breaching rules.

Shayne was happy to finish a race after bad luck recently.

 

Sprint Car Feature: 20 Laps 17 starters.

Ryan O’Connor started from pole alongside Carl Wilson. Ryan held a good lead, Lap 6 yellows out when Jason Scott 48T spun out. Ryan lead the restart close behind Wilson, Logan USA, Wakeling, Rusher, Eggleton, Pickerill. O’Connor now in lapped traffic has a big lead from the rest of the field. Lap 15 O’Connor now has 2 lapped cars between him and Logan USA, long gap to Wakeling and Corey Haigh.

1st Ryan O’Connor 8  2nd Ricky Logan USA 3rd Alan Wakeling 4th Corey Haigh.

Good to see another win for Ryan in his first rookie year.

 

 
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