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Auckland Championships21/2/2010
 

Features  carried over from last week.

 

Auckland Championship TQ Feature 15 laps.  20 starters.

The early front runners, Nev McNabb, Shane O’Connor, Chris Gwilliam, Paul Le Cren, Lawerence Baker.

McNabb lead for 6 laps then Shane got past him, by lap11 he had increased to a big lead. Yellow Le Cren shuts down. On the restart Shane got out to a good start, charging hard was McNabb, then Gwilliam, L Baker. Shane maintained his lead to take the win.

1st Shane O’Connor 2nd Nev McNabb 3rd Chris Gwilliam 4th Lawewnce Baker.

DNF’s  Paul Le Cren, Ryan Baker.

 

Auckland Championship F2 Midget : 6 laps.

1st Nick Cassidy 2nd Rose Halfpenney 3rd Nevan Bowman  4th Rob Atchison.  DNF Trewen Joine out with noise issue.

 

Auckland Championship Midget Feature: 25 laps  18 starters.

Kendall lead out from Brunt, Gick, McCutcheon, Williams. Kendall pulled out to a big lead,  sadly Brunt retired with damage, McCutcheon now 2nd from Williams, Gick, Alach now 5th from Grid 14! Field well spaced out, Yellows Gick spun out, restarted from back. On the restart Kendall took the lead charging hard McCutcheon with Alach. Yellows Beale pulled big wheel stand then slides into the wall.

Lap13 restart it was Kendall from McCutcheon, Alach, Jodi Vincent, Clarkson. Alach goes high and slides under McCutcheon, then repeats the same move and passed Kendall. Alach kept a commanding lead to take a popular win, his first feature win of the season.

1st Shayne Alach 2nd Michael Kendall 3rd Chris McCutcheon 4th Hayden Williams.

DNFs  Lance Beale, Michael Brunt.

 

Auckland Championship Sprint Car Feature: 15laps 13 starters:

Brindle started on pole alongside Logan, Brindle was really going for it pulling huge wheel stands. Yellows Lap 1 Raymond Griffen stalled. Brindle lead restart, later 2 separate incidents occured at the same time. Jeremy Halpin spun out, McDonald who had nowhere to go collided with him, Daniel Eggleton and Allard also collided, all cars were extensively damaged. Brindle lead the restart was soon in lapped traffic, chased by Logan, O'Connor, Pickerill, Wakeling. Brindle looking to have the race sewn up, Logan got past him on last lap in turn 4 to take the win.

1st Ricky Logan USA 2nd Dean Brindle 3rd Ryan O'Connor

4th Greg Pickerill.

DNFs Allard USA, Daniel Eggleton, Jamie McDonald, Gen Torpey, Jeremy Halpin. DNS Chris Long.

 

 

TQ second Feature:  12 Laps 23 starters.

Nev McNabb took the lead from the start from R Linklater, L Baker, R Brett. Later K Linklater spun out twice. Then McNabb spun out on the grass, by Lap 11 Le Cren new race leader which he held to the finish. His first win of the season.

1st Paul LeCren 2nd Ross Linklater 3rd Lawerence Baker, 4th Ricky Brett (Chch)

DNFs  Kaz Townsend, Nev McNabb.

 

Midget second Feature: 20 laps 20 starters.

Yellow on lap1 Andrew Stuart and Williams made contact. McCutcheon lead the restart, then he and Alach go side by side, Alach was is in winning form, got past McCutcheon. Later Maskovich brought yellows when he spun out.  Alach regained his lead from restart, Kendall suddenly  pulled out with tail tank damage, then Wayne Green out with flat tyre..

Alach had a huge lead from the field and won in convincing style.

1st Shayne Alach 2nd Chris McCutcheon 3rd Shaun Insley 4th Dave Gick.

DNFs Wayne Green, Lance Beale,  Michael Kendall, Mark Tapper.

 

Sprint Car second Feature: 30 laps 16 starters.

The two American drivers took up the challenge for $1,000 to start from the back.  Praise for the crews who repaired the cars from previous feature in time for this race.

Yellow Lap 2 McDonald spun out, Daniel Eggleton lead the  restart from Wakeling, Brindle, Browne, O’Connor. Lap 5 Yellow for Greg Pickerill made contact then slid along the wall causing big damage. Eggleton regained his lead, then later he spun out with drive shaft problem. Hans Bore spun out at the same time. On the restart Wakeling took the lead from Brindle who did his third wheel stand of the night, Ryan O’Connor in third position. Allard who started from the back was going high picking off cars one by one, now in fourth place. O’Connor past Waco to a big cheeer from the crowd, lap 15 Allard got up to second place. O’Connor drove well to keep the lead, on lap 20 the master got past O’Connor to take the win.

1st Jonathan Allard USA 2nd Ryan O’Connor (only 18yrs)  3rd Ricky Logan USA 4th Alan Wakeling.

DNFs  Daniel Eggleton, Greg Pickerill.


These were the last races in NZ for the 2 Americans who are returning home this weekend.


Most improved drivers so far this season, Ryan O'Connor 18 yrs, Nick Cassidy 15yrs, Jodi Vincent, Michael Brunt, Anton Johnson.

Great to see the motorsport star Craig Baird behind the wheel of

Danny Lendich's car, made a comment that driving on dirt is really hard work compared to what he is used to driving.


 
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