Junior Street Sedan Title Results
Junior Street Sedan Title Results…21/01/07…Pam Franz
26 Junior Street Sedans contested their State Title at Maryborough last night. The heats were hotly contested throughout the night on a very wet race track. Cars quickly lost their colour schemes when coated in the fine slurry being thrown up. The top 16 drivers went directly through to the A Main with the remaining 8 cars left running contesting the B Main.
Michele Blavius led the B Main away on a saturated track immediately after a brief interval, Casey Purcell, Tiffany O’Keeffe, Rema Pooley, Rick Schleusener, Kirstie Harm, Anita Cooper, Josh Howell all tried in vain to finish in the first four to transfer to the A Main. Successful ones to do so were Michele Blavius, Rema Pooley, Anita Cooper and Tiffany O’Keeffe were the ones to take up their positions in the A Main.
The A Main consisted of Brett Baxter, Jason Slade, Trent Humphreys, Max Clarke, Brandon O’Keeffe, Sam Cordie, Mitchell Thomsen, Micheal Budgen, Ryan Pearce, Ben Rossow, Ash Volk, Danielle Harris, Hamish Redman, Jaymee Budgen, Bradley Jennings, Amy Smith plus the 4 transferees from the B Main.
The 20 lap started at a hectic pace, the first stoppage coming on Lap 5, Brett Baxter had managed to lead up to this point, at the restart once again Baxter was in control, Jason Slade and Trent Humphries were never far away waiting for Baxter to make a mistake that they could capitalise on.
The final stoppage came after 17 laps had been completed – a 3 car crash involving top running cars, Baxter, Slade and Thomsen were unable to continue in the event. This left Trent Humphreys in control of the race lead but to his dismay the front right hand tyre was quickly deflating, once the race got back underway it was obvious that although there were only 3 laps left to race there was not sufficient air in the tyre for Humphreys to complete the distance.
This allowed the AU Falcon of Brandan O’Keeffe to take over the race lead and lead all the way to the chequered flag. Ash Volk crossed in second place only to be disqualified later during post race checks for a breach of the Racing Rules – namely electronic communication to the driver. Ben Rossow moved up from 3rd to 2nd and Rema Pooley managed to be awarded 3rd place.
Heat 1 – Mitchell Thomsen, Jason Slade, Jaymee Budgen, Danielle Harris, Casey Purcell, Anita Cooper, Archie Turner, Rick Schleusener
Heat 2 – Brett Baxter, Michael Budgen, Sam Cordie, Ash Volk, Ben Rossow, Tiffany O’Keeffe, Rema Pooley, Michele Blavius, Kirstie Harm
Heat 3 – Trent Humphreys, Brandon O’Keeffe, Ryan Pearce, Max Clarke, Bradley Jennings, Josh Howell, Hamish Redman
Heat 4 – Ben Rossow, Sam Cordie, Trent Humphreys, Mitchell Thomsen, Bradley Jennings, Casey Purcell, Anita Cooper, Kirstie Harm
Heat 5 – Brandon O’Keeffe, Brett Baxter, Amy Smith, Michael Budgen, Michele Blavius, Hamish Redman, Tiffany O’Keeffe, Rema Pooley
Heat 6 – Jason Slade, Max Clarke, Ash Volk, Jaymee Budgen, Ryan Pearce, Danielle Harris, Rick Schleusener, Josh Howell
Heat 7 – Ryan Pearce, Sam Cordie, Mitchell Thomsen, Ash Volk, Rema Pooley, Tiffany O’Keeffe, Anita Cooper
Heat 8 – Max Clarke, Jason Slade, Trent Humphreys, Brandon O’Keeffe, Ben Rossow, Bradley Jennings, Casey Purcell, Rick Schleusener
Heat 9 – Brett Baxter, Michael Budgen, Hamish Redman, Danielle Harris, Michele Blavius, Casey Purcell, Kirstie Harm
B Main – Michele Blavius, Rema Pooley, Anita Cooper, Tiffany O’Keeffe, Kirstie Harm, Josh Howell
A Main – Brandon O’Keeffe, Ben Rossow, Rema Pooley, Sam Cordie, Danielle Harris, Michael Budgen, Michele Blavius, Brett Baxter, Casey Purcell, Anita Cooper and Tiffany O’Keeffe