RUSTY WINS BRAGGING RIGHTS

Horsham’s Blue Ribbon Raceway crowd were treated to an epic final at the first round of the Mainline DynoLog Dynamometers All Star Series.

Defending series champ Rusty Hickman and Brenten Farrer duelled it out lap after lap for the 30 lap main. The pair lined up on the front row together with Hickman taking the lead with Farrer hot on his tail. Farrer wasn’t giving in and passed Hickman a few times only to have Hickman quickly fight back and take the lead again. At half race distance lapped cars came into play but the two lead cars never faulted steering high and low trough traffic. Lapping the 

field up to seventh placing, Hickman took the chequered flag only 1.080 seconds ahead of Farrer. Whilst the two lead cars were dicing it out another race was happening between Charles Hunter (V#73), Jordan Charge (V#60), Todd Moule (D#26), Brad Warren (VA#9), Matt Reed (D#7) and Paul Solomon (V#7). At the 

finish Reed had worked his way up to third, Hunter finished fourth while Moule rounded out the top five. 

Charge unfortunately withdrew after 18 laps with mechanical issues. Reds were bought out on lap nine by Dan Scott (VA#91) after his car finished upside down in turn one. 

Brett Smith (V#39) dropped a heat and started in 19th in the main event. He moved up ten places to win the TEH Hard Charger Award. With a strong field of 

21 cars, everyone had their own personal goal for opening night and after waiting for 8 months 

finally got to test them out. New war paint, new numbers and new drivers all shone on the opening night. 

“What an A Main, the speed of the front runners was just awesome to watch. They must have had nothing left in the bank by the end of it. I was pretty nervous at the start of the night being our first show for eight months and wanting our team to put on a great show but didn’t have to worry, our guys 

gave it 110% and the crowd would have gone away pumped. I am so proud of all our All Stars, the regulars and the new rookies; they all drove with their heads all night. It was a credit to all 21 cars,” All Stars operator Mandy Searle said.

Heat races were incident free and wins went to –Todd Moule, Brenten Farrer, Rusty Hickman & Brad 

Warren A Main results: – 1st V40 Rusty Hickman, 2nd V34Brenten Farrer, 3rd D7 Matt Reed, 4th V73 Charles Hunter, 5th D26 Todd Moule, 6th V78 Chris Campbell, 7th V7 Paul Solomon, 8th VA9 Brad Warren , 9th V39 Brett Smith, 10th V29 Michael Tancredi, 11th VA84 Todd Hobson, 12th V43 Corey Sandow, 13th V76 Adam Cullinger, 14th D21 Zac Farrer, 15th V46 Jordan Abbott, 16th SA51 Jay Brown , 17th V47 Jeremy Kupsch, 18th V60 Jordan Charge -DNF, 19th VA91 Dan Scott – DNF, 20th VA10 Steven Loader.

Contingency Winners IDIGIT Lucky $100 draw – Jordan Charge; $100 cash Bar Up Bull Bars 8 – Brad Warren; Set of Seat Belts Hoosier Hero – Rusty Hickman; Hoosier WAV Tyre Bullseye Lucky 7 – Paul Solomon; $100 cash CCPH Random Draw – Paul Solomon; – $200 cash All Star Hot Award; –James Wren; Fire Extinguisher Heath Hunter Hire Quick Time Award –Todd Moule; $100 cash HCC Maxie’s Keep on Fighting Award – Jason Bolitho; $100 cash TEH Hard Charge – Brett Smith.