February 21, 2022

FARRER’S BRAGGING RIGHTS

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Returning to one of his favourite race tracks, Brenten Farrer took out the A Main win for the second time this season.

It was round seven of the Mainline DynoLog Dynamometers All Star Series at Heartland Raceway. The event provided some nail biting racing through the heats and the main after the top three swapped the lead several times.

The race for victory was between Cam Waters, Stephen Bell and Brenten Farrer with Farrer coming out the victor. “Sometimes it pays to be running second and tonight it paid dividends for us, I’ve been in Cam’s position a million times leading races and you get snookered on the bottom.

I went to the bottom and it stuck so I wasn’t staying around on the bottom and moved straight back to the top. I am rapt, the boys worked hard during the week putting a new car together and it paid off. It was good hard racing, no paint swapped and it puts a smile on your face,” a delighted Farrer said at the post race interview.

Having his best result for the season, Chief Racing’s Cam Waters took out another HHH Quickest Time Award, a heat win and tied on high points with Stephen Bell. Bell was making a return to 360s driving the Victory Lane V#88.

The ex-360 Australian Champion hadn’t driven a sprintcar for seven years and

immediately looked like he had never been out of the seat. Waters and Bell lined up on the front row with Bell looking like he hadn’t been out of the seat, leading for almost half race distance.

Tagging the wall a couple of times eventually forced Bell onto the infield. Waters and Farrer battled it for the two front running spots as the race continued.

Farrer had the lead then unfortunately the race had to be cut short with four laps to go after Chris Solomon crashed into the catch fence and the damage was too much to be repaired in the time that remained.

Jordyn Charge, who charged through traffic from position ten, finished third in the main event. Jessie Nicholas was next to the chequered flag while Todd Hobson rounded out the top five.

Third generation racer Todd Moule turned in a good performance. He was forced to start in the B-main after dropping a heat but then transferred into the A and ultimately finished sixth in a drive that earned the TEH Hard Charger award.

Jordan Abbott had a night of challenges starting with engine issues at Time Trials, with this sorted, he later dropped his first heat, transferred from the B into the A, but again his car was plagued with problems.

After requesting two minutes for repairs, he made the A and finished seventeenth and the team’s hard work was rewarded by winning the HCC Maxie’s ‘Keep on Fighting Award’ for the efforts.

“The night had some challenges for us starting with a sun delay before our first round of heats, but safety has to come first and we couldn’t let drivers race if they couldn’t see the track, then later we had an ambulance delay with ambulance people being called into the crowd to attend to someone, but we finally got there and hopefully the fans enjoyed the race as much as we did,” All Stars operator Mandy Searle said.

Heat race wins went to – Brenten Farrer, Cam Waters, Todd Moule, Paul Solomon, Todd Hobson

and Jessie Nicholas.

A Main results: – 1st V34 Brenten Farrer, 2nd V6 Cam Waters, 3rd V60 Jordyn Charge, 4th V50 Jessie Nicholas, 5th VA84 Todd Hobson, 6th D26 Todd Moule, 7th V7 Paul Solomon, 8th V73 Charles Hunter,9th V78 Chris Campbell, 10th VA9 Brad Warren, 11th V43 Corey Sandow, 12th V65 Kane Newcombe, 14th D21 Zac Farrer, 15th V39 Brett Smith, 16th V10 Steven Loader , 17th V46 Jordan Abbott, 18th V83 Chris Solomon – DNF, 19th V88 Stephen Bell-DNF, 20th V76 Adam Cullinger-DNF