| Brilliant Farr's second Parramatta Victory for season 2001/2002 | ||||
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Making up for the disappointment of the last two weeks, Robbie Farr last night stormed through the quality ParramattaCity Raceway sprintcar field to take out another brilliant victory in the 30 lap Sprintcar A Main. After engine failure last week, the Robbie Farr Motorsport EWT Auto Dismantlers/ Standox Paints/Central Districts Smash/Truckmate/Valvoline team had reverted to the Gaerte powerplant they had used last year. From the moment Robbie hit the track the #56 Avenger looked fast. In his opening ten lap heat race, the “Action Man” coming from position six in the starting lineup, quickly forged his way up into third position. After having a sensational wheel to wheel battle with Lynton Jeffery for a number of laps, Robbie followed Jeffery home and settled for a creditable third placing. In the final heat event of the night, starting on the front row in position two, Robbie made no mistakes taking control of the race and had opened up a sizable gap over the field before continuing on to take out his first win of the night. His next race was the important round 4 of the prestigious Driver to the World of Outlaws series Premiership 30 lap A Main. Again Robbie had to start in the second half of the field coming out of position twelve. Although the PCR track was a little rough, Robbie was still “standing on the gas” and by lap 2 was up into eighth place. Robbie’s sensational drives through the feature fields are well known, and after a couple of stoppages by lap 12 Robbie was holding down a strong fourth position. With nine laps remaining in the race and after running wing to wing with a number of drivers, the Action Man took over the race lead from Bruce White. Despite another two stoppages, Robbie just powered away from the field going on to score an easy race win. This was his second Parramatta sprintcar feature victory out of four meetings. “It’s good to finish a race. it’s been a tough couple of weeks. We didn’t have any problems, it was back to the nights we had last year. Everything ran smoothly and we just worked towards the main event. I tried a couple of different lines during the feature that just didn’t work. On a rough track like that you have to hunt around for something you are comfortable with. The Gaerte engine is a nice engine which we ran a lot last year and we knew that she could do the job.” Robbie will be back racing at the Parramatta City Raceway next Saturday night hoping to pick up another race victory to bring him back up the points standing for the Driver to the World of Outlaws Premiership Series. |