| Farr Wins In Adelaide, Takes Over Series Lead | ||||
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 Aceways Autogear Racing team driver Robbie Farr won Round 3 of the 2006/07 Proton World Series Sprintcar (WSS) Championship at Speedway City in Adelaide on Saturday night November 18, leading every lap of the night's Feature event from the outside of the front row and in doing so, assumed the lead in the Championship as the Series heads into the next event at Nyora Raceway this coming weekend.Timing in fifth quick with a 12.370 second lap of the speedway in his #7 Aceways/ABC Autogear Cool chassis, Farr qualified for the B-Dash on the back of his time trial result and two fifth places finishes in his Heat races, lining up alongside multiple Australian and WSS Champion Max Dumesny in the six lap Dash to the chequers. Farr's subsequent win in the Dash resulted in a front row start for the Feature with Masters winner and Championship contender, American Jason Johnson. Farr was virtually untroubled throughout the thirty lap final, winning the race to the first corner and then controlling the race as the leaders raced through lapped traffic. Farr withstood some late race pressure from Johnson who had closed the gap as the laps ticked by but was able to run his preferred line to hold the American at bay and pick up his first WSS victory of the season. Farr's team mate Todd Wanless did not fair as well at Speedway City, damaging the front end of his #61 Cool racer in hot laps before timing in twelfth quick in the field of thirty cars and making the night's Feature event by virtue of a third place finish in the B-Main. Todd failed to complete the Feature and was credited with sixteenth place points to remain inside the top ten in the Series Championship. In Qld Comp Cams Series action, Pete Thorley drove his #51 Aceways/ABC Autogear Maxim to a creditable fourth place finish behind eventual winner Andrew Scheuerle in Round 4 of that Series at Brisbane International Speedway (BIS). For Thorley, it was a confidence boosting return to form after two podium finishes in his first three races of the season and the result leaves him firmly entrenched inside the top eight in points as the Series nears it's halfway point. Todd, Robbie and the team return to TyrePower Parramatta City Raceway on December 2 for the next Round of the Track Championship before Todd and Pete take to the Brisbane International Speedway track on December 9 for Round 5 of the Comp Cams Series and again the following weekend at Charlton Raceway in Toowoomba for a Modified Sprintcar Association of Qld (MSAQ) sanctioned event, their final races prior to Christmas. |