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Bishop’s Cashed Up!
Harley
Bishop’s #ACT15 Maxim took out the cash at the Fire Service
Plus Sprintcar All Star Series Mainline Dynolog Dynamometers
360 All Star Challenge last night at Simpson Speedway.
“Pumped is not the word after Harley pulled in at the
scales” says Mandy Searle. “He was so excatic to win the
event and of course the $5K – pumping his hands in the air
and yelling in the cockpit.
It was great to see such emotion from one of our Rookie 360
runners.
Johnnie Butler, co-owner of the car told me the last few
laps seemed like an eternity as they counted down till the
checker as he came out to the infield to congratulate his
driver.”
“Only 1 red for the feature and 16 cars finishing was a big
difference to our show last year. All the track improvements
Simpson made over the off season certainly paid off with the
teams being given a great race track.” Searle tells us.
Johnny Vogels #V70 slotted in a 360 for the night and Bishop
knew he was close behind him and waiting for the right
moment to take the lead – showing his nose and challenging
Bishop lap after lap with Hickman’s V40 close behind in 3rd.
Current Series Champion Mark Caruso had a better night at
the office finishing in 7th place and taking the car home
straight and hopefully ending his bad luck run that he has
had so far.SA78 Keke Falland had another strong & consistent
night after a bout of Food Poisoning had him wondering if he
was actually going to make it through the night. “We offered
to take a bucket out on the infield for him just in case.”
Mandy says.
Casualties on the night were the V28 Cool of Simon Amato who
showed impressive form all night only to have an engine let
go in the Pole Shoot Out robbing his 2nd place start from
him in the A Main. V11 Brad Foster tapped the wall in his
first heat taking out his rear end and after the team
repaired it for the A then had gremlins and didn’t start the
feature. V80 Scott Irons took a big tumble in his heat
ending the rookies 2nd night out on the track. The V27 Owen
Bulman was another Rookie who had engine problems that
couldn’t get sorted in time.
Heat wins– Darren Hickman, Phil Lock, Keke Falland, Paul
Solomon
Pole Shoot Out– Harley Bishop
Final Placing’s- Harley Bishop, John Vogels, Darren Hickman,
Paul Solomon, Phil Lock, Chris Solomon, Mark Caruso, Keke
Falland, Bill Fraser, Wayne Logue, Zac Farrer, Michael
Cunningham, Mark Noonan, Mark Weaver, Gavin Taylor, Kristy
Ellis, Domain Ramsay – DNF.
Contingency winners for the night were:
Mark Noonan - Fire Service Plus Hot Arse Award
Simon Amato - Hugs & Kisses Award
Owen Bulman - The Johnny V Tear Off Award
Darren Hickman - Oval Express Quick Time Award
Scott Irons, - $100 IDIGIT Award
Keke Falland - Bar Up 8 Award
Mark Caruso - Red Ed Sheds Award
Chris Solomon - 1-11 Tools Hard Charger Award
Harley Bishop - Hennessey Transport Shoot Out
Harley Bishop - Hoosier Tire A Main winner
Sprintcar All Stars would like to thank their valued
partners -:- Fire Service Plus,
QT Race Parts, Vortex Racing Products, Mainline Automotive
Equipment Pty Ltd, Hoosier Tire Australia Pty Ltd, GKR Transport,
Totally Work Wear,
All States Auditing & Accreditation Services Pty
Ltd, Max Dumesny Motorsport, One Eleven Pty Ltd, Oval
Express,
Red Ed Sheds, Race Fan, John Sidney Racing, Hennessy
Transport
Sprintcar World, BARUP Bullbars, PRP
Engineering, FMG, Thursday Thunder, Idigit
Pty Ltd, Hugs & Kisses, Maxam Printing, Aunger
Photography, Ian "Mr
Motors" Grant.
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