Little Secures Invitation And Car For Brodix Tournament Of Champions

Little secures invitation and car for Brodix Tournament of Champions debut this August.
Hickman, Moule and Solomon brothers possible attendees also.

Troy Little, Darren Hickman, Chris Solomon, Tony Moule and Paul Solomon have all secured themselves a privileged position in the world wide 360ci Sprintcar Racing community. They have all secured something that can’t be bought - an invitation to the 10th Annual Brodix Tournament of Champions event at the famed Knoxville raceway on August 3rd.
The Brodix Tournament of Champions brings together the best of the most prolific sprint car class in the world - "360" Sprint Cars.

In recent times Australia’s contribution to world wide 360 Sprintcar racing has been recognized as being significant and that significance has grown with a total of ten invitations being extended to the two Australian sanctions.
Previously Brett “the jet” Milburn (2005), Garry Chippindall (2006) and Lauren Densley (2007) have all taken on the challenge of racing Americas best in a class that is much more even than open 410 competition.

This year, there could be a flood of Aussies but for one driver, the task of competing has been made just that little bit easier.
Apart from the coveted invitation, part of the prize for winning the combined Sprintcar Thunder/Fire Service Plus Sprintcar All Stars series’ is the use of a complete car ready to race, a transporter to work from and $2,000 towards expenses. In years past one of the biggest problems for the Aussie invitees has been the sourcing of a suitable car to contest the event and the cost associated with purchasing or leasing a car for the event. This year, at least for the winner, that issue has been resolved with Sprintcar Thunder Series and Rolling Thunder Raceway promoter Ray Solomon supplying the top quality hardware. With all this on the line was it any wonder the dual series’ were so hotly contested.

In the end it all came down to a fantastic climax in the final round of both series last weekend (26th April) at Milduras’ Timmis speedway. Hickman was leading the race to Knoxville by 22 points from Little, but there was a catch. Each driver was able to drop their worst round result. When this factor was taken into consideration Hickman was leading Moule by 2 points with Little a further 10 points adrift. Only one of these three drivers were realistically in the hunt for the major prize.
While pre series favorite Troy Little knew his chances of winning either series was extremely slim, he did have a shot at the Knoxville prize and focused his energies on this. But even then he still needed a couple of things to fall his way.
In the final round no one could believe it when Moule crashed out of the lead in the B-Main when he encountered lapped traffic. That was one less hurdle for Little and unfortunately meant that Moule was unable to win either of the two series or the combined prize.
Hickman though had worries of his own having to come from the B-Main and with Little on pole for the feature there was more nervous times ahead for the Bendigo Bullet.
Little did all he could do, and that was to win the feature event and let luck unfold. Hickman still needed a reasonable finish to win the Sprintcar Thunder Series and his seventh place finish was enough to do that. However, in an ironic twist of fate, despite winning both the Sprintcar Thunder and Sprintcar All Stars series’ Hickman missed out on the “Brodix” prize by a mere two points. Little had stolen the Brodix prize right out from under Hickmans feet.

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Thanks to Brett Swanson for the release.
 

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