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[Australian Motorsport] FLOYD EXTENDS POINTS ADVANTAGE |
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Saturday, 12 November 2005 |
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FLOYD EXTENDS POINTS ADVANTAGE
Pole position and a win today at Symmons Plains Raceway helped Peter Floyd extend his championship lead in the 2005 Donut King Australian Performance Car Championship.
It was a slightly less busy day in the penultimate round than expected for teams and drivers in the championship. What was to have been the second race of the weekend was postponed, when crashes in separate races left a barrier damaged beyond repair for the day.
The race has been rescheduled for Sunday morning at 8:40am, with the final race to be run at 1:40pm.
In the action that did take place, it was all Floyd (BP Ultimate HSV GTS), who entered the weekend with a nineteen point championship lead over Garry Holt (Century 21 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII).
This became twenty-two when the Victorian claimed pole position, and earnt another three championship points. During the session he had the honour of being the first car in the series into the sub-sixty second bracket, after exchanging times with John Falk (Summertime Pools FPV MkII GT) and Steve Cramp (CVW Engineering HSV GTS).
He then bettered his time on the last lap, with a time of 59.7537 seconds. Falk claimed the best ever qualifying result for the GT and would join him on the front row, ahead of Cramp and Barrie Nesbitt (Donut King Holden Monaro); making it an all V8 sweep of the first two rows.
In the opening race, Floyd took the lead ahead of Cramp and the pair showed the field a clean pair of heals. They battled it out through the ten laps, shortened from fifteen after an earlier delay for track repairs.
Floyd held him out by less than two tenths of a second to take his third win of the year and extend his championship lead.
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