With a win in the final race of the fourth round of the Shannons Australian Production Car Championship, David Ryan has completed a clean sweep of both outright and class victories at Eastern Creek this weekend.
Starting some 50 seconds after the small engined Class C cars, his Class A Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo cut through them and the Class B brigade and easily won his third race of the weekend. In the end it was Class C filling the first four outright positions as Drew Russell (Honda S2000) wore down the brakeless Elf Holden Commodore of Scott Anderson which finished third.
As they breasted the finish line, Nick Dunkley (Falcon) pipped Class C winner Leigh Mertens whose Proton Satria was another with a perfect score sheet for the weekend. Class leader Daniel Natoli (Proton) had a race he would rather forget after being turned around on the second corner of race one.
Any chance of Steve Briffa claiming a third Class B victory in the Thirty Toyota Celica disappeared with spark plug issues from the start. His car owner Allan Shephard (Honda Integra) came off third best when squeezed at the start by Trevor Keene (Celica) and Rick Bates (Toyota Corolla Sportivo). In the meantime series leader was able to shoot away for a Class B win and sixth outright.
Martin Doxey (Holden Astra) was second in Class C and seventh outright, finishing just fractions of a second ahead of Keene and Bates. Then followed Dane Rudolph (Citroen) and Natoli who had a great last quarter scrap with Lauren Gray in her Toyota Echo Sportivo. Darren Best suffered mechanical ailments in the concluding stages and limped home ahead of Teigan Butchers (Proton), Briffa and the Toyota MR2 of Geoff Knigston.
Race Three (9 laps) handicap:
1 David Ryan (NSW) Ford Falcon BA XR6 Turbo (A) 17:29.6060
2 Drew Russell (NSW) Honda S2000 (A) 17:31.9553
3 Scott Anderson (NSW) Holden Commodore VZ SS (A) 17:32.9706
4 Nick Dunkley (NSW) Ford Falcon BA XR6 Turbo (A) 17:48.3689
5 Leigh Mertens (VIC) Proton Satria (C) 17:48.5235
6 Colin Osborne (NSW) Toyota Celica (B) 17:53.0471
7 Martin Doxey (VIC) Holden Astra (C) 17:53.0542
8 Trevor Keene (NSW) Toyota Celica (B) 17:58.3261
9 Rick Bates (NSW) Corolla Sportivo (B) 17:59.0206
10 David Mertens (VIC) Holden Vectra (C) 18:05.8839
11 Dane Rudolph (NSW) Citroen Xsara (C) 18:06.3315
12 Daniel Natoli (NSW) Proton Satria (C) 18:10.5909
13 Lauren Gray (VIC) Toyota Echo Sportivo (C) 18:10.9769
14 Darren Best (VIC) Ford Focus (C) 18:34.8469
15 Teigan Butchers Proton Satria (C) 18:39.9501
16 Steve Briffa (NSW) Toyota Celica (B) 18:42.3274
17 Geoff Kingston (NSW) Toyota MR2 (B) 19:09.3184
DNF Allan Shephard (NSW) Honda Integra Type R (B) 0 laps
Fastest lap: Anderson 1:51.4121.
Outright points:
Osborne 184, Russell 145, Anderson 138, Keene 134, Shephard 113, Natoli 108, L Mertens 93, Ryan 76, Dunkley 64, Gray 61, Hocking 55, Craig 44, Houlder 38, Rudolph 33, Baker 28, Doxey 26, Best 25, Bates 18, Briffa 17, Phillips 16, D Mertens 9, Butchers 2.
Class A points:
Russell 269, Anderson 267, Dunkley 134, Ryan 115, Houlder 102, Hocking 85, Craig 69, Phillips 46.
Class B points:
Osborne 352, Keene 280, Shephard 234, Briffa 80, Bates 64.
Class C ponts:
Natoli 320, L Mertens 254, Gray 232, Rudolph 150, Best 102, Doxey 72, Baker 63, D Mertens 52, Butchers 36.
Next round:
Round 5, Phillip Island
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