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The sixth round of the Supaloc Australian Saloon Car Championship at Oran Park on October 27-29 became another engrossing war between Ford Falcon AU drivers Queenslander Kris Walton and defending champ South Australia’s Bruce Heinrich.
The latter was the top qualifier, and headed race one until stepping out at Suttons, allowed the fast starting Scott Nicolas (AU) through. However Nicolas was deemed to have jumped to early and was ordered into the pits for a drive through penalty the next time around.
Heinrich then had Walton to contend with, and the latter soon found a way through, leading for several laps before Heinrich executed a clean move at turn two with two laps to go.
Walton was not done and charged past at turn four on the last circuit for victory. Brad Fox (AU) was next from Shawn Jamieson in the first of the Holden Commodore VT’s while Clint Harvey (AU) fought back to fifth after being knocked off the track by the AU of Rob Rubis.
Grant Johnson was expected to be a strong challenger but his VT threw a flywheel in practice. He qualified Malcolm Niall’s AU and finished sixth.
Johnson’s weekend was over early into the second race as contact with Peter Dane’s AU dropped him down the order before a broken third gear put the car into the pits and out for good.
Heinrich led the first half before Walton took over in another engrossing battle. Jamieson was next from Fox, Nicholas, Dane and Matt Lovell (Falcon EA). Harvey was third until a blown tyre put him out.
Fox made and excellent start in the third, but contact with Walton helped him into the turn two bunker and brought about the safety car. There was another, a lap into the restart when Mark Primmer (EA) went off in the esses.
Heinrich led until lap nine where again Walton slipped past for his third win while Nicholas finished third ahead of Jamieson, Dane, Lovell, Rubis, Harvey and the VT’s of John Goodacre and Jake Camilleri.
The final round of the Supaloc Australian Saloon Car Championship is at Eastern Creek in New South Wales from November 25-26. Heinrich is a already the new champions, backing up his 2005 title while the two runner up position will be fought out between fellow Falcon drivers Walton and 2004 champion Harvey with Jamieson’s Holden also in contention.
For more information on the exciting six cylinder Ford verses Holden, Australian Saloon Cars, visit the website at www.tascco.com.au.
SUPALOC AUSTRALIAN SALOON CAR CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND SIX
RD6 RACE ONE (10 LAPS)
1 Kris Walton (QLD) Ford Falcon AU 13:34.4215
2 Bruce Heinrich (SA) Ford Falcon AU 13:34.5724
3 Brad Fox (SA) Ford Falcon EA 13:43.5671
4 Shawn Jamieson (SA) Holden Commodore VT 13:44.1725
5 Clint Harvey (WA) Ford Falcon AU 13:44.2513
6 Grant Johnson (WA) Ford Falcon AU 13:48.3195
7 Jake Camilleri (QLD) Holden Commodore VT 13:50.3266
8 John Goodacre (SA) Holden Commodore VT 13:55.7725
9 Matt Lovell (SA) Ford Falcon EA 13:56.5158
10 Peter Dane (NSW) Ford Falcon AU 13:56.7705
11 Brett Niall (WA) Ford Falcon AU 13:58.6986
12 Roger Paterson (SA) Ford Falcon AU 14:00.3308
13 Brett Carrington (VIC) Ford Falcon AU 14:00.7535
14 Scott Nicholas (SA) Ford Falcon AU 14:02.5577
15 Adam Hughes (NSW) Ford Falcon EA 14:12.9656
16 David Rogers (NSW) Holden Commodore VN 14:14.1156
17 Brett Bowden (VIC) Ford Falcon EA 14:14.8570
18 Geoff Brown (VIC) Ford Falcon AU 14:15.3276
19 Robert Lonie (SA) Holden Commodore VN 14:15.7060
20 Rob Rubis (NSW) Ford Falcon EA 14:19.1106
21 Shane Smollen (NSW) Ford Falcon EA 14:21.0368
22 Ken Wright (VIC) Ford Falcon EA 14:24.2782
23 Mark Primmer (NSW) Ford Falcon EA 14:26.0042
24 Paul Williams (WA) Ford Falcon EA 14:26.5429
25 Paul Pennisi (VIC) Holden Commodore VT 14:48.1737
RD6 RACE TWO (10 LAPS)
1 Walton 13:33.9223, 2 Heinrich 13:34.1380, 3 Jamieson 13:40.2376, 4 Fox 13:40.7654, 5 Nicholas 13:41.2911, 6 Dane 13:51.3716, 7 Lovell 13:52.6002, 8 Goodacre 13:53.3089, 9 Paterson 13:58.7835, 10 Niall 13:59.6831, 11 Rubis 14:00.6032, 12 Camilleri 14:04.2016, 13 Carrington 14:04.6789, 14 Brown 14:07.2014, 15 Rogers 14:07.5105, 16 Wright 14:08.5157, 17 Pennisi 14:14.9020, 18 Lonie 14:16.7522, 19 Smollen 14:17.8102, 20 Bowden 14:18.4934, 21 Primmer 14:34.7487, DNF Williams 7 laps, DNF Harvey 6 laps, DNF Johnson 4 laps, DNF Hughes 4 laps.
RD6 RACE THREE (10 LAPS)
1 Walton 18:20.7421, 2 Heinrich 18:21.4766, 3 Nicholas 18:22.8123, 4 Jamieson 18:26.1763, 5 Dane 18:27.1451, 6 Lovell 18:27.6543, 7 Rubis 18:27.9068, 8 Harvey (WA) 18:30.1429, 9 Goodacre 18:30.9652, 10 Camilleri 18:31.3149, 11 Carrington 18:34.4431, 12 Paterson (SA) 18:36.3105, 13 Niall (WA) 18:36.6970, 14 Brown (VIC) 1:22.7492, 15 Rogers (NSW) 18:41.3492, 16 Wright (VIC) 18:41.6001, 17 Bowden (VIC) 18:44.9818, 18 Pennisi (VIC) 18:46.3335, 19 Williams 18:50.4542, 20 Lonie 18:50.7453, 21 Smollen 19:07.3790, DNF Primmer 4 laps, DNF Fox 0 laps.
SUPALOC AUSTRALIAN SALOON CAR CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (AFTER RD6)
Heinrich 620, Walton 576, Harvey 454, Jamieson 427, Goodacre 312, Fiore 300, Dane 260, Lovell 258, Camilleri 240, Barbara 154, B Niall 143, Kwiatkowski 128, Fox 125, Nicholas 97, Paterson 97, M Niall 97, Brown 84, Bowden 81, Williams 79, James 67, Pennisi 56, Carrington 54, King 51, Rouse 36, Lines 34, Holmes 29, Rubis 28, Southerland 28, Robinson 23, Evangelou 22, Smith 21, Ierardo 20, Johnson 20, Primmer 19, Van Gilst 19, Wright 18, Rogers 17, Bartsch 16, Hamilton 15, Lonie 10, Hughes 6, Hogan 5, Gates 4, Smollen 4, Burr 3, Calabrese 3, Pilatti 3, Boley 2, Monterosso 2.
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