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Last weekend November 25-26, Hi-Tech Motorsports had seven race cars at three meetings in two Australian states with the highlight being the final round win in the Yokohama V8 Ute Racing Series at Eastern Creek.

There five V8 Utes running under Hi-Tech Motorsports preparation with leading light Grant Johnson winning the V8 Ute final round in the Groves Juices Holden Commodore VZ SS and finishing third overall in the popular series.

Hi-Tech Motorsport cars finished the championship overall with third, fifth and ninth for its regular drivers - an outstanding effort to have three in the top ten.

After passing a couple at the start and through the fast sweeping corner, Johnson looked to the outside of the tight hairpin-like turn two for more opportunities. "Sometimes it can work for and sometimes it doesn't," he said after running out of road and going off into the surrounds. "There was room, then a bunch of cars moved wider and wider, squeezing me out."

He finished the opening lap in fifteenth position but fought back strongly over the ensuing laps to cross the finish line in ninth, picking off six of his opponents.

The Hi-Tech Motorsports crew made some adjustments to the front end for the final race, and the decision was justified. Back on pole, Johnson leapt to an immediate lead and won convincingly.

Usually team mate Kerry Wade in one of Johnson's toughest rivals but his Fuchs/OBH Ford Falcon couldn't quite muster the pace to take the fight up to the front.

"The car was good in qualifying. We just didn't expect the Holdens to be as quick as they were," he reflected. "We finished third in the first and were the first Ford to finish which is good. But we didn't go anywhere in the second - starting sixth and finishing sixth.

"I thought the Fords weren't there this weekend. It's the worse result all year," he added after finishing fourth in the third race, albeit behind three Holdens.

Matthew Moorhead in the Romanza Properties/DEL Lawyers Ford Falcon XR8, was the third best finisher of the Hi-Tech outfit in sixteenth, with yet again gearbox issues, particularly with the gear changes.

"In the first race, I screwed up at the start, picking fifth gear instead of second," he said. "I dropped a bunch of places and then basically picked up them up as people fell off in front of me."

He came home in eighteenth before a seventeenth in the second. After a slow start in the third, he thought back to were he started, and could have been higher if he had not been hit from behind which caused some tyre damage.

The second Grove Juices entry, the Ford Falcon XR8 of Greg Willis finished the round in twenty fifth place after 25th, a 23rd and a 21st.. Team principle John "Barrel" Pachos said, "Greg continues to show improvement just as the results show and the car comes back to the garage most of the time - far more than most of the others."

Scott Jennings in the Legrande Ford Falcon XR8 had the most disappointing outing. After qualifying in the top ten and picking up two places on the opening lap, he experienced massive understeer through the remainder, ultimately finishing twelfth.

"The car was better for the second and for quite a while there was caught up in a battle with Nandi Kiss' Holden. We came out on top in that one!" he reflected and finished one place better than before.

Unfortunately the Jennings/Legrande Falcon failed to finish the last as an opening laps hit from Charlie Kovacs' Holden pushed Jennings off the track and result a skirmish with a concrete wall.

Elsewhere Hi-Tech Motorsport was instrumental in George Miedecke's Class B winning result in the Production Touring Car Championship at Wakefield Park, having worked on his Hyundai Tiburon.

A Toyota Supra Sports Car also left the Hi-Tech Motorsports workshop, destined for Phillip Island and the CUE Victorian Tourist Trophy. In the hands of Scott Fleming and John Ballard finished 11th in the one hour endurance event where there were 41 starters.

GRANT JOHNSON

1st - #47 Grove Juices/OBH/Revive Water - Holden Commodore VZ SS

KERRY WADE

5th - #88 Fuchs/Ocean Beach Hotels - Ford Falcon BF XR8

MATTHEW MOORHEAD

16th - #77 Romanza Properties/DEL Lawyers - Ford Falcon BF XR8

SCOTT JENNINGS

21st - #8 Legrande - Ford Falcon BF XR8

GREG WILLIS

25th - #44 Grove Juices/OBH/Revive Water - Ford Falcon BF XR8

YOKOHAMA V8 UTE RACING SERIES ROUND EIGHT RACE ONE

(8 laps) dry track - no safety cars

1 Grant Johnson (WA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 14:56.2181

2 James Brock (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 14:57.7142

3 Kerry Wade (WA) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:01.3111

4 Marcus Zukanovic (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:04.1790

5 Jack Elsegood (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:06.0919

6 Ashley Cooper (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:06.6645

7 Damien White (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:09.6462

8 Kim Jane (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:09.6613

9 Gary Baxter (SA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:10.0309

10 Yanis Derums (NSW) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:12.2821

12 Scott Jennings (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:16.4392

18 Matt Moorhead (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:24.5029

25 Greg Willis (QLD) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:42.4732

Fastest Lap: Johnson 1:50.4062

YOKOHAMA V8 UTE RACING SERIES ROUND EIGHT RACE TWO

(8 laps) dry track - no safety cars

1 Gary Baxter (SA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:07.3135

2 Kim Jane (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:07.6144

3 Jack Elsegood (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:08.6949

4 Marcus Zukanovic (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:09.9170

5 Ashley Cooper (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:12.0715

6 Kerry Wade (WA) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:12.6419

7 James Brock (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:12.8871

8 Dean Lillie (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:13.5584

9 Grant Johnson (WA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:18.0927

10 Charlie Kovacs (SA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 15:19.2959

11 Scott Jennings (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:24.8114

17 Matt Moorhead (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:33.2408

23 Greg Willis (QLD) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 15:52.2740

Fastest Lap: Jane 1:51.8987

YOKOHAMA V8 UTE RACING SERIES ROUND EIGHT RACE THREE

(10 laps) dry track - no safety cars

1 Grant Johnson (WA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 18:44.5332

2 Gary Baxter (SA) Holden Commodore SS VZ 18:51.1238

3 James Brock (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 18:51.8336

4 Kerry Wade (WA) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 18:52.2392

5 Jack Elsegood (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 18:52.9857

6 Damien White (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 18:56.6129

7 Marcus Zukanovic (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 18:56.8334

8 Ashley Cooper (NSW) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 18:57.7016

9 Dean Lillie (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 18:57.8581

10 Kim Jane (VIC) Holden Commodore SS VZ 19:00.7904

17 Matt Moorhead (VIC) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 19:25.0769

21 Greg Willis (QLD) Ford Falcon XR8 BF 19:41.6137

DNF Scott Jennings (NSW) BF Falcon XR8 5400 1 lap

Fastest Lap: Johnson 1:51.3329

YOKOHAMA V8 UTE RACING SERIES FINAL POINTS

1-Marcus Zukanovic 769

2-Jack Elsegood 732

3-Grant Johnson 696

4-Gary Baxter 670

5-Kerry Wade 646

6-Damien White 606

7-James Brock 581

8-Kim Jane 563

9-Scott Jennings 469

10-Ashley Cooper 447

23-Greg Willis 207

30-Matt Moorhead 128

37-Alan Letcher 57