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Sunday, 06 May 2007
Following on from the opening round at Bathurst, the Shannons Australian Production Car Championship reverts to its traditional format at Phillip Island this weekend for round two.

Instead of one 12 Hour endurance event such as at Mt Panorama on Easter Sunday, here it is one scratch sprint race and two class structured handicap races. Also novel for the category and the series is that the field is dominated by BMWs where as last year it was Ford.

Heading the line up is the 12 Hour winning BMW 335i Turbo driven by Garry Holt and ably backed up by the fourth place sister car of Barry Morcon. They are in the new SP (Super Production) along with the David Mertens Holden HSV while James Parrish’s RX7 is an SP Trophy entrant.

Class A which was the outright contending class of 2006 contains several cars with winning chances including the BMW 130i’s of Luke Searle, Peter Kelly and Adam Graham while Steve Briffa and Garth Walden will relish the speed of the island circuit.

Chris Delfsma’s Falcon XR8 is the lone Ford in the field while the potentially potent Mazda 3 MPS can factor if it can get over its traction problems.

Olympic skating champion world champion Steven Bradbury was initially in the entry list in another 130i but the four time Olympian crashed the BMW in private testing at Queensland Raceway earlier in the week.

In Class B it’s the Mini Cooper S of Trevor Keene against the Trophy car of motoring magazine Motor’s editor Tim Robson in an older BMW 323i.

Later today the cars will be qualifying for race one, a six lap scratch race that counts to class points only. Then there will be two handicap races over 10 laps which count to both outright and class standings.

All the latest news is on the website www.pcaa.com.au, and for information regarding the 2006 Shannons APCC, contact Garry Mennell - Series Administrator - on This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

SHANNONS AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION CAR CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRY

Class SP
7 Leigh Mertens (VIC) Holden Commodore VZ HSV
17 Barry Morcom (NSW) BWM 335 Turbo
20 Gary Holt (NSW) BWM 335 Turbo

Class SP T
35 James Parish (NSW) Mazda RX7 SP

Class A
3 Luke Searle (NSW) BMW 130i
8 Steve Briffa (NSW) Holden Commodore VZ SSZ
9 Adam Graham (QLD) BMW 130i
21 Chris Delfsma (NSW) Ford Falcon BF XR8
24 Garth Walden (NSW) Holden Commodore VY SS
27 Alan Shephard (NSW) Mazda 3 MPS
88 Peter Kelly (NSW) BMW 130i

Class B
50 Trevor Keene (NSW) Mini Cooper S
Class B T
40 Tim Robson (NSW) BMW 323i

SHANNONS AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION CAR CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (after one round)

OUTRIGHT:
1-Garry Holt 96,
2-Barry Morcom 88,
3-Andrew Moffat 82,
4-Luke Searle 77,
5-Peter Kelly 74,
6-Chris Delfsma 72,
7-Colin Osborne 67,
8-Trevor Keene 62,
8=Andrew Bretherton 62,
10-David Mertens 57,
10=Leigh Mertens 57,
12-Alan Letcher 52,
12=David Turner 52,
12=Nathan Callaghan 52,
15-Iain Sherrin 47,
15=Grant Sherrin 47,
17-Peter Conroy 42,
18-Kean Booker 37,
19-Alan Shephard 32,
19=Steve Briffa 32,
21-Brain Walden 28,
21=Garth Walden 28.

Class SP Holt 99, Morcom 88
Class A Moffat 96, Searle 91, Kelly 88, Delfsma 82, Letcher 77, Turner 77, Callaghan 77, Shephard 72, Briffa 72, B Walden 69, G Walden 69
Class B Osborne 99, Keene 88, Bretherton 88, D Mertens 82, L Mertens 82, Conroy 77
Class C I Sherrin 99, G Sherrin 96
Class D Booker 99
 
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