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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
It was a case of state verses state in qualifying for round four of the Supaloc Australian Saloon Car Championship at Mallala today Saturday June 30.
Putting aside the top three are all driving Ford Falcons, Queenslander Kris Walton and Scott Nicolas were determined to better South Australia’s Bruce Heinrich on his home track . . . and one of them succeeded.
Walton who won the previous round at Queensland Raceway topped the
second session times with a 1 minute 20.0500 second lap in his Talbrace
Ford which was good enough to eclipse Heinrich’s Performance &
Tuning Falcon AU which set the benchmark in the first qualifying
session.
“We made a couple of little changes after the first session and they
seemed to work,” Walton said. “Its also great to beat Bruce on his
track!”
Heinrich was expecting pole but admitted he couldn’t find the pace
necessary. “Usually I have a go on my first fast lap but this time I
waited so the cars ahead of me would be well clear. But then I did
catch them and then tried too hard,” he said.
Nicolas’ Oki Print Ford will start race one tomorrow from the second
row alongside Shawn Jamieson’s Morphett Vale Garage Commodore VT with
the similar Holden of Kevin Weeks and Brad Fox’s AU on the third row.
Locals Matt Lovell and Steve Kwiatkowski were the next two in their
Fords ahead of the John Goodacre Holden and Troy Hoey (Qld) in another
Ford.
The top ten were covered by less than a second and both the sessions
were relatively incident free. Only Wayne King’s Ford stopped in the
first outing – with plug leads coming adrift while differiental dramas
sidelined Jake Camelliri’s Holden on the out lap of session two.
The Australian Saloon Car Company (TASCCO) is a foundation member of
the CAMS National Racing Championship, one of the five core categories
(Production Cars, F3, Saloon Cars, Commodore Cup and GT/Porsche) in
partnership with CAMS that now make up the Shannons Nationals.
The popular six cylinder Holden Commodore verse Ford Falcon category is
supported by Supaloc Steel Building Systems, Pedders Suspension, Kumho
Tyres, Xtreme Clutch, EMS Fuel Injection, Cebco Brakes and CSA Alloy
Wheels.
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