GARRY’S TOWNSVILLE 2 SUPPORT WRAP – SUNDAY
Garry’s Townsville 2 support wrap – Photo: InSyde Media
The EFS Hyundai Excels turned in on over the two races staged on Sunday, as a support category to the Robson Civil Projects SuperSprint Supercars on the streets of Townsville. The event also featured the Supersprinters which wrapped up their second weekend of track time.
EFS EXCEL INVITATIONAL
A second placing in the third and final race was enough to give Cam Wilson the overall honours. Brodie Kostecki finished second for the weekend after he won the final race and Riley Beggs nabbed third overall.
Wilson was under enormous pressure to win race two. Cam Bartholomew and Broc Feeney were all over him in first half of the race before both had contact, the former with Kostecki and the latter with Wilson.
Kostecki finished second while Beggs was third ahead of Nash Morris, Zak Hudson, Darren Whittington, Lachlan Bloxsom and Tyrone Gautier.
Despite compromised front suspension geometry, Feeney came home ninth ahead of Ian Harvey, Oscar Targett and Brett Parrish who came from the back after a 30s penalty issued at the end of race one.
Wilson was best away in race three but was overtaken at Turn 11 on the opening lap and just before the safety car was deployed.
Running three-wide, there was unavoidable contact between Feeney, Gautier and Bloxsom. Only Gautier was able to continue. Also Josh Dremel was turned around at Turn 2, a hit from Bartholomew who also started near the back.
Shortly after the race resumption, Jack Wood had contact which put James Simpson into the wall at Turn 13. Subsequently Wood had a clash with Matt Broadbent that seen Wood into the wall between Turns 1 and 2.
While Kostecki and Wilson continued unabated, Morris and Hudson diced to the end with the former prevailing and he finished fourth overall. Next was David Wood, just in front of Beggs, Bartholomew, Holly Espray and Harvey.
Ryan McLeod finished tenth after surviving a clash that gave Jackson Faulkner a concrete massage at Turn 13.
TOWNSVILLE SUPERSPRINTERS
The pace was stepped up by Michael von Rappard in his Stohr over the final two outings. He was fastest on Saturday, dipped into the 1 min 17s in the early morning sessions before the weekend’s best in session two of 1 min 16.6177s.
Second on the day was Trent Laves in his Nissan 200SX, some 8s and a bit behind von Rappard and ahead of Chris Ching (Porsche 911) and Ben Littlefield (Nissan 180SX).
Clay Weston (Mitsubishi EVO 8) and Andrew Wilton (Toyota 86) were split by 0.05s for fifth and sixth. They were just in front of Peter Altman in Roland Dane’s Chev Camaro, Paul Platts (Subaru Impreza WRX STi), Chris Latimer (EVO IV) Greg Fitzgerald (WRX) and Chris Anderson (Ford Escort).
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