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Winton
September 2003 |
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GT Performance
With the championship getting towards the end there was going to be a guarantee of close racing. Initially the Protecnica boys were not right on the pace for qualifying although continually working the car towards race day. Four cars in the top 7 of qualifying with Bilstein Racing backup was not too bad though.
VW was performing well and the WRXs of Protecnica sat closely together in 6 & 7 with Wayne just in front of Justin.
Race 1 saw Justin and Wayne get great starts with obviously no team orders Justin rounds up Wayne in the last 2 corners of the first lap and eagerly hunts down Paul Stokel in the VW. Bob Pearson in the RX7 broke the lap record for the class on the way to coming second with Justin behind him. Wayne just managed to get the VW before the finish line to take 4th, the VW came in 5th.
What a start in Race 2! Justin broke a rear drive shaft on the line and still managed to bring the WRX home in 8th place with 3WD being not quite the same as AWD. Bob and Wayne battled it out for second place with championship leader Mark King closing the gap up behind them.
Race 3 was a sordid affair, at one point the WRXs were sitting in 1st and 3rd then Wayne ended up in the dirt and bogged with Justin left to fly the Blue Subaru flag, he did well and got the WRX up to 1st with Mark King behind him. The rest of the field chasing them down, Justin managed to stay out in front with the VW crossing the line in second.
With Wayne and Mark’s points still to be decided due to the incident between them, it looks like the championship will be close heading up to Indy. |
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F3
PSC had their new transporter along with another new driver, well not entirely new driver. Peter Hacket was welcomed back to the team to drive the second car due to engine troubles in Peter’s current team.
Kenny Habul continued on in PSC’s No.1 car, while never being to Winton before, Kenny was doing a great job in getting to know the track and put in respectable times. Kenny posted 8th fastest in qualifying 1, only completing 6 laps before spinning the car and getting stuck for the rest of the session. Peter put his car on 6th for the first Qualifying with only a second covering the top 6 places.
Qualifying 2 saw much the same as the first although Kenny only gave himself 3 laps this time to put the car 8th on the grid.
The first race saw Kenny get his usual good start but unfortunately did not finish the race while Peter gained his way up to finish in 5th.
Race 2 had a bit of drama with Peter’s car having trouble on the Dummy grid and loosing an engine cover during the race causing a spin, Peter managed to get the car back up some places to finish 13th. While Kenny had a much better race, finishing in 5th place - only 2 seconds behind championship leader Barton Mawer. With Barton & Michael Caruso going into the last round equal leaders, the racing is going to be tight. |
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