Farrell Finishes Flat At Southern Thunder After a hard nights work, West Australian Champion Ryan didn’t finish with the result wanted at round one of the Hydraulink Southern Thunder Series at Collie Speedway last Saturday night. He had been looking forward to this one, returning to the track where he had earned his first ever A-Main win. It didn’t start well. Or finish that way either. Hot laps started and the track conditions caught a lot of people out, including Farrell in the Bunbury Auto Group/Cowra Contactors #95 Maxim, as unusually Ryan spun the model during his allocated laps. From this point things improved for a while. He came back out early for time trials and attacked the Collie dirt posting a brilliant 14.73, bettering the old one lap time 15.31 held for over fifteen years by former Aussie champ Ron Krikke. After all the other competitors had posted their times it was still good enough for third fastest, only being beaten by 0.13 of a second. After some massive track preparations, heat one proved to be fast, but hardly ideal to pass on as the track was too wet. Farrell worked hard to move up from the rear of the field to earn a solid fifth place. In his second heat Ryan showed just how good he can be behind the wheel of a Sprintcar. Starting from the rear again, he pulled a brilliant move around the outside of almost the entire field to get to third as they hit the back straight for the first the first time, and moved to second at mid race distance. He wasn’t finished yet, as he grabbed the lead with 2 laps to go, bringing the strong crowd to its feet with his brilliant moves, and claiming his first win of the night. He started and finished the A-Dash just as he did his second heat, with the wind in his face. He jumped away from pole and was never headed, giving him the coveted pole for position for the thirty lap A-Main. The final proved to be an elbows up-throttle down affair. Farrell battled hard with Luche Monte and Jamie Maiolo all race long. He held onto second during the many yellow light stoppages, until a restart with eighteen laps to go, where Maiolo got the jump on him and dropping him one more spot to third. Another yellow with ten laps to go and Farrell started to show his class, as he was the only driver heading to the top of the Collie clay, chasing the moisture at the top of the track, and was the only driver to do it successfully. He momentarily grabbed second off Maiolo, only to see contact from Maiolo as both cars exited turn 4. Farrell received a flat front tyre and suspension damage and did a brilliant job to save the #95 car from flipping over. To say Ryan was upset was an understatement. After removing himself from the car, he gestured ‘why’ to Maiolo under the yellows and smacked the #99’s top wing with his fist as it went past him, just to show his disapproval of the passing move. So it will see some work for the crew of the #95 team to repair K3, the nick name for the car he ran on Saturday as back up for the newer K4 car that he will use over the two night World Series Sprintcar weekend at Kwinana on November 21 & 22. One thing is for sure the fire in Ryan belly is burning, and the first win on home soil this season can’t be far away for ‘Flyan’ Ryan Farrell and the Silver Bullet #95 team. Farrell Motorsport Racing For: Bunbury Autogroup, Van Der meer Consulting, Wylie & Skene, Asset Insure, Malavoca, Gibbs Corp, Ledge Finance LTD, Cape Crushing, Maxwill Race Engines, Revolution Racegear, KTM, Arai Helmets, Cowara Transport, Rocktec, Civmec, Sands Freightlines, BCM Motorsports Marketing, BCM Promotions For more on Farrell Motorsport Visit www.flyanryanfarrell.com Brad Steele for BCM Motorsports Marketing |
