The Silver Bullett Was Let Loose!
Ryan Farrell and the entire team on the Russell Hall’s Bunbury Auto Group #95 were pretty determined to perform well at the opening round of the AHG Series in Perth last Saturday night.
A complete rebuild of the of the two Ex-Kinser Maxims had been undertaken during the off season, and Farrell was impressed with the mounts after racing over on the east coast in previous weeks. “Brand Passmore did a brilliant job on the cars. We now have 4 Maxwill motors and 2 cars ready for this season. Tonight we are using K3 as I call it, and K4 the green car I finished last year with we will be saving for the big shows like World Series, Australian Title and The Krikke Boys Shootout.” He said prior to hitting the track.
In the heats Farrell showed his class, moving forward through the traffic with comparative ease. He opened with a win in heat one and backed that up with an equally impressive second in heat number two, knowing he would have enough points to earn pole position for the A-Main.
And at the start of the A-Main he looked the goods, running away from the rest of the field in what was a very torrid 25 lap race. Just after mid race distance he would lose the lead in traffic, and started what would be a stirring battle with Luche Monte and Shaun Bradford. With six laps to go things didn’t look good as he had dropped to fourth at what would be the final restart.
In Ryan’s words “I had to go elbows up and drive the thing hard as the collapsing front wing really tightened the car up”. And that’s just what he did taking second away from Monte on the line in a scorching run over those last six laps.
On the presentation dais Farrell was quite philosophical about the Main event. “I was never going to give up as we were no good with front wing like it was. I’ve got to congratulate to Shaun as he had it over us tonight. We have spent a lot of money over the off season and thanks to my crew for the job they’ve done as I didn’t even see the car till I arrived at the track this afternoon.”
A second might not have been the result that the Bunbury Auto Group/Cowra Contractors #95 Maxwill Maxim team wanted, but they will take it and make sure they return for the next round of the AHG Sprintcar Series ready for anything the rest of the field can throw at them in two weeks time.
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
Sprintcars: Time trials: Ken Sartori 13.974, Ryan Farrell 14.025, David Ellement 14.205, Darryl Clayden 14.318, Ben Ellement 14.390, Jason Kendrick 14.409, David Hall 14.432, Luch Monte 14.437, Greg Hall 14.448, Jodi Waldron 14.592, Shaun Bradford 14.604, Carl Dowling 14.736, Troy Lawson 14.817, Kanne Manuel 14.948, Darren Mewett 15.049, Kye Scroop 15.326, Mat Muir 15.369, Steven Ford 15.382, David Priolo 15.388, Wayne Russell 15.449, Robert Watson jun. 15.806, Marshall McDiarmid 16.061, Garry Miller 16.578, Veronica McCann 18.849, Kris Coyle NTT.
Heat 1: 1st Ryan Farrell, 2nd Luch Monte, 3rd Steven Ford, 4th Carl Dowling, 5th David Priolo, 6th Jason Kendrick, 7th Wayne Russell, 8th Robert Watson jun,. 9th Kye Scroop. DNF: Kanne Manuel, Jodi Waldron and Darryl Clayden.
Heat 2: 1st Kanne Manuel, 2nd Ryan Farrell, 3rd Jodi Waldron, 4th Ben Ellement, 5th Jason Kendrick, 6th Mat Muir, 7th Greg Hall, 8th Troy Lawson, 9th Wayne Russell, 10th Kris Coyle, 11th Kye Scroop, 12th Garry Miller. DNF: Veronica McCann.
Feature: 1st Shaun Bradford, 2nd Ryan Farrell, 3rd Luch Monte, 4th David Priolo, 5th Kris Coyle, 6th Ben Ellement, 7th Ken Sartori, 8th Darren Mewett, 9th Jason Kendrick, 10th Greg Hall, 11th Carl Dowling, 12th Wayne Russell, 13th Kanne Manuel, 14th Robert Watson jun. 15th Jodi Waldron, 16th Kye Scroop, 17th Steven Ford, 18th Mat Muir, 19th Marshall McDiarmid. DNF: Troy Lawson, Veronica McCann, Garry Miller and David Hall.
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Story By Brad Steele for BCM
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