FIRST TIME WINNER TOOWOOMBA TREND CONTINUES
Feature photo courtesy 44 Photography
By David Budden
In another string of firsts at Toowoomba’s Hi-Tec-Oils Speedway over the Christmas, New Year period Zac Brims has joined the ever growing list of firsts.
Brims won his first Super Sedan feature and what a night to remember winning the fifth annual Ian Boettcher Classic under threatening skies.
Todd and Brock Atkins formed the front row both former Junior National Sedan Champions. From the green light Brock got the better of the start as Mitchell Gee tried to go through the centre as this was happening Zac Brims drove underneath them all and into the race lead.
Brock Atkins has a cheeky look underneath Brims as rain starts to fall across the Speedway as they enter lapped traffic. Brims takes to the high line to clear the traffic as Gee commits to the bottom and moves into second. One lap later he had moved into the race lead with 44 laps still left to run and Brims fading to 4th. Mitchell Gee continues to weave his way through traffic as Brock Atkins goes with him in very treacherous conditions. Gee drops to the bottom, Atkins seeing an opportunity stays up high and straight into the lead. Ten laps into the race it was put on hold for a rain delay.
When the feature race resumed Brock Atkins took over where he left off in the race lead with Gee all over the back of him and searching for a way past Atkins drifts a little wide giving Gee the only invitation he needed to take over the race lead. Zac Brims now comes back into the equation and moves into second.
A restart followed when Gee spun on the high line while passing a lapped car. From the restart they went three wide into turn one as Zac Brims led the biggest race of his career followed by Brock Atkins, Hayden Brims and Brad Pascoe moving into the top four just as he spun the car around to bring out the yellow flag. From the restart the inevitable happened and those persistent showers made for the difficult night not to continue from the halfway point, forcing the Modified Sedan feature race to be cancelled.
Quick Results Ian Boettcher Classic
1st N29 Zac Brims
2nd V35 Brock Atkins
3rd V36 Todd Atkins
4th N77 Hayden Brims
5th Q31 Harry Doyle
Hi-Tec-Oils Toowoomba Speedway is back this Saturday night (January 3) for the Cush Clothing Grand final of the Sprintcar Queensland Summer Speedweek, There’s Twin Features for Sprintcars plus Fireworks and a Caravan Boat and Trailer Derby. There’s 360LS Sprintcars and Late Models also on the program.
Nominations for Saturday night, January 3!
Sprintcars (33)
Q2 Brent Kratzmann
USA5W Lucas Wolfe
Q5 Brock Hallett
Q7 Aaron Kelly
NQ9 Nathan Mcfarlane
Q10 Adam Butler
NQ11 Casey O’Connell
USA12 Ayrton Gennetten
Q12 Kye Jensen
Q16 Brodie Davis
Q21 Nicholas Whell
Q24 Tony Bridge
NQ24 Ryan Potts
Q27 Ewan Oliver
Q32 Mitch Gowland
Q41 Daniel Bridge
NQ41 Richard Robb
N42 Zac Pacchiarotta
NQ47 Erin Vanderreyden
N48 Jackson Delamont
NS48 Sam Mooney
Q49 Cody O’Connell
NS49 Cooper Norman
Q51 Tim Farrell
Q53 Kaydon Iverson
Q54 Randy Morgan
Q55 Jayden Peacock
NQ59 Kevin Titman
Q66 Ryan Newton
Q73 Libby Ellis
Q74 Jason Faint
Q83 Charlie Bowen
Q96 Harry Stewart
Q97 Tarhlea Apelt
360-LS Sprintcars (20)
NQ6 Harry Dixon
Q11 Brodie Tulloch
NQ13 Steve Bateman
NQ17 Ryley Smith
Q18 Rahnee Cooper-McNae
Q20 Nick O’Keeffe
NQ21 Alyssa Cherrie
NS25 Jack Walker
Q26 Beau Bateman
NQ33 John Magro
Q37 Nathan Heurschele-Black
Q40 NOah Ball
T47 Aydin Claridge
Q68 Connar Keiler
Q72 Anthony Vanderreyden
NQ73 Libby Ellis
Q75 Darren Jensen
Q82 Jacob Jolley
Q86 Luke Manttan
Q98 Dan Murray
Late Models (14)
Q0 Wayne Anderson
Q2 Nathan Battersby
N2 Daniel Cassidy
Q8s Alex Sweeney
Q8 Rob Hamilton
N17 Lachlan Onley
Q18 Daniel Bennett
N19 Todd Bayley
Q21 Bryce Lack
Q27 Ryan Cats
Q35 Carter Armstrong
Q77 Steve Van Zeeland
Q79 Peter Lowien
Q99 Jordan Cunningham
Trailer Derby (10)
3x Corey Langton
9x Matt Langton
10x Jack Cowin
17x Adam Langton
22x Sean Elburg
46x Aaron Paul
81x Ken Iseppi
78x Brendan Burgess
96x Ben Langton
97x Greg Langton
