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Sides Wins Latrobe Round Of World Series
Author : Darren ODea
 THE decision by Krikke Motorsport to put Jason Sides into their car for the first four rounds of World Series Sprintcars has paid off big time.
For the second week in a row the ultra-competitive professional from America has won a round of World Series Sprintcars in Tasmania.
Last week he won the Hobart round and on Sunday night he won again, this time from national champion James McFadden and Monte Motorsport driver Steven Lines.
Organisers were forced to run the meeting at Bendigo Bank Arena, Latrobe on Sunday after rain washed away any chances of the show being run on Saturday night.
Starting out of position three was no problem for Sides who vacates the seat in the W2 for round five in Adelaide on Boxing Day for regular Krikke Motorsport driver Brooke Tatnell.
Ian Madsen was one of the big chargers through the field, starting from 19th and crossing the line second but was penalised eight spots for illegally passing four cars.
The top 10 was rounded out by Bryan Mann, Max Dumesny, Trevor Green (who started on pole), Adrian, Redpath, Danny Reidy and Madsen.
Robbie Farr, who won the first two rounds of the series in Queensland, again struggled in Tasmania, starting seventh and finishing 15th.
American Jason Johnson, who only just scraped into the A Main, starting out of position 20, salvaged some respectability with a hard-fought 12th.
McFadden posted the quickest qualifying time of 11.088 seconds to edge out Dumesny’s 11.107 and David Murcott’s 11.108 while Sides showed plenty of place in his last drive for the Krikke team to be fourth in 11.206 seconds.
Adrian Redpath gave the Tasmanian fans something to cheer about when he won the first heat of the night from Farr and Maiolo, with McFadden and Sides claiming some solid points with a fourth and fifth respectively.
Kurt Luttrell in the T45 led home contracted driver Reidy and South Australian star Matt Egel in heat two with Dumesny and Green rounding out the top five.
Lines made the third heat count, taking the win from Gerry Hoekstra and Mann while Reed looked good in the V92 for fourth.
Egel impressed his Tasmanian car owners with a win in the T6 in heat four from local ace Dobson, Maiolo and Sides.
There was plenty of firepower in this heat with Madsen fifth, Farr sixth and Dumesny eighth.
Hoekstra improved on his first heat for the win in heat five from Johnson and Tasmanian Tim Hutchings, while the final heat went to Luttrell from Walker and Reed.
Lines and Mann progressed from the Bronze Top Eight Shootout with times of 12.633 and 12.851 seconds respectively, leaving Farr (12.925) and Dumesny (12.945) to start from the fourth row for the feature race.
Come the Silver Dash and it was again Lines who was the best, this time dropping to 12.430 seconds and making the transfer to the Gold Dash with Green (12.475) while Adrian Redpath (12.670) and Mann (12.788) set themselves up with starts on the third row come feature time.
Lines was unable to continue his progression and had to start on the second row with Sides (12.601 and 12.686 respectively) with Green and McFadden fighting it out for the right to start on pole.
This time around it was Green who was the best, claiming pole with a 12.578-second burst, marginally quicker than McFadden’s 12.588.
Tim Hutchins won the 15-lap B Main from Reed, Maiolo, Egel , Madsen and Johnson, all making the cut to the main event.
The teams now have a break before resuming their on-track hostilities in round five in Adelaide on Boxing Day.
This also marks the start of the hectic Speedweek schedule, seeing all the teams trying to tame five tracks in a week.
World Series Sprintcars, round 4, Bendigo Bank Arena, Latrobe, December 12:
Qualifying: James McFadden 11.088, Max Dumesny 11.107, David Murcott 11.108, Jason Sides 11.206, Trevor Green 11.245, Mitchell Dumesny 11.263, Adrian Redpath 11.268, Ashley House 11.275, Jamie Bricknell 11.330, Robbie Farr 11.352, Danny Reidy 11.408, Bryan Mann 11.408, Jason Redpath 11.421, Wayne Rowett 11.432, Steven Lines 11.487, Shaun Dobson 11.533, Tyler Walker 11.554, Tim Hutchins 11.606, Jason Johnson 11.614, Ian Madsen 11.627, Matthew Reed 11.640, Ricky Maiolo 11.692, Kurt Luttrell 11.705, Malcolm Lee 11.878, Shaun Robins 11.980 and Matt Egel 12.004.
Heat 1: 1st Adrian Redpath, 2nd Robbie Farr, 3rd Ricky Maiolo, 4th James McFadden, 5th Jason sides, 6th Mark house, 7th Michael Parker. DNF: Jason Johnson, Shaun Robins, Shaun Dobson and Jason Redpath.
Heat 2: 1st Kurt Luttrell, 2nd Danny Reidy, 3rd Matt Egel, 4th Max Dumesny, 5th Trevor Green, 6th Wayne Rowett, 7th Damian Robins, DNF: Ashley House and Ian Madsen.
Heat 3: 1st Steven Lines, 2nd Gerry Hoekstra, 3rd Bryan Mann, 4th Matthew Reed, 5th Malcolm Lee, 6th Mitchell Dumesny, 7th Tim Hutchins, 8th Jamie Bricknell, 9th Terrance Kirkpatrick. DNF: David Murcott.
Heat 4: 1st Matt Egel, 2nd Shaun Dobson, 3rd Ricky Maiolo, 4th Jason Sides, 5th Ian Madsen, 6th Robbie Farr, 7th Wayne Rowett, 8th Max Dumesny, 9th Ashley House, 10th Michael Parker.
Heat 5: 1st Gerry Hoekstra, 2nd Jason Johnson, 3rd Tim Hutchings, 4th Bryan Mann, 5th Malcolm Lee, 6th Jason Redpath, 7th Adrian Redpath, 8th James McFadden, 9th Mitchell Dumesny, 10th Shaun Robins.
Heat 6: 1st Kurt Luttrell, 2nd Tyler Walker, 3rd Matthew Reed, 4th Steven Lines, 5th Trevor Green, 6th Danny Reidy, 7th David Murcott, 8th Jamie Bricknell, 9th Damian Robins, DNF: Terrence Kirkpatrick.
B Main: 1st Tim Hutchins, 2nd Matthew Reed, 3rd Ricky Maiolo, 4th Matt Egel, 5th Ian Madsen, 6th Jason Johnson, 7th Shaun Dobson, 8th Jason Redpath, 9th Gerry Hoekstra, 10th Wayne Rowett, 11th Malcolm Lee, 12th Shaun Robins, 13th Damian Robins, 14th Michael Parker. DNF: Tyler Walker.
A Main: 1st Jason Sides, 2nd James McFadden, 3rd Steven Lines, 4th Bryan Mann, 5th Max Dumesny, 6th Trevor Green, 7th Adrian Redpath, 8th Danny Reidy, 9th Matthew Reed, 10th Ian Madsen, 11th Jamie Bricknell, 12th Jason Johnson, 13th Mitchell Dumesny, 14th Kurt Luttrell, 15th Robbie Farr, 16th Tim Hutchins, 17th Ricky Maiolo, 18th Matt Egel. DNF: David Murcott and Ashley House.
Updated series points: Jason Sides 1123, Robbie Farr 1032, Steven Lines 1003, Ian Madsen 953, James McFadden 948, Matthew Reed 908, David Murcott 899, Bryan Mann 885, Trevor Green 857, Max Dumesny 852, Danny Reidy 815, Tyler Walker 699, Ricky Maiolo 687, Shaun Dobson 587, Wayne Rowett 583, Cameron Gessner 573, Jason Johnson 466, Jamie Bricknell 457, Adrian Redpath 401, Andrew Scheuerle 399, Matt Egel 355, Peter Lack 349, Tim Hutchins 332, Grant Anderson 326, Andrew Wright 320, Matthew Butler 318, Kurt Luttrell 317, Richard Morgan 302, Ashley House 300, Malcolm Lee 298, Brent Krantzmann 291, Jason Redpath 290, Gerry Hoekstra 278, Steve Johnson 260, Todd Wanless 238, Damian Robins 215, Shaun Robins 204, Peter Thorley 196, Mitchell Dumesny 196, Ian Loudoun 174, Mark House 173, Brodie Tulloch 172, Paul Morris 155, Terrence Kirkpatrick 153, Brett Thomas 142, Marty Perovich 138, Anthony Lambert 134, Michael Parker 126, Darryl Campbell 123, Damian Abbott 117, Jamie O’Neill 110, Des Collier 96, Matt Young 95, Luke Rowell 57.
Top three: James McFadden and Steven Lines flank round winner Jason Sides (centre) after round four at Bendigo Bank Arena, Latrobe on Sunday night (all pictured below)
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