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Sydney’s Ian Loudoun won a memorable 40th Lucas Oil Products Grand
Annual Sprintcar Classic tonight at Warrnambool’s Sungold Stadium in front of a
massive crowd. Loudoun gained the advantage from the outset and had to withstand
late challenges from eventual runner up Craig Dollansky with Kerry Madsen
finishing a fine third.

“I’m elated, this is what we came down here for
and I can’t be happier,” beamed the quietly spoken Classic champion.

“It
might not be showing yet, I’m not the most emotional person but it will sink in
and we’ll party hard tonight!”

Loudoun’s third place finish the previous
night enabled the team to make the necessary changes and adjustments to allow
Loudoun to lead Dollansky throughout the thrilling 40 lap final.

“We
made the right adjustments and I just drove 11 tenths to make it happen. They
(track curators) brought the track back from no-where tonight and it was great.”


“This is for mum and dad who aren’t here tonight, this is nine years
we’ve been racing Sprintcars and they are the ones who got me
here.”

Making his way through lapped traffic on a very thin cushion up on
the wall ensured Loudoun was on the limit throughout the middle stages. Later in
the race the top groove wore out with many of the chasing pack moving to the
bottom earlier than the race leader.

“When you get passed by a lapped
car I knew we had to change lanes and get to the bottom. We did what we had to
do to get to the bottom and hold onto the lead.”

Dollansky was the
highest qualifier following the heat races and starting from pole the US ace
didn’t get away as quick as Loudoun and quickly fell into the clutches of Daryn
Pittman with the pair making contact. Dollansky soon cleared Pittman and began
the chase for Loudoun eventually finishing a close runner up.

“We got our
nose underneath there towards the tail end of the race but I’d prefer to run
second than both of us not finish,” said Dollansky.

“We had some cautions
there early which I thought we could capitalise on but I couldn’t make it
happen. Just to be up front, running strong means we’re happy.”

“The fans
here are some of the greatest, most passionate fans you’ll meet.”
Kerry
Madsen bumped the wall on the first lap and slipped back to sixth before
starting to work his way forward eventually finishing third.

“I got it in
my head that I had a shot and started running the top, but then that wore out
and we had to switch to the bottom,” explained Madsen.

“It’s a fantastic
event, great for our team, I feel like I’ve let them down as they gave me
everything I needed to win but we just couldn’t get it done.”

The line
up for the 40 lap A-main was headed by Dollansky and Loudoun, Kerry Madsen,
Daryn Pittman, Robbie Farr and Jason Kendrick. Jason Johnson started in position
seven ahead of Trevor Green, Brooke Tatnell, Ryan Farrell, Kyle Larson, James
McFadden, Danny Reidy, Dylan Jenkin, Carl Dowling, Jamie Bricknell and B-main
transferees Shane Stewart, Cameron Gessner, Grant Anderson and Ian Madsen.


The race began with Loudoun taking the early lead ahead of Dollansky and
Pittman. Six laps in Cameron Gessner’s night ended after tagging the wall in
turn two, rolling the Q68 on the back straight. Following the red light
stoppage, Jason Johnson’s night ended with a flat right rear after he got the
wall earlier in the race.

The impressive young gun Kyle Larson had an
unfortunate end to his Classic assault when he tagged the wall and tore out the
front end of his USA 68 just 6 laps into final.

Just 5 laps later James
McFadden pulled the NQ25 infield and quickly vacated his car which was on fire
after a fuel nozzle broke loose. At the time McFadden had sailed around Kerry
Madsen to get fourth as he set off after Pittman.

At the restart Loudoun
still led ahead of Dollansky, Pittman, Madsen, Farr, Kendrick, and a hard
charging Shane Stewart, Tatnell, Ian Madsen, Anderson and Green.

With 21
laps remaining Kerry Madsen took third place from Pittman and just two laps
later Loudoun began contending with lapped traffic.

Dollansky started
challenging Loudon for the lead with 8 to go as he had already gone to the
bottom after the top was worn out.

Loudoun hung tough and won the
Classic final ahead of Dollansky and Madsen. Grant Anderson was the Skwid Signs
Hard Charger of the feature race coming from position 19 to fourth. Daryn
Pittman was fifth ahead of Robbie Farr, Brooke Tatnell and Shane Stewart. Ian
Madsen came from the rear to finish in ninth ahead of Trevor Green, Jason
Kendrick, Dylan Jenkin, Jamie Bricknell and Carl Dowling.

Non finishers
included Ryan Farrell, Danny Reidy, James McFadden, Kyle Larson, Jason Johnson
and Cameron Gessner.

In the last chance to make the feature race of the
evening, the B-main was a 20 lap battle of enormous talent. Stewart and Gessner
both capitalised on the front row start making the transfer along with Anderson
who came from fifth and Ian Madsen from sixth starting positions. Notable names
who were unable to transfer out of the B-main included sixth finishing Jason
Meyers, Garry Brazier, David Murcott, Tim Shaffer, Darren Mollenoyux, Jamie
Veal, Lucas Wolfe and Mitchell Dumesny.

The 15 lap C-main was a prelude
to the fantastic action which was to come about in the main event of the evening
with Meyers just making the final transfer in position four. Lucas Wolfe took
the win, Tim Shaffer and Jamie Veal also transferring to the B-main.

The
D-main win was awarded to Max Dumesny, Jonathon Allard, defending Classic winner
Steven Lines and Tim Rankin also capitalising on the transfer.

The
E-main was taken out by Brett Milburn ahead of Tim Van Ginneken, Stephen Bell
and Kevin Titman.

The first round of heat races was completed under the
heat of the afternoon sun, the track subject to blistering heat and a stellar
field of cars battling it out for vital heat race points.

The first heat
of the evening was won by Kerry Madsen ahead of Reidy and Gessner.

Heat
two went to Green, Dollansky and Mollenoyux rounding out the top three.


Loudoun took the win in heat three from pole position ahead of Johnson
and hard charging Mitchell Dumesny from seventh starting position.

The
fourth heat of the night went to Farr, Larson and Murcott finished second and
third respectively.

Farrell ran away with the win in heat five from
fellow West Australian Kendrick, Shaun Dobson came home in third position.


Heat six was won by Pittman from Jenkin and Shaffer. Crowd favourite
Danny Smith failed to fire a shot with engine troubles, resulting in failure to
collect valuable points.

The seventh heat race went to pole sitter
Tatnell with Bricknell and Stewart in second and third.

The final heat
race of round one, heat eight was controversially won by McFadden ahead of Wolfe
and Brazier after Brazier missed the kick at the start with officials leaving
the race to stay green.

The second round of heat races saw the top
qualifying cars start from the rear of the field on a freshly prepared race
track.

Heat nine was won by Nathan Brady, Mollenoyux and Mark House
rounding out the top three.

Lines tasted victory in heat ten ahead of
Anderson and Dollansky who charged all the way from last starting position of
tenth.

Heat eleven was won by ever popular Mitchell Dumesny ahead of
Dowling and Larson who worked from ninth starting position.

Glen
Sutherland took the win in heat twelve from Glen Saville and Jason Johnson.


American Jonathon Allard won heat race thirteen from Eddie Lumbar and
Danny Smith.

One of the most spectacular heat race wins of the evening
was heat fourteen when young

Jason Kendrick raced from ninth starting
position to take the win ahead of veteran Ron Dalton and Jack
Lee.

Sheldon Brady won heat race fifteen from Darren Hickman and Classic
first timer, American Caleb Griffith.

The final heat race of the
evening, heat sixteen was won by Stephen Bell, Shane Stewart and RJ Johnson
rounded out the top three.

The Ian Sheppard Memorial trophy went to
Robbie Farr who was awarded the most consistant driver from the four nights of
racing at Geelong on Wednesday, Friday at Mount Gambier and the Classic


“To win this award means we’ve been pretty solid all week, it’s good to
have a some strong results- to finish 6th tonight was pretty good. There’s
obviously 70 odd cars that were worse off than us! The win at the Presidents Cup
at Avalon was great,” said Farr.

Grant Anderson was the Skwid Signs Hard
Charger after starting 19th and scorching to fourth at the conclusion after
sorting several early gremlins.

“Full credit to the guys, fourth again
which is the same storey as the Australian Title last year. All I’ve got to do
is keep my chin up, we don’t have the budget which means we can just throw gear
at it all weekend,” said Anderson.

Another Classic Classic at Warrnambool
is in the books with Sydney's Ian Loudoun reigning supreme against some of the
world's finest racers. The only thing to do now is look forward to the 41st
Lucas Oil Products Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in 2013

ECPR : Farr’s Fast
Four Days

( Jan 23, 2012 ) - Robbie Farr was in
strong form for every one of the four nights of the Avalon-Mt.
Gambier-Warrnambool weekend, concluding with a sixth place finish in last
night’s Warrnambool Classic and along the way winning the prestigious “Ian
Sheppard Memorial Trophy” for the most consistent driver over the four
nights.

Farr sped the #7 Orrcon Steel / Hi-Tec Oils / Vermeer Maxim to
several memorable drives over the frantic four night schedule and although he
didn’t score a main event win in the last three nights, it wasn’t through lack
of trying.

“We led the Kings Challenge on Friday night at Mt. Gambier
until we only had three laps to but we got crashed out at the flag stand and
went from a $10,000 pay day (which would have been his second in a row) to a Kit
Kat and a can of Coke. That’s racing I guess but it was a hard pill to
swallow.”

Undaunted the ECPR Team then headed to Premier Speedway
Warrnambool to what Robbie describes as ‘a bit of a bogey event for me because I
generally don’t go as well there as other places we race.”

With over 80
cars and a massive contingent of 14 Americans the ECPR Team aimed at a top five
result for the weekend.

After two nights of frantic racing, they came up
just one short.

“When you consider the depth of talent in the field,
sixth is not we wanted but it’s not a bad result and it’s a great effort by the
boys,” Farr explained, “we started out of five but Grant Anderson found the
rubber before us and put us back to sixth. He did a good job.”

Farr was
also quick to praise Classic winner Ian Loudoun.

“I don’t think there’s a
person in this pits that isn’t happy to see Woz (Ian) win this race,” he smiled,
“he did a great job. I think everyone was probably expecting Dollansky or
someone to catch up with him at some point but from what people tell me he was
too tough. I’m really happy for Ian and the whole Loudoun
family.”

There’s no rest for the wicked however with the ECPR hauler
headed shortly to Adelaide for Wednesday night’s USA vs. Australia Showdown at
Speedway City as a precursor to the 2012 Australian Sprintcar Championship this
coming Friday and Saturday.

“We’re in good form. We’ve got a good car,
the boys are doing a great job and I feel good about our chances. That’s a good
way to go into an Aussie title.”

Ends release…

Ian Sheppard Memorial Award? Winner

 

Top 10 For Krikke Motorsport At The Classic
krikke Motorsport PR posted Tuesday January 24, 2012.

WARRNAMBOOL – Brooke Tatnell and the Krikke Motorsport Team secured a top-10 finish on Night 2 of the 40th running of the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Warrnambool’s Premier Speedway on Sunday 22 January 2012.

Tatnell was seventh in points after Night 1, giving him pole for the first heat. He got the jump at the start, and quickly opened up a gap over the field on the rubber down racetrack. Brooke found himself in lapped traffic in the closing stages of the race, and held his lead to take a convincing win.

With the field inverted for Heat 2, the Krikke Motorsport pilot started at the rear. He began his charge forward before an early caution period. He restarted in eighth, and quickly moved into sixth. He ran his Toyota Genuine Parts Cool machine around both the high and low lines in a battle for fifth, but was unable to make a pass, finishing sixth to earn valuable points for the night’s feature.

The three-time Classic Champion started the 40-lap feature from the inside of the fifth row, and charged into seventh in the opening laps. He moved into eighth before red and yellow light stoppages with 34 laps remaining. After the restart, Tatnell powered the Australia #1 machine into seventh. Two laps later he hit the wall on the back straight, moving him to ninth. He recovered to eighth, before a further caution period. Following that restart he charged into seventh, but was hit in an incident with another car, which sent him back to eighth. With 13 laps remaining he made a pass for seventh, and held his position to the end of the race to earn a top-10 finish in the prestigious event.

“Another classic rolls on”, said Tatnell. “I’m proud of what the guys have done. Pete [Caporn] and Shane [Finch] have worked hard all year, and tonight was a continuation of that. I don’t think we were that bad; things just didn’t roll our way. Some guys made mistakes in front of us, and we got bobbled up in their mistakes. We weren’t good enough to win it, and that’s all it was. You can’t win every week, but I’m very proud of where we’re at as a team again. Next week rolls on, the Australian Championship, and hopefully we’ll chalk #1 up.”

“Seventh’s probably not the result we wanted”, stated Krikke Motorsport Team Owner Shane Krikke. “But at the end of the day, there were over 80 cars here, and it was a tough weekend. The car was pretty good and Brooke was on his game, but we just couldn’t get a decent run going in the feature. We had young [Jason] Kendrick spun out and hit us, Farry [Robbie Farr] got a little bit sideways in front of us. You get racing with those guys. Then Brooke tagged the wall there at one point. It was just one of those races where we just couldn’t get going. But that’s motorsport; we’ll bounce back and see what happens at the Title next week.”

Brooke Tatnell and the Krikke Motorsport Team now head over to Adelaide’s Speedway City for the Prelude to the Championship on Wednesday 25 January 2012, before the 50th Anniversary Australian Sprintcar Title on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January 2012.

Krikke Motorsport would like to thank their ongoing sponsorship partners:
Toyota Genuine Parts, AJC Professional Coating Services, Cool Chassis, Maxwill Race Engines, Mercure Hotel Parramatta, Mega Motors, PWR, BR Motorsports, A1 Digital Sign Shop, Valvoline, A.Lucas Spraypainters, GT Fabrication, Revolution Racegear, Pioneer, Alberts Car Stereo Bunbury, Vortex & team BCM.

23 January 2012 – Jane Alexander – KMS Media Representative

 

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Four Aussie Nights: Jason
Meyers Wraps Up Australian Tour
by Elite Racing PR - Kell posted Tuesday January 24,
2012.

If someone heard the titles – The President’s
Cup, The King’s Challenge, and The Classic – Images of grand events would arise.
On the other hand, if asked what sport they were associated with sprint car
racing would probably not be on the list. This week Jason Meyers took on all
three notable Australian races with some highs and some lows. With bigger fields
and a mix of the best American and Australian drivers contending for wins, it
made for a week of fierce racing action.

First up on Wednesday night was
the President’s Cup at Avalon Speedway. Meyers started the night by qualifying
27th, but then quickly bounced back during the heat races. He won Heat 3 and
secured a starting position in the feature event. Lined up in the 6th starting
spot, Meyers had 25 laps to get the job done. The World of Outlaws Champion,
first drove by Danny Smith, then took spots away from Aussie drivers James
McFadden and John Vogels. With the feature running wire-to-wire without a
caution, Meyers ran out of time and could not catch the lead duo. Meyers took
the 3rd place finish, while Robbie Farr took the win.

On Friday night,
the two-time World of Outlaw Champion was ready to contend for the King’s
Challenge at Borderline Speedway. Meyers began the night qualifying 3rd then
finished 4th in his heat races. In the feature event the Californian was lined
up 12th, when the green flag flew. Meyers methodically made his way through the
pack like a true champion. By the time the Checkered Flag flew, Meyers had made
his way up to the 4th position and was closing on the leaders.

Saturday
and Sunday night were the two nights of The Classic and over 80 of the best
sprint car racers in the world showed up to battle to be a part of the historic
event. Meyers began his foray at the classic by qualifying 32nd. Then went on to
finish 6th and 1st in heat races on night one.

On the second night of
racing action, Meyers had his work cut out for him. In the heats he finished 4th
and 8th, which placed him in the C-Main. In the main, the two-time champion
started 7th and finished in 4thwhich transferred him to the B-Main. In the
B-Main, Meyers had the #14 Fire Service Plus KPC on rails. After starting 18th,
Meyers finished 6thwhich was two spots from making the feature
event.

“The C and B Mains went green to checkered flag and we had a good
car finally after struggling the night before,” Meyers stated.” We just needed
some cautions. We came close but just dug ourselves too big of a hole to climb
out of. Overall, it was a great trip to Australia this year made possible by
Steve Caunt and family. Fire Service Plus, MJ Rowles, and Goldstar Transport
also made this trip possible. We are looking forward to getting back home and
making final preparations for Florida.”

Bricknell In Form Heading Into Aus Title
Author : Bricknell Motorsport

 

Tasmanian sprintcar sensation Jamie
Bricknell has once again displayed his skills to the nation during the running
of the 40th Annual Lucas Oils Classic at Warrnambool.

The two night event
is one of the largest races on the Australian calendar, and is a pre-cursor to
the Australian title which will be held in Adelaide this weekend.

After
time trialling in 17th position, out of 81 competitors, Bricknell took little
time to start climbing up the rankings, finishing all his heats in a better
position than he started. Despite crossing the line first in his second heat,
Bricknell was penalised for the stewards for placing a rear wheel on the infield
during a passing move early in the race.

"We protested the decision"
reflects Jamie. "It all depends on which angle you look at from as to whether
the rear wheel was on the grass, or if it was a puff of dust from the front
wheel. They maintained the decision, meaning we started the A main further back
than we could have, but we accept their decision."

"We just wanted to
make it into the A Main" says team owner and proud father Steve. "Not only did
we make it, we qualified in the top 15 out of 80 odd cars, despite copping a
penalty. That's no mean feat, and was a great boost for Jamie and the team
heading into night two."

Bricknell made light of the decision the
following night, taking a bag of lollies from his sponsor Allsorts onto the
infield, telling them on the big screen the chief steward wouldn't accept his
bribe, and offered them to commentator Wade Aunger instead.

But the
realisation the Jamie had fulfilled his initial plan did nothing to slow him
down. During night two, he again climbed through the field in his heats, again
qualifying directly into the A Main for one of the biggest races of the
season.

"There is a lot of big names and big budget teams who didn't make
it into the A Main, and were forced to drive through the finals just to try and
make it" says crew chief and fellow driver Anthony Frost. "We've given him the
best set up for the conditions, so hopefully he does alright".

But
disaster struck as the team settled on the bank to watch the final. One of the
push vehicles had inadvertently struck the right rear tyre of the T55 Maxim,
causing it to deflate instantly. In a display of the respect and comradeship of
the sport, the crew from rival team Monte Motorsport, who were already on the
infield, swamped Bricknells car and began changing the wheel on the stricken
car.

"It was a flurry of activity" says Steve. "The Monte guys were on
him in a flash and were even going to put one of their tyres on his car. I can't
thank them enough for their help, as it meant we could start."

But the
run of bad luck did not finish there. Bricknell was sent to the rear for
changing a tyre, a decision that was made by the stewards without being informed
the car had been damaged by an push car until after the race had begun. In
another unfortunate twist, the team had to fit a softer compound tyre to the
car, which did not suit the hard track and lasted only half the race
distance.

"The Monte boys were going to fit one of their tyres" reflects
Frosty. "In hindsight, we should of let them, but we were under so much pressure
to get it back on the track we didn't have time to discuss
options."

Jamie battled his way up to 13th before being forced to save
the tyre and settle for position, but the team is far from
disappointed.

"What a great few weeks it's been" beams Steve. "We've
beaten Dollansky on home turf, and then qualified into the A Main of the Classic
two nights in a row. We've got some great momentum and unfinished business going
into the Australian Title, and after finishing 5th last year, we are aiming
high."

You can follow Jamie at www.jamiebricknell.com

For the
2011/2012 Season Jamie Bricknell is proudly supported by:

Montile Tile
Boutique – Launceston, Devonport and Hobart
Precision Autos
KRE Race
Engines
C&A Milne Builders
JMC - Jackson Motor Company
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Ian Loudin did his Australian fans proud in opening up a can of woop ass on a bunch of great American drivers most of who were sitting in their own equipment ... and whole bunch of very good Australian teams any of which would look good on the Outlaw tour ... the Warnambool Classic would fit comfortably in the top 5 races if you could pick it up and plant smack in the middle of America... Loudin flat out drove the wheels off The Crowd Pleaser, Pittman, Meyers just to name a few. Craig had his chances but just wasn't as good ... Someone in America should hire Loudin to drive their car ...

This guy is seriously good.Mainly a local racer at the famous Parramatta Speedway,Loudoun holds down a responsible job and goes racing with a crew who also work fulltime and get the car right of an evening.Beat all of Australia's best plus the likes of Meyers,and Dollanski from the States.Fair dinkum good job.

Fair dinkum and good job to Loudon and crew is right Parra! Look at the names who had to run the alphabet and didn't even transfer to the A main!!!!!