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OLDFIELD WINS NIGHT ONE PRELIMINARY A-MAIN
Author : Sprintcars Australia
In front of an enormous crowd Luke Oldfield scored victory in the 25-lap preliminary A-Main at Archerfield Speedway for Night One of the Titan Garages and Sheds 2022 Australian Sprintcar Championship.
Oldfield battled it out with defending champion Jamie Veal for much of the feature race and later admitted he wasn’t sure that the end result was necessarily a good situation.
“I’m not sure it’s a good thing to win the preliminary main event on the first night of an Australian title but we’ll take it,” he smiled, “at least we know we have pace. I know it doesn’t mean much to win tonight but we’ve got a fast car and now we can focus on what we have to do tomorrow. It’s great to see such a fantastic crowd here tonight and I hope I’m standing in the same spot tomorrow.”
Jamie Veal took the lead from Oldfield with twelve laps to go but with only a handful remaining the Queenslander retook the Australian champ and maintained a narrow advantage until the chequers flew.
The spotlight was on hard charging Tasmanian Jock Goodyer who ripped the T22 to a spectacular third place and almost passed Veal in the final fifty metres.
Lockie McHugh placed fourth ahead of a rapidly moving Marcus Dumesny who had come from the seventh row of the grid to wind up fifth ahead of Aaron Kelly in sixth, Matt Dumesny seventh, Ian Madsen eighth, Steven Lines ninth and Dave Fanning rounding out the ten.
Tasmanian Tate Frost narrowly avoided (but not completely) the flipping Brent Kratzmann but sustained some top wing damage and came home eleventh on debut with Ryan Newton twelfth, Brock Hallett thirteenth, Luke Stirton fourteenth, Daniel Pestka fifteenth and Nicholas Whell sixteenth.
DNF’s were Jessie Attard and Brent Kratzmann who flipped in separate incidents.
Despite finishing fourth in the A-Main Lockie McHugh amassed enough points with his two heat wins and quick time in his flight to lead the points heading into the final night.
Quick Times in their respective Heat Groups for qualifying were:
Aaron Kelly 12.092
Luke Oldfield 12.105
Jordyn Brazier 12.183
Lockie McHugh 12.183
Heat race winners included:
H1 Taylor Prosser
H2 Luke Stirton
H3 Lockie McHugh
H4 Brent Kratzmann
H5 Luke Oldfield
H6 Jamie Veal
H7 Lockie McHugh
H8 Ian Madsen
Last Chance Preliminary Main event qualifier results:
1. Tate Frost
2. Ryan Newton
3. Dave Fanning
4. Daniel Pestka
5. Jordyn Brazier
6. Kevin Titman
7. Robbie Farr
8. Richard Morgan
9. Matt Egel
10. Jamie Bricknell
11. Darren Jensen
12. Bryan Mann
13. Randy Morgan
14. Taylor Prosser
15. Kristy Bonsey
16. Peter Doukas (DNF)
OVERALL POINTS AFTER NIGHT ONE
Lockie McHugh 93
Luke Oldfield 89
Jamie Veal 85
Jock Goodyer 83
Ian Madsen 81
Aaron Kelly 77
Matthew Dumesny 73
Marcus Dumesny 69
Steven Lines 69
Brock Hallett 63
Tate Frost 63
Ryan Newton 62
Jessie Attard 62
Luke Stirton 61
Nicholas Whell 60
Dave Fanning 60
Brent Kratzmann 60
Daniel Pestka 59
Jordyn Brazier 50
Kevin Titman 46
Robbie Farr 44
Richard Morgan 42
Peter Doukas 40
Taylor Prosser 40
Matt Egel 39
Darren Jensen 39
Randy Morgan 37
Bryan Mann 36
Jamie Bricknell 35
Kristy Bonsey 30
Tim Farrell 27
Mark Pholi 25
Karl Hoffmans 21
Adrian Redpath 21
Chris McInerney 20
Will Carroll 17
Trent Vardy 16
Mitch Gowland 16
Jason King 15
Libby Ellis 14
Andrew Baumber 13
Brenton Farrer 12
James Matthews 12
Adam Butler 12
Luke Thomas 8
Jy Corbet 0
The final night of the Titan Garages and Sheds 59th SCCA Australian Sprintcar Championship is scheduled for Sunday night, May 1.
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