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BRAY
SEMI - TOUGH AT THE BANK & TBR TEAM REPORT TBR
RACE REPORT Matt Able made one of the best passes of the first qualifying session with a new personal best 5.981 @241.89. A solid pass, saw him in the number one spot, unfortunately, it was short lived when he was bumped back to second. Came the start of the third and final qualifying session, Ben Bray was still on the out-side of the field but that all changed in 5.920 sec at 249 MPH After the dust settled Ben qualified third and Matt in sixth which meant the TBR stable mates were unfortunate meeting each other in the first round. On paper it was Ben's race, but this is drag racing and anything can and does happen. Both TBR cars sounded tough on the line, Matt had a little look at the wall half track and slowed down, Ben had it all the way from the hole shot, with a 5.969 @ 247.29 for the win, to Matts 7.261 @ 127.87. This pass backed up Ben's 249mph pass from qualifying and national speed record was back in his hands. In the semi-final Ben's 6.010/244.12 was not good enough for the eventual event winner, Maurice Fabietti's 5.953/249.12. Unfortunately Maurice's 249.12MPh backed up his 250.51 1st round pass and the National record was now in his hands. It was a sad
end to a great event when in the final John Zappia crossed into
Maurice Fabiettie's lane and stabbed the wall and it was a big crunch,
the car was air-borne and sailed over the wall. The biggest accident
at Willowbank for some time. Zappia is okay. Unfortunately Zap rat's
most winning car over the last few years is very second hand.
Full list of
event results Updated Championship
table. NEXT EVENTS: 2009 Australian
nationals at WSID 11th to 13th September
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