Rose Firms For State Title

by | Nov 26, 2017 | Latest News, Results

Author : Jason Crowe – SSA Media

Barry Rose has absolutely dominated the 2017 Collie Production Sedan Championships on Saturday night at the Quit Collie Speedway, on his way to winning his sixth Feature Race of the season.

It was also the third successive win for Rose in the Collie Championship and fourth overall after also winning in 2012.

Rose won all three of his qualifying heats, before leading the A Main from start to finish, in the event that doubled as Round Two of the 2017/2018 South West Production Sedan Series.

The only defeat of the night for Rose came in the top six pole shuffle, where current Western Australian Champion Drew Ogle advanced from position three, defeating Kyle Sayer and Rose on his way to pole position.

Ogle and Rose shared the front row for the feature race with Rose getting the jump on Ogle.

Kyle Sayer quickly ducked into third place and begun about trying to find a way past Ogle.

Twenty Seven cars were on hand for the event with some of the best racing of the season at the Collie venue seen during the nine qualifying heats.

Beau Riley was adjudged to have jumped the start after moving through to fourth on the opening lap and was relegated four positions during the first stoppage after Jess Hall and Allan Harper came together with Hall retiring from the race.

A few more stoppages were required during the first half of the race with Jayden Maughan, Paul Stevens and Carnarvon’s Kathryn Harper retiring from the race after incurring damage to their cars.

Rose would continue to pull away after every restart with both Ogle and Sayer not able to stay with the little Sigma.

Sayer moved into second place past Ogle before retiring from the race with twelve laps remaining.

As the laps wore down Rose got out to a big lead from Ogle, Leviston, Richard Nelson and Kane McDiarmid. Ogle then retired with a right rear wheel issue on his Commodore with five laps remaining handing second place to Leviston.

Beau Riley’s car expired within sight of the finish after running inside the top five for the second half of the event.

Barry Rose would go on to win the 2017 Collie Production Sedan Championships by nearly half a lap and in the process sent an ominous warning to his rivals ahead of the 2017/2018 SSWA Production Sedan State Title to be held at the same venue in late January 2018.

Veteran Wayne Leviston drove brilliantly to finish second from Richard Nelson, Kane McDiarmid and local Shannon Cherry rounding out the top five.

Only seven cars completed the distance with a number of drivers with some work to do before Round Three of the 2017/2018 South West Production Sedan Series to be held at the Augusta Margaret River Speedway on Saturday 6th January 2018.

Official Results

Heat 1, 10 Laps: 1. W4 Richard Nelson, 2. W95 Kyle Sayer, 3. W7 Coby Stevens, 4. W41 Rickie Nuccini, 5. W86 Wayne Leviston, 6. W39 Jeff Kendall, 7. W22 Jamie Graham, 8. W15 Craig Lenane, DNF W17 Darren Johnson (7)

Heat 2, 10 Laps: 1. W181 Barry Rose, 2. W40 Beau Riley, 3. W25 Darren Nelson, 4. W16 Paul Stevens, 5. W113 Tim Green, 6. W92 Ricky Williams, 7. W6 Kathryn Harper, DNF W112 Warren Flavel, W111 Jordan McGinnis

Heat 3, 10 Laps: 1. W1 Drew Ogle, 2. W31 Kane McDiarmid, 3. W13 Shannon Cherry, 4. W14 Allan Harper, 5. W29 Jess Hall, 6. W98 Jayden Maughan, 7. W33 Reece Parton, DNF W54 Graeme Rafferty

Heat 4, 10 Laps: 1. W29 Jess Hall, 2. W17 Darren Johnson, 3. W1 Drew Ogle, 4. W14 Allan Harper, 5. W6 Kathryn Harper, 6. W33 Reece Parton, DNS W112 Warren Flavel, W13 Shannon Cherry

Heat 5, 10 Laps: 1. W95 Kyle Sayer, 2. W25 Darren Nelson, 3. W31 Kane McDiarmid, 4. W41 Rickie Nuccini, 5. W4 Richard Nelson, 6. W54 Graeme Rafferty, 7. W15 Craig Lenane, DNF W22 Jamie Graham, W92 Ricky Williams

Heat 6, 10 Laps: 1. W181 Barry Rose, 2. W113 Tim Green, 3. W86 Wayne Leviston, 4. W7 Coby Stevens, 5 W40 Beau Riley, DNF W16 Paul Stevens, W39 Jeff Kendall, W111 Jordan McGinnis, W98 Jayden Maughan

Heat 7, 10 Laps: 1. W181 Barry Rose, 2. W1 Drew Ogle, 3. W14 Allan Harper, 4. W113 Tim Green, 5. W98 Jayden Maughan, DNF W111 Jordan McGinnis, W33 Reece Parton, DNS W22 Jamie Graham

Heat 8, 10 Laps: 1. W40 Beau Riley, 2. W86 Wayne Leviston, 3. W31 Kane McDiarmid, 3. W13 Shannon Cherry, 4. W29 Jess Hall, 5. W112 Warren Flavel, 6. W15 Craig Lenane, 7. W31 Kane McDiarmid, DNS W41 Rickie Nuccini, W16 Paul Stevens

Heat 9, 10 Laps: 1. W4 Richard Nelson, 2. W95 Kyle Sayer, 3. W92 Ricky Williams, 4. W7 Coby Stevens, 5. W17 Darren Johnson, DNF W39 Jeff Kendall, W25 Darren Nelson, W6 Kathryn Harper

Feature Race, 25 Laps: 1. W181 Barry Rose, 2. W86 Wayne Leviston, 3. W4 Richard Nelson, 4. W31 Kane McDiarmid, 5. W13 Shannon Cherry, 6. W113 Tim Green, 7. W17 Darren Johnson, DNF W14 Allan Harper, W1 Drew Ogle, W40 Beau Riley, W95 Kyle Sayer, W112 Warren Flavel, W6 Kathryn Harper, W92 Ricky Williams, W29 Jess Hall, W16 Paul Stevens, W98 Jayden Maughan, W111 Jordan McGinnis, W15 Craig Lenane, DNS W33 Reece Parton, W54 Graeme Rafferty, W41 Rickie Nuccini, W39 Jeff Kendall, W22 Jamie Graham, W7 Coby Stevens, W25 Darren Nelson

Barry Rose firming a favourite for the WA Production Sedan Title. Photo courtesy of Fastlane Photography.

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