Press Release Courtesy of Southwest Sedan Championships
The heat races proved that it was survival of the strongest, With Kane McDiarmid, Barry Rose and Rickie Nuccini sharing equal points.
On the count back the 31 Commodore of McDiarmid would bring the field to the green from the pole with Rose also sharing the front row for the 20 lap journey.
McDiarmid would get the jump of the 181 Sigma of Barry Rose in the opening laps as the pair would put on a ding dong battle for the lead while Jamie Graham and Rickie Nuccini would battle for 3rd and 4th respectively. On lap 8 Rose would commit hard on the low line into turn 1 snatching the lead of turn 2 and Nuccini would jump past McDiarmid of the exit of 2 pushing him back to 3rd. Meanwhile Nuccini would be shown the enquiry flag which would come back to bite him after the checker flag, but Barry Rose would lead the way until the field would see the first caution on lap 18 when Eddie Holt came to grief and would retire to the infield.
Rose would lead away on the restart from Nuccini, McDiarmid, Graham and Shane Dubberlin, but the 181 Sigma wouldn’t be beat while Nuccini and McDiarmid would battle to the line with Nuccini crossing the line in 2nd and McDiarmid in 3rd but a post race relegation would move Nuccini back to 4th putting the 22 of Jamie Graham onto the podium.
Southwest Champs will be back on the raceway just down the road for Round 2 at the Make Smoking History Quit Bunbury Speedway for the Production Gold Cup on December 7
FEATURE RESULT
1.W181 Barry Rose, 2. W31 Kane McDiarmid, 3. W22 Jamie Graham, 4. W41 Rickie Nuccini, 5. W333 Shane Dubberlin, 6. W86 Wayne Levingston, 7. W67 Josh Martinelli, 8. W57 Kelsey Beard, 9. W97 Lachlan Eason, 10, W43 Brandon Smith DNF Eddie Holt DNS W11 Nuno Mendes, W33 Kim Smith, W63 Mark McDonald, W40 Vince Lindsay, W138 Zach Munro
After Round 1 Championship Standings
181 Barry Rose 178
31 Kane McDiarmid 174
41 Rickie Nuccini 166
22 Jamie Graham 162
333 Shane Dubberlin 148
86 Wayne Levingston 138
57 Kelsey Beard 136
43 Brandon Smith 122
97 Lachlan Eason 114
67 Josh Martinelli 106
93 Eddie Holt 106
11 Nuno Mendes 62
63 Mark McDonald 58
138 Zach Munro 56
33 Kim Smith 26
40 Vince Lindsay 22
