After early leads by US import Brad Kuhn and local gun Adam Clarke, it was American Jerry Coons Jnr who stormed home in the 30-lap Speedcar Super Series “A” Main in the American Tires & Racing Services #7 Stealth machine ahead of Clarke and New Zealand’s Michael Pickens.

The magnificent set of pole shuffles saw Clarke take the Rod Bowen sponsored pole position beside Brad Kuhn (who moved up from 5th place in overall points), ahead of Pickens, Steven Graham, Tony Elliott, Coons Jnr, Mark Brown and Jason Gates in 8th.  TPCR served up an excellent track for the A Main with the 20 car field including some of the biggest names in Speedcar racing, including rear of field B-Main qualifiers American Davey Ray, Troy Jenkins, Nathan Smee and Rod Bright!

At the drop of the green, Kuhn grabbed the lead on the highline until Darren Jenkins came unstuck on turn four after young-gun West Aussie Todd Waddell tagged an infield marker and launched back onto the corner.

Back under a full restart, Adam Clarke this time took the lead from Kuhn whilst Kiwi charger Pickens shot to the low line for second into turn 3. Coons Jnr was attacking the 3rd placed Kuhn by the main straight with the American duo running wheel to wheel with Coons Jnr shooting ahead into the corner. The following lap Coons Jnr made a slingshot move under the Seamount team mates of Pickens and Clarke for the lead only three laps down!

Further down the pack the action was just as hot and heavy, when trouble struck for young West Australian Todd Waddell. Pushing the #6 through turns one and two, the rookie racer slammed into the cushion projecting him into a series of rolls and out of the A main. “(I) just made a mistake and hit the cushion” said the young-gun after exiting his car. “That’s racing”.

On the restart Coons Jnr lead away from Clarke, Pickens, Kuhn, Elliott, Graham, Mark Brown, West Aussie Neville Lance, American Danny Stratton, Gates and Troy Jenkins. Tony Elliott moved to the highline on fellow American Brad Kuhn before the duo clashed wheels, Elliott coming to a stop at the end of the main straight with a flat left rear tyre.

With 24 laps remaining, the race was again underway with Coons Jnr ahead of Pickens, Clarke, Kuhn, Brown and Graham. Kuhn raced to the low line challenging Clarke for 3rd through turns three and four, then taking Pickens on using the same manoeuvre through turns one and two. Not giving up, Pickens claimed the spot back on the back straight! 

B-Main winner Davey Ray had progressed up to 4th passing Clarke and Brown before Nathan Smee came to a stop on the front straight after a wheel clash with Stevie Walsh. Restarted with 19 laps remaining, Coons Jnr led away from Pickens, Kuhn, Ray, Brown, Clarke, Jenkins, Stratton and Lance.

With racers attacking on multiple lanes, Ray screamed around the highline on the low running Kuhn for third before a crossed up Troy Jenkins was tagged by Paul Rinkin exiting turn two. With Rinkin headed to the pits on the yellow, Davey Ray in the NZ2 Aggressor/Hawk machine retired from the race whilst the N27 of Stevie Walsh came to a stop in the main straight; the young rookie’s driveline having exploded. After exiting the machine, Walsh was taken to hospital for treatment and later released with considerable bruising to his ankles.

Coons Jnr lead away with 17 laps remaining when the 5th running Adam Clarke came into form! Moving from the highline under the 4th running Brown, Clarke mastered the same move the following lap and passed Kuhn for third!

The front runners hit lapped traffic with seven laps remaining with Clarke rapidly closing on Pickens. Two laps later Clarke jumped under Pickens for second exiting turn two, as local Brown made a similar move on Kuhn from turn four for fourth.

Jerry Coons Jnr took the well earned win five laps later with a main straight away lead on second running Adam Clarke 9NZ, Michael Pickens 4NZ, Mark Brown 42N, Brad Kuhn 69N, Neville Lance 14WA, Nathan Smee 81N, Danny Stratton 18N, Jason Gates 70N, Darren Jenkins 21N, Troy Jenkins 2N, Tim Evans 57N and Dean Merrylees 2WA.

Time Trials:  1. N69 Brad Kuhn (USA) 16.004, 2. A1 Steven Graham 16.0450, 3. NZ4 Michael Pickens (NZ) 16.2350, 4. NZ9 Adam Clarke 16.2590, 5. N7 Jerry Coons Jnr (USA) 16.2810, 6. N70 Jason Gates 16.39, 7. N42 Mark Brown 16.4150, 8. N18 Danny Stratton (USA) 16.4530, 9. N57 Tim Evans 16.4660, 10. NZ1 Tony Elliott (USA) 16.5700, 11. N21 Darren Jenkins 16.5940, 12. N68 Paul Rinkin 16.6060, 13. WA2 Dean Merrylees 16.645, 14. N17 Brett Morris 16.6880, 15. WA14 Neville Lance 16.7440, 16. NZ2 Davey Ray (USA) 16.7470, 17. V75 Paul Farrell 16.7610, 18.W6 Todd Waddell 16.7700, 19. N67 Glen Saville 16.8120, 20. N5 Rod Bright 16.8250, 21. N6 Matt Young 16.8380, 22. N52 Peter Attard 16.8830, 23. V11 Troy Jordan 17.0100, 24. N81 Nathan Smee 17.017, 25. N2 Troy Jenkins 17.0740, 26. WA21 Dene McAllan 17.2560, 27. NZ77 Shaun Insley (NZ) 17.2650, 28. Q2 Grant Draney 17.2940, 29. SA5 Ben Wiese 17.3750, 30. WA15 Jamie Oldfield 17.4240, 31. N85 Stephen Brown 17.4350, 32. N27 Stevie Walsh 17.5360, 33. N73 Tarin Edge 17.5490, 34. V4 Colin Patterson 17.562, 35. Q18 Ken Stanaway 17.5710, 36. N15 Alan Day 17.7120, 37. N19 Dean Cavanaugh 17.9640, 38. V6 Brad Jackson 18.0550, 39. N12 Jeff Thomas 19.6600, 40. N28 Peter Garland 20.8390, 41. N30 Kristan Frandsen DNS

NSI $100 Top Time Trial Winner: BRAD KUHN

HEAT 1:
1. Adam Clarke, 2. Stevie Walsh, 3. Grant Draney, 4. Nathan Smee, 5. Paul Rinkin, 6. Davey Ray, 7. Danny Stratton, 8. Rod Bright, 9. Alan Day, 10. Peter Garland (DNF), 11. Kristan Frandsen (DNF)

HEAT 2:
1. Neville Lance, 2. Shaun Insley, 3. Mark Brown, 4. Michael Pickens, 5. Darren Jenkins, 6. Glen Saville, 7. Ken Stanaway, 8. Stephen Brown (DNF), 9. Troy Jordan (DNF), 10. Jeff Thomas (DNF)

HEAT 3:
1. Tony Elliott, 2. Dene McAllan, 3. Steven Graham, 4. Jamie Oldfield, 5. Brett Morris, 6. Jason Gates, 7. Todd Waddell, 8. Colin Patterson, 9. Peter Attard, 10. Brad Jackson (DNF)

HEAT 4:
1. Troy Jenkins, 2. Jerry Coons Jnr, 3. Dean Merrylees, 4. Brad Kuhn, 5. Dean Cavanaugh, 6. Tim Evans, 7. Matt Young, 8. Paul Farrell, 9. Ben Wiese (DNF), 10. Tarin Edge (DNF)

HEAT 5:
1. Stevie Walsh, 2. Nathan Smee, 3. Davey Ray, 4. Troy Jenkins, 5. Paul Farrell, 6. Brad Kuhn, 7. Danny Stratton, 8. Tim Evans, 9. Tarin Edge, 10. Peter Garland (DNS), 11. Kristan Frandsen (DNS)

HEAT 6:
1. Michael Pickens, 2. Ken Stanaway, 3. Jamie Oldfield, 4. Shaun Insley, 5. Jason Gates, 6. Glen Saville, 7. Brett Morris, 8. Darren Jenkins, 9. Peter Attard, 10. Brad Jackson (DNS)

HEAT 7:
1. Adam Clarke, 2. Stephen Brown, 3. Mark Brown, 4. Grant Draney, 5. Neville Lance, 6. Paul Rinkin, 7. Rod Bright, 8. Alan Day, 9. Jeff Thomas, 10. Troy Jordan (DNF)

HEAT 8:
1. Todd Waddell, 2. Tony Elliott, 3. Dene McAllan, 4. Steven Graham, 5. Jerry Coons Jnr, 6. Matt Young, 7. Dean Merrylees, 8. Dean Cavanaugh, 9. Colin Patterson (DNS), 10. Ben Wiese (DNS)

B-Main:
 
1. Davey Ray, 2. Troy Jenkins, 3. Nathan Smee, 4. Rod Bright, 5. Shaun Insley, 6. Ken Stanaway, 7. Colin Patterson, 8. Grant Draney, 9. Peter Attard, 10. Tarin Edge, 11. Alan Day, 12. Paul Farrell, 13. Glen Saville, 14. Jamie Oldfield. 15. Stephen Brown, 16. Dene McAllan, 17. Dean Cavanaugh, 18. Jeff Thomas

POLE SHUFFLE:

Gates vs M Brown = M Brown
Brown vs Coons Jnr = Coons Jnr
Coons Jnr vs Kuhn = Kuhn
Kuhn vs Elliott = Kuhn
Kuhn vs Graham = Kuhn
Kuhn vs Pickens = Kuhn 
Kuhn vs Clarke = Clarke (Pole Shuffle Winner)

Rod Bowen Prestige Smash Repairs Pole Shuffle: ADAM CLARKE

A-Main:
 
1. Jerry Coons Jnr, 2. Adam Clarke, 3. Michael Pickens, 4. Mark Brown, 5. Brad Kuhn, 6. Neville Lance, 7. Nathan Smee, 8. Danny Stratton, 9. Jason Gates, 10. Darren Jenkins, 11. Troy Jenkins, 12. Tim Evans, 13. Dean Merrylees, 14. Steven Graham, 15. Davey Ray, 16. Stevie Walsh, 17. Paul Rinkin, 18. Tony Elliott, 19. Todd Waddell, 20. Rod Bright

$2000 A Main – JERRY COONS JNR

10^th Place M & W Aluminium Voucher – DARREN JENKINS N21