A spectacular ending to the most celebrated Speedcar Super Series has seen Adam Clarke take the win ahead of Michael Pickens and Mark Brown at Speedway City Adelaide! In doing so, the three winners etched their names into the Speedcar history books with Pickens taking out the series championship pointscore ahead of Clarke and Brown after 6 rounds across four states!

Despite the constant hot weather in Adelaide throughout the week, Speedway City worked tirelessly to dish up an immaculate Midget surface come race night where the drivers certainly delivered!

The pole shuffle saw Clarke qualify from position one for the 30 lap A-main aside Seamount team mate Michael Pickens followed by the National Speedway Illustrated fastest qualifier Matt Young, Mark Brown, Mark Cooper, Rookie racer Tarin Edge (qualifying via his first ever pole shuffle), Luke Dillon in the recently purchased 1NZ machine (driven by American Tony Elliott during the Australian Titles) and South Australian Ben Wiese.

With the race underway, Clarke shot to an immediate lead ahead of Pickens, Brown, Young, Cooper, Wiese, Edge, Queensland’s Grant Draney and Dillon, who three laps later succumbed to the challenge by Jenkins for the 9th position. The following lap a coming together brought the cautions on to restart the spun Troy Jordan of Victoria.

With Jordan sent rear of the field, Clarke and Pickens shot ahead of the pack until the N73 of Tarin Edge clipped the right rear of Draney catapulting him into a roll along the turn 3 wall. With 20 laps remaining, Tarin was unable to restart.

Back under green Mark Cooper moved further up the ladder, manoeuvring under Matt Young exiting turn two for 4th. Meanwhile the Seamount battle kicked into play; the young-gun Pickens challenging Clarke for the lead. The duo ran wheel to wheel and tail to nose around the circuit until Sydney’s Darren Jenkins in the Carline Mufflers N21 tried an outside move on Draney, clipping his right rear wheel and throwing the car into the turn 1 and 2 wall with 19 laps left on the board.

“I went in on the outside of Grant Draney and just had nowhere to go” said an unharmed DJ to an appreciative crowd.

Returning to race mode, Clarke led away Pickens, Brown, Cooper, Young, Wiese, Draney, Dillon and SA’s own Tim Crouch. Pickens immediately began his campaign for the lead on the defending Clarke: the matching Valvoline Breka’s running high and low for a number of laps until Pickens shot under Clarke entering the back straight with only 16 laps remaining.

But the race wasn’t in the bag for the Kiwi hard-charger with the ex-Aussie Champion Clarke giving it all in a fight to reclaim his lead! With twelve laps remaining Clarke shot to the highline, running wheel to wheel with the low running Pickens; over two laps completed side by side! Finally the highline gave Clarke the advantage and he slipped back into the lead.

Clarke led the remainder of the race for a win despite Pickens being on and off his tail through lapped traffic, third place went to the catching Mark Brown, ahead of Cooper, Young, Dillon, Smee, Crouch, Jordan, Draney, Mike Grundy, Kym Driesener and Royce Randin.

The podium placings cemented the final tallies in the Speedcar Super Series Championship points seeing the talented Michael Pickens take home top honours ahead of Adam Clarke in a Seamount 1-2, the Rondalee Rocket Mark Brown in third, West Australian Dene McAllan in fourth and QLD’s Grant Draney in fifth.

Championship Results:

1. Michael Pickens 5155
2. Adam Clarke 4710
3. Mark Brown 4425
4. Dene McAllan 1540
5. Grant Draney 1370
6. Matt Young 1170
7. Ben Wiese 1150
8. Stevie Walsh 1005
9. Troy Jordan 995
10. Tarin Edge 800

Missed out on the Round 6 SSS action? Then click HERE to listen to the A Main as recorded by the Speedway City Commentary Team! Thanks to Darren Shaddock of SprintcarWorld!

Picture courtesy of Wobbles!
 

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