Motorsport News Issue 311 - June 15-28, 2005

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We Came, We Saw ...

Shanghai and V8 Supercars fall in love Signing Out Is LP 's team for sale?

Let the Silly Season Begin Rubens and DC in the frame at BAR for 2006 We were robbed McLaren is not happy with JPM's DSQ Motor Mouth MN's Ed swears that his new Rolex is genuine Box Seat Where engines and icebergs meet Marcos vs Mark The battle for Letters Page supremacy

Five Minutes With Jason and Jamie A pair of Dodos, but in name only.

30 Five Minutes With Jarno Trulli Who needs a Renault?

32 Giantkilling Devices PMM may not be the biggest V8 team , but it might be the smartest 36 The Real Gil From Indy 500 winner to BAR Sporting Director in just two years

Hot Toddy The V8 Supercars roll into Shanghai , and Todd Kelly secures himself a little place in history OK, I'll take it then Alonso, Fisi and JPM hand Kimi a lot of points in Canada , Talking Turkey Loeb rocks up and belts everyone. Again.

Painting the Town Blue Crocker and Subaru rule QLD 111111 ,, 11 ,111 1, 11111 ,114 111 62 Northern Exposure All the Winternationals action 68 ·--- ·from Willowbank

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FANS lamenting the loss of VB Supercar rounds to overseas venues should note that the number (including NZ) is unlikely to ever exceed four.

MNew s understands that th e CAMS Charter for the del egation of category rights to AVESCO includes the stipulation that no less than 10 championship round s will be held in Australia for the 'Australian Tou ring Car Championship' which is, of course, allocated to the w inner of the VB Supercar Championship series.

With TEGA team owners unwilling to contest more than 14 races per year, the maths is simple .

While AVESCO and its ebullient chairman have never been known to let tradition get in the w ay (remember Sacred Sites?), it is most unlikely that the organisation would want to butt ~ eads with CAMS on this one.

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by PHIL BRANAGAN in SHANGHAI

VS SUPERCAR racing made a bigger impact in China last weekend than Formula One did last year - and now looks set to expand its international reach to Bahrain and, possibly, Qatar,

The Australian ca tegory stands on the edge of a I]:lassive expansion into the international arena after a successful fo ray into China. The fifth round of the 2005 Series was so well received by the local government, business corrumuµty and fans, that one senior government official was moved to suggest that it exceeded Fl. He bold ly predicted that when the Grand Prix circus returns to China in November, it will pull a smal.ler crowd than it did on debut last year, when an estimated 150,000 people ventured to the track, he said, mainly out of curiosity.

No offi cial V8 crowd munber was released on the weekend but track esqrnates were that the Friday, Saturday and Sunday crowds were 10,000, 30,000 and 60,000 respectively.

The official further said that the VS Supercar crowd would grow next year beca use of the enterta.inrnent value and atmosphere that the VSSCS provided .

AVESCO Chairman Tony Cochrane, who admitted that he ha0 sleepless nights during the week

China Wants in Look for a fresh face in 2007

THERE could be a Chinese VB Supercar driver in 2007.

AVESCO is to sponsor a scholarship for a Chinese driver to compete in the VB Development Series after an assessment program to be run next year.

The category manager is currently seeking sponsorship to fund the program which -is likely to involve General Motors.

Holde~'s parent company sponsored the Shanghai International VB Supercar round, through its Buick brand, last weeke~d and, should the company green-light the driver program, the car involved woul? likely be branded a Buick, in much the same fa~h1on as Rick Kelly s HSV Dealer Team was in Sydney and Shanghai.

- PHIL BRANAGAN

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leading up to the event, justi fia bly bea med on Sunday night.

"I am sitting here now as an extremely, ex tremely p roud Australian," said Cochrane after the racing was over.

'1 think that the mos t signifi can t thing is that I am the Chairman of the world 's grea test tour ing car ch ampi onship. I do not think that there would be an ybody alive who would question that. I happened to be here last yea r when the DTM was on here in China and the difference between their race and our race, no matter how you look at it ... we just proved, first-hand, that when Australians have a go at something, we are the best in the world."

The teams, officials, m edia represen tatives and sp ectators who travelled to Shanghai were staggered by the Hermann Tilkedesigned track, which was built at a cost of $600 million. More than 500 locals travelled in the official party, with estimates that as many as 5000 specta tors made the trip to China. Australian Customs confirmed that more than 2000 departed Sydney on one day, last Wednesday, to travel to the race.

The success of the Aussie VSs comes a year after the failed nonchampionship DTM event and follows the cancellation of a round of the Japan ese GT Championship ea rlier this year.

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Team Red: new powerplants?

RED country, red cars or the red fuel? Whatever it was, there were a lot of fans in China of HRT's engines.

The team did not say that there were new spec HMS donks on board last weekend, but opposition drivers raved about how quick the cars were on The Shang's numerous straights.

Is it Just regular development or have the Reds come up with a new tweak?.

Larkham-Orrcon Racing seems close to confirming its endurance line-up. As we alluded to last issue, Matthew Halliday is all-but-confirmed in the #20 Falcon for the endurance races.

Expect him to be partnered by either fellow kiwi Mark Porter, currently steering a BA Falcon for Steve Ellery Racing in the HPDC Series, or WTCC driver and friend of team owner Mark Larkham, Frenchman Alain Menu.

"When you combine the world's absolute best motorsport circuit, without a shadow of a doubt, with the world's greatest touring car· championship, in front of 40,000 to 60,000 Chinese fans today, we are very happy," Cochrane said.

"We look forward to coming back for many, many, many, many, years."

To a person, the drivers and teams were unanimous in their praise for the event, with defending VB Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose leading the parade: "There were so many people out there who were so pessimistic," said the Pirtek Ford driver.

"I am glad we came and I am glad that this came off. It ran smoothly; there were small issues but it was, mostly, a smooth run."

Cochrane confirmed that plans continue for another 'flyaway' event in 2006.

Recent reports indicate that Bahrain's new international circuit is the intended destination and MNews believes that much of the logistics for the Middle Eastern race was 'tested' over the course of the Shanghai weekend.

One potential sticking point is that, while the Chinese race was held at the start of summer in the northern

hemisphere, Bahrain's heat would force a date in autumn or spring.

Two alternatives being suggested are that (a) Bahrain could host a race in April, close to the date previously allocated to New Zealand, or that (b) China and Bahrain could run backto-back, two weeks apart, with the cars spending up to four weeks out of Australia.

Regardless of what happens, one thing is certain: the success of the Chinese event in Year One will build a strong foundation for future international events. Cochrane's final word on the weekend? "You ain't seen nothing yet!"

Perkins out for good?

ALTHOUGH publicly Larry Perkins is still looking for sponsors for his race team for 2006, there is the distinct possibility that LP may withdraw from race team involvement to concentrat e on his primary business, Perkins Engineering.

Whi le Perkins isn't commenting, it seems to be an industry open secret that the race team and its assets are on the market.

Th e fracas over the sale of his two Level 1 VB licences, an ongoing philosoph ica l battle with TEGA and AVESCO management and, most recently, the confirmation of the withdrawal of long-time sponsor Castrol, add up to a sc:enario

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where, frank ly, getting out might well seem like a good option !

Whil e he did appear at Eastern Creek (and got another bake from the sport's stewards). LP wasn't at the Perth or Shanghai rounds of the VBSCS, choosing to spend some of that time supporting son Jack in the relatively relaxed world of Formula Ford.

It is also believed that the #24 licence (owned by Bap Romano). which Perkins is leasing this year to run one of his two cars, is already on the market or will be on the market soon.

Under this scenario, Perkins wi ll most likely spend 2006 and beyond as simply a

manufacturer of components, which will include supplying VB Supercar teams with hardware.

The flow-on effect could take a number of turns, but MNews understands that one of the mostlikely scenarios would see Paul Dumbrell find a new home at Tony Longhurst Racing's new two-car team with backing from Autobarn and BP/Castro!. Rod Nash would need to find a home for his #7 licence, and Alex Davison would become a free agent.

And all this avoids the fascinating fact that championship-contender Steven Richards would be left without a drive. At that point, that seat in Queensland in a blue car would be mighty tempting ...

- GRANT ROWLEY/ STAFF

Garth Tander, John Bowe and Paul Weel will all face the music in Darwin. The three drivers will have matters investigated by IPO Peter Wollerman over Shanghai incidents with. respectively, JB. Jason Richards and Paul Dumbrell.

Before the tnp to China the word was that there would be no ,near camera vision because of the fact that there would be no air clearance. hence no helicopter, hence no uplink for broadcasting pies. That all changed on the Wednesday prior to the race, when the local authorities okayed the use of the airspace and ,t was all go for cameras.

As if the noise of 32 VB Supercars was not enough to cause discomfort for the Sunday crowd, we can confirm your suspicions that the singer of Advance Australia Fair was indeed Nikki Webster. The former Dancing with the Stars target made the trip especially to perform at the track. having previously sung the national anthem at Bathurst. MNews makes no comment on the singing of Kylie Lite but hey, wasn't the guy who did the Chinese national anthem good7 Some interested spectators at the Shanghai VB Supercar round included Holden Motorsport General Manager Tom Walkinshaw, former marketing manager of Holden Kevin Whale (now CEO of General Motors China), Holden President Denny Mooney, and Holden marketing manager Ross McKenzie.

To prove the VIP count was not stacked 1n the red side's favour. Ford Motor Company Australia President Tom Gorman was also in attendance.

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Back in the US0A THE second stage of Marcos Ambrose's NASCAR plans started yesterday when the two-time V8 Supercar Champion landed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ambrose flew stra ight from Shangha i to the US on Monday and w ill cont inue to have tal ks with repres entat ives of Ford and its teams . He wi ll atte nd t he Michigan round of the Nextel Cup Series next w eek. " There is a lot to get done before the end of the yea r," Ambrose said in Chi na on Sunday.

"Apart from the teams and the testing, there are t hings li ke

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arra nging a motorhome fo r next season ."

Ambrose confi rmed that the move w ill be an expen sive one.

Apart from moving himself and his expectant w ife Sonja from th eir Gold Coast home to Charlotte, he said last week that the plans w ere already having a financial impact. " There w ere sponsors that could have come on t his season but, because of my plans, they didn 't, " he said . " Next year, I w ill not have a driving salary and I have to arrange sponsors.

There is a lot t o do but I am det ermined to ma ke this w ork."

- PHIL BRANAGAN

What might be in the pipeline: Marcos Ambrose, left, is now in the States organising his US venture next year, which will hopefully one day lead to a full-on NASCAR ride, above.

IT was Mark Skaife's turn to s ay sorry in Shanghai.

The HRT team boss followed hi own etiquette and went s traight down to the SBR garage after Race 3 to apologise to Russell Tnga ll, a fter spinning the Falcon around at the pit lane entry.

"I thought that Ru se!J was going to come into the pits, given that it was a lap after his tea mma te and we were al l on that sched ule," Skaife reported later. "l was right behind him and, as we came up to the comer, he braked in the usual spot. He dearly was11 't coming into the p its and I couldn 't miss him.

"I tried to avoid hi m, couldn't miss and p un him a ro und. That was basically game over for us . " I went d own and apologised to he and Ro sand Jimmy Stone and their guys because, clearly, you don't want to put someone else

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VBSUPERCAR Championship Series leader Marcos Ambrose emerged from the category's maiden Chinese trip intact, despite another controversial clash with a Holden driveL

Ambrose made contact with the Castro! Commodore of Steven Richard wh en the cars completed their compulsory pit stop in Race 3 at the Shanghai International Circuit.

Desperate to get out f pit lane first, Ambro e had to werve around the cone that marked the end of the pit boxes and hi t Richards before back ing off and allowi.ng both he and Todd Kelly past before slottin g in to the e>-it lane.

Ambrose recei1·ed a dri1·ethrough penalty for h i. part in the collis ion.

1orry now? Skaifey! highlights circuit shortfall Race 3 shunt with Inga/I ,,,

out like that.

"The dri ve-through penalty put us back to nowhere and that was basically the end of our day. That was not a great way to finish what has been a fantastic weekend for the Holden Racing Team."

The shunt does, however, highlight a potential area for improvement at the top-class Shanghai facility. That pit-bound cars are still accelerating through the normal braking point for the final

corner is clearly a recipe for a shunt of this style. Look for pit entry changes next year.

At the same time, Skaife explained the reason behind his less-than-rapid getaways, especially in Race 3: "The start wasn't fantastic because I reduced the amount of throttle that I would normally use, because I thought there would be less grip.

"The conditions were a lot hotter and the tyre condition was much worse. I thought you could probably walk it away with less throttle, but that wasn't the case. It bogged down and I had to dip the clutch to get it goi ng again.

"That was bad, but it wasn' r fue thing tha~ cost us a res; lt ..."

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All in the family?

COULD the Chinese experience of most of the teams, personnel, officials and media staying in a race, hotel and sharing buses to and from circuits be repeated in Australia?

Well, several team owners and officials are suggesting just that, pointing to the enhanced "we are all in this together" feeling and economic benefits. It may not happen soon, but it could happen.

The VB Supercar circus seemed to travel to Shanghai pretty much intact, the most obvious victim of the journey being Craig Baird.

A previous traveller to China on several occasions, the WPS driver was bold enough to eat "something that looked like chicken" on the outward flight and, in his own words. " 10 hours later 1t was Black Hawk Down".

Bairdo spent much of the following 48 hours familiarising himself with the finer points of Chinese porcelain before he recovered his faculties sufficiently to drive on Friday.

:all in pit lane chaos "He definitely did not hit me level," said Richards. "It was more like his left-front wheel was in my door I guard region.

"It was pretty disappointing. We have rules and regulations in ottr sport, particularly for the car controller. Sometimes, like it or lump it, you have to wear the fact that you are not going to get out first. That could have had a massive impact on our race result. And we would have had no comeback whatsoever.

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"The first thing I thought was that I was hoping that there was no damage to the right-front guard .

Second! y, I figured that their car controller was going to have a pretty heavy fine!"

The stop was, by the standards of Stone Brothers Racing, chaotic:The pit window had just opened after five laps and SBR engineer Paul Forgie called in Ambrose, at the same time as leaders Ricl1ards and Kelly, even though Ambrose disagreed strongly and wanted to stay on the track, in clean air, to build a gap.

"Marcos was not happy when we called it," SBR boss Ross Stone later confirmed. " But that is our call and he has to do as he is told, end of story."

With Richards and Ambrose at opposite ends of the pit apron, Ambrose followed regular SBR

pitstop protocol and accelerated as soon as his car was dropped off its airjacks (ie, SBR does not do wha t some teams do-drop the car and Ihm tell the driver to go). Ambrose was told "wait, wait, wait," but carried on. He then allowed both Holdens past in the hope that officials would allow him to carry on with no penalty.

"Tha t is the only protocol we have," Ambrose said later. "I could not see anything when I accelerated off because I had a bent mirror.

"When I got the caJI to stop, I was right on the blend line. It was either bump into Richo or hit the cone."

Once the car was back on the circuit, Ambrose apologised to the team over the radio before serving his penalty after a yellow flag period (ironically, caused by Russell lngall being speared off by Mark Skaife) was completed.

- PHIL BRANAGAN

Free Trade Agreement or not, do not expect the Peoples, Republic's people to embrace Aussie Rules footy any time soon.

A particularly lame Friday Ford PR stunt, which saw Henry's drivers galloping around pit lane in Geelong Cats jumpers, went pear-shaped when Ford Performance Racing physio John Curran hit the deck hard.

The poor bloke suffered multiple fractures to the wrist but some impressive work from the local medicos saw initial plans to patch him up and fly him home for surgery shelved and a one-armed Curran continue his chores for the weekend.

Holden Motorsport dug deep in the reward stakes in qualifying. PR Man in Red Gerald McDornan bravely cast aside his travel lurgy to invest the Race 1 winner Todd Kelly with a Rolex watch. "It's the real thing," McD assured the media. "It says Swiss Made, and has a lifetime guarantee." No word on whether the $9 bargain was still ticking by Sunday.

Mark Ska1fe did rather better.

Because Skaifey's provisional pole lap was the fastest of the weekend. the HRT boss left China with a reward, a new t1mep1ece compliments of Rado. And while Toddler may have bagged more points, we suspect that Mr Skaife's watch might be the real McCoy. Why do Safety Cars come out 7 Some parts of the dual-language race program left you scratching.

According to the text, it is Jumbles, that cause the 300C to appear and create order.

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Carlin Walks Out

TREVOR Carlin has walked away from his position as sporting director of Jordan.

The team press release revealing his demise left out the key issue in the story - why the split had occurred - and Colin Kolles' explana tion that the commute fro m home was too much for Carlin was an insult to the intelligence of those listening.

Carlin has plenty to do with his other racing operations but this is clearly not the reason he departed.

The whispers in Montreal suggested that Carlin left because he did not agree with the way the team was being run. However, he is being diplomatic and has not spilt the beans.

To date there is not even a confirmed engine deal for 2006. There are signs that Midland had the chance of a very reasonable deal with Ferrari but did not act on the opportunity, which allowed Red Bull Racing to get the engines. If team owner Alex Shnaider was serious about F1 he would have jumped at the chance of a deal with Ferrari and would have come up with the money.

Tha t means that either he does not have access to the money, or that he missed the opportunity. Or that he

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DOES Danica Patrick have an F1 future? Opinion is divided, but the I

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to be present at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday as the Formula 1 teams get ready for the United States Grand Prix.

The darling of the American media at the moment, Danica was offered the chance to do a demonstration run in a BARHonda Formula 1 car, but has decided that it would be better to wait and see how things develop before rushing into anything in F1 .

Danica is largely responsible for a Nielsen TV rating of 6.5 with an

has a better offer about which we have still to lea rn.

The la test word is that the team will announce the extension of its Toyota contract within a matter of days. However, in ord er for that to happen, the team needs to come up with the necessary financial guarantees to keep the Japanese happy.

The problem for Toyota is that Williams is also sniffing around looking for a good engine, and while a deal is possible wi th Jordan, it would be much better if there was a second deal wi th Williams.

-JOESAWARD

18 share for ABC's broadcast of the 89th Indianapolis 500. That is almost 60 percent more than the race managed last year and is the

best rating achieved by the 500 since before the --~----·-CART-IRL split nine years ago.

The ratings peaked at 8.6 w ith a 23 share as winner Dan Wheldon and Patrick duelled for the lead in the last 15 laps of the race.

The chances are that Patrick will race in IRL for the next couple of years before, perhaps, looking at moving to Formula 1.

-JOE SAWARD

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Servia confirmed at Newman-Haas AFTER his third place substituting for the injured Bruno Junquiera, Spaniard Oriol Servia has been confirmed as a Newman-Haas racing driver for the remainder of the 2005 Champ Car World Series.

BAR-Honda test driver Anthony Davidson was offered the drive, but declined.

We understand that the team then talked to Patrick Carpentier and Ryan Hunter-Reay, but neither could get out of their current contracts.

Junqueira is expected to be out of action for the rest of the season after his crash at the Indy 500.

The Brazilian underwent back surgery at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital to repair fractures to two vertebrae. The former Williams test driver was running in sixth place when AJ Foyt IV stumbled into his path, causing the Newman Haas driver to have a big accident.

The French Grand Prix has now sold 50,000 tickets and hopes that it can now get more than the 75,000 spectators it is aiming for. The race attracted 70,000 people last year but the Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile then took the brave decision to slash prices to attract more people. This interesting experiment is being watched by other races across Europe. If 1t works it may lead to changes in pricing at other events as well.

Is Ferrari flouting the Formula· l manufacturers' agreement to supply 'affordable' engines to inaependent teams7 Swiss team principal Peter Sauber, who is in final negotiations over at least an engine supply contract with BMW, has explained why he decided not to renew his Ferrari deal beyond 2005. He said: "It wouldn't have been a problem to stay wi th Ferrari, but they made 1t clear that they wanted to make money out of it. For years, we've accepted this, and Petronas paid for the supply. But the new agreement among the manufacturers puts engines at disposal at cost price. We have a duty to Petronas, and that's why we're talking to other manufacturers. I hope to close an agreement soon, but unfortunately we haven't reached that point Just yet."

Jordan driver Narain Karthikeyan and his team have reconciled their differences after a brief but public spat over the past couple of weeks.

Team boss Colin Kolles had been openly critical of the Indian in the press prior to last weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. however both parties are now saying that they have cleared the air.

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Ron:V RON Dennis has slammed Juan Pablo Montoya's exdusion from the Canadian GP - for driving through a red light while leaving the pits - as being excessive.

The McLaren boss also accepted partial blame for Montoya's error, by admitting tha t the team forgot to remmd the Colombian to watch out for a red light! He also admitted tha t the team shottld have called Montoya in firs t, wh en, the Safety Car was deployed .

"Though out th e Eace, we had to take some difficult decisions, which only increased the pressure on the pit wall," he said, "Against th is backdrop, the mistake was made of not calling Juan Pablo in imm ediately after the deployment of the Safety Car. "Of course, that meant th at Kimi h ad an ad vantage, because he went back out in the lead. When Juan Pablo cam e in, he was surprisingly calm and followed the instructions of his engineer to stay left of the white blend line on exit. However, what we didn' t do was to remmd him to look for a red ligmt.

"I felt the penalty d idn 't fit the crime; tha t it was too h arsh for wha t Juan was supposed to have done."

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RED Bull Racing says that Christian Klien will drive for the team for the next four races at least - and will probably do the next six.

The intention is to try to give the Austrian and Tonia Liuzzi more consiste mcy in their evaluation process . The team has decided that it is not fair to switch the drivers backw ards and forw ards from race to race .

Liuzzi did not taking part in Canada and won't at Indianapolis at all, because the third car is being given over to Scott Speed, in order to promote Red Bull in the US markets.

- JOE SAWARD

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THE flow of F1 knowledge ta NASCAR continues, w ith the news that former Cosworth F1 engine designer Nick Hayes is to head Hencl~ick Racing's engine department.

Hendrick runs five Chevrolet M onte Carl os in the Nextel Cup for Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Jimmie Joh nson, Brian Vickers and Terry Labonte, w hile also supplyi ng engines to two other tea m s. The Hendrick organi sati on now produces around 700 engines a year and ha s close to 100 people working on th em .

Hendrick lost its chief engine ma n last November w hen Randy Dorton was killed in a plane cras h near Martin•sville.

Hayes is a perfect fit for the team, although his very English sense of humour may have some of t he Americans scratchin g their heads dow n in Charlotte !

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Red Bull Ferrari for 2006 THE 2006 Formula 1 engine supply deal between Ferrari and Red Bull Racing includes the rights to use the Ferrari brand name.

Team owner Dietrich Matesch1tz told Swiss newspaper Motorsport Aktuell, "in reaching our decision, we were looking for engine performance, risk minimisation and marketing value.

"Ferra ri was the dream partner, and Ferra ri wanted us too. We'll also have the name in the team name next year: 'Red Bull Ferrari'."

The team, currently a Michelin customer, is evaluating a switch to Bridgestone. Mateschitz continued: "We aim for competItIveness.

Looking at Bridgestone's investment, resources and ambitions, I firmly believe they'll be very competitive In 2006. There are pros and cons but it's the Ferrari tyre, so we might have some synergies ."

A1 Team Portugal was launched last week In a lavish ceremony, featuring a firework and laser show, In the Centro Cultural de Selem in Lisbon. The Portuguese franchise for the 'World Cup of Motorsport' is held by three men fa mous in the sport of soccer: Real Madrid player Luis Figo, the national team coach Luis Felipe Scolan, and Carlos Oueiros, the assistant manager of Manchester United.

Three drivers were announced, namely former Lotus Formula 1 driver Pedro Lamy, Alvaro Parente, who races In the British Formula 3 series, and Joao Urbano, a front, run ner in the German Formula BMW ADAC championship.

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The 45-year-old engineer has vast experience designing F1 V8s . He joined Cosworth from the Rolls Royce Aero Engine company in 1984 and began working on the last Ford Cosworth turbo engines. The switch to normally-aspirated units in 1989 meant a new VB and, under the guidance of Cosworth's chief designer Geoff Goddard, Hayes became one of Cosworth' s top designers . He worked 0n a series of different VB engines leading up to the HB with which Michael Schumacher w on the F1 World Championship in 1994. These were followed by a V12 design study, the VB Zetec-R and the more recent Ford V1Os .

Hayes left Cosw orth last summer when th e company decided to shake-up its design team . · NASCAR engines are, of course, essentially not very

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different to the original shortblock VBs of the 195Os w hich have been developed to such an extent that findi ng more pow er is hard . This has mea nt that engine-builders have turned to inten sive micro-development inside the cylinder heads and thu s provided the need for NASCAR to find more engineering brain pow er.

In rec ent yea rs Cosworth has

been doing more NASCAR developme nt work; llmor has w orked closely w ith Roger Penske's team ; Ray Evernh am is sett ing up an engine business in Britain; and, in Ita ly, Hig h Performance Engineering, a company ru n by Piero Ferrari (Enzo's son) is now developing engines fo r one of t he NASCAR operat ions.

- JOE SAWARD

Heard of 'The Schumi Initiative' ? You can be sure that seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher has.

It is the informal name given to a new bill, now under preparation for consideration by the Swiss parliament, that is intended to close a loophole in the non-EU nation's tax laws allowing rich foreign residents individually to negotiate low rates of income tax.

Schumacher relocated In 1996 to t he canton of Waadt, near Geneva, to escape Germany 's 42 percent rate for high earners, and is reported to be paying only 4 percent 111 Switzerland. The bill is being drafted

by Social Democrat representative Suzanne Oberholzer.

"It can't be right for Michael Schumacher and about 3000 other foreign, nch residents of Switzerland to be free from normal income tax rules," said Oberholzer. "It's unfair to the Swiss people and to the people of neighbouring countries who must shoulder their fair share of financial obligations. He should pay his lair share like everyone else."

- QUENTIN SPURRING

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LARKHAM Orrcon Racing will race against the clock to repair Mark Winterbottom's Falcon in time for the Hidden Valley round of the VS Supercar Championship Series.

The car suffered substantial damage in the opening race in Shanghai when Winterbottom hit a dislodged grate on the GP circuit.

The 20kg metal gra te pierced the underside of the car, just missing the 24-year-old driver and punching a massive hole through the floor.

"Exiting turn five I took the normal racing line that runs right to the edge of the track and hit a drain grate that was sticking up.

"It made a huge thud inside the car, but I didn't feel the brunt of the impact as it lifted my car of the

A Fabulous Oppor tunity fantastic package," he sa id. " It does every thing you tell it to. The biggest advantages that I found were no ABS and t he new sequential gearbox. It's now more li ke a proper race car."

Coulthard will drive with the number 1 on the door as part of the Porsche factory team . His teammate for the

FABIAN Coulthard had his first taste of the new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car at Leipzig in Germany last week, in preparation for his one-off drive in the Porsche Michelin Supercup round at Silverstone in the UK on July 10.

The 22 year-old Kiwi native, who currently runs second in the Australian Carrera Cup championship, rates the new model Porsche as one of the best cars he has ever drive:.;n.;...__..._.,.

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meet ing will be Scot Peter Dumbreck. Dumbreck w as also present at the Leipzig test, the pair w ere separated by a small margin . Dumbreck fi nished the day with a 52 .24s, w hile Coulthard managed a 52 .3s.

The Silverstone round supports the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

- GRANT ROWLEY

- PHIL BRANAGAN

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New weapon: This is what Carrera Cup drivers will take into battle next year.

Coulthard will sample a similar car at Silverstone.

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ground," said Winterbottom.

"I knew it had done a fair bit of damage but it wasn't until we got the car back to the garage that I had a look back and saw how much damage was done inside the car."

The team estimates that the damage will cost $75,000 to repair.

The car was due to arrive back at Avalon Airport near Melbourne today (Wednesday) and be transported to the team's Gold Coast HQ as soon as the equipment could be cleared by Customs.

That means that the car will be in the Larkham shop on Friday, leaving nine days for repairs to be made before the trip to Darwin starts the following Sunday.

THE Formula Ford Association, along with the Ford Motor Company, will decide withln the next two weeks if wings will be introduced into Australia's number one openwheeler category in 2006.

Ford confirmed last September that the 36 year-old category would undergo a facelift in 2006, which included the additions of wings,

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Tom to Rugby?

TOM Walkinshaw. General Manager of Holden Motorsport, Is reportedly considering taking up a post as chairman of the Britain's Premier League rugby competition.

Walkinshaw Is a forme/ chairman of the league and Is currently the chairman of the Gloucester Rugby Club. British press have linked Walkinshaw to the chair as the successor to Charles Jillings, Who replaced Walkinshaw three years ago.

If ever proof was needed that NASCAR Is a fully-fledged, mainstream, booming sport in the US, the recent MTV Movie Awards were testament to the series' popularity.

One of the presenters, Adam Sandler of Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison fame, donned none other than a Kasey Kahne #9 Dodge cap for the occasion.

Hide and go seek (a grate): According to a leading daily newspaper, Winterbottom "escaped death." But Frosty and the offending grate later made up ...

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new engines and a beefed-up marketing push, but it seems likely that wings won't be seen on the cars until 2007, if at all.

"Ford want td go ahead with the plans," said FFord's Margaret Hardy.

"It seems a lot of people feel that it might not go ahead, and time is running out. TI1e longer it goes on the less likely it is going to happen next year."

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The appointment of Ford's new motorsport manager, Ross Booth, in March after the departure of Steven Kruk has slowed the process somewhat, but Ford remains keen for the ea tegor-y to undergo the facelift.

"The reason the formula has been so successful over the years is due to Ford's continued support and involvement. They want to see the category undergo the planned revamp.

"And AVESCO also looks favourably on the fact that one of their manufacturers is involved in another category close to the VB Supercars."

A decision on ,whether wings will be adopted to the series is expected within the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, Formula Ford is expecting delivery of the new 1.6 litre Fiesta engine in the coming months.

Sixty of the Lulits have been ordered from Germany and are

tipped to land down wider in lateAugust-Septernber. Already the majority of the engines have been spoken for by varioms teams.

TI1e Fiesta engine replaces the Kent powerplant whid1 has served the category since Formula Ford was first introduced to Australia in the late 60s.

Sebastien Loeb has a secret weapon in his arsenal that has given him the edge over the other WRC runners. However. it is not a new technical edge or the clearly superior M1chelins on his Citroen which have inspired the Alsacion to his fourthstraight WRC win.

Loeb revealed in Turkey that he has kept a now quite faded silver fern in his Citroen since winning the Rally of New Zealand in April.

"Maoris gave me the silver fern in New Zealand. It's still in the car, a bit faded, but it's still there and it will stay there for as long as we are winning," said Loeb.

Contrary to our race report last issue, Jim Richards was not fined for his part in an altercation with Fabian Coulthard in Race 2 of the WPS Carrera Cup Championship at Eastern Creek.

MNews apologises for any confusion the error may have caused.

The DTM may be considered a home for older, ex-F1 drivers, but its reputation wasn't helped by a number of drivers suttenng injuries at the recent Brno race.

Tom Kristensen fell off his mountain bike and suffered gravel rash on his arm and back, Matthias Ekstrom sprained his ankle when he fell down stairs and Jean Alesi spent the weekend complaining of back pain. Hard life, isn't it !

Former Tennis player Hans Simonsen, a former doubles partner of Anders Jaryd, gave the Super 2000-spec Mercedes C Class its race debut at Gellerasen In Sweden recently. The car finished 12th, 30 seconds adrih of the winner - STAFF/DAVID ADDISON

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THE Australian Grand Prix might still be 10 months away, but the scramble is already on to fill one of the coveted support slots.

Several categories - more than can be accommodated - have already applied to be on the support bill for next year's event. All of the series that appeared at Albert Park this year have reportedly expressed an interest in returning to next year's GP, while Aussie Racing Cars and Formula Ford have also enquired about joining the show. Of the series to have shown interest, it appears likely at this early stage that Formula Ford could reappear on the GP bill in 2005, possibly at the expense of Formula 3, which ran at Albert Park for the first time this year.

Re ind ler Joi ns AD R

KARL Reindler is set to make his British Formula 3 Championship debut next month.

The 2004 Australian F3 Champion will join Alan Docking Racing, making him the latest in a long line of Australians to have driven for the team.

Mark Webber, Marcos Ambrose, Will Davison and Will Power have all raced under the ADR banner.

Reindler joins the team as a replacement to the financially-challenged Susie Stoddart, who announced last month that she would not be

continuing in the series. The West Australian flew to the UK to begin testing with the team this week, and will travel to Monza for his first race on July 10. He plans to remain in Europe to contend the remainder of the championship .

The deal marks the beginning of what could be a busy period for Reindler, whose name has also been linked to a test with Australia's A 1 GP team in a few weeks.

- MARK GLENDENNING

Holds SMITH'S Trucks Racing will make its return to the HPDC VS Supercar Championship at Eastern Creek on July 10.

Lee Holdsworth, who drove the car in the entire Development championship last year, will take duties behind the wheel of the Commodore VY, while also juggling his commitment to the Formula Ford series which is running on the same weekend.

'Tm stoked to be getting back into the VS," Holdsworth told MNews on Monday.

Holdsworth and the Rob Smithowned team will take the VY Commodore to Win ton Raceway in a weeks time for a test before embarking on Eastern Creek.

Holdswprth said that they plan to iron out some set-up issues they've experienced with the converted car, as it has only complete minimal laps.

"The thing we want to try and do

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Brett looses tail PRIOR to eliminations at the Willowbank Winternat1onals, Brett Stevens was the recipient of the most expensive haircut ever seen at a race track.

Stevens gave up his trademark ponytail for a good cause after raising $100,000 dollars for the Kids with Cancer Foundation. MNews congratulates Stevens, and all who donated to the worthy cause. The big question though, what is happening with the hair? Stevens is sentimentally attached to his old locks, so don't expect to see It on eBay anytime soon .

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is sort out the car. We haven't really done any testing with it. We did half a day last year in the rain and I've only done 20 or 30 laps in total. The actual car hasn't done too much."

The Smith's team are also trying to get a leading VB SupeFcar driver to help them out during their test to get a base' set-up.

Holdsworth won the reverse grid race at Eastern Creek in last year's series.

The VB drive shouldn't affect his Formula Ford hopes though. After a trying start to the year, Holdsworth has come to grips with the openwheeler and finished fifth in the third race at Eastern Creek.

"I un<derstand the car a little bit better now. The main thing is you qualify well and stick witl1 the lead bunch. Once you've lost the lead bunch, it's difficult to stay with them, but I'm getting the hang of it now."

- GRANT ROWLEY

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A third Team Halfords Honda lntegra could be seen in the BTCC before long. Steve Neal's Team Dynamics squad Is building a third car and aims to put Steve's son Matt in the car, which would free up Neal's existing car for Gareth Howell.

The Brit last raced in the BTCC in 2003, driving a Vauxhall Astra for Team Dynamics, and will only race this year if funds are available. Team Dynamics has also been linked to a WTCC programme for next season and is looking at running Aston Martins in GT racing.

Ford has pulled its Focus Super 2000 racecars from the Mexican round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the end of this month, in favour of an urgently needed test and development programme.

The front-drive Focus, two of which are operated with works support by Team Ford Hotf1el Sport out of Kirchlengern, Germany. has failed to impress so far in the WTCC against the Alfa Romeo 156, the BMW 320i and the SEAT Toledo, and has often been one second slower in the hands of Thomas Klenke and Thomas Jager.

The 'flyaway' (ED: the WTCC seafreight, so last year) tnp to Puebla means that the cars will be away for more than six weeks.

"At this stage, it's better to spend two months testing than going to Mexico," said Ford Team RS principal Jost Capito. "Based on the experience of the first races, the team has understood the areas for improvement and will execute intensive dyno and track tests before the next European events ,n Spa "

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Highs and almosts

WILL Po\ver has finished with a third and a DNF in Round 3 of the World Series by Renault Series, coming painfully close to securing a double podium result.

The Carlin Motorsport driver was shunted out of Race 2 while running third.

"Getting a podium in Race 1 was just what I needed to keep me in the championship hunt and I was just ~ g for points in the second race, said Power.

"I didn't actually know I was in third when I was hit until I got back to the pits. But my podium means it wasn't a wasted weekend and I got some much-needed points."

Highs and Patrizi and Davison fast in Formula BMW, but luck only with one

AUSTRALIAN drivers have excelled recently in Formula BMW Championships around the world.

Michael Patrizi finshed on the podium at both Rounds 5 and 6 of the Formula BMW Asia series, held at the 2.4km Bira circuit in Thailand last weekend.

Patriz, above right, qualified on pole for the first race, but after I1.11111lli1g wide and losing his car's skid pan on a kerb, the West Australian dropped back to second. A late attempt to retake the lead was thwarted by a lapped car.

In Race 2, Patrizi started from third and, despite applying pressure to the ultra-defensive car occupying second, settled for third.

"Instead of crashing and getting no

points, I sat in third waiting for a clear opportunity," said Patrizi.

"That never came, but 1 was safely third, which is what I needed to get a strong points haul for the weekend."

"Overall, I am quite happy ab0ut this weekend's work. Although I am still sixth in the points, I have closed the gap to the leader. So next round I will be aiming at another big poililts haul."

JAMES Davison also showed strong pace by qualifying sec.ond for both races in the Formula BMW USA series, on the support card for the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix.

However, late in tlie second qualifying session, DavisOF1 was clipped by a slower caF, sending his

Back on top DEFENDING DTM Champion Mattias Ekstrom has risen to the top of the championship standings after a commanding win in Round 4 at Bmo in the Czech Republic.

After the recent domination of Mercedes-Benz, Audi struck back, with Ekstrom being joined by fellow four-rings driver Tom Kristensen on the podium, with the Dane finishing second. Audi A4s filled five of the eight points-earning places, with Christian Abt, Allan McNish and Frank Stippler finishing sixth to eighth respectively.

The win was especially pleasing for Ekstrom, above leading Kristensen, as it is the firs t for the new A4.

"We have worked hard to achieve this first victory for the new Audi A4 DTM," said Ekstrom. "That we

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last year, is a particularly nice feeling."

The race was truown irlto confusion at the start when polesitter and Mercedes young gun Gary Paffett jumped extremely early at the start.

"The jump start was my mistake," said the Brit. "Although I didn't benefit from it, it was correct to penalise me. My mistake cost us a podium finisln. But b>y finishing fourth and scoring five points, we succeeded in cutting our losses."

Third place went to Heiriz-Harold Frentzei:i, his fiFst DTM podium and Opel's first podium for its final season in the DTM. Points: Ekstrom 27, Paffett 24, Hakkinen 17, Alesi 17.

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Yvan wants out YVAN Muller is eyeing a move to the

wrcc. The Frenchman was at lmola

two weeks ago and is keen to move into the series for next year having raced in the UK since 1998. Vauxhall has admitted it would like to talk to Muller about next year but is waiting for its 2006 programme to be confirmed.

Kiwi Rob Wilson will tackle his third Le Mans 24 Hours by driving for Rob Schirle's Cirtek Motorsport team at La Sarthe this year. French veteran Francois Migault will drive his 26th Le Mans 24 Hours.

car into the wall at speed. :, Davison was shaken and basically unharmed, but his car's tub was cracked and he was sidelined for the weekend. " This was an excellent opportunity to win, but it's all down the drain," said Davison. " I will put this behind me and be mighty determined to win at Indy next week. "

The war of words between Jason Plato and Yvan Muller continued at the BTCC Brands Hatch races, Muller again complained about Plato's driving tactics.

"Each race Plato has done he has proved that he can not overtake without crashing into people . Maybe he is right to do it because he is never penalised for it." Plato said: " I am not going to respond because I don 't need to." Oooh, the drama!

NATHAN Antunes had a less impressive weekend at the latest round of the Formula BMW UK Championship.

Antunes finished ninth and 11th at the latest round at the Brands i-ra tch Indy circuit last week.

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MATT Neal and Yvan Muller shared the wins at Round 3 of the British Touring Car Championship at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit two weeks ago.

Neal won Races 1 and 2 in his Honda lntegra to take the championship lead from teammate Dan Eaves, while Muller captured the Race 3 win, holding off Eaves and James Kaye.

Points: Neal 110, Eaves 103, Muller 99, Jason Plato 74, Colin Turkington 58.

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Night racing with single-seaters is a real rarity, but TV logistics might lead the new A1 Grand Prix series to include a few 'World Cup of Motorsport' races under floodlights in the future.

Currently all 12 fixtures for the inaugural 2005-06 championship are scheduled for afternoons but nine events will be held outside Europe, which is a key TV market for the promoters. Night racing would bnng the possibility of live coverage in Europe.

"Night racing could be an option.

It can bring that extra element of excitement and, if any promoter came to us with a proposal, we'd look at it seriously. " - SPURRING/ ADDISON

The Blue Mile

PAUL Tracy's successful career al the Milwaukee Mile continued two weeks ago when the Canadian won his fourth Champ Car race al the famed venue.

Tracy only managed to qualify in fifth, but was able to get to second on the opening lap, and after a lap run side-by-side with polesitter Jimmy Vasser, the Canadian took the lead and proceeded to dominate the race.

RuSport's AJ Allmendinger was second at the Saturday afternoon race, ahead of Oriol Servia and the second RuSport car of Justin Wilson, who now lies second in the points.

Spaniard Servia had a strong race filling in for the injured Bruno Junqueira, showing Newman / Haas

Racing that he deserves to fill the Pacificare car for the rest of the season. The team's second driver Sebastien Bourdais was sixth, after losing a lap when serving a drivethrough penalty for pit lane speeding.

Rockets ports again had a painful experience at the Mile, with Ryan Hunter-Reay backing his car hard into the wall. Spinal scans later clear the young American of serious injury.

Team Australia's Alex Tagliani and Marcus Marshall both struggled with poor handling at the team's first oval race, but both drivers finished with points, in 10th and 13th respectively.

- PHIL MORRIS

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Dope Done NASCAR has suspended Busch Series driver Shane Hmiel, 24, indefinitely for substance abuse.

Hmiel, below, had previous!Y been suspended at the end of 2003 for four months for the same violation. Had his father not been one of the most respected team members in the garage area - currently he's the interim crew chief for Dale Earnhardt Jr. - Shane may not have been back on track, but this time around most think he has sealed his own fate.

Hmiel was tested following qualifying at Charlotte on May 27 and Hmiel and team owner Todd Braun were nmified of the result at Dover on June 2, where Hmiel was escorted from the garage area.

NASCAR's policy was introduced in 1998 and states drivers and team members can be tested under reasonable suspicion. NASCAR's policy is not to divulge the type of substance detected.

- MARTIN D CLARK

GREG Biffle took his fourth win of the year at the one mile Dover Speedway two weeks ago, dominating the event and closing on point leader Jimmie Johnson.

Biffle demonstrated incredible car control to pass Ryan Newman with his Roush Taurus completely sideways, just as we've seen him on many occasions this year. He lost the skill after the chequers fell, backing his Ford into the wall while completing celebratory doughnuts.

For the second week in succession Jeff Gordon was involved in a wreck, this time when Tony Stewart bumped him.

"He flat out hit me," remarked

CARL Edwards took the same car he won with in Atlanta and in just his 27th Cup race gave Roush Racing its first win at Pocono on Sunday over fellow youngster Brian Vickers. ''I'm really surprised," said Edwards of his win .

"I'd never seen the place until I drove through the tunnel a couple of days ago, but it's so cool. My pit crew performed flawlessly today. I have to than k Brian Vickers. He raced me great all day, I had a blast!"

Polesitter Michael Waltrip lead the first 29 circuits before Vickers took the lead under pit stops for the f irst caution .

Edwards took the point from Vickers with 60 laps to run only for Vickers again to be first off pit road, but the pair wou ld swap the point once more this time for good.

With six laps to run Ryan Newman was the last of eight drivers to cut a left front tyre, bringing out the caution flag and setting up a two lap shoot-out, but whe n Bobby Labonte hit the wall w ith one lap to run the race ended under yellows .

NASCAR's new-for-2005 mandated rea r differential ratio rules kept drivers from shifting into an overdrive . Many had predicted a boring race, with little passing and it turned out to be somewhat true with little ontrack overtaking, particularly for the lead and much slower speeds than previously seen at the 2.5 mile triangular track .

Gordon. "I just think it's uncalled for - I thought I had a little more respect for Tony Stewart than that. I guarantee the next time he's in my way it won't take but a half a lap for him to be out of my way."

Stewart countered Gordon's remarks post race: ''Jeff Gordon's always whining like that. If somebody's done something to him it's always their fault, that's just Jeff."

"But that's fine. We can get in a car crashing war - it doesn't matter to me. All he had to do was move over and let us go. 20 laps later if he was faster than me, we'd have let him go right back by."

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JON Wood, the 23--year-old son of team owner Eddie Wood, is apparently in the running to replace Mark Martin at the wheel of the number six Ford in 2006.

Wood is under contract with Roush Racing, but has driven for ST Motorsports on a loan program this season. Wood is currently 13th in series points with two top 10 results.

Hermie Sadler resigned as the driver tor Peak Performance Motorsports post-Dover. The team has attempted to run every race in 2005 and will continue its efforts with independent veteran short track driver Mike Garvey at the wheel for the remainder of the season. Garvey has ran three races thus far in used Bill Davis Racing Dodges.

Turn 3 in one move. He was rewarded with a fourth placing .

Left front tyres were a big issue during the race . Many drivers were caught multiple times, including Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Scott Riggs, Ricky Rudd, while Kurt Busch who qualified second but started at the rear due to brake issues and Kasey Kahne both had tyres issues and spun, the tyre problem likely occurred by drivers hitting the inner corner

rumble strip. Previous w eeks w inner Greg Biffle also had issues, his rear brake pads w ore totally out w hile Kevin Lepage also lost his bra kes causing him to give the outside w all a hefty lick.

Bittle slipped to 119 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson who had a ho-hum day in seventh, w hile his Hendrick stable mate Jeff Gordon finished ninth after starting at the rear when he hit the w all in

qualifying, necessitating repairs and a rear starting spot w ith the new impound rules being used at Pocono.

- MARTIN D CLARK Final Result: Edwards (Ford), Vickers (Chevy), Nemechek (Chevy), Kyle Busch (Chevy), Martin (Ford), Waltrip (Chevy), Johnson (Chevy), Harvick (Chevy), J Gordon (Chevy), Wallace (Dodge).

Points: Johnson 2058, Biffle 1939, Sadler 1781, Edwards 1759, Martin 1743, Newman 1733, Wallace 1718, Harvick 1715, J Gordon 1700, Stewart 1682.

Mike Ford, who recently left Robert Yates Racing, has surfaced at Joe Gibbs Racing as the new crew ch ief for Jason Leffler's struggling FedEx sponsored team.

Ford replaces Dave Rogers, who has been with Gibbs since 1998.

Ford previously worked as a crew chief at Evernham Motorsports.

Inside sources at Dale Earnhardt Inc. say Matt Kenseth's crew chief Robbie Reiser was spotted at their facility recently. Could he be Dale Junior's future crew chief?

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By winning the latest round, Pedrosa became the first Spaniard to win a 250cc Grand Prix at the Barcelona track, inheriting the lead after a woeful start when Randy de Puniet fell on lap 2.

Australian Casey Stoner, above on the Barcelona podium with Pedrosa, was second, an improvement on the fourth place he earned a week earlier at Mugello. At the qwck Italian venue, Stoner's Aprilia W!1S no match in horsepower, but such is the young Aussie's composure these days, that he rode a superb race to collect fourth.

Andrea Dovizioso was third at Barcelona, stengthening his position with Pedrosa and Stoner at the top of the points standings as others fall by the wayside. One such casualty is Jorge Lorenzo, who crashed at Barcelona while in the lead pack resulted in a double fracture to his collarbone.

Points: Pedrosa 123, Stoner 96, Dovizioso 93, Aoyama 58, De Angelis 56, Lorenzo 54.

MATTIA Pasini has snatched victory at Barcelona to score his second win of the season.

The week prior at Mugello, Gabor Talmacsi was gifted victory when Mika Kallio and Hector Faubel fell at the final comer.

Points: Pasini 84, Luthi 83, Kallio 82, Talmacsi 75, Simoncelli 72, Lai 63.

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WHETHER it be in front of his home crowd in Italy, or that of his rival Sete Gibernau in Spain, Valentino Rossi has control of the 2005 MotoGP Championship.

Rossi was victorious at the Italian GP at the fast and flowing Mugello two weeks ago, followed up by his stunning victory in the Catalan GP at the Barcelona circuit last weekend.

On both occasions, Rossi had been enveloped in a dice with two Honda riders, but was able to dispose of his opponents at will.

At Barcelona, it was the Movistar Hondas of Marco Melandri and Gibernau that rode Rossi all the way to the flag, with Gibernau taking a much needed second, and Melandri third.

The round prior, Melandri was joined by factory Repsol HRC rider Max Biaggi in challenging 'the Doctor', but was again left in the wake of the Gaulioses Yamaha .

The Mugello round also marked the return to form of Ducati, with Loris Capirossi grabbing third in front on the team's home ground.

Biaggi 's second in Mugello was pointed to by Honda as the resurgence of the factory team to challenge the might of the Rossi-Yamaha combination, but the satelite Movistar outfit is still

where Rossi 's main competition continues to be .

Young Italian Melandri is rising in stature as Honda's main man.

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and non-finish at Mugello to claw back some points by finishing second in front of his home-town fans at Barcelona .

But for Rossi, Mugello and Barcelona were a similar story come race's end, he had the speed to keep the #46 at the front.

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WILL be always grateful to the late night street sellers of The Bund, a downtown Shanghai tourist region that bristles with nightlife, bright lights and, 24 hours a day, more people than you can possibly imagine.

You would never pick the area as being the heartbeat of the world's biggest communist nation . OK. we were a little hard to miss. your editor tending to tower over the locals and Dirk Klynsmith packing a camera worth more than the cab that took us there (a 20-minute journey that cost $4) but the street vendors made a beeline for us anyway.

Lots of things w ere available; kites, lights. pens and watches. in all brands and varieties . Until I lobbed in The Bund, I was unaware that I could trade up from my faithful $500 Citizen Chronograph to a local (Insert Luxury Brand Here) at 10 percent of that price .

"No " seemed to be the hardest w ord. The people of the Peoples Republic give communism a bad name and, on these appearances alone, are as capitalist as anyone in the world .

things are true. The true standard of whether the vefltu re w ill be a tick or a cross in the giant scheme of things w ill be felt somet ime in the future.

People will still make their own Judgements. good or bad. and that is fine, that is the•r right.But my view is that Australian standards cannot be applied to a Chinese event. With a recorded history far longer than ours, and an utterly different pol itical system . shortterm gains or benefits are not uppermost in the m inds of those who make the decisions.

For better or w o rse. they do not face re-el ection next yea r; they do not have to experi ence the jabs of th e oppo sition or the scrutiny of the press. so decis ions can afford to be made w ith a long-term view in mind.

"We al w ays play catch-up in our country, " mused a thoughtful Ron Harrop as w e shared a bus on an almost deserted four-lane freew ay.

"This [road] has been built to accommodate w hat com es

nex t."

The Shanghai International Circuit is almost 70km from the city and is, in a sense similar to the notion that Queen sland here will be reports soon , Racew ay does not have houses there may have been already on its doorstep, in the middle of - that V8 Supercar's venture into nowhere. In a decade, there should be people living on the the Real World has been a edge of the tra ck. w hich is by success/a failure/a disaster/a then likely to be a thriving w aste of time .

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Th e talk in Beijing and Can berra is that soon. quite soon, ou r two nat ions will share a Free Trade Agreement. Goods. services, capital and even people wi ll be able t o transfer between Au stralia an d Ch ina with more fre edom t han is currently possible .

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And thus the name of the promoter Normand Legault was being spat out by over-heated journalists all weekend. 'Norman The Goat' as he is now unaffection ately known, was not the most popular man around.

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ilverstone and 1 onza have had to invest fortunes to get traffic to flow and journalists to feel warm about t he place. We felt far too warm about Montreal this year and looked forward to an Indian Grand Prix, as the Black Hole_of Calcutta would have been positively delightful compared to the Press Office in Montreal.

It was highly dangerous to mention traffic flow to some of the F1 circus who took hours to get onto the island. And then, of course, the track fell apart on Friday and they had to treat the surface to make sure it would still be there on race day ...

But there was one place in the

F1 paddock where the heat wave did not penetrate at all: the BMW.Williams area was the coolest place around, as the relationship between the Williams team and Dr Mario Theissen, the boss of the BMW Motorsport , has become decidedly glacial. When one visited the BMW.Williams area the atmosphere was so chilled that one might have been riding an iceberg.

This rather sad situation has been developing for a couple of years and the anger has now bubbled over. with Patrick Head launching a verbal attack on Theissen. Head says that for years now 'Super Mano' has

been taking the credit for wins and blaming Williams for defeats. The BMW F1 programme has become a personal vehicle for his lofty ambitions. Well. that is the theory at least.

Theissen's plan is for BMW to go it alone by buying the Sauber team. For the cynics in Formula 1, the Theissen Plan makes about as much sense as buying an iceberg and trying to tow it to a desert and in F1 circles it is hard to find anyone who thinks that Sauber will be better than Williams in anything other than the long, long, long term and that switching horses will mean that BMW will condemn itself to a very long haul.

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h well. Logic is not always the way th ings are done in Formula 1. It is a bizarre world sometimes.

But then again I love bizarre things . As regular readers of the column wi ll know I have a particular passion for strange and weird books and I have been in a sort of competition with one of my old mates to see who can find the world 's most ridiculous book .

I thought I had w on the game when , after 1O years searching, I finally acquired a book on the history of the world 's first multistorey car park . But I have to admit that my mate trumped that with a book called ' Iceberg Uti lization ' which reported on

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the first international conference dedicated to transporting icebergs from Antartica to Saudi Arabia . This was held in Ames, Iowa (of all places) back in 1977 and boasted no less a figure than HRH Prince Mohamad alFaisal as one of the delegates, in his role as president of Iceberg Transport International Ltd .

This magnificent work kept me amused fo r a good half an hour, during which I discovered such fascinat ing facts as how it is decided w ho owns an iceberg and indeed w hether one can be tri ed for a murder committed on an iceberg (the answer is ye s and there is a legal prece dent l) ... all of w hich brings me back to

the relationship between Williams and BMW. The current kerfuffle is a fight to the death. If BMW decides to say no to the Theissen Plan and stick with Williams, the team Is going to want a new director for BMW Motorsport. It BMW says yes then Williams w ill split and, rumour has it, do a deal w ith Toyota to run Lexus-branded engines.

That w ould be a double whammy for BMW because In addition to losing W illiam s and dropping down the F1 grid next year, BMW w ould also have handed Toyota a w eapon with w hich to hu rt BMW ca r sa les around the world (Lexus Is ai med at takin g the BMW

market aw ay f~om BMW! The stakes are high because. if Theissen fails. he is likely 'C end up selling M ,n1s In PapLia Ne w Gu1'lea Ult;r;,ate\• the Oest SOIUt!Of' w ould probably be to keep tf:e Wil liarn s-BM\ V relationship going !t Is a good brand but the relationships are too stra,r:ed tc repai r. The message t,.,a, cam e out of Patrick Head's cor1fTlents Is that the partrership car be saved - but oniy if The1sse"i ,s noi there The question no,v Is v:hether the BMW board w1ii listen tc' Head er p... rn a:x,ard T"le -se , s 0t=•sor1al rccbtn:i a"d rea:l ~'"' tO'.·,•ards a g,c,· OJS ft.':.J'e

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Jason and Jamie

Dodo Racing made a real impression in China, with Jason Richards and Jamie Whincup both making some of the bigger teams look slow. PHIL BRANAGAN caught up with the Dodos after the chequer MOTORSPORT NEWS: Your best result in V8 Supercar racing . This must be a pleasing result for you?

JAMIE WHINCUP: Absolutely.

The team is thrilled . We have been working hard over the last four months to develop the cars and we have been getting them quicker but we have not had the result. This is a reward for the hard work that has been put in by everyone in the team.

MN: How similar are the driving styles of you two?

JW: Extremely similar. We do our debriefs together and we· almost always are able to help each other out.

Here, for example, both of the cars have been quick all weekend; they went quick over a lap, they saved their tyres and they were quick at the end of the races. I think that comes from us two being a good team, within a good team environment. I can see that it is only going to get better from here on in .

MN: Jason, you are the more experienced partner in this relationship. Are you a little surprised at how quickly it seems to have gelled?

JASON RICHARDS : For sure . At the start of the year we ha(:l fast cars but we had all kinds of little problems that stopped us from showing that. This weekend was an example of that; my car was fast but I had some problems, and it was Jamie that got the result.

Throughout the year, as w e have worked together we have gelled as a team . As that happens, I believe that the bad luck that w e have, or the thing s that get in the way of the results, will go away.

I am not surprised at all . We have had car speed for a few rounds now but we have not had

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the result. For him to get the result is fantastic. Yesterday (Saturday) there w ere two teams that had both cars in the top 1O; we were one of them and that is a great achievement. · MN: Qualifying speed is usually what teams get last. Is that the case here, Jamie?

JW: Not this weekend! If you have a fast car, there is no reason w hy it cannot be fast all wee kend .

We were pretty quick in qualifying. We used all the tyres and that hurt us for the shoot-out, so that was tough . The chailenge is to quickly get the car to be quick and then to ta ke the time to tune the car for the race. We endeavour to do that at every track w e go to; the diffe rence th is wee kend is that w e have done it.

MN: Has your role changed, Jason? You have not necessarily been in the position in the past of being the more experienced driver in a team.

JR: No, not really. I guess I have a little more experience than Jamie but [Jason's engi neer] Wally [Storey] has a little more

experience t han most people in the team w ith VS Supercars .

Some w eeken ds, we wi ll lead the way in set-up and other weekends, Jamie and Rob [Palermo, Jamie's engineer] w ill lead the w ay on set-up. That is the beauty of having tw o cars, that is the beauty of having tw o drivers w ho are similar and our t hree enginee rs have quite different thought patterns . We can uti lise each other's information and move forward as a team, rather than tw o individual cars w orking from the same shop.

small teams can be quite successful and that happens because you can get on top of things a little quicker. It does have its headaches, w it h extra workload and so on, and we a e suffering a little at the momenL w ith a lack of pitstop practice.

The teams at the top can afford to practice all the time, they can have spare ca rs to practice on and we have to make the best of it. We have areas w here we know we need to im prove. As t he year goes on, w e w ill get in front of the program and improve that area.

MN: So, and be honest, what is Jamie better at than you?

JR: Pulling girls!

MN: This must be you favourite t rack in the w orld now Jamie!

JW: I woul d be a bit biased now I Every t rack that you go well on is a good one.

The fac ility is unbelievable. I just hope that we can come back here and do just as good.

Back on what Jason just said, the mai;iagement of Tasman Motorsport put a clear plan in place at the start of the year. We are working to that plan and trying to put the Dodo Racing Team on the map. We are on the way to achieving that.

MN: And him?

JW: Golf ! Look, all that depends on the day. Whether it is a test, qualifying or a race, it goes up and down .

MN: This team seems to be a solid unit; smart owners, good engineers, no real superstars.

Is that impression accurate?

JR : Definitely. Everyone says that t his is ha rd work and that is no different in a small team . But

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Jarno Trulli

Six months after his unhappy departure from Renault, Jarno Trulli'is encouraged by what he has seen from his new employers at Toyota. He spoke to MARK GLENDENNING MOTORSPORT NEWS: You've been in a potential podium position for the last three races, yet have been thwarted each time by problems. It must be getting frustrating?

JARNO TRULLI: It was a real pity for me and the team. We were looking quite good and all set for the podium when I suffered a brake failure.

The brakes had been fine up to that point and there was no wear problem, it was just a failure. It's disappointing to lose out on three podiums in three races, but that's motor racing .

MN: You have been through a lot of teams in the last few years. Do you feel like you have found a home at Toyota?

JT: I am happy here. All I can say is that I am working well and I and confident in this team. I hope I have found a team that I can win the championship with in the future.

MN: It seems to be bringing out something extra from you this year. You have always · been fast, but this year you have been fast at every race.

JT: I think it is fair to say that I have been quite competitive everywhere. But we also have to say that the team has done a generally fantastic job up until now, it's putting 100 percent into the car every Grand Prix weekend.

But we have had some missing rival's since the beginning of the season, and also the season is very long. So it is a bit to early now to say that Toyota is on top. But we can say that up until now, all of us have done a very, very good job. We are all very happy about that.

MN: Were you surprised at how competitive the car was straight out of the box in Melbourne?

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like a bulldog! But he is a nice person . He just tries to get the best person out of yourself. He is always pushing people, motivating, and just trying to get the best out of everything . He has done a fantastic job, and a lot of our results come because of him.

"It's true, I think that Mike Gascoyne is like a bulldog! But he is a nice person."

- Trulli on Toyota's pint-sized but firey Technical Director

JT: Yeah, we were all amazed by how we did start the season. We didn't expect to be so good, ·so it was a good surprise.

MN: It has been said of you in the past that you need the right sort of team environment around you for you to flourish ...

JT: I thin k that with every driver it is the same thing . Every driver wants a good ambience, a good atmosphere, around him.

That is the case for me, and it is the case for every driver. Here, I am working well - no fighting, just working. A lot of work. The people are committed and focused on their jobs, they give me what I want, and I am giving them back what they want results.

MN: Toyota is similar to Ferrari in that it has everything under the one roof. How does that change things?

JT: It is a huge difference, but it has positive and also the negative sides .

The positive is that having it all under one roof makes the job much more comfortable in terms of assembling the stuff, producing stuff, designing, everything . But on the other hand, it is very, very tough for such a big team to handle everything together. So, as for everything, there are the positive and the negative sides.

MN: It is a huge contrast to Renault, where you had the engine and chassis programmes operating out of different countries.

JT: Well basically, all of them thought that they were each other's supplier, so there was not such a good atmosphere (chuckles).

MN: Mike Gascoyne has a reputation for being very forceful in the way that he deals with people - he is nicknamed The Bulldog. How have you coped with that aspect of his personality?

JT: I think it is true; I think he is

MN: How different was it going into a team where both of the drivers were new, as opposed to one where the other guy has been there for a couple of seasons?

JT: I think that w hen both are new it's good in some ways, and bad in others . It's good because they are both starting from zero, they are both very keen to learn from each other, and they have very open minds.

But the negative is that if there is something good in the team, one driver can exploit it better, in a way, than the other driver. But given the results that Toyota has had, it is better to have two new drivers at the moment.

MN: How is fatherhood treating you?

JT: I don 't know, it is too early! It has been two months, and a lot of those days I have been away.

It is nice to be a Dad, and it gives me a boost to bring some cup back home, some trophy back home to my son. It was nice to be on the podium in Barcelona, because it w as my first ever podium as a Dad, and I hope that some more are going to come in the future. I am sure that life is goir,ig to change as soon as the baby is grown up and starts walking.

MN: You are still managing to sleep?

JT: Normally I have an extra room! At the Grand Prix weekend I have to race, I have to be focused . I don 't want to take any risks .

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Morwell ,to Norwell

NOW 37, Morris grew up in the same part of Victoria as Jason Bright before the family moved north to the Gold Coast and Dad Terry made some shrewd business moves and investments.

After kicking off in Geminis (1987) and Formula Ford, Paul got involved with the w hole Fran k Gardner/Tony Longhurst BMW thing in '92 and never looked back.

PAUL cEPRN1cH:

Well-placed to make the most of SJuper Tou ring, during its brfef Aussie life (1994 2000), Morris w on four titles and the 1999 Super Tourer Bathurst 500.

He too k 1998 off to contest the Indy Lights series in the US. As Super .

Touring faded, evolved a VB Supercar team - biggest result to date, 1st (Calder, 2001 ).

Biggest ' hit' to date, the fiery shunt at Oran Park (2000) .

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BORN in Johannesberg, Ceprnich studied engineering on a BMW bursary, t_hen went onto be technical director at BMW Motorsport (SA) for four years ('93-'96).

He then spent a year with BMW Motorsport Australia, before moving to data and design position at Schnitzer BMW (German Touring Car Championship 1998).

In 1998, he took on a one-off

engineer/strategist role w ith SBR at Bathurst that year - Bright/Richards w on.

He w as then based at Williams in UK as 'link' betw een BMW and Williams for the 1999 BMW Schnitzer Le Mans project (Dalmas/ Martini/Win kelhock w on the race) .

With SBR for 2000 (Craig Baird), but moved to Paul Morris Motorsport as Technical Manager in 2001 .

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MOTORSPORT NEWS: You are a couple of months into your role with BAR. Is this the sort of thing your saw yourself doing when you hung up the helmet?

GIL DE FERRAN: It is, because when I stopped racing, contrary to popular belief I had no desire to go off on a holiday on a beach somewhere! (laughs).

I felt that while I was racing, I didn't really burn out as such, I felt that I had good balance in my life between my working life and my family life and so forth. I just felt that I wanted a different challenge . Do you see what I mean? And I guess ideally, I wanted to find something where I could put to good use 20-odd years of racing experience in a different manner, apart from sitting behind the wheel.

I had no intention of totally walking away from the sport. It seemed natural to me to get back involved in it in a different shape or form, because really, that's what I know.

MN: When you were driving, did you spend much time thinking about what you were going to do when it was all over7 GDF: Some people do, some people don'.t. I didn't. And I purposely didn't.

Some people make these nice, tidy plans for their retirement; you know, they start different businesses and so forth

and get involved in dl~ferent things in advance of their retirement. And it sometimes seems to work quite well.

I didn't play it like that at all.

The way I looked at it, I said, look, I am a race car driver, I need to focus 100 percent on trying to become the best race car driver that I can be, and one sunny day - probably rainy, actually! - one rainy day I'm going to decide to stop and I am going to start again some other time. And that's how I played it.

MN: In this new job you have to get a feel for how the team works and how everybody relates to each other before you can start to move forward. How 'long does that all take?

GDF: I think it would really take me most of the year. You know, I think the worst thing I could do right now is walk in here with both feet and start banging my fists on the table. I'd never do that anyway, it's not my style!

But I guess the worst thing I could do is disrupt a good operation, what is essentially a good operation. I am just getting a lay of the land, getting an understanding of how people operate, and who does what, and so on and so forth.

Hopefully, slowly over time, my contribution will increase.

MN: I suppose it is dangerous to come in early and make

sweeping changes. Something might look like it needs to be fixed, but if you blast in and change it you disrupt the balance of some other part of the team ...

GDF: Yeah. That's where the experience comes in. And that's why one has to be careful when you walk into a new situation.

I'm fully aware of that, you know, that by making a dozen changes, or changes that are not fully thought through, you may actually create a greater problem. And that goes without saying.

MN: Are there any differences in the way you go racing here as opposed to the way you go racing in the States, or is it all just 'racing'?

GDF: Certain things are different, certain things are the same.

You know, it's remarkable that some routines that you go through in a weekend are a straight translation, and racing, at the end of the day ... they have diHerent peculiarities. The races themselves are slightly different in terms of strategy and so forth, but the whole sort of spirit about racing is very similar.

The paddock ... well one has a more European feel and one has a more American feel.

Ml)J: How about Honda, because you have been involved with them on both

sides of the Atlantic now7 GDF: Honda is Honda! (laughs).

This relentless pursuit of perfection that they had back in lndyCar, they still hold that spirit up here.

MN: You had a pretty tough initiation to the job (De Ferran starts nodding). Starting with the two-race ban, how hard was it to walk into something like that7 GDF: Very difficult. ·I would say that throughout my racing career I w as schooled in how to best deal with disappointments and move on, you know? Because as a race car driver, yow are, I thin k by definition, going to go home disappointed more often than not.

Having that ability to close one chapter and then start another one without having this thing bouncing on your head and affecting your performance, is something that you learn how to do the hard w ay.

It is a matter of survival , almost. And I think that apprenticeship has served me well during this situation. Of course w e were all very disappointed and sad abot:1t everything, and about not doing two races. But as soon as that decision was final, I w as like, OK. Done. What can w e do next?' It is about the future . continued on page 38

Just weeks into his new job as BAR-Honda's Sporting Director, Gil De Ferran had to contend with a two-race ban and uncertainty over the team's chances of keeping it's lead driver beyond this season. It was a tough initiation, but the former Indy 500 .winner and two-time CART champion told MARK GLENDENNING that he hadn't expected anything less

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MN: It must have been hard for you personally though, because it came right at the point where you were just 1 starting to settle into the team.

GDF: Yeah, for sure. There is no doubt about that. Every race is valuable experience for me. Not having two races, you miss that.

MN: What did the team do during the enforced break?

GDF: We reviewed carefully everything we could have done.

Everything that we were doing, basically.

We decided not to test, and to stick to the team's agreement. It freed up some capacity in the team, so I guess we just accelerated a couple of things and spend more time doing different analysis.

schools so I am trying to get schools together. It really has been quite a change .

MN: Will you miss the States?

GDF: I think in some way, yes .

MN: The weather, for one thing ...

GDF: Yeah , I lived in Florida, which probably has some of the best weather on the globe! But weather is not everything.

I have lived in England before, and I really enjoyed living in England then . So I really have no qualms about living in the UK again . It is obviously sad to leave a few good friends behind, and the US has been a fantastic place for me. I have learned a tremendous amount, and I think the US w ill always have a special place in my heart. You just don 't

MN: Another thing that you have walked into is the situation with Jenson Button's contract, which has been covered pretty much exhaustively. As the Sporting Director though, this is your department. I guess the first priority for you is to create a situation and environment that he does not want to leave?

GDF: Yeah. The team really enjoys having Jenson around.

He is a major asset for this operation, there is no doubt about that. We wish for him to be here for many years to come.

But I will tell you that right now, we are focusing on the present. Later on, we will let everybody know what we are doing for next year.

MN: OK, but you do, at some point, have to think about alternatives just in case he does decide to walk, and the later you wait to do that, the fewer options you might find yourself with.

GDF: I think it is our duty as a team that wishes to be successful to have the best possible drivers to drive in our cars . Today, we have them, and we should continue to keep that policy in the future! (laughs).

MN: How much of a transition has all of this been for you personally? You have had to move over from the States ...

GDF: Yeah. Big change . I am in the middle of buying a house, and this and that and the other. I have two kids, they are in 38

know what the future holds.

There was no way of predicting that I was going to end up over here, therefore there is no way of predicting what is going to happen in the future . But also, on the other hand, I am not disappearing. It is just a relatively short flight away.

MN: How about the racing side of things? You only retired 18 months ago - do you get a bit fidgety on race weekends?

GDF: No. It's ... I guess, you know, it went through my

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El Presidente

While Gil De Ferran settles in at BAR, there is also a new face on the Honda side of the fence.

MARK GLENDENNING spoke to new Honda Racing Developments President Yasuhiro Wada.

MOTORSPORT NEWS: Has the transition of the role from Tanaka-san to yourself gone smoothly?

YASUHIRO WADA: Yes. He will spend time with us until the end of July. So we have almost four months of overlap. So far it has been quite a length of time - maybe I am already fed l!lp with him! (laughs).

But yes. I spent two years in the States, but before that I was General Manager of the Motorsports Division Head Office . Honda came back to Formula One, and started with BAR, and witlil Jordan for two years. During those day, I was on the Tokyo side and Tanaka-san was on this side. We are the best combinatior,i, we know each other well, and we worked together for three years. So it is not a totally green period.

system. I guess I flushed most of it out. It's the reason that I stopped driving - I really was losing interest in driving, and I didn't want the loss of interest to affect my competitiveness .

MN: You stopped at the

perfect time - the 500 win in your last season, victory in your last race ...

GDF: Yeah . (laughs). I turned out to ·be quite lucky that way.

MN: Well, a lot of guys miss that window and go on for too long.

GDF: Yes. Personally, I really couldn't live with a drop of performance, and when I noticed that I was losing interest in driving, not having that focus that I had before, I knew it was time for me to move on. I turned that corner.

I was getting more and more interested in different things, and in what else is out there in the world, and I took that as a bad sign . I think that in racing, for you to be successful, I don 't care who you ·are or how talented you are, at the very least you have to give 100 percent of your focus and your efforts .

MN: You said that you can't

predict the future, but could you envisage where this job could take you in the future?

Could you see yourself moving into a team principal's role somewhere down the track?

GDF: I don 't know. All I can tell

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you is that .. . life is about going forward. And this is certainly what I believe is the beginning of a new challenge and a new career. Where will it take me? I have no idea .

I am in the same way as when I started my career in driving.

There was no way of predicting that one day I would end up driving for Team Penske, and become as successful as I did.

So this, I see, very much as starting . I am pretty high up in a big respc;insibility job (laughs), but I really see it as the beginning of my next career. · Where is it going to go? Let's see.

MN: Just enjoy the ride ...

GDF: That's it, let's enjoy the

ride! I was talking last night about this . I would say that at the beginning of my career, I was very goal-oriented. I want to win this, and I want to win that, and I want to do this, and I want to break that record ' and so on and so forth.

That gives you a certain drive. I was fortunate enough that I was able to have a reasonable degree of success in my career. And each milestone that I reached, the more I reaslised that the thing I liked more was the process, more than anything else .

The more goals I achieved, the more I realised that what I enjoyed best was the fight. You know, the process. Certainly achieving the success, but also continuing on, if you know what I mean.

MN: You and Tanaka-san are working together now, but do you see big changes happening when he leaves? Are there new things that you would like to introduce?

YW: We are moving basically in the same direction. We work as part of a company, not so much an an individual person. l'anaka-salil ·s days at Honda pretty much set up the Formwla One operation , like acquiring 49 percent of the BAR shares and so on . Well, ·the things that have happened recently have been a bit difficult (laughs), but put that aside and it has been smooth running, I would say.

MN: How is the VS coming along?

YW: We just finished the first run of the VB. I wouldn't say it was a test, but the prototype engine is already running. Mainly for the design of the associate parts - we have already installed a VB but it is not so much for engine performance as for layout purposes. It's coming.

MN: Renault has said that it wouldn't be able to supply customer engines next year as it would be too much of a handful when they are trying to develop a brand-new engine.

Are you guys in the same position?

YW: Maybe it would be difficult to do it, but if there was a customer ... we don't have anybody, but we are willing to do it to help the series grow. I wouldn't deny the possibility to do stuff like that, a customer team.

MN: In the position that you ar,e moving into now, you will have to deal with a lot of politics and things that aren't directly involved in making the engine produce mere power. Is that side of things daunting?

YW: Well , I cannot personally enjoy the politics too much! (laughs). I'd rather just simply go racing.

But this is the w0rld that we decided to enter, and we have to live with it. But I am not the kind of person that can enjoy the politics.

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Maybe it took a change of the colour of the national flag to break through but the Holden Racing Team won in China, Todd Kelly ended a year-old drought to take the maiden VB Supercar round in reports from China. PHIL BRANAGAN ,,, Shanghai

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F the longest journey starts with a single step, the longest joumey in the history of VS Supercar racing ended with a single lap when Todd Kelly held off Steven Richards to win the Buick-sponsored fifth round of the VB Supercar Championship Series at the Shanghai International Circuit.

Kelly, who has not won a round since Darwin last year, became the fifth w inner of the season and took the Holden Racing Team, s 50th round victory with his 1-3-1 results in the three races.

"It's absolutely awesome, to be honest," said a shellshocked I<:elly after the races. "Everything has sort of come at once, to win an amazing race like this. I am very proud to have done well and won this round ."

Second overall was Steven Richards, who did his title hopes little or no harm at a weekend when three second places were down to good driving and grea t starts.

"We came here witl1 the view to stand on the podium and we always try to win, but the end result was that the podium was the best we could do," he said later.

In a weekend of international firsts,

Team Kiwi Racing scored its first podium result when Paul Radisich showed great speed, and pluck. The black car looked superb all weekend and The Rat brought it home, only to coliapse at the end of the final, hot race.

When it was starting to look like Stone Brothers Racing would have a controversy-free weekend, Race 3 wen t pear-shaped for the champ ionship leaders. Russell Ingall was fired off by Mark Skaile, who copped a drive-through penalty for the incident, while Marcos Ambrose had another side-on d ash with a Holden, this time Richo's, while exiting the pits. He got the same punishment, leav ing him back in sixth overall for the weekend.

And, it was a record crowd . Al l puns apart, the maiden foray of the sport in to China was well-received by the locals, who enthusiastically rolled up and showed grea t appreciation for the cars and the drivers. This could be - SHOULD be - the sta rt of som ething big.

Race 1 (22 laps)

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FTER a break of a couple 0f hours, just when it seemed that

things could not p ossibly get worse for Rick Kelly, things got worse for Rick Kelly.

The combination of a near-ful l tank, a long diff and a grippy racetrack proved too much for the Buick, which headed pitside after a lap with a broken clutch. Things could only get better.

As expected these days, Skaife made a less-than-brilliant start, Richards jlfillping into Tum 1 ahead of the red Commodore. Despite the fac t that neither driver: would win the race, that played a big role in determining the outcome of the first

VB Supercar race in China.

The HRT Commodores had too much race speed for tl1e opposition but when Skaife snagged a tyre stack while running bellind Richo, he triggered a small but telling delay when he made his tyre stop. That was enough to put him back to tlurd at the end of tl1e race - and, it has to be said, another driving error from The Boss cost ilie team poi.n ts.

In the sfaakeout, a classic Reds stop va ulted Todd into second behind Richards, until Kelly dived down his inside to take the lead. In clean air, he stretched away to w iR from Richards

byl.ls "It has been a little while," he said, referring to a drought stretching back to Darwin 2004. "It is good to be the first winner."

Richards got better as the fuel load burned away, while Skaife was under pressure late in the race from Lowndes and Ambrose. The cars, setups varied to the point where Skaifey, the fastest man on the track, could do nothing to get by Richards, even if Steven felt that his car was getting better as his car lightened. There was no change in the order at the end, but the following day promised much.

Murphy lost car speed as the race went on and dropped to 10th, while Bright found that his car was strong for all 22 laps, despite a flat spot. He was seventh, right behind Radisich who was ominously following Ambrose in a sign of things to come.

The Pirtek car had broken its front roll bar - on the out lap - and Marcos was in points mode and chasing the best he could.

continued on page 44

The big 50: By their standards, Team Red has endured a dry spell over the past two years, but Todd Kelly's win in the first VB Supercar race in China has marked the 'Evil Empires' 50th round win in Australian Touring Car history.

The start of something big: Nothing could detract from the Supercar's first visit to the Shanghai International Circuit, below.

Practice and Qualifying t

Skaile's

PHIL BRANAGAN reports on the first VB Supercar sessions off Australasian shores

W

E knew we were in unknown territory and Whincup ended up sixth in qualifying and bother even before leaving our brown dropped three spots in the Shoot-out. Unfortunately, the car and pleasant land. ,was late into position for the Top Sometime prior to the alarm 10, so Jamie lost a spot on the tone at 4am, your humble grid. reporter was alerted to an odd The battle for pole was going sound ... rain. The long to be a cracker and was, with Melbourne drought was put on the added wrinkle that the hold for a few hours. equation of tyres, track surface A day, and seYeral thousand and length and temperature kms away, on Fhday morning, meant that the Dunlops were the rain started again. It stopped behaving like qualifiers; one shot shortly before the start of the at it or lose a second next lap two-hour session but, even with around . the humidity hovering in the 90s, In the end, it was The a dry line appeared by the end of the session . Mark Skaife led, Jason Bright was second and Greg Murphy was third. There were, for maybe the first time in a session this season, no SBR cars in the 10; Marcos was 12th and Russell lngall was 15th after two spins for the former and one for the latter.

Both cars lost set-up time, which was something on which the mixed weather placed a premium, despite the two-hour/30 lap maximum session . The surface was grippy, wet or dry, but tyre wear was a bit of an unknown. If it stayed dry, or rained constantly, tyre management was going to be an issue; if it was mixed, we were all laughing.

The consensus regarding the Red Richo: Steven Richards, above, advanced to front-row in the Shoottrack was pretty well out after missing time in practice with tailshaft problems. ·unanimous; the drivers loved it.

"It is always good to go to a confessed that he went 0n his Professional who managed to get new circuit," said Skaife. "It is own path, separate to Skaife, but the last laugh, Skaife zooming always good to experience the ended up at almost exactly the around the track to snatch different corners for the 'first same settings on the car. provisional pole from Richards. time ."

Ambrose did a great job in Second was a solid effort from Satur'day dawned fine and what was, visibly, a car that had Lowndes, again running clear and, despite the fact that cornering issues. Seventh was conservatively (by his standards) the day was a working one for less than we expect from SBR and looking forward to the many of the population, there the last three years, but over straight fourth a for Shoot-out =< was a stream of people filing even if Marcos was not enjoying pole, followed by Murphy. into the track, running (walking) it, the sight of a driver being Despite what we said last issue, the gauntlet of people selling better than his car is always the two PWR cars were not binoculars, watches, pens or any worth a look. Russell lngall rued using similar HMS powerplants, number of other items one may the opportunity to put a Greg giving the Chevrolet one need for a day at the races. complete lap together but last dance after the team Greg Ritter and Paul Morris remained confident that the decided to postpone its motor both had turns at the head of the Caltex car would be a good racer update for logistical reasons . sheets but at the end of the in particular, kind to its tyres. and, 25 lost who Richo, was Fourth session, it was Jamie ~hincup Bright was very quick in minutes of practice time while a who led the way. It is no shock practice and eighth in qualifying, vibration was traced to the tailshaft to see a Dodo in a Shoot-out - it perhaps a little disappointed, (though he did 26 laps, four less happened memorably at Eastern while, as is becoming common than the maximum allowed).

Creek - but the Tasmanites held at this end of the field, Radisich Fifth fastest Todd Kelly more than their own in the

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cruised into the 10.

Garth Tander was 12th, confessing after practice "I did 28 laps and 28 times I got it [Turn 1I wrong!" He was one spot down on Jason Richards, whose electrical woes from Eastern Creek had gone - or, rather, leapt across the garage onto Whincup's car.

Jason looked like a genius when the chequer ended qualifying . When he set his time, he was sixth fastest and at the end, sitting there with green tyres on the left of the Dodo car, he was a happy 10th. But with two seconds left, Johnson started a lap and when he completed it, Jason was all dressed up with nowhere to go.

The Westpoint BA 'bumped' the Commodore from the Shoot-out, leaving one Kiwi frustrated.

The other astonishing part was that, in a 110 second lap, the first 19 cars were split by the proverbial second. Nothing that unusual there but, given that noone had ever been at the track before, the teams had done a remarkable job in getting their cars up to speed. Another feather in the cap, collectively, for the series. session ended, Johnson was A back to start the Shoot-out with lmost immediately after the

a clean lap that would leave him in 10th.

But that was immediately bounced by Radisich . He was over six-tenths faster in the first sector, which is an abnormally long 72 seconds, and a full second quicker over the

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QUALIFYING

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Mark Skaife

Holden Racing Team Commodore VZ

888

1:49.6053

Craig Lowndes

LG Triple 8 Falcon BA

1:49.9893

51

Greg Murphy

Super Cheap Auto Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.0728

11

Steven Richards

Team Perkins Castrol Commodore VY

1:50.1025

5

22

Todd Kelly

Holden Racing Team Commodore VZ

1:50.1130

6

23

Jamie Whlncup

Dodo Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.1390

Marcos Ambrose

Pirtek Stone Brothers Racing Falcon BA

1:50.1556

6

Jason Bright

CAT Ford Performance Rac ing Falcon BA

1:50.2455

7 021

Paul Radlslch

Team Kiwi Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.2827

17

Steven Johnson

Westpolnt Racing Falcon BA

1:50.3578

11

3

Jason Richards

Dodo Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.4020

12

16

Garth lander

HSV Dealer Team Commodore VZ

1:50.4474

Russell Inga II

Caltex Stone Brothers Racing Falcon BA

1:50.5047

10

13 14

67

Paul Morris

Slrromet Life, Style, Wine Commodore VZ

1:50.5049

15

88

Steve Ellery

LG Triple 8 Falcon BA

16

5

1:50.6092

Greg Ritter

Ford Performance Racing Falcon BA

1:50.6176

17

50

Paul Weel

Super Cheap Auto Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.7469

Larkham Orrcon Racing Falcon BA

1:50.7699

18

10

Jason Bargwanna

19

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Simon WIiis

Team Dynamlk Commodore VZ

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1:50.8376

20

Matthew White

Fujitsu Racing Britek Falcon BA

1:50.8787

21

18

Glenn Seton

Westpoint Racing Falcon BA

Autobarn Racing Commodore VZ

1:50.8925

Paul Dumbrell

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been faster than anyone including, as it turned out, Skaife - in the first sector.

Then came Lowndes's attempt at a fourpeat. The lap looked good but not great and was : · harmed when he plucked third and not fifth on the way out of the corner onto the back straight.

Skaife had a small window to shoot at, wisped his front tyres at Turn 1 to demonstrate how serious he was and carried the speed all the way around the lap.

It was nice to be the maiden polesitter at the Shanghai track, and it is always good to be on pole . But, given the problems that the Red team leader has had getting the HRT Commodore off the line, the real work was yet to be done ...

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complete lap.

Bright was sixth-tenths off that time, Ambrose slower aga in (th e car still not behaving) and Whincup matched the Champ, despite the Dodo car having an electrical gremlin .

Todd pushed really hard but would have to settle for sixth and then came Richards, with a smooth, efficient and fast lap that would be good for a front r.ow start.

The next two laps were all about what should have been.

Murphy admitted that he "went five metres deeper at the hairpin and then went wide on the exit and it probably cost us pole or a front row start." Under the circumstances, th ird was a pretty good reward but he had

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1:51.0486

23

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Cameron McConvllle

Repco Valvollne Cummins Commodore VZ

24

20

Mark Winterbottom

larkham Orrcon Racing Falcon BA

1:51.1932 1:51 .3903

1:51.1391

25

8

Craig Baird

WPS Racing Falcon BA

26

328

Max WIison

WOW. Sight & Sound Commodore VZ

27

48

David Besnard

WPS Falcon BA

28

75

Anthony Trait

Toll Racing Commodore VY

1:51.6989

29

21

Brad Jones

Team BOC Brad Jones Racing Falcon BA

1:51.8063

1:51.4577 1:51.6225

30

12

John Bowe

Team BOC Brad Jones Racing Falcon BA

31

34

Andrew Jones

Repco Valvollne Cummins Commodore VZ

32

1:51.8677

15

Rick Kelly

Team Buick Commodore VZ

1:52.0723

1:51.8184

TOP TEN SHODTD UT RESULT S Driver

Spilt#!

Spllt#2

Spllt#3

Mark Skaife

1: 12.5982

1:26.6692

1:49.8516

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2

Steven Richards

1: 12.9552

1:27.0457

3

Greg Murphy

1:12.4999

1:26.7404

4

Paul Rad lsich

1:12.5104

1:26.8587

1:50.1682

Craig Lowndes

1:12.8380

1:27.0392

1:50.1862

1:50.0360 1:50.0667

6

Todd Kelly

1: 12.7541

1:26.8716

7

Marcos Ambrose

1:50.2211

1: 12.9434

1:27.1802

Jason Bright

1:50.5851

1: 13.1141

1:26.5872

9

Jamie Whlncup•

1:50.7781

1:13.1961

1:27.6581

10

1:50.912!

Steven Johnson .

1: 13.3720

1:27.7152

1:51.2731

• Whlncup relegated to 10th for pit lane Infringement

Stone Last (but not Motherless>

NO disrespect to Anthony Tratt - none whatsoever - but you do not expect to see drivers of the calibre of Brad Jones, John Bowe and Ritk Kelly start behind the Toll Commodore too often.

The three pros share all manner of titles in the ATCC, \f8 Supercars and can count to four in the column marked 'Combined Bathurst Victories', between them. So it was a little odd to see those drivers qualify on the back two rows of the grid.

"There is no front grip on new tyres," Kim Jones salo of both his charges. "The balance is actually

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pretty fair on used tyres but nothing happens when tyres go on ."

Things in Planet Buick were even bleaker. Rick Kelly had the

whole field in front of him after trundling to 32nd. It was particularly bad, given that Kelly had beem the centre of a massive

effort by Buick (including the biggest billboard you have ever seen) and that Buick was the naming rights sponsor of the event.

"We can't get around a problem we have l:lad all year," said a clearly perplexed Rick.

"We had a brake problem in qualifying to add to the drama.

But since we have had the problem for quite a while, we feel like we need to stick to what we know to make a comparison to Garth's car.

"At least it cannot get any worse."

- PHIL BRANAGAN

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completed (Greg Ritter stayed out in the lead until lap 20 when Skaile took over) and cruise it home.

We do not want to make the race apS 8C8 sound like a bore - it just was. All the et us hope that the Chinese fans action that happened in the race are patient enough to not judge happened early - in fact, much of it V8 Supercar racing on the basis of the was on the first lap. There were .

Sunday morning race.

Dodos everywhere at Tum 1, with The day dawned with the kind of Whincup running wide and Richards weather that the travel brochures say a clout on the front wheel getting time this at will happen in Shanghai from Bright. Then at the hairpin, of year, hotter (though still not Jason found that the tyre involved stifling) and humid. The grid came went flat at the hairpin, with out, shiny and raring to go, and the dramatic results. stand on the main straight was more "I actually braked a little early," than half-full with enthusiastic and said Richards, "and it [the tyre] colourful punters. It was a fine locked, then went down. I smashed advertisement for Sino-Australian into Steve [Johnson] because there relations. was no room left and on the right, I This time Skaile missed the start would have hit three cars." but his old sparring partner, Johnson was soon in for attention Lowndes, did even worse things to to a smashed bonnet, which he bent his item. The Kid was third, one on the rear of the Tander VZ in the ahead of Skaile, but his clutch was melee. red-hot and fading fast. After "Everything in the back is bent," struggling for a lap, the 888 car GT related, "and my neck hurts like lurched into the pits and retired. hell. I will have it looked at later."

Skaife took second from Kelly before The race dragged on (though the his stop and great work from the crowd gave Skaile a grea t hand at the team saw him ahead of Richo when end) and the only notables (apart the pit shuffle ended. All he had to do was to wait until the pit cycle was • from Murphy, see breakout) were continued from page 41

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busted engines for Jason Bargwanna and David Besnard. Oh, and the fact that Skaife, Kelly and Richards were now all locked on 124 points. Barring misfortune of a change of circumstance, whichever driver gave their mounts the best love between races was going to be the winner.

What the opposition did not know was that Kelly was battling with dehydration and was not a well man between the races.

Race 3 {30 laps) And then, it was action.

Another crook start from Skaife took him out of contention - or rather, into a position where he would 110/ be in contention. He was fifth in the first corner; Kelly was past 0 - and under Richo's wing immediately.

Ambrose was third from Ingall and Skaife (remember that order). In a first-corner melee, Lowndes came out worst, pitting immediately to retire after busting his radiator.

The pit window opened and Richards, Todd and Ambrose all continued on page 46

SOMETIMES even the worst things look innocuous enough and, when we saw vision of Mark Winterbottom trailing to a stop with fluid pouring from the front of the Orrcon Falcon, it did not look like a huge accident.

But Frosty's clash with an errant drainage grate that had already been dislodged could have been much, much worse than it was. The floor of the Larkham Motor Sport BA looked like it had had a mortar

Healthy dice: Murph, Todd, The Rat and Captain America diced in Race 1.

How to lose Race 1: Mark Skaife cocked up his entry to his pit box, and a wheel change issue didn't help.

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fired through it and, more worryingly, the back bottom edge of the driver's seat showed signs of just how close the drain had come to impacting on Winterbottom's,

um, bottom.

"You don't feel things like that," he said later.

"It went up in the air, it was not as if the thing went through it. The impact was at the front and I did not think that there was much damage. I did not think about it at the time but I was pretty lucky."

The Orrcon team now faces a race to get the car repaired in time to make the trip to Darwin for the next round of the series (see news pages).

- PHIL BRANAGAN

continued from page 45

Dull Race 2, Action Race 3: The last event was a cracker. Russell lngall leads Jason Richards, Paul Dumbrell, Steve Ellery, Glenn Seton and Paul Wee/.

The Kiwis deliver: Now in its fifth full-time year in the VB Series, Team Kiwi is a team with a podium.

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pitted. Such is the distance between the teams, pit boxes that Richards was almost alongside Ambrose when his car hit the ground. He went and there was contact.

"When the car drops, that is when we go," Ambrose explained. "That is the only protocol we have. I could not see anything because of the way the mirrors were."

With a choice of hitting the exit cone or hitting the Commodore, Ambrose did the latter and backed off, allowing both Richo and Kelly by.

He had hoped that would be enough to avoid the wrath of the stewards but that was dashed by the stewards a few laps later.

But first, there was a yellow flag.

Ingall caused it. No, Ingall's car being stuck in the sand after a serving from Skaife caused it.

"Just look at where the mark is," said Ingall later, referring to the rear of the car.

"I thought that he was coming in," explained Skaife. "Ambrose had come in, it was the lap after. I had made a lot of ground under brakes and I was under full power and he stopped. I went up later and apologised. He was disappointed but that is how it was."

Others suggested that the discussion was rather more heated than that .. .

So, the yellow flew and in came the world. The biggest beneficiary was Max Wilson, who vaulted all the way to sixth behind the lead group.

The biggest loser was Bright; after lap one contact from Brad Jones, the CAT car was on its best set of tyres, Bright planning to go long, and not wanting a Safety Car. The race was decided by, pretty much, the best move of the season by Kelly at Turn 1, the HRT car gliding inside Richards like it was stopped.

Once clear, Kelly eased out a gap which stabilised about lap 18. Richo put on a charge but fell short by 1.24s.

"It would have been different if I was battling for 35th," said Todd later, referring to feeling ill. "Leading was a great incentive to keep me going."

Radisich was a great third but did not get to celebrate, his physiology getting the worse of the heat and extreme humidity once again.

Radisich has stumbled out of Fords at Adelaide in the past and this time, it was a Commodore that was threatened with unmentionable emissions. In the circumstances, TKR's first podium was well-earned.

So was Wilson's fifth in the final race, which shows that the pace of the Dynarnik cars is not too far short of the mark, while Bright did brilliantly after his plan backfired and he ran ugly tyres (including flat

VB SCS POINTS

Points: Ambrose 862, lngall 781, S.Richards 771, Skaife 690, T. Kelly 680, Lowndes 612, Murphy 604, Radisich 583, Johnson 565, Bowe 563, Mcconville 553, Wee! 5387, Whincup 535, Bright 526, Tander 519, Morris 476, B. Jones 412, R. Kelly 401, J. Richards 397, Ellery 380, Wilson 346, Baird 344, Bargwanna 320, Dumbrell 317, White 288, Trait 273, Wills 269, A. Jones 262, Ritter 241, Winterbottom 236, Besnard 231 , Owen 159, Davison 72. •

spots) for much of the race.

Murphy split Bright from his FPR team-mate late in the going, and former team-mates McConville and Brad Jones followed .

And, just like that, it was over. Just like that, what once seemed to some to have been an impossibility came to fruition. On the form of what happened in Shanghai, there will be many more races, many more visitors and many more memories to emerge from what was once a no-go zone for westerners, never mind their cars.

But that is for the future. Right now, we ha ve a great championship to decide, with Richards coming on strong, Ambrose and Ingall flying the Ford flag the highest and some hard yards completed by HRT. Throw into that lot the wildcard, speed of The Rat and The Dodos and Darwin is going to be Hot, Hot, Hot. But before we get to that, take a moment to pause. If Tai Chi is based on the idea that breath is life, let us all join together and take a deep breath. Now exhale.

Damn. We did it. We raced in China. Our sport did it. We rock.

Okay, enough rocking. The war restarts in two weeks. Lock and load and let's get on with it.

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Skaife versus Stone Brothers: Skaife just can't seem to get through a race meeting without running into either car #1 or #9. This clash ended Inga/I's race.

An NZ Kangaroo SO, HAT had the fastest Holdens on the track, eh?

Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. One man who did not agree with the theory was Greg Murphy.

After a tough Race 1, when he slid to 10th, he fired off the road in a fashion so spectacular' that Super Cheap is bound to make every sports TV program in the world - in slow motion .

"It was driver error," Murf admitted . "I got turned around on the first corner by Garth and I was trying to race for 30th, or whatever it was. I was too narrow into Turn 1, and too fast,

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and too late on the brakes . I knew it was going to be evil when it got half-way."

You have seen the rest. The car bounded across the sand, like a kangaroo and crunched back to earth . All manner of things needed to be replaced ,

like a fuel tank, radiator, and the crew hit it a few times to straighten it. So it was a bit of a fairytale when Murphy surged from the rear of the grid to finish seventh in Race 3.

"Between the races, all we did was fix the damage.

We had no time to improve the car and I think the result showed that we had the speed to win the event.

Just to get on the grid showed what an incredible job the team did. I am very proud of my team ."

It was not a great result for the round, but Murphy has a new HMS engine coming for Darwin.

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DIAPHRAGM PRESSURE PLATE - SUIT GM 10.5" . ..... $260 CLUTCH DISC 10.5" X 1 1/ 8" 10 SPLINE - SUIT ABOVE $130 HI-PERFORMANCE GM THROW OUT BEARING . . .. . .... $48 CLUTCH DISC 11 " X 1 1/ 8" X 10 SPLINE .... . .. . .. $130 10.5" LONG STYLE FORD PRESSURE PLATE . . . . .•... $298 11 " LONG STYLE FORD PRESSURE PLATE .. . .. . ..... $298 11 " 11/ 16" X 10 SPLINE CLUTCH DISC ......... .. . $135 11 " LONG STYLE FORD PRESSURE PLATE COMPETITION. $298 HI PERFORMANCE FORD THROW OUT BEARING ....... $48

DUAL POINT DISSY · SUIT FORD 302-351C & 460 ...... $240 UNILITE DISSY - SUIT 302W FORD WITH BLOWER . ... ... $460 UNILITE DISSY - SUIT 351C FORD WITH BLOWER ..... . . $460 UNILITE DISSY - SUIT AMC VB ................. .. . $380 COMP 9000 D/ POINT FORD 351C-460 01SSY . ........ $380

MAGNETOS ..... . .. ........ . ............ . ..... EiA

5 X MA5358514 SPRINTMAG Ill - SUIT VB CHEV (LOCKED ADVANCE) .... $1,300 SUIT SPRINTCAR SPEEDWAY, BOATS ETC - NEW DESIGN 1 X MA667BTR

4 X MA667CR 3 X MA667S

COILS

lAKEWOOD PART # .......................... . . .. ... ... . ... . EiA

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IGNmON SYSTEMS . ... . . ......... . ... .,.,._,,_ . . . EA

DIGITAL HYFIRE VII CD PROFESSIONAL UNIT WITH 3 BAR MAP SENSOR . ... '~-- ...... . ... $890 DIGITAL HYFIRE VII CD PROFESSIONAL ............. . $880 DIGITAL HYFIRE VII CD SPORTMAN UNIT .. . . • .•. .. .. $685

FUEL PUMPS .. ....... . ...................... . . EiA

3 X MA4110 5 X MA4140M 6 X MA4207M

ELECTRIC 110GPH FUEL PUMP GASOLINE ....... . .... $250 ELECTRIC 140GPH FUEL PUMP SUIT MARINE ........ . . $440 2 PORT STREET & STRIP BILLET REGULATOR .. .. ... .. . $125 ALSO SUITABLE FOR MARINE 4-12 PSI

4 X MA29215 5 X MA558

STREET/ STRIP COIL GM HEI DISTRIBUTl!)R ...... . ..... . $92 UNILITE CONVERSION KIT FOR POINT DISTRIBUTORS .... $195

10 X MG150A 10 X MG150D 3 X MG153 6 X MG211 10 X MG253 10 X MG258G 8 X MG263G 3 X MG353

58 CHEV EXH GASKET SQUARE . . ............ . .. . .. $10 SB CHEV EXH GASKET SQUARE LARGE . . . . .. . ..•..... $12 88 CHEV EXH GASKET ..... . .... . .... . .... .. .... $12 302-351C FORD 2V INTAKE GASKET ................ $12 289-302 FORD W EXH GASKET ..... . ....... .. ..... $12 351C 4V EXH GASKET ..... . . .. .... . . . .... .. .... $12 302C 2V EXH GASKET . ...... . ... .. ............. $12 273-318 CHRYSLER EXH GASKET .... . . . . ., . .. . .. --::: .. $12

3 X MG987G 2 X MG988G 1 X MG1350 3 X MG1523 5 X MG1570 1 X MG1588 11 X MG1589 , 17 X MG1591 6 X MG1592 3 X MG1593 8 X MG1594 4 X MG1595 3 X MG1968 2 X MG2067 3 X MG2391 1 X MG2392 2 X MG2393 1 X MG3405 1 X MG5233 2 X MG51:15 1 X MG5124 2 X MG5424

OFFSET CAM KEY SB CHRYSLER 2 DEGREE ...•. •. ... .. . $8 OFFSET CRANK KEY SB CHEV 4 DEGR!;E ..... . ..... .. . $8 ALUMINIUM GASOLINE "KOOL CAN" .. ·. . .......... . .. $64 THROTTLE LINKAGE BELL CRANK & MOUNTING l{IT ...... $25 UNIVERSAL 7" DEGREE WHEEL & ADAPTORS ......... . . $25 TIMING TAPE SB CHEV 6 3/ 4" DAMPER ....... . .... . . . $9 TIMING TAPE SB CHEV 7" DAMPER . .. . . ...•.•. . ..... $9 TIMING TAPE SB CHEV 8" DAMPER ........... . . ... .. $9 TIMING TAPE SB CHEV 6" DAMPER ........... . ... . .. $9 TIMING TAPE CHRYSLER 383-440 . .. .. . ...... . .... . . $9 TIMING TAPE SB FORD 289-351W 6 3/ 8" DAMPER ...... $9 TIMING TAPE FORD 390-429 7" DAMPER...... . ... . .. $9 REAR MAIN SEAL 88 CHRYSLER ....... ......... . ... $16 OIL FILLER CAP PLUG TYPE WITH LOGO . ... ... . .. .. ... $5 FAN SPACER 1/ 2" GM/ FORD ......... . ........... $10 FAN SPACER 1" GM/ FORD ...........• . . . . .... . .. $10 FAN SPACER 2" GM/ FORD .... ....... . ...... .... . $12 HOLLEY 1" CARBY INSULATOR .... .. ...... . .... . . .. $30 HILBORN TYPE POL HOOD SCOOP SUIT DUAL CARBIES . . $325 CHROME FLYWHEEL COVER SUIT SBCT350/ 400 ... . .... $42 CHROME ALTERNATOR SUIT FORD VB . ... . ... .. .... $160 2" EXHAUST CUT OUT WITH CABLE . ........• . ...... $70

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F/ TOP. . . .. $650 DISH .. .. . $720 12.8:1 .. ... $720 DISH .... . $720 DISH . . ... $720 12.8:1..... $550

6.385" 6.535" 6.135" 6.385' 5.155" 5.090' 5.400" 5.400' 5.956' 5.956" 6.250' 6.200' 6.200" 6.700" 6.125" 5.700"

12.8:1. . ... $760 12.8:1.. .. . $760 10:1. . . . . $760 10:2. . . . . $760 DISH .. . .. $720 F/ TOP..... $650 F/ TOP..... $680 8.7:1.. .. . $760 F/ TOP... .. $650 F/ TOP.. ·~· . $650 F/ TOP. . i'. . $650 11.4:1.. .. . $650 8.7:1..... $720 9.5:1..... $760 10.6:1.... . $650 9.5. . .. . $680

2 SETS 4 SETS 1 SET 4 SETS

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SB CHEV SB CHEV

23° OEM 23° OEM

4.155" 3.000" 6.000" 4.155" 3.562' 5.700"

SB CHEV

SB CHEV SB CHEV SB CHEV BB CHEV

23' OEM , OEM 23 23' OEM 23° OEM BBC OEM

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SB FORD GM LS1 GM LS1

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12·5:1. · · · · $7DD F/ TOP.... . $680 12.5..... $600 12.5:1..... $600 12·6:1. · · · · $5oo F/ TOP .. .. . $750 F/ TOP . . . . . $999 F/ JOP.. . . . $999

4.010'3.48"/3.5' 6.000" 4.060' 3.48"/ 3.5' 6.000" 4.130" 3.350" 5.850"

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1 SET 12·20-503 SB CHEV

23° OEM 4.080' 3 9/ 16" 5.7"

(INCLUDES .927" PINS & LOCKS

1 SET 12-20-ST2 SB CHEV

18°

4.135" 3.48'

(INCLUDES .927" PINS & LOCKS/

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1 SET 63-32-WR HONDA INTEGRA OEM

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1.205" TURBO ... $300

EXHAUST VALVE

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2.020" 2.020"

1.600" 1.600"

CAST ....... $960 CAST . .... . .$960

1 PR 223 2000 00

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1.600"

CAST . . ..... $960

1 PR 223 2000 20 "" 5 PR 223 4000 20A

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2.020" 2.020"

1.600" 1.600"

CAST . . . . ... $960CAST ....... $960

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2.020"

1.600"

CAST . .. .. .. $990

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2.080"

1.600"

CAST ....... $960

200CC INTAKE PORT • STREET PERFORMANCE & SHORT TRACK, RESTRICTED OVAi, 327-350CIN UP TO 6500RPM 220CC INTAKE PORT · MAXIMUM STREET PERFORMANCE, OVAL TRACK & DRAG BRACKET 35D-400CIN UP T8 7500RPM

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2 PR 123 2000 80

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2.020"

1.600"

CAST ..... $1,450

1 PR 123 4000 35A

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2.080"

1.600"

CAST . .. . .$1,450

23SCC INTAKE PORT - SERIOUS RACE HEAD UNLIMITED OVAl/DRAG 400 C.IN + 8000RPM+

PRO TORKER SBC REPIACEMENT CAST IRON 3 PR 2237694167-T-R

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STRAIGHT

1.940"

1.5"

CAST . ...... $760

THE ABOVE HEADS HAVE ROUND PUSHROD HOIES

2 SETS 31·11·WS2C/ DORE BUICK V6 STD 3.895' 3.4" 5.6" 1.190' F/ TOP . .. $400 OF (7) (INCLUDES PINS & LOCKS· 5.6' 1?00 IN ECOTEC V6 01? 6.585' 1?00 IN EARLY V6) 1 SET 58-21-AK NISSAN CA18DET OEM 83.SMM STD CUSTOM 1.260" .. . . . $200

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CAST . .. .. $1,060 • CAST . .... $1,060

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6.125"DISH 10.5 . . .. $900

UPGRADED BOLTS .. . ... .... . .. . . . .. . .. . . .$352

235162002311927 351C FORD 4340 H·BEAM RODS, 6.2" X .927" PIN, FORD BIG END .. .. .... . . . . ....... ... . ... $506 235161252311912 351C FORD 4340 H·BEAM RODS, 6.125" X .910" PIN, 6 246066052500 :~~DFg~~ E:3~0 ·2·.soo"· .. $S0 BIG END . ... .. . ..................... . . .$627 2LS161002100927 LS1 4340 H·BEAM R©DS, 6.100" X .927" PIN . .. . .$575 236061232124 SB CHRYSLER 4340 H·BEAM RODS, 6.123"X.984" L/ END ........... . . . ... .. .... .. ....... $627

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SB FORD 4340 5.4" X .912" I-BEAM RODS ..... . $352 SB FORD 4340 5.4" X .9:27" I-BEAM RODS . . . . .. $352 SB CHEV 4340 6" X L/J I-BEAM R©DS, PRESS FIT .. $31 4 SB CHEV 4340 6" X L/J I-BEAM RODS, PRESS FIT,

1 SET SBC5850BSW OLIVER SBC BILLET RODS SBC L/J . .. . .. .. .... $1,900 4 SETS PWT-308-57oo-927 COME RODS HOLDEN 308 X 5.7" LONG ..... ·.. .. $280 "" 2 SETS SP93273B-8 CROWER LS1 RODS 6.125" X .927" PIN ......... $950 '

12.5:1. .... $400 12.8:1. . . .. $400

360 SCCA SPRINTCAR PISTONS (INCL PINS & LOCKS)

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pitwall the team was busy trying to figure out what might have caused the problem.

"We decided to go for a safe 1-2, " said Ron Dennis. " Obviously there was a bit of tension on the pitwall because we had to talk to the drivers.

And as we were doing that the Safety Car came out. Our strategy guys called for the cars to come in but Juan Pablo Montoya missed the signal by a few seconds and passed the pitlane entrance ."

The strategists in the media centre recognised that this was a disaster for the Colombian's ambitions. He was going to be eighth when he came out of the pits .

"Juan was very calm," said Dennis. " He was not angry. We were very disciplined and followed procedures. We told him to stay to the left of the white line."

Obviously, inside the Montoya helmet things were not as airconditioned as on the pitwall, because Montoya w ent hurtling out of the pitlane and drove through a red light. It may have been that a red mist obscured the red light .. .

He might as well have put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger (and may do in the course of the evening). The FIA Stew ards leapt for the rule book and decided that it was time for the blac k flags . .

This is not unusual fo r such an offence in a race . In Australia in 2002, Heinz-Harald Frentzen got similar treatment in his Arrows ; in Austria in 2001 the same happened to Jarno Trulli . But back in 1999 in Canada , David Coulthard ran a red and was given a stop-go penalty and ended the day in seventh place .

The reason there had been a

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Safety Car was because Button had driven into the w all.

"It wa s completely my mistake, " he said .

The disappearance of Montoya and Button and the compressing effect of the Safety Car meant that Schumacher back in the hunt, but Raikkonen had the Ferrari under control. . "I have gained w hat I lost at the last race and my championship battle is back on, " said Kimi . "I came here to get 10 points and w e got th em and I'm really pleased. Just after my first pitstop my steering developed a problem w hich meant that w henever I w as driving straight it was pulling to the left.

"The team told me to take it easy but I still had to push , so it was all about find ing the right balance .

"Towards the end Michael was catching up, but it w as not too much of a probl em."

One might say it w as a Comedy of Errors. And Rai kkonen made the few est mistakes.

But it w as hardly ·Grand Opera .

mororspon news

FORMUI.A ON'E

One Of Those Days

AN awful lot of drivers went to bed in a bad mood on Sunday night in Canada.

Almost half the field failed to make it to the finish, but the crucial thing in terms of the championship was how many of the victims were from the serious end of the field.

Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button may have w alled themselves out of podium positions (w ith Jenson taking BAR's hopes of scoring their first points of the year into the wall with him), but they were not alone in going home disappointed.

Jarno Trulli w as looking reasonably strong in the Toyota until his bra kes failed, forcing the ltali 9n to retire from a potential podium position for the third time in as many races.

Meanw hile, Ta kuma Sato's weekend came to an early end tw ic'a. A transmission failure sent the Japanese driver into the garage but, mindful of the importance of getting a good qualifying slot at Indy, the team scrambled to scavange the neccessary bits off the T-car and get Taku back out. After half an • hourorsothey succeeded, on~

to have Sato's transmission expire again a few laps later.

Still, you can 't say they didn't try.

And while Mark Webber w as spending t he day battling to get heat into his Michelins, he w as still having a better time than Nick Heidfeld, w hose race ended in a plume of BMWinduced smoke .

There w ere beneficiaries to all of this though , and chief amongst t hem w as Felipe Massa, w ho didn't put a foot w rong all day long and w as rewarded w ith a w ell-deserved fourth place.

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F CUS ON WEBBER AFTER a number of races where a strong effort produced less in terms of results than he would have hoped for, a 'muddled' Montreal GP delivered four valuable points for Mark Webber.

Such is the contrary world of Formula 1.

After the early exit at the Nurburgring, Montreal was all about 'damage limitation' and getting back towards the sharp end of the field (and thus a late starting spot in qualifying) for Indy.

As the race revealed, the strategy was to run as heavy as possible, go for two long stints followed by a short one at the end.

Given the fuel load and the early starting position (and a braking error into the Turn 6/7 chicane), 14th in qualifying was quite a strong result.

"I'm not pleased about it (the error)," he confessed, "but in reality, now we've seen the grid. even with a perfect lap I reckon there was only seven-tenths to

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be gained and we would only have been one place better off."

The braking slip, indeed, turned out to be a foretaste of the race an interesting achilles heel, considering brakes was an area of confidence. for the team going in to the race.

Webber takes up the story: "My start was quite poor. I didn't get away well at all - in fact Christian Albers got past as we left the line!

"I had quite a lot of understeer in the first stint because I had trouble getting enough heat into the tyres, but I did have the advantage of knowing I w as going longer than those in front of me, because I was on a twostopper.

"That problem, getting heat into the tyres, affected things mostly in the braking areas, which is why I went w ide a couple of times."

The same thing was to catch him out after his first stop, after emerging in front of a queue of cars containing team-mate Nick Heidfeld, Ralf Schumacher and Felipe Massa.

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ahead into the run-off area rather than risk damaging the car over the kerbs. But it cost me three places .. . " The Safety Car period, brought on by Jenson Button's shunt, worked in Webber's favour and he emerged in fifth place, behind Jarno Trulli's Toyota, but the cooi tyre/brake combination was to catch him out again - this time going into Turn 1, and a possible podium finish was lost: "It was really tricky to judge the level of grip straight after a stop and that, simply, is why I went straight on at Turn 1.

"I actually braked earlier than usual, but still ended up on the grass!"

Magny Cours can't come qu ickly enough for the Williams team, which has a significantly improved aero package to debut at the French race.

And the team will be looking to BMW for something extra as well . The public bantering between BMW's Mario Thiessen and Patrick Head in the past week has left no doubt that BMW has slipped back in the horsepower/electronics race and even reliab ility is now under question.

In Montreal, the drivers were asked to reduce revs not too far into the opening stint, yet Heidfeld's engine was marginal enough to get ·a bit too hot in Ra lf Schumacher's slipstream and, eventually, fail.

"Yeah, we wound up the engine on the final lap to have a look at Massa, to see if i could get past, but there just wasn't an opportunity," Webber explains.

"Still, I have to be pleased with the result. It was hard work, but we have got something out of an average weekend and - what 1 counts as much - is that we got four points and a decent starting position for qualifying next week at Indy."

'Medium' downforce the key

Aero refinement is the answer at Montreal, as F1 Technical editor PAOLO RLISETTI explains THERE were a number of subtle aero changes on show in Montreal, to optimise the ciruit's 'medium downforce' description - most centred around front and rear wing end plate design.

As at Monaco, McLaren concentrated on its front wings, with a new horizontal fin at the leading edge of the main wing. As with a similar solution tried by Ferrari a few races back, this is to reduce pitch sensitivity . at the front and thus the potential for the rear to be too twitchy on the entrance to corners.

BAR chose this race to introduce a new winglet in front of the sidepods, similar to those introduced recently by Toyota, although BAR's version uses a significantly larger 'end-plate'. The winglets provide some additipona1 downforce, but as usual play their part in improving the airflow to the rear of the car.

Renault, Ferrari and Red Bull all appeared with revised rear wing end plates - fast becoming a science in its own right!

A small detail change (with apparently a fair gain) on the Renault sees the flap reduced in cross section, while the main profile is now higher than before. These developments can best be seen through changes to the endplates - the upper section of the endplate, connected to the flap, is much narrower.

Ferrari also ran with a revised rear wing flap, with reduced cross-section and revised endplates, now featuring just two horizontal slits instead of three. This is because the main wing profile is higher than before, due to the reduced downforce needs in Montreal. The rear diagonal cut in the endplates was reduced in width to better manage the vortex created by the impact with the airflow in this area.

Red Bull's rear wing endplate now resembles that of the Williams, with a revised cut at the upper rear corner to reduce side wind sensitivity and turbulence in corners and thus aid rear end stability.

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UD, rain and slush proved no barrier for reigning World Champ Sebastien Loeb as he piloted his Citroen to a secondconsecutive Rally of Turkey win, making the toughest conditions l00k easy.

Victory in Turkey further tightened Loeb's grip on a second World title, while the rain and mud only served to wash the hopes of his opponents into the fast runl'ling streams of tme Anatolian Mountains Loeb's winning margin of 59.6s over Petter Solberg's Subaru belied his dominance, particular,ly on t:he opening leg on which he won seven of the eight stages. This, despite being first car on the road in extremely difficult conditions.

His performance should come as no surprise, continuing his extraordinary start to the 2005 season .

Turkey was Loeb's fifth w in from seven rallies this year and his fourth on the trot, with the combination of his confident aggression, Citroen's near perfect package and Michelin's superior rubber proving too much for Solberg.

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Need speed: Petter Solberg isn't far behind in the championship, but car speed is another thing ...

lead in the title chase as the series approaches the half-way point but that masks Loeb's true level of control.

Solberg tried to the bitte r end in Turkey but his Pirell ishod Subaru was no match for the Michelin-equipped Citroen.

The opening leg proved the most difficult for the Pirelli runners, who struggled to fi nd a pattern and compound combination that performed in the muddy and variable conditions.

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had dialed in, Loeb was gone, leading by over a minute.

Despite better speed over the fi nal two legs, the likes of Solberg and Marcus Granholm w ere too fa r behind to apply real pressure.

"I'm reall y happy to wi n again," said Loeb. "It's been very good the last few rall ies, but the fi nal two days here w ere not so easy. It was only the first day w hen we were faster.

Solberg fo ug ht ha rd with Granholm fo r his second

place, omly drawing away from the Finn over the last two stages. The Norwegian will be hoping for better things at the next roumd ilil Greece.

"The final day was very good, we were three to four seconds in front of Marcus by halfway on the first stage and l!lnlike tme fifist day our tyre choice was very good" said Solberg Selberg must at least have more confidence for the seeond lnalf of the yea r than the Peugeot runners, who are evem further behind as the team is clearly winding down to its withdrawal at the end of the year,. The mood at Peuge0t is one of defeat and resignation. Their prospects in the secol'ld half of the season look bleak, unless a magic cu re to t he 307's handli ng fo ibl es (and a better Pi relli) can be found .

Aussie Chris Atkinson had another heartbreaking rally with misfortune again playing a major role in his performa nce. Atkinson ran off th e road on the first stage of Day 1 after it was alleged he received incorrect timing information from his team .

Half-way through t he stage,

e's n the team apparently signalled Atkinson that me was five seconds down when in actual fact he was five seconds faster than Loeb. Consequently, he fired off the road in his fruitless :;;earch for more speed, sliding wide and ripped off the left rear wheel. He limped on through the next stage. only to retire in the servi•ce park after the third stage.

"I'm cilisappointed for both myself and the team, it was a silly mistake," Atkinson said.

"The conditions were extremely slippery and again, it's disappointing to finish a rally like this, b1,1t I have to be grateful for the Superally option ."

Clearly mindful of the fate of Francois Duval, Atkinson had a more measured approach over the final two days when he returned for what was virtually a test.

Italian Gigi Galli had everyone on their feet and cheering on Day 1 when he had a firm grip on second, ta king one fastest stage time from Loeb and proving that Mitsubishi's slowly improving Lancer has the potential to be a rally winner. However while Galli outpaced Solberg and Granholm, he could not generate the pace to challenge Loeb.

Galli's second glace e end of th as due

largely to his tyre choices, which worked mwch better than the other Pirelli runners.

His rally deteriorated on leg two, losing time when an intercooler pipe came adrift.

The Italian fought back with consistent .top five times and another fastest on Saturday afternoon. Clearly the Italian should have finished higher than eighth.

"We have to wait two rallies and after that, a new solution is coming, we have tested and it is quite good, we have to work but I believe we will have maximum chance when that change comes," said an optimistic Galli.

Gronholm was at his mood-,: best, clearly annoyed at his continuing lack of rally winning speed . " It was quite difficult in the muddy places t© stay on the road . It's OK, we are quite happy," said the Finn in am unconvinci ng delivery.

Gronholm 's team-mate Markko Martin continued to struggle wi1ih the difficult Peugeot 307 and must be wondering what he could have achieved had he stayed at Ford. Fifth was a struggle for the Estonian and he is now looking forward to better things in 2007.

Carlos Sain ad &§ s i ~t set b een ooss Guy Frequ§l n as heemerged from a six-mo

retirement to pinch -hit in place of the dumped Duval. The Spaniard was settled into a good pace to ensure strong points scoring potential and his fourth place was strong reward for Citroen's faith , edging them closer to Peugeot in the makes title.

"It's not an easy rally, it's easy to make a mistake and the last thing I wanted to do is make a mistake," said Sainz. " It was qwite a mixture. I ca m tell you one thing - if I'm coming to Greece it will be for sure my last rally."

Toni Gardemeister put in another workmanlike performar:ice for sixth place and while the Finn is at times competitive, team boss Malcolm Wilson must be keenly anticipating the array of talent that may be available for season 2007. lr:i fairness, Gardemeister may have taken fifth had he not had a tyre explode on the second leg. However neither the Finn, nor his Czech teammate Roman Kresta in seventh, were really able to challenge the teams ahead.

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Anthony Warm bold slotted mis privateer Foc l!l s in behind Galli for ninth while Harri Rovanpera bounced back from his retiremel'lt on leg one, when he bent his rear suspension ora his Lancer and stopped two stages firom the overnight halt, to round out the top 10.

Toshi Arai in a Subaru t rrumJi)ed Italian Mitsubish i driver Marc®s Ligato on the final sta§e to take tme honorurs in a thrill in@ battle fer the Production car class.

It is now on to the fourth and final Mediterranean tortwre test with t he heat and dust of the Acropolis sure to provide more than a few headaches. Solberg will be hoping he can come.from behind in Greece and break Loeb's dominance. If he does, it will be a feat of Olympic effort.

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Manufacturers' Points: Peugeot 72, Citroen 68, Ford 49, Subaru 46, Mitsubishi 30, Skoda 8.

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ODY Crocker has jumped clear of the pack after an emphatic win in Round 2 of the ARC Super Series in Queensland, taking his Subaru to two more heat wins and maintaining his perfect 2005 record.

Crocker had a relatively troublefree run to clinch both heats and scoop maximum points for the second-consecutive rally.

While at times challenged by both Scott Pedder in the Mitsubishi and Simon Evans in his Toyota, Crocker was never truly pressured and didn't put a foot wrong, while his opponents had to overcome numerous problems and pitfalls.

Crocker took Heat 1 by 49.Ss from Dean Herridge and backed that up with a 14s win on Day 1, fending off a determined Evans on his way to the win.

The only problem Crocker seemed to encounter was a slipping clutch on the opening stages on Saturday.

However, it didn't really prevent the Subaru driver from powering to another victory.

"This was the hardest rally of the year so far and I wouldn't have expected this sort of performance at the start of the year," said Crocker.

'Tm absolutely rapt. This year we are just working to be consistent in every stage of every rally, and if you can achieve that with the car that we have then you are always going to be a threat at the end of the day."

Evans was second overall after taking fourth in a troubled first heat and then a fine second place on Sunday. The Toyota ace again showed the Corolla's potential. But for a freak timing belt problem on leg one, he may have challenged Crocker for the win.

The Joyota camp had more than its fair share of woes on Saturday morning when all four Corollas (including the privateer machine of Martin Lintott) lacked power from the very firs t stage. When the Toyotas arrived at the Service Park at the end of SS2 Neal Bates pulled out to help trace the problem, sending Evans out to try and get through the four stages to the next service.

After some detective work, the team deduced that on the very steep hill before the start control on SSl, all four Corolla drivers had waited with the cars switched off- but in gear.

When they started and on compression, the tensioner allowed the timing belt to jump several teeth,

seriously compromising the Corolla's performance.

Once the problem was fixed, Evans attacked in the usual way, taking fastest on the final two stages of the opening leg and moving from 11th to fourth in the process.

"I wasn't feeling very happy at the start of Day 1 but I was pretty pleased with the way it finished," said Evans.

"I was just about ready to pack up and go home when the car was struggling on Saturday but I am awfully glad I stuck at it."

Herridge had his share of bad fortune, suffering a puncture early on Day 1 and hitting a tree late on Day 2 to finish third behind Evans overall.

H erridge's co-driver Bill Hayes injured his ribs in the crash and the Subaru team had their work cut out for them, getting tlte car repaired at the last service to ensure he could drive to the podium celebrations in Caloundra.

"It is a very disappointing end and it has left the guys with a fair bit of work to do to repair the car before Tasmania, " Herridge said.

"The road tightened up over a crest and we found ourselves in the loose stuff and it was on from there.

Fortunately we could keep going and we got it back for -the final service, so we salvaged something from the day."

Pedder was fastest on the opening stage of the rally but things spiralled downwards from there, with the Mitsubishi driver rolling on the secon_d stage, wiping out his chances of cl1allenging the Suli>arus.

"It was on a tight left down11ill hairpin," said Pedder.

"I pulled it in nicely on the handbrake but the car dug right in and tipped over and then back onto its wheels. We only lost about 50 seconds, but when it dug into the road, it's damaged the intercooler pipe slightly so we were down on power."

The car's handling was affected across the rest of Day 1 and despite taking third on the opening leg, he took an early shower on Day 2 after. hitting a tree in the ill-handling Lancer.

"We had good car speed, so that's a positive, we just have to pull it all together now and win a rally," said Pedder.

Barker showed some good speed after the timing belt problem. A driveshaft failure brought his

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good speed and consistency throughout the rally and was never really challenged by his Mitsubishi rival Jack Monkhouse.

Monkhouse took a seventh and a sixth in the two heats and is clearly still trying to come to terms with his new Lancer after switching from an older Mitsubishi Galant for season

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Subaru Challenge graduate Steve Glenney posted a sixth and a seventh, while Sydney car dealer Kevin Shaw took his older Evo VI to a pair of eighths, beating fellow motor trader Lintott, who returned from a Saturday retirement in his privateer Corolla to take 10th on Day 2 behind Subaru satellite team driver Benni Tirant.

Canberra's Gavin Mosher had his '[ maiden hea t win in the Subaru CEhallenged o n Salaturday ahead of Eli :.c vans an 1oc John Goasdoue, il. while Will Orders bounced back from a puncture and a small off on Day 1 to win Heat 2.

The icy cold southern forests of Tasmania beckon for ARC crews at the next round in mid July where Crocker will be out to continue his dominance of the title and Evans will attempt to put his Tassie misfortune behind him to break the Subaru stranglehold.

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retirement later in the day, while a smoking engine and then a rollover on Sunday totally ruined the young Toyota driver's weekend.

If Barker and Pedder had a bad time, then Juha Kangas must'have been wondering what he had done to deserve his lot in Queensland.

Kangas crashed heavily, putting his Walkden Subaru out of Heat 1 on

Saturday's penultimate stage before backing up and suffering almost exactly the same fate on Sunday.

The privateer battled raged hard all weekend and Brad Goldsborough again showed his class with fifth place on both heats in a relatively trouble-free run aboard his ex-works Subaru .

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FORD WAC drivers Toni Gardemeister and Roman Kresta have been put on notice that they will need to deliver dramatically Improved performances if they want to preserve their chances of being retained by the team in 2006.

Gardemeister had a great start to the year and led the title after three rallies with top-three finishes on the Swedish and the Monte Carlo Rallies, however despite the latest Michelin tyres - reckoned to be worth the equivalent of 30kW - he only managed sixth in Turkey, behind three Pirelli-shod rivals as well as the works Citroens.

Kresta is yet to finish higher than sixth this year and has been under strict instructions to finish after rolling in the Rally of New Zealand shakedown.

"I am hoping that we will see a bit of an upturn in GJeece from both drivers. I'm hoping that they can both push the envelope," MSport/Ford boss Malcolm Wilson said.

Greece may be the acid test as Ford has won four of the last five Acropolis rallies with Focus.

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MITSUBISHI'S WRC chief engineer Mario Fomaris will leave the team at the end of this month after just over two years with the troubled Japanese m ak er.

Fornaris was drafted into a Sven Quand t's new regime when the German millionaire assumed control of the team in early 2003.

He was responsible for the current Lancer WRC04/05, which was developed from the ground up and is totally different to previous Lancers.

A former Peugeot Sport enginee1; Fonaris played a key role in the development of the dominant 206 WRC. "This is Mario Fomaris's personal decision and we have to respect it," said Ralliart boss Isao Torii.

"We must say thankyou for all his efforts with the development of the car and the restructuring of the team in the last two and half years. The ' current success of the Lancer WRC0S is largely due to his engineering experience and expertise."

Fornaris will be replaced by Spanish engineer Roger Estrada, a Mitsubishi stalwart. Olivier Jansonnie will take charge of developmen t of the Lancer WRC0S. - JON THOMS ON

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PEUGEOT has joined the growing number of manufacturers preparing for the Super 2000 rally car formula, announcing that it is about to start designing a car to be r.eady for season 2007.

While Peugeot w ill pull out of the WRC at the end of thi s year, it is believed that the Super 2000 machine w ill enable it to have an involvement in the sport under cheaper and more production oriented categories proposed by the FIA. "We w ill begin to develop a car over the next few months and w e w ill see if w e continue w ith Super 1600 or go Super 2000 . We w ill decide at the beginning of 2006, " said Peugeot Sport boss Jean-Pierre Nicolas.

He declined to specify w hich model w ould become the rally car.

He stressed that Peugeot w as not ma king a formal commitment to the latest four-w heel-drive category, but said that the project was likely to go ahead provided other manufacturers support it.

VW and Toyota have already rallied Super 2000 cars in South Africa , however Fiat is preparing a car and Renault is investigating the category, and an involvement by the giant French maker w ill certainly influence Peugeot's decision .

Peugeot's involvement w ill make it increasingly likely that Super 2000 becomes the ma in national rally category w orldw ide. It is believed that it will be merged w ith the top Group N cla ss and renamed R4 under the FIA's new category proposals, and w ould become the Production World Championship formula .

- JON THOMSON

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CITROEN'S benched number two driver Francois Duval made an appearance at the Rally of Turkey as a spectator.

The Belgian spectated on the first stage of the final leg with friends but did not visit the Citroen service park.

Citroen Sport boss Guy Frequelin said that he had not invited Duval to the rally and that the drive r had turned up to meet members of his fan club. Duval's future as a Citroen driver remains in the balance Ford Australia Motorsport Operations Manager Ross Booth was visitor in the service park at Rally Queensland with a road-going version of the new Ford Focus, which the manufacturer will debut as a rally car later in the year.

However, Booth would not be drawn on details of the program, either in terms of technical details or the timing of the car's debut.

"We will reveal detail when we are ready and keep people guessing," said Booth.

"The car will debut in one of the four rallies remaining. I can't say when; it may be one, two, three or four.

"We have just entered the build phase and the team is working hard to have the car rally ready for a debut this year. We had to wait the arrival of the new Focus from Europe, which was delayed due to the high demand for the new car."

Although Michael Guest, Ford's new pilot, was not at the rally over the weekend, his co-driver Mark Stacey was and it is understood the pair did undertake recce in preparation for the 2006 ARC. Mark Pedder was on standby before Rally Queensland to drive the Allan Heaphy-run Mitsubishi Lancer piloted by his brother Scott, who was awaiting word from his wife Caroline of the imminent arrival of the couple's second child.

Patriarch of the Pedder clan Ron told MNews that Mark, who 1s sitting out this year following the closure of the Pedder's rally team, didn't need to be asked twice if he was available to fill in for his sibling.

"He was all ready to go but as 1t turned out he wasn't needed but he would have been there at a thousand miles an hour," said Ron. Given his fortunes 1n the forests around lmbil, Scott Pedder may have been wishing that Caroline had called.

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WORLD Champion Jason Crump suffered a major setback in his quest to retain the title this year when he scored just five points at the British Speedway GP last weekend.

At the close of the meeting, Crump was considering an official protest to the FIM concerning controversial decisions by Polish referee

The point of no return: Bjarne Petersen about to taste wall at the British Grand Prix.

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Congratulations on your win in the WA AHG series. How would you rate your season as a whole?

JAMJE MAIOLO: It's probably been one of our most consisten t to date.

Every meeting I think we had a podium or close to it, so we were pretty happy with that.

MN: With the country rounds that were added to the series for the first time, were you happy with your performance at those?

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Kalgoorlie we won the night so that was good and one of the other rounds we won our two heats and then broke a shock in the final and finished third. We were probably good enough to win, but it happens.

MN: Did the country rounds add value to the series?

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MN: Who do you rate as you biggest opposition here in the West?

JM: Probably Ryan Farrell. We won three or four rounds and he won five.

I don't think anyone else won more than one feature. They were all single winners so we had our nights and he had his nights.

MN: When you changed to the Kendrick team at the start of the season, were you apprehensive about the move?

JM: We were pretty keen to go racing

Wiith Geoff, a high profile team and pretty professional with all his advertising and everything he does.

It was a good move for us, and a good move for him I suppose.

MN: That leads into my next question. What expectations did Geoff Kendrick have of you at the start of the season?

JM: He knows how we've run the

past five or six years. He was probably looking for a bit of a name didn 't want to run just anyone. He's probably been through tho e days,

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1ggle street Marek Wojcek, who excluded him three times when most independent observers, inch.!lding may millions on worldwide TV, would have surely taken a different view.

Crump still lies second in the GP standing but he is now a massive 32 points behind leader Tony Rickardsson.

It was also a disappointing night for the two other Australians in the field. Ryan Sullivan pulled out with just a single point from two rides. He blamed the after

running someone new where they rip up the gear and don't finish races.

MN: Was having a competitive team-mate like Jeff Leisk a positive or negative for you?

JM: No,,it was good to race with Jeff Leisk. It was a bit of a highlight for my career to race with someone like that, who was the world rnotorcross number two.

We work well as a team but on the night, as with other teams, we have our guys on our deal and he has his guys on his deal. When stuff happens, all the guys help out.

MN: Did your crew chief Brett Satori come on board at the start of the season,-and how did he influence you and the team?

effects of a severe crash in Poland six days earlier.

Leigh Adams also struggled somewhat and put in arguably his worst night's GP work for a long while. In his five qualih;ing races he scored just seven points from two second places and three thirds, it left him two points short of a semi-final place.

For one rider though it was another memorable night, as Tony Rickardsson took a sizeable step towards equalling the legendary Ivan Mauger's record six World titles when he won an incident-packed final in front of a 38,000-strong crowd at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

TONY Rickardsson was also victorious at Round 3 of the World Speedway GP three weeks ago at the Slovenian GP. In the final, Jason Crump, under the weather in the humid temperatures, was never in a position to mount a serious challenge against Rickardsson and trailed home fourth behind 2003 World champion Nicki Pedersen and home favourite Matej Zagar.

"It was really tough out there and the heat made the racing

difficult," said Crump. "People suggested to me it was like racing in Australia but I don't do that very often so I wouldn't know about that."

Pedersen thoroughly deserved to be back on the rostrum again.

He would probably have topped the qualifying scores but for a fifth ride engine failure.

Zagar, the wild-card entry, obviously knows this Krsko track like the back of his hand but this was his first appearance here this year. His ambition is to win a fulltime place in the Grand Prix lineup and his performance enhanced his chances of selection in 2006.

Ryan Sullivan bounced back after a disappointing start to the year to be the equal-highest points qualifier for the semis, but finished a disappointing last in the semi final involving Crump and Rickardsson The third Aussie in the field, Leigh Adams, after just six points from his first four rides, had to win his last race to reach the semis. He did so, but could progress no further. He is now fourth in the overall classification, having slipped behind Pedersen.

- TONY MILLARD

JM: He came on board wi th Geoff

JM: We will look at the calendar here

and that's w hy Geoff was keen to run two cars. Brett is the full-time mechanic on both cars during the week and he is my crew chief on race night and Geoff Kendrick is Jeff Leisk's on race night. Me and Brett work well together, he prepares the car to what I like and it worked really w ell.

MN: Will you be with the Kendrick team next season?

JM:More than likely. We have a meeting this weekend actually, so nothing is finalised yet, but more than likely. You will know in a couple of weeks.

MN: Will you be doing any racing on the east coast?

and ... if there's a bit of a break we will more than likely head over there and do a few meetings.

MN: Would you like to run on the east coast a lot more than you currently do if you had the time?

JM: I like racing over east. You rock up and there's like 50 or 55 competitors there and probably 20 guys capable of winnin g, but when you race here there's only about half a dozen guys you're really racing against, so running over eas t makes us better and better racing.

MN: Who has been the biggest influence on you career so far?

JM: Probably my old man, he has been there for me from the start.

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All Kinser in Woo STEVE Kinser is absolutely making a mockery of his opposition in the World of Outlaws Sprintcar Series.

'The King' led from start to finish to wi n the A-Main at 1-96 Speedway last Thursday night, extending his championship lead with his 16th AMain wi n of the season.

Brian Paulus, Sammy Swindell and 1im Kaeding have been able to break Kinser's stranglehold over the past few weeks, each recording feature wins.

Which young Australian driver, who has raced both at home, in Europe and in Asia in the past but has spent this year on the sidelines, is looking to make a switch to speedway?

He is currently in talks with a Sprintcar legend to run one of his cars in the Parramatta City Raceway Track Championship for the upcoming season.

Robbie Farr will again be embarking on the full schedule of the World Series Sprintcars Championship with Reeve Kruck's 'Titan Racing.

Another to confirm their intention to do the full schedule is Wayne Nicholls, who has recently acquired two brand new Razor chassis and all the necessary spares. The Victorianbased driver however, is still in need of a crew chief.

Darwin's Northline Speedway hosted World Series Sprintcars rising stars and Northern Territorians Ben Atkinson and Danny Reidy two weeks ago. But it was Warrene Ekins, using a new car and open powerplant, that won the night.

But the tal king point was the clash between Reidy and Atkinson at the start of the feature, which saw Reidy's Eagle flip end-for-end four times.

"I saw Ben's left front wheel coming up the inside of me," said Reidy. "As soon as I felt the hit, I knew I was in for a big end over. I could only shut my eyes and nde it out to the end."

Atkinson was apologetic.

"At the start, I got jumped by the rest, so I took off after everyone else," said Atkinson. "When I got into Turn 1, Danny was there and I slammed into the back of him. He's a hell of a driver and one of the fairest in Australia and I feel bad that he travelled all that way from Alice Springs only for me to take him out."

Sheboygan County Fair Park 11/06/05 .. nm Kaed ing . Sieve Kinser . . . Jason Meyers ...... Kraig Kinser ..... Donny Schalz ... Daryn Piltman . . . Shane Slewart . . Brooke Talnell . . . . Terry McCarl . . . . Travis Rilat

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11 . . . Paul McMahan 12 . ... Craig Dollansky .... . . . . Brian Paulus 13 14 .... . ........ Jason Sides . ... Joey Saldana 15. . .. . Brandon Wimmer 16. . .. .. .. .. .. Joe Roe 17 .. . ... .. . . Kim Mock 18 .. ... Wayne Modjeski 19 .. . . . Jason Solwold 20 .

. 4160 1 Steve Kinser .

2 Craig Dollansky. . . .... 3891 . 3866 3 Jason Meyers .

4 Kraig Kin ser . . . 3781 5 Danny Lasoski . . 3699 6 Donny Schalz . . .. 3622 7 Daryn Pittman . . . ... 3606 8 Joey Saldana . . . . .. 3593 9 Paul McMahan . 3574 10 nm Kaed ing .... ... . . 3533

11 Tim Shaffer . . . 3451 12 Shane Stewart .. 3441 13 Brooke Tatn all ........ 3362 . .. 3344 14 Terry Mccarl . . .

15 Brian Paulus . 3326 16 Jason Sides . . . ... . . 3247 17 Jason Solwold . . . 3056 . 2898 18 Brandon Wimmer 19 Sammy Swindell . . . 2784 20 Kevin Swindell. ....... 2193

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Morgan goes quickest ever, Bray gets beaten and record crowds flock to the 'best-ever' Winternationals at Willowbank. KEN FERGUSON was there

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UMEROUS broken records, spectacular fiery Top Fuel passes, and a $100,000 haircut highlighted the most successful ever Wintemationals yet.

Willowbank Raceway's 38th annual Winternationals attracted the biggest-ever competitor entry list at 560, as well as drawing record crowds through the gates to witness the quickest ever Top Fuel pass in Australia, the quickest side-by-side Doorslammer pass in history, the longest Group 1 winning streak broken, a number of fiery Top Fuel passes, as well the quickest ever Australian Top Fuel Harl~y pass.

Darren Morgan piloted the Lamattina Bros, Fuchs Oils Top Fuel dragster to the quickest pass seen on Australian soil with his 4.72s/ 306mph second round win over Terry Sainty in the RD Williams Group Top Fuel Eliminator.

Morgan had earlier qualified second behind Steve 'Pommie' Read in the Santo Rapisarda fueller, who recorded an early shut-off 4.73s at only 280mph. Read would certainly have been the first in the country into the 4.60s had he not shut off at the 900 foot mark. Morgan faced Roy

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Smith in the first round of eliminations and easily won wi th another four second pass, a 4.81s at 284mph, while Smith was left stranded not far from the start line when his engine exploded in a spectacular fashion at the hit of the throttle.

Morgan moved to the final at the expense of Sainty in the second round with his record setting 4.72s pass, to meet Pommie Steve Read who received the solo in the first round and disposed of Philip Read in the second. The final shaped up as a ripper wi th the country's two quickest dragsters both aiming to be the first in the '60s. Morgan grabbed the slight advantage off the start line, but Read was already in front by the 330' mark, only to see the engine explode in a huge fireball. Morgan streaked away for a 4.88s/276mph win.

Ben Bray's record winning-streak in Top Doorslammer, which dated back to last yea r's Tin Tops, was finally broken with a loss to Grant O'Rourke in the first round of eliminations in the Jack Daniel's Top Doorslammer class.

Bray Jnr was again at the top of the

qualifying list in the quickest field ever assembled with a bump spot of 6.28s. All three qualifying attempts were in the 6.0s, with a best of 6.04s at 233mph. Again he was the hot favourite to take the win, and the $10,000 on offer for the first five second pass by a Doorslammer.

Deno's Cranes owner Dennis Brijeski, competing at his first event in his 68 Camaro Doorslammer, put up the $10,000 incentive to see if the magical five second barrier could be broken.

An electrical malfunction in the Bray's Castrol/ Super Cheap '57 01ev saw the car dragged through the staging beams prematurely, handing the easiest of wins to O'Rourke.

Gary Phillips made his way through to the final in his Lucas Oils Products Studebaker at the expense of Peter Kapiris and Brett Stevens.

Stevens survived a big scare in his first round win over John Zappia, overcoming Zappia's excellent 6.09s at 239mph with a holeshot 6.17s, 238mph pass. Victor Bray kept the Team Bray flag flying when he recorded his best ever elapsed time, a 6.05s at 242mph to defeat Steve Stanic's 6.10s at 242mph in their

Round 1 encounter. T'his race rewrote the history books as the quickest ever side-by-side Doorslarnmer race.

Bray Sru then defeated O'Rourke in the second round to move i.nto-the final against Phillips. Bray's 6.1(')s at 235mph was good enough to grab victory over Phillips' 6.16s at 230mph.

Troy McLean recorded the country's quickest pass on a nitro Harley en route to a finals victory in the Morgan & Wacker Top Bike class.

It was a night of six second passes for the second of the Jack Daniel's Harley's recording a best of 6.59 at 209 in the second round of

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qualifying. He recorded nothing but six second passes in eliminations and defeated his boss, Brett Stevens in the final with a 6.69s at 193mph to Stevens' 7.27s at 169mph.

Ben Bray added another top qualifying prize to his cabinet with a number one spot in his Pontiac funny car in Top Alcohol.

Bray's 5.72s at 249mph also had him as favourite for this class. Steve Reed in his Nulons/Start Ya Bastard funny car was not far back on a 5.79s at 248mph, and was eventually Bray's opponent in the final. Reed got the better of his younger opponent in the final, driving around Bray's startline advantage to record the win with a 5.86s at 241mph by nearly eight hundredths at the finish.

Pro Stock Bike saw defending national Champion, Daniel Peatey qualifying in the number one spot,'

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just ahead of the ever improving Pete Cochrane on his Kawasaki, w ho recorded his best ever numbers at 7.54s at 176mph.

Cochrane wasted a good first round 7.63s when he left the start one thousandth of a second early. Peatey made his way through to the final to meet Michael Gilbertson, also on a Kawasaki, only to fall at the last hurdle.

Finally the reign of Suzuki's has come to an end in the Pro Stock class.

With the absence of the quickest Pro Stock car in the country, the Dodge Avenger of Jon Andriopoulos, there was no hot favourite for the event. Peter Ridgeway in the sea t of Mike Tinney's HSY Commodore, Dennis Whiting or Dave Rogan all looked like they were in with a shot.

Rogan was the favourite upon completion of qualifying with a 7.34s at 186mph, just ahead of Whiting's 7.36s at 185mph. Both were eventual finalists with Rogan taking the gold with a quicker 7.33s at 185mph over Whiting's 7.45s at 184mph.

Winners in other brackets included Craig Geddes in Comp Eliminator, Colin Lloyd in Super Stock, Damian Densmore in Comp Bike, Graeme Frdwley in Modified, Steven Fowler in Super Sedan, Matthew McKnight in Super Street, Ian Boswood in Modified Bike, John Somoracz in Super Gas, Tim Morton in J / Dragster, David Stevenson in Street Harleys and John Ward in the Supercharged Outlaws bracket.

Only winners: Clockwise from main picture, Darren Morgan, Steve Reed, Victor Bray, Dave Rogan, Michael Gilbertson and Tro y Mcl ean were the Group 1 winners at Willowbank last weekend.

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Take Rout e 66

SCOTI Kalitta, Gary Scelzi, Jason Line and Chip Ellis were victorious at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway at Joliet last weekend.

Kalitta, below, defeated secondtime '05 finalist Rod Fuller with a 4.51s at 330mph to a 4.60s at 323mph.

Fuller left first with a better 0.063s to 0.078s reaction time, but crew chief Jim Oberhoffer and Connie Kalitta's tune-up kicked in, propelling Kalitta to his second win of the season, after winning the season-opening Wintemationals.

Kalitta's Jesse James/Mac Tools machine was able to stop Morgan Lucas, his cousin and points leader Doug Kalitta, and fellow twotime series Champ Larry Dixon with 4.54s/326mph, 4.52s/325mph, and 4.55s/325mph passes.

Competing in only their seventh race of the year, Fuller and the David Powers Homes/Valvoline team reached their second final of the season, getting past Topeka

winner Dave Grubnic, low qualifier Tony Schumacher and surprise semifinalist John Smith.

Three-time Top Fuel champion Gary Scelzi, above, drove his Oakley /Mopar Funny Car to pull within 64 points of the POWERade leader John Force. In the final, Scelzi defeated Eric Medlen, clocking the quickest and fasted pass of the weekend at 4.740s at 330.80 mph against Medlen's 4.80 at 321. The win was the 31st of Scelzi's career, his second of the season in three finalround showings, and his sixth victory since switching to a Funny Car in 2002.

Scelzi advanced to his 49th career

final by earlier besting Bob Gilbertson, low qualifier Robert Hight and Tommy Johnson Jr. Line defended his Joliet event title, winning with a 6.73s/203 mph to stop Jeg Coughlin's 6.80s at 202 mph.

The reigning Rookie of the Year's win moved him up to third in the points, 24 behind second-place Warren Johnson and 49 off the pace of new leader Greg Anderson, who assumed the POWERade lead for the first time this year.

In early eliminations, Line defeated Greg Stanfield, King Demon Crown winner Dave Connolly, and Richie Stevens.

Chip Ellis took the Pro Stock Motorcycle win by defeating a dead-late Scali in the Pro Stock Motorcycle final. This one was over at the starting line when Ellis' 0.063s light was completely overshadowed by " Scali's day later reaction time i of 0.242s. Ellis recorded a winning 7.20 at 180 to Scali's trailing 7.345/179 mph. ;. - DAVID OSTASZEWSKI

Champ Back In Form

DEFENDING IHRA Pro Modified Champion Mike Janis returned to winning form at Virginia Motorsports Park by collecting his first victory of the 2005 IHRA Hooters Drag Racing Series.

Other racers collecting wins at the AC Delco Nationals were Clay Millican, who took home his third straight Top Fuel win, Alcohol Funny Car saw Rob Atchison overtake Mark Thomas for the points lead as he took home his second win of the year and Rick Jones grabbed victory in Pro Stock.

Janis rebounded in great style from early season troubles that saw him fail to qualify for the first two races.

In the final round, Janis coasted to an easy victory as Al Billes could not answer his challenge. In early rounds, Janis clocked passes of 6.16s/232mph, 6.25s/223mph and 6.21s/231mph during early eliminations to trail Charles Carpenter, Ed Hoover and Eddie Ware.

Billes made his '05 IHRA debut in Jim Oddy's new Summit racing Dodge Stratus, qualifying third at 6.169s.

In the first round he recorded an even-better 6.12s at 236.22mph to defeat Rick DiStefano. The 236.22mph speed was good for a new IHRA mile-pe~-hour world record. A 15June2DD5

second round 6.15s/235mph stopped Rick Moore but a 6.19s/215mph holeshot win over Shannon Jenkins proved costly as the team could not return for the fina l.

Millican continued his early season dominance as he bested Doug Foley in the Top Fuel final with a pass of 4.56s at 320mph while Foley slowed. Millican's pass set both track records in the process. The Werner Enterprises team had posted wins over CJ. Nelson, and Bruce Litton to reach the final.

Jones defeated point leader Steve Spiess in the Pro Stock final with a pass of 6.46s at 216mph as Spiess' car went into tyre shake. Jones new Chevrolet Cobalt had earlier defeated the Dodge of Larry O'Brien, and Ford racers, Frank Gugliotta, and Robert Patrick.

In Alcohol Funny Car, Atchison beat Terry McMillen.

Atchison clocked a winning pass of 5.88s at 238mph to stop McMillen's 6.06s/235mph.

The next stop on the Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series is the Mopar Canadian Nationals presented by Castro!, June 10-12 at Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, Canada.

- DAVID OSTASZEWSKI

MOTOR SPORTS pioneer and former IHRA President Larry Carner passed away on June 7 following a lengthy battle wrth Alzheimer's disease. He was 82.

Carrier bwlt Bristol Motor Speedway in 1961 and opened the adjacent Bristol Dragway rn 1965.

The dragstrip hosted the NHRA Springnationals from 1965 to 1967 before switching to AHRA sanction.

Carner later founded the International Hot Rod Association rn 1970 and presided over rt untrl 1987.

Carrier was inducted rnto the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and the Drag Racrng Hall of Fame. He is suNived by his wife, Shirley and four children. Carrier's sons Mark and Andy own Carrier Boyz Racrng and field the Fram ArrHog Top Fuel dragster that Cory McClenathan drives.

Summit Racing Equipment, primary sponsor of two-time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Greg Anderson, has further strengthened its presence in NHRA POWERade drag racing by signing 2004 NHRA Rookie of the Year Jason Line to a full sponsorship.

Since making hrs NHRA Pro Stock debut mrdway through 2003, Line has posted 11 final round appearances and has five event wrns, including a 2005 victory at the Mac Tools Gatornat1onals rn Gainesville, Florida. In 2004, he finished second in NHRA POWERade Serres Pro Stock pornts and was named NHRA Rookre of the Year.

NHRA AMS Pro Modified Champion Mike Ashley has announced that he and Torco Race Fuels President Evan Knoll wrll debut a themed 'Nitro Attitude' Funny Car during the 51 st annual Mac Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals rn Indianapolis.

The program will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Knoll's Torco Race Fuels product line. Plans are for Ashley, a New York mortgage banker, to drive a thrrd Funny Car under the Worsham Racing Checker, Shucks and Kragen operation.

The plans call for three events beginning rn Indianapolis with stops in Dallas and Las Vegas. There 1s also talk of a limited tour rn 2006. Ashle~ will begrn licensing soon.

In related news. Evan Knoll's Torco Race Fuels has purchased the Mike Dzurilla-owned Bullet Motorsports Chevrolet Cobalt team This secures the future of NHRA Pro Stock driver Dave Connolly's 2005 season.

- DAVID OSTASZEWSKI

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national Lowe gets WPS VB test scene

BRAD Lowe will drive the WPSbacked Aussie Racing Car for the remainder of the 2005 season, and with that will come a bonus - a test in one the Queensland team's V8 Supercars at the end of the season.

Lowe, who is based in Sydney, made his debut in the black and silver Falcon at Eastern Creek recently and immediately impressed. He finished second overall and threatened the likes of some of

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the category regulars .

"The deal all came about pretty quick," he told MNews. "I'm happy to be a part of the WPS team. I've been welcomed by all of them and I can 't wait to have a drive of the Supercar, but I'm not really gettiRg too concerned by that at the moment. I want to concentrate on the Aussie Racing series, focus on good results and see where that puts us at the end of the year."

Lowe did admit that he w ould love to drive in tne V8 Supercar

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championship one day.

"That's what I want to do," he said . "It's what I've put all my racing into, but that may be a long way off."

- GRANT ROWLEY

Price headi

BART Price will venture to the United States next month to compete in the second round of the Snap-on Stars of Karting Series's Eastern Division competition at 103rd Street Karting Complex in Jacksonville, Florida on July 1-3.

Price will be using the trip to further develop Arrow's ICC kart, as well as pitch himself against the best kart drivers in the US. "Basically, we need to get over there and race to gather information and really see what the conditions are like over there in America," said Price.

"We spend all our time here in Australia trying to develop a shifter kartthatt really for the US market, because 1t really isn't such a big c111ss here in Australia. So we need to get over there and see

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what the conditions are1ika " "The competiti0n o'7~ell going to be a lot comp~ than it 1s over here. At ~ round otthe Stars of · think thera wer~ -entnes tn

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Price will be up against it in the ultr~ompetitive competition, only arrivmgTiil 'Ifie US the Thursday before the race, giving h im little time to 'learn the circuit.

Price will take two of Arrow's ICC chassis and a JT Motorsport-tuned TM 125cc engine with him to tha US for the event, leaving. them with Arrow's US distributor-BTK Motorsport in expecta$ m of competing in further sfatesMe events later this year: Hwa are looking at do1ng:1hree races 1hroughOutthl£Year;~ aren'fyet sure ~ ~f-ti'.16 dates of all thr-ee'Ot: "' Basically we distributor what ,s over there, but we erf over t her'ff to se& lCC:fo Olil!S~ lha. .

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Island Playground ROUND 3 of the Victorian State Series at

i Philip Island offered plenty of action last

lead changes: David Frith won a thrilling Formula Vee feature race, above, but Spiridis didn't quite get the job done after an altercation with the tyre wall at MG Corner.

weekend.

Tim Blanchard and John Martin had a ding-dong battle up front in Formula Ford.

Blanchard narrowly held out Martin for victory. Paul Laskazeski had a mixed weekend but scorched home to finish third.

Formula Vees set the track alight with up to seven lead changes in a single lap. Andy Johnston led from David Frith on the final lap, however Frith streamlined Johnston down the final straight and claimed the win by 0.008s. Jason Kerr was third.

Mort Fitzgerald dominated the MG field with a flag-to-flag thrashing. The early retirements of front runners Robin Bailey and Rob Whitwell saw Neil Hopwood claim second from John Baragwanath.

Improved Production pole-sitter Cameron Van Den Dungen was out before the end of the first lap with fuel supply problems.

Leanne Tander capitalised on this opportunity, leading from start to finish from Graeme Watts and Tony Floreani.

Up front in the HQ Holdens, John Wise snatched a handy break on the final lap

from the chasing pack and went on to win.

Alf Kuusela finished a 0. ls behind in second

place, while Adrian Brown picked up third.

Sam Abay proved too good in the Porsehe 944 feature race. Brent Rose passed 21 cars to finish a fantastic second. John Morriss was unable to hold out Rose on the last lap, taking third place.

Brett Bedggood never looked back after the start of the Sports Cars feature race holding strong from a gallant Matthew Turnbull who ended up taking second place in his Porsche GT3. Tom Hutchinson was third.

Scott Slater came from the rear of the field to challenge race leader Wayme Purdon for the closing stages of the race. However Purdon's Falcon XY proved too strong in the end claiming victory from Slater witl1 Bill Trengwve a distant third.

Sports Sedans left the front row vacant in a sign of respect for Luke Chambers failier who passed away recently. This didn't stop Dean Camm from taking an emphatic victory from Luke. Rod Smith was able to hold onto third fu-orn olose challengers.

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think we have a product that is capable of good results, and on the other hand we want to show that our product is capable and get some good people to run the karts next year."

A key to Price's attack will be world-renowned karting guru Jon Targett, who will engineer Price on the US expedition.

"Peter Woodgate has been my mechanic at all the CIK rounds I've done in ICC, while Jon Targett has his own CIK team to run, so it is impossible to have him mechanic for us. But JT has a lot of experience from all around the world and obviously carries a lot of information around with him in his head."

The 'Stars' series is North America's premier karting series, running four-round eastern and western series before hosting a grand finale, which last year was held on the streets of Disney World in Orlando. The professionalism and prizes on offer rival anything in the world.

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AU.STRALIAN karters have had a great couple of weeks competing in Europe recently.

NSW's Steel Guiliana scored his best result so far in the Rotax Mojo MAX Euro Challenge when he placed third at the second round of the championship in England. Competing in the Junior MAX class, Guiliana damaged his primary Vanspeed chassis early in the event and had to revert to a spare.

He worked his way up in the heats and started the final from grid seven before enduring a tough battle with Kazuki Hiramine. Steel overtook the Japanese driver on the last lap.

Former F1 Grand Prix journo Jeff Hutchinson has taken over the ownership of Azzurro karts.

Hutchinson, 57, concluded a deal with Azzurro founder John McCleverty earlier this month. McCleverty will continue to manufacture the chassis and components in Queensland, however all sales and marketing activities have moved to new premises at Tweed Heads where Bob Allingham will oversee operations.

Hutchinson recently retired from F1 life and became involved in the sport via his nine year old son who competes at Lismore.

A number of ARC A1 TaG engines were rwn in an Over 40s class

at Tasmania 's AJL Mechanical/Big Legends meeting recently. The 16strong field was split fifty-fifty between ARC's A1 and Yamaha's KT1 00J. This was also true of the results, Dale Madden winning Lights with an A1 while Andrew Walter was victorious in Heavy with a Yamaha.

Karting featured on Geoff Jansz Fresh program recently. Jansz and Dick Johnson thrashed a number of twin-engines ProKarts around the Channel 9 Sydney car park.

Predictably, Jansz claimed he was the winner.

Jason Hryniuk has continued his incredible Premier State Cup run, picking up another couple of wins at Lithgow·s third round last month. The CRG driver took won the Rotax Light and Clubman Light Finals. Damien Meyer won Rotax Heavy while Peter Lawler (Clubman Heavy), Scott Simpson (Clubman Super Heavy) and Matthew Hart (Midgets) ensured another strong showing from CRG. The Oakleigh Kart Club will be holding a karting-specific Swap Meeting at its Southern City Classic meeting next month. The Swap Meet will be run on Saturday, July 16.

Potential sellers should contact the club.

- MARKWICKS

-AARON SHAW

TASMANIA'S Ben George took victory at the second round of the Austrian Rotax MAX Championships at Bruck two weeks ago.

He qualified the Team-V Intrepid kart on pole then won two races. Although he fell to third in the wet final, he w on the meeting overall and now leads the Austrian championship.

A week earlier, George, below, competed in Senior Rotax at the same meeting as Steel Guiliana, see briefs, but, despite running inside the top 10, fell back to place 17th place with brake problems.

- MARK WICKS

ANZ Sierra turning laps in UK

THE Ford Sierra RSS00 reshaped touring car racing across the globe.

The car, born out of the Sierra RS Cosworth, came to tracks in large numbers. And one of them carried the hopes of a man inextricably linked with Ford: Allan Moffat. These days, the car still races in the UK. It started life as Andy Rouse's spare Sierra. The BTCC ace shipped it, himself and regular co-driver Thierry Tassin to Bathurst to join Allan Moffat for the round of the World Touring Car Championship in 1987.

For much of the week 'The Grouse Rouse' was fastest, until Klaus Ludwig's Eggenberger-run car snatched pole. Rouse still led the race, and was in great form for the first 45 rnin u tes until the transmission cried 'enough'.

The car is now owned by British club racer Martin Johnston, a locksmith by trade, and a great fan of the Sierra RSSOO. "I have three of them," he explains.

'Tve got Tiin H arvey's 1990 Labbatt's car and the Steve Soper Eggenberger car from 1988. I had the Labbat's car on display at the Autosport International Show when a guy mentioned this car to me. It cost by '£14,000 (A$33,300) which included

$4000 worth of wheels and five thousand quid of spares. It was a steal."

From Bathurst, the car raced at Calder a fortnight later and then went to France for 1988 where Alain Ferte raced it. It remained in France, in private hands, in 1989, and it was here that i t underwent a major transformation: it switched to lefthand drive.

Johnston, who has only done four races in his life, is loathe to switch it back to RIID, but h as put the ANZ livery back on the car.

"I know it isn't quite as it was in 1987," he said. "But it is close. What you can say is that it is the original car with the original engine and gearbox and a fantastic history."

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Hundreds at Winton Histor,ics

THE annual Historic Winton event again featured a bumper grid at the rural circuit three weeks ago.

Unlike years gone by, Winton produced balmy and calm conditions, unlike the below-bearable temperatures of the past few years.

A massive contingent of Group N Touring Cars meant

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Roger Ealand (Marcos GT) won the Alan Jones Memorial while in Group Q , Andrew Makin's March walked in a win from Malcolm Miller.

Over 25 entries and a large crowd were on hand for the event.

All British-test at wakefield

OVER 100 All British cars converged on Goulburn's Wakefield Park Raceway two weeks ago.

Combined British, Triumph, Mini's, MG / Healey and regularity events were the classes of racing which were held in the morning. Then, for the afternoon the four racing categories were broken up into two divisions based on their respective lap times from the two races in the morning.

Combined British saw Brian Todd (Jaguar XJ6) proved to be the most consistent after qualifying on pole. Peter Turnbull (Ford Sports Clubman) won Race 1 while Todd placed fourth but bounced back into the top spot by taking a last lap victory in the trophy race . Chris Dubios (Ford Escort 1300 GT) and Cameron Schofield (Morris Cooper S) filled second and third respectively.

In the Triumph class, Graeme Rutledge (Triumph Coupe TR8) topped the time sheets in qualifying, Jeff Ward (Triumph TR7) scored victory in Race 1, and Mark Marsillo (Triumph Dolomite Sprint) was the winner of trophy race .

Charlie Borg was untouchable in the three Mini races while the MG/Healey section saw Cameron Sell (Austin Healey 300) whitewash his rivals by qualifying on pole position and taking two comprehensive wins.

Steven Howard (Ford Escort RS2000) was the dominant driver in the three regularity events, which were each held over a distance of 6-laps.

Improved Showing

THE third round of the Victorian Matar Racing Series saw an improved showing at Calder Park two weeks ago.

In HQ Holdens, Mario Gaffiero took pole position and all five race wi ns . Dallas Crane scored a trio of second places but was upset by Stuart McMurray in the fi nal for second place.

Sedan Cars was a ease of Ford versus Holden . Brian Edhouse claimed three wins in mis Falcon EB, w hile Phillip Webster grabbed pole and two race victories. Corey Gooch1s LJ Torana was a regular podium placer.

Daryl Coon won the first four Saloon Car races, but Geoff Brown snatched th e final.

Neil Anderson had the BMW E30 class under his thumb, scoring pole and the first four races wins , including Race 3's reverse grid . In the last heat though, problems struck ai;id Geoff Bowles claimed the victory.

Jamie Augustirie and David Skilton shared the spoils in a competitive and healthy Under 2 Litre Sports Sedan field .

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Race Car Transporter - Scania 113M., 360hp - lazy axle - Alcoa's - Maxi cube 45 cubic meter fiber glass pan - 1500kg tail lifter - Belly lockers - tyre rack - Stainless steel work bench - 240v Lighting - 8 Kva gen - Air comp. Good clean tidy truck. Suit any type of race car. $80,000 Neg. Mark 0894343691 .

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VB Supercar Transporter for sale, 95 IVECO MT3500 Prime Mover. 830,000k.

Only 30 k since dealer rebuild. double bunk sleeper. Trailer sold . $78,000.00 . Prime Mover $82k Trailer $75k ONO. Jim Morton 310 0412052489 . www.my105.com/47113

A Modified, Brand new XR6 engine, Koni suspension, 9" Dif, Reduction Stearing, Top Loader, WOLF computer, All Fuel tank, Storm Covers plus Spares. READY TO GOii. $9,000 Neg . Doug 0409 422 440.

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Kart for sale, Kart has done only a small number of race meets. Very fast. Comes with spare boll on front rims and a normal set of front rims. Has a Micron3 with CHT & Magnetic pickup for lap timing. An y questions please phone or e'mail. $3000 Or Best Offer. gary 041724 1783. 312 www.my105.com/45781

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Take that, Marcos So1nuch for the sincere sorry story from Marcos Ambrose - at the very next round he's at it again.

The only reason he said sorry was heavy commercial pressure; sincere apologies do not come from prepared statements, they come from the heart.

Marcos, you may have won two championships but you will never be a champion driver.

Peter Brock, Dick Johnson and Jim Richards would have never lowered themselves to taking out their opposition to win a champonship (Lowndes in New Zealand, Steve Richards in New Zealand, Mark Skaife in Perth and Eastern Creek). Look out Russell Ingall! Remember Darwin 2004?

The sooner he goes to America, the better. Then thls championship can have a true champion in every sense of the word.

Peter Hickey plzic3090@bigpond.com.nu

In Western Australia, do you really think Skaife could make the corner on cold tyres given the race line he took? There was no way he was going to malce the corner.

Also, at Eastern Creek, it was again Skaife v Ambrose. Shouldn't Skaife again give some room to the guy already racing on warm tyres?

After all, he had just exited pit lane on cold tyres.

At least there is great competition and incidents to view, . not like a few years ago when red cars ruled every race.

PJ Fletcl,er pjjletc/1er@bigpo11d.co111

Cromley is the best I'd just like to send in a reply to Andrew Cunningham's letter in MNews#3W. Mr Cunningham's sta tement Eastern Creek may well be that the that Neil Crompton needs to be IPO and DSO visited China prior to educated about jumping to the Eastern Creek round and conclusions is ridiculous. If anything modified their view of their Cromley is perhaps sometimes too interpretation of the VB racing rules diplomatic, but if Mr Cunningham after observing the traffic here. thinks he knows more about the Let me say, however, even a intricacies of VB Supercar racing, Shanghai taxi would have yielded maybe he should apply for Neil's job.

Skaife should conceed to when in a comparable position to that I think we should go back a few Falcons which Marcus found himself in at years to the early 90s before 10 took "Two weekends in a row ... I'm just turn 3 in the proximity of Skaife. over VB racing coverage. abou t over it." Mark Skaile used this Pat Driscoll Anyone remember Mike Raymond common expression during an patdriscoll@ssq.com .au and Co at Channel 7? interview with Daryl Beattie at Remember the late nights having Round 4 of the VB Supercars at Skaife should have let to wait for an edited package after the Eastern Creek Raceway .

Ambrose past footy?

Those of us who follow Skaifey Remember the commentary (aside (and do not particularly like hlm) and My opinion is all the one-eyed Holden fans, magazine writers from Mark Oastler) that was so out of his antics are probably saying to included, should take a closer look at touch wi th the modern racing? themselves 'have another cry some racing fac ts.

Neil is by far and away the best Skaifey'. · caller we've got and are How is it that Mark manages possibly most likely to ever Everyone's talking about him: leaving for the to be in the middle of so many have. Look at how he called tl1e US, leading the championship and of course, incidents?

Webber/ Fisichella) incident at leaning on Skaifey.

The officials declared it a Malaysia - he called it spot-on matter of racing room, and right tl1ere and then, while the after Marcos' recent apology, I ITV guys (as good as they are) don't thlnk that anyone is definitely got it wrong and going to argue the decision. took some time to get it right.

Joanne Stone WhlJe they might not be stonei;56@bigpond.com perfect, (you can't cater for everyone all the time) thank regs - all Chinese God for Channel 10 and it's A group of seven of us have coverage of all things tra velled to China for the motorsport.

Shanghai round of the VBs. We Jason Beck toured Beijing before we jacebeck@oze111ail.com.a11 arrived in Shanghai and have enjoyed the experience Kudos to Team immensely.

Longhurst One of the highlights has I was watching the VB been watching the traffic.

Supercars that my husbancj Things seem to happen pretty and I had taped from Eastern well considering there are no Creek and I would like to apparent rules. Everyone gives congratulate tJ1e WOW Sight & way, but no one has right of Sound team for its Free way - you earn that depending Schape!Je sign written across on speed, position, bluff, no the top of car #45's windscreen. eye contact and use of your I tJunk more people should horn (perhaps they could get behind this injustice put on consider fitting VBSupercars this young woman. with horns)!

L&M Aitken An explanation for the nitke11pc@bigpo11d.net.a11 Ambrose/Skaife ruling at

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