Race One – 10 laps
Lights out and there’s side-by-side racing all down the pack. There’s virtually nothing between the top 3 qualifiers over the opening laps. Nathan Tregarthen led as best of the rest but an unfortunate slide let the freight train through. David Lord led home Michael Palladino with Ross in third.Race Two – 13 laps
Reverse grid, and Michael had to fight hard to get back to the front of strong field. Latecomer Jeremy Persnesz does an excellent job to hold off the others. Michael spins and Ross finds himself in first. Jason Brooks pressures Scott who’s already pressuring Jeremy. Jason dives into the pits for new rubber and a break from the traffic. Meanwhile Jeremy just runs wide to let Scott Durham through. After his spin, Michael does what Michael does best – overtaking people, Scott being an impressive but unfortunate example. Pitstops are thrown into the mix and this one gets too hard to predict. Non-stopper David nursed and cared for his tyres just enough to be ahead of Michael and Ross (separated by a couple of tenths).Race 3 – 20 laps
The final enduro race started with a clean first lap, a common theme of the night. Michael gets the top spot but pressured off by David. Ross having no time for those games and jumps the both of them. Another tough break for Jason, running into a technical issue. The halfway point indicates that the one-stopper is the popular strategy for the long 20 laps and the pitlane gets busy. Scott stays out for lap leading bragging rights and soon returns to a solid fourth position. Just behind him, Francarlo Rizzo stayed in the hunt to pass Jeremy on the final turn of the race. It’s Michael’s plan that comes together to take the final battle of the night over Ross Rizzo then Lord. However Lord wins the night’s war and adds the 20 points to his championship campaign.
With the championship coming to a close its time for the drivers to drop their 2 lowest scoring rounds. Will this shake up the order as they cannot drop their points scored from the Final Round.
| 2013 Mixed League | ||||||||||||||
| Drivers | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Race 6 | Race 7 | Race 8 | Dropped Points | Total Points | Current Place | |||
| Michael Palladino | 20 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 22 | 97 | 1st | ||||
| David Lord | 15 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 27 | 85 | 2nd | ||||
| Iain Salteri | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 83 | 3rd | ||||
| Ross Rizzo | 10 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 78 | 4th | ||||
| Jeremy Pernesz | 13 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 64 | 5th | ||||
| Jason Brooks | 7 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 59 | 6th | ||||
| Scott Durham | 12 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 55 | 7th | ||||
| Francarlo Rizzo | 8 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 51 | 8th | ||||
| Nathan Trentgarthen | 9 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 47 | 9th | ||||
| Sam Owen | 11 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 46 | 10th | ||||
| Shane Gilfeather | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 11th | ||||
| Enda Murphy | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 12th | ||||
| Bobby Leprem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 13th | ||||
| Josh Hunter | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 14th | ||||
| Darren C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 14th | ||||
| Andre Heimgartner | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 15th | ||||
By Matt Anderson
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