Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Geraldton Easter Sprintcar Muster April 19th & 20th


Well here we are in sunny Geraldton for the Annual Easter Sprintcar Muster we did not get the usual great number of cars this year we had Matthew Peaker from Karratha and Brayden Miller from Perth attending and seven from Geraldton  making a total of nine cars, The Limited Sprint car State Title  next weekend is the reason a lot of cars did not travel as the crews are busy ensuing they get a good crack at the title.


For those that attended it was a great two nights of racing we broke them up into two small groups as there were 4 cars that were going to the state title and to give them the chance of no damage sorry it did not happen.

 

The event was over two nights 4 heats the first night and 2 rounds Sunday night and a 20 lap feature

 ROUND One

Heat 1 saw Wayne Harrington and Matthew Peaker off the front and the first lap they were side by side though turn one two and three then in turn four they touched and it turned him to the infield and Robbie Stephens trying to avoid him the touched and Robbie’s car turned onto its side causing damage to Robbie’s car the race restated Mick Mcinnes passed Wayne and Matthew to take the lead and win with Mick Burnett second and Wayne Harrington third
Heat 1 Winner Mick McInniss
 
Heat 2 saw Mick Doble and Anthony Gaudio off the front Anthony took the lead for the whole race with Brayden Miller coming through to take second place and Mick Doble third
Heat 2 Winner Anthony Gaudio
Round Two

Heat 1 saw Mick Mcinnes and Mick Burnett off the front Mick took the lead closely followed by Mick Burnett till the end with Wayne Harrington third
Heat Winner Mick McInniss
Heat 2 Mark Doble and Brayden Miller off the front start was good but Anthony Gaudio took the lead followed by Mark Doble till the end with Brayden Miller third
Heat winner Anthony Gaudio
Round three

Heat 1 Mick Mcinnes and Mick Burnett off front good start Mick Mcinnes lead all the way with Wayne Harrington second and Mick Burnett third
Heat winner Mick McInniss
Heat 2 Anthony Gaudio and Brayden Miller off the front Anthony took the lead followed by Brayden and Mark Doble third
Heat Winner Anthony Gaudio
Round four

Heat 1 Wayne Harrington and Mick Mcinnes off front Wayne took the lead closely followed by Mcinnes but could not pass him with Mick Doble third
Heat Winner Wayne Harrington
Heat 2 saw Robbie Stephens off the front row after repairing his car after heat one with Mark Doble beside him Robbie must have done a great job as he took the lead all the way to the finish with Mark Doble second and Brayden in third
Heat Winner Robbie Stevens
 

 
NIGHT 2
Round five

Heat 1 Robbie Stephens and Mick Burnett lead this one and Robbie again took the lead with Mick Burnett second with Wayne Harrington third
Heat Winner Robbie Stevens
Heat 2 Mick Doble and Matthew Peaker off the front with Mark Doble coming through to take the lead and Matthew closely following him with Mick Mcinnes on his tail to take third
Heat Winner Mark Doble
Round six

Heat 1 Brayden Miller and Wayne Harrington off the front Brayden took the lead for 8 laps the Mick Burnett managed to get under Brayden to lead the last two laps with Brayden second and Robbie Stephens third
Heat Winner Mick Burnett
Heat 2 last heat of the night saw Anthony Gaudio and Mark Doble off the front row but Matthew Peaker and Mick Doble came though to one and two postion to the end with Mark Doble third
Heat Winner Matt Peaker
Feature race saw Mick Mcinnes off  one as he had the highest points over all of the heats with Mick Burnett being second highest points Good start by all Mcinnes took the lead from lap one with Mark Doble Brayden Miller Following both Mcinnes Wayne Harrington was on the back of Brayden but could get a run on him the dark horse of the race was Anthony Gaudio he was making ground on them all coming from the back got under Harrington into fourth making ground on the front runners but the 20 laps beat him from start to finish no stoppages first was Mick Mcinnes Second Mark Doble and Brayden  Miller third it was a great race to watch.
1st Mick McInnis
 


2nd Mark Doble



3rd Brayden Miller

 
 
4th Anthony Gaudio


5th Matt Peaker

6th Greg Crotty sorry no pic


7th Robbie Stephens

8th Wayne Harrington


9th Mick Doble
 
 

 

Now next week is the state title for limited Sprintcars at the Motorplex be there to see who will be the W.A Champion for the next year
Current State Title Holder is Robbie Stevens from Geraldton.

 

See you all at the Motorplex
Story By Martin Laughton
Photos by Stanley Tresuri

 

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