Tonight at the Bunbury Speedway Daniel Harding again showed he was the class of the field, winning both of his heats and then going on to claim the win in the fifteen lap feature race to also bring home the overall Country Series win.
Twelve cars would start the nights races, but a frightening heat race crash in the second preliminary would eliminate two cars. Joel Watson would finally get his #75 machine singing and was battling for the lead before he found the unforgiving back straight wall and would roll heavily, with the luckless Rob Golding left with nowhere to go, cannoning into him as the red lights came out.
Both drivers would emerged shaken but unhurt, both their nights over with significant damage. Matt Watkins would go on to win the heat.
Eight cars would take the green in the feature after the earlier demise of Golding and Watson, while Lee Austen and Gary Mann were plagued by issues all night and were unable to make the call also.
The first start of the fifteen lap main event was called back as Harding was deemed to have jumped, while Fleming headed infield as the race went under yellows.
Attempt two was much better, with Harding grabbing the lead and Watkins moving into second, Redmond into third. Unfortunately the race would only last one lap with Cory Smith spinning in turn one, with Aron Sharp also stopping, bringing out the yellows.
Unfortunately for Sharp his car initially refired before coming to a stop on the back straight and wasn’t able to rejoin the field, seeing us with six cars for the remaining fourteen laps.
Harding would shoot away on the restart with Watkins coming under pressure from Redmond as Vaughan Manders also stayed within reach in fourth place.
The laps would tick down with no one gaining or losing any ground apart from Harding who was extending his lead each lap. Just as Redmond looked like he was closing the gap on second placed Watkins his car too decided it had had enough and he headed infield with just three laps remaining.
This would leave Harding to go on and claim a strong win, defeating Matt Watkins while Vaughan Manders would inherit third.
Declan Minchin and Cory Smith would round out the finishers.
Courtesy of the nights results, Daniel Harding also did enough to claim the overall Country Series, defeating impressive rookies Aron Sharp and Declan Minchin in the overall standings.
Speedcars will have only a short break now as they head into the final round of the Speedcar Triple Crown next weekend at the Perth Motorplex.
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