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Pammenter takes out Club Championship
Posted:
09/05/04
The
Labour Day long weekend saw the Macdonald Brothers racing around at
different venues. On the Friday night Shane headed to Brisbane
International Speedway to race. Shane drove well in the heats to
qualify on the front row of the grid for the feature race.
Macdonald showed good speed after making improvements to his car
through the week. Shane won the feature race comfortably opening up
a good lead.
On
Saturday night Nathan Macdonald headed up to Kingaroy to race in the
second round of the Tri-series with the East Coast A grade club.
Being his first time to race on the track, Macdonald drew rear for
the 1st heat, but fought his way up 2nd, only to find out after the
race that the leader had pulled out and didn't finish the race,
which gave Macdonald the win. Macdonald was off the rear again in
the 2nd heat, and made his way up to 4th. Nathan couldn't advance
any further, as he was struggling with the very rough track.
For
the 3rd and final heat for the night, Macdonald started on the front
row, and got the better start and went straight to the lead. Nathan
took the higher line on the track, to avoid all the ruts down low.
This seemed to work for him as he opened up a decent lead, and
watched several cars pull out due to flat tyres. After a 4th and
two 1st's for the night, Macdonald increased his lead in the
tri-series over Paul Zoubakin in the Rotary Mazda, who is currently
2nd and Terry Medcalf in his Ford Falcon who is running 3rd.
Nathan come back to Charlton Raceway on the Sunday night to compete
in the Club Championship. While Shane raced at Charlton the
Saturday night as well, Nathan would have to start from the rear in
his heats as he didn't nominate. After the Saturday night at
Charlton, "Rocket" Rodney Pammenter was leading the points chase to
qualify for the feature on Sunday night, after winning two heats on
Saturday night. Pammenter kept up his form Sunday night, after
qualifying on pole for the 12 lap feature, with Shane Macdonald out
of position 2, and Shane Langton from 3. When the green flag
dropped, Pammenter drove straight into the lead, while Shane Langton
made his way into 2nd, with Shane Macdonald in 3rd and Nathan
Macdonald in 4th. While running 4th, chasing down his brother,
Nathan discovered his steering was getting harder and harder to
steer on the once again rough track. Macdonald held onto 4th for as
long as he could until the steering let go completely, Macdonald
spinning out onto the infield.
Back in the race, Shane Macdonald was trying to find a way past
Shane Langton, until a big cloud of smoke come from Macdonald's car,
forcing him onto the infield. Shane's disappointment coming from a
blown engine. This most likely putting Macdonald out for the rest
of the season. Still out in front was Rodney Pammenter, with
Langton closing in for a challenge. Langton having a look up the
inside of Pammenter on numerous occasions, but having to settle for
2nd. On his final lap running 4th, Dennis Bullpitt rolled his
Holden Commodore onto the roof, ending his season at Charlton in
style! Rodney Pammenter took the Club Championship win with Shane
Langton 2nd and Brett Raabe 3rd. 1st Rodney Pammenter 2nd Shane
Langton 3rd Brett Raabe. Shane Langton finished the season at
Charlton as highest seasonal point scorer with Rodney Pammenter 2nd
and Shane Macdonald 3rd.

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