Shane Macdonald competed in the final round of the Hydraulic Drilling Services held at Mothar Mountain Speedway, Gympie on Saturday Night.  Macdonald never having raced at the venue and never even seen it before, he was optimistic how he would fare.  The tracks unique shape was very interesting, as it is placed on the side of two hills and is in a "kidney" shape.

Heat 1 Shane started on the outside front row, and was beaten off the start, Macdonald settled into 3rd place.  Macdonald was then under siege from Local Todd Doyle, but Shane held his position until running wide in turn 1 and letting Doyle through.  Shane finished 4th and was happy with the car and the track after his first race.

Macdonald started from 4th in heat 2.  Shane slipped back into 5th place during the heat and pressed on to finish right behind 4th placing.

Starting from 10th in heat 3, Macdonald diced all race with Travis Barron, swapping positions several times.  Shane struggled with set-up to get around the bottom hair-pin corner pushing wide several times.  Shane ended up finishing 10th.

Shane qualified from 14th position in the 30 lap final out of a total of 30 cars.  The key was going to be to stay out of trouble and press on hard, which Macdonald already knew.  As the field got away, Greg Raymont spun in the first corner as cars went everywhere to avoid it, Shane had to stop grinding to a halt just behind Raymont and luckily never hit him, but then got shunted in the left rear wheel from another car.  The Macdonald Racing team held their breath, but Shane unfortunately pulled on the infield with a flat tyre.  A disappointing end to what could have been a good race.

Todd Doyle won the closely contested feature race from Aidan Raymont and Glenn Pagel 3rd.

Darran Shearn just had to finish the final to win the Hydraulic Drilling Services series, and was lucky to do so after breaking a drive shaft half way through the race.  Shearn managed to finish and win the series overall.