Great job and congrats are in order for Ashland's Steve Francis! He won the first round of the Supatilt Wild West Tour in Australia.
The next round should be underway just about now. Keep in mind, Australia is a day ahead of us.
This is the latest post on Facebook from the
Wild West Tour.
Francis Wins Preliminary A Main at Perth Motorplex
American Late Model star Steve Francis has won the twenty
five lap Preliminary A Main for Round One of the Supatilt Wild West
Tour held at the Perth Motorplex tonight (December 26th 2012).
Francis dominated the night winning both his heat races
and he led every lap of the preliminary A Main to remind the Western
Australian public what he is capable of behind the wheel of a Dirt Late
Model.
Following Francis home was defending Hoosier Racing Tire
Pro Dirt Series champion Jamie Oldfield with American Devin Moran
putting in a impressive performance to finish third in his first visit
to the Perth Motorplex.
Twenty Five cars were on hand for the opening night of
two to be held at the Perth Motorplex. Peter McPherson would be
sidelined for the night after making contact with the wall during hot
laps.
The opening heat race of the night would see Ryan Ludlow
charge away to a handy lead over the field before retiring with engine
issues. Jac Dolmans would then go on to win his first race in Late
Models with American Devin Moran finishing second from Matt Goodlad.
Heat two would see Steve Francis charge through the pack
from the rear of the field with a huge win over Brad Blake, Brad Ludlow
and Jamie Oldfield who had a great scrap for the minor placings.
The third heat race of the evening once again saw Steve
Francis dominate with the American winning from the front row over Craig
Vosbergen and Warren Oldfield.
The final heat race of the night went the way of Devin
Moran who had a great tussle throughout the ten lap event with Jamie
Oldfield. Third home would be defending Perth Motorplex track champion
Jay Cardy with South Australian Matt Crimmins having a high speed spin
during the race. Crimmins would retire shortly after with a issue in the
rear of his car.
Twenty Two cars would start the Preliminary A Main for Round One of the Supatilt Wild West Tour.
The two American Steve Francis & Devin Moran would share the front row with Francis electing to start on the outside.
When the lights went green Francis would charge away from
the field in the opening laps with Moran and Jamie Oldfield having a
great battle for second. Jac Dolmans would spin to the infield after
five laps while running in seventh place and retire from the race.
Michael Holmes would hit the wall while running in
the top ten causing a stoppage with twelve laps to run. Brad Ludlow
would then hit the wall in the same place as Holmes not long after the
restart while battling for a position inside the top five. During one of
the stoppages Jay Cardy would also retire from the event with broken
suspension on the right rear corner of the Cardy Racing Components
machine.
Francis would go on to win the preliminary feature for round
one of the Wild West Series with smoking starting to come from the
engine of the Ozmine Rocket with a handful of laps remaining. Jamie
Oldfield would get the better of Devin Moran in the concluding laps to
finish second with Moran third. Craig Vosbergen would finish in fourth
ahead of the consistent Matt Goodlad, Warren Oldfield, Ben Nicastri,
Koran Atkinson, Mark Matthews, Jeremy Hale, David Nylander, Matt
Crimmins and Ben Ludlow who rounded out the finishers in his new car.
Francis was pleased with his opening night performance,“Good to
win straight out of box, the car was real nice to drive and the Michael
Holmes Racing team have given me a good car. We just had a Oil line
come loose in the last few laps but that’s fine we will be back
tomorrow, big thanks to everyone at Ozmine and also Valvoline for their
support in making this all possible”.
The concluding night of Round One of the Supatilt Wild West
Tour will be held tomorrow night at the Perth Motorplex with racing
getting underway from 6pm.
For More Information about the Supatilt Wild West Tour log on to
www.latemodelracing.wa.com.au.
The Supatilt Wild West Tour is apart of the 2012/2013 Hoosier Racing Tire Pro Dirt Late Model Series
Supatilt Wild West Tour Preliminary A Main Perth Motorplex
Results- 1st USA91 Steve Francis, 2nd 51 Jamie Oldfield, 3rd USA99 Devin
Moran, 4th 8 Craig Vosbergen, 5th 18 Matt Goodlad, 6th 15 Warren
Oldfield, 7th NSW99 Ben Nicastri, 8th 63 Koran Atkinson, 9th 30 Mark
Matthews, 10th 77 Jeremy Hale, 11th 54 David Nylander, 12th SA10 Matt
Crimmins, 13th 9 Ben Ludlow, DNF 21 Dean King, 0 Brad Blake, 46 Jac
Dolmans, 23 Clint Noakes, 52 Jay Cardy, 91 Michael Holmes, 20 Matt
Noakes, 92 Brad Ludlow, 34 Matt Nylander
