NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN SPORTS SEDAN ASSOCIATION


 

Entry Numbers Up For Oran Park
 

The fourth round of the Kerrick Industrial Products sponsored Sports Sedan National Series is just weeks away.

Perhaps because this maybe the last opportunity to race at the iconic Oran Park raceway, we have no less that twenty three entries.

The usual protagonists, Ricciadello, Hossack, Tamasi, Nelson, Crompton, Baily, Young and Senese will be joined for this meeting by some very competitive drivers. Colin Smith, Bob McLaughlin, Bobby Irvin and Jeff Barnes, all from Queensland will be joined by NSW locals Graham Smith, Scott Butler, Daniel Jameson, David McGinniss, Chris Jackson, Fred Axisa and Anthony Macready. They will be joined by a handful of Victorians making the trip north.

Cars as diverse as an Alfa GTV, an Audi A4, a Mustang, a Pontiac, a gaggle of Calibra’s, a Saab, a Camaro, a Jaguar, several Mazda’s and one or two Commodores and Falcon’s will be doing their stuff at Oran Park Raceway over the weekend of August 30/31st 2008.

Darren Hossack (Audi A4) goes into this round of the series with a points lead over Tony Ricciadello (Alfa GTV) of 26, (151 vs. 125) followed by Kerry Baily (Nissan 300ZX) on 89 points. Luke Youlden who has a tally of 102 points will miss this round due to the sale of the Sonata Lounges Mustang. Trent Young in the very quick Mazda with triple everything is sitting on 84 points and will be anxious to close the gap to Baily.

Meanwhile, Phil Crompton in the Lifetime Financial sponsored Mustang will be out to improve on his Eastern Creek performance. At that meeting, an oil line parted company with the oil cooler and sprayed oil all over the place. Since then, a heat exchanger has been imported from the US of A and fitted, thus doing away with the need for a cooler. Phil Crompton and Charlie Senese (Honda/Chev) are locked in battle over 5th place with Phil on 65 points and Charlie on 63 points.

Tyre blistering, ear splitting thunderous winged Sports Sedans on show at Oran Park, bring it on!

Blitzkrieg At The Creek

Click here for Eastern Creek race report