Sydney Sundown Day 2 wrap

Every single race on Saturday was a thriller in all nine categories, some races had controversial incidents while others were determined by photo finishes.

TFH Hire TA2 Muscle Car Series

Tim Brook completed a clean sweep of victories in the TA2 Muscle Car Series, the super-sub claimed both poles and all four race wins across the two days.

Josh Thomas scored his first front row start and converted that into a second-place finish.

The reigning Formula RX8 Series winner Brock Paine made his debut this weekend and impressed massively. He finished the third race of his career race in third position, ahead of Tom Davies and Josh Webster.

Paine made a great start to commence the final race of the weekend, sneaking up the inside of Brook at Turn 2 to take the lead.

Behind, there was multi-car incident at Turn 1 which caused a lengthy safety car period.

On the restart Paine tried to break away from the field, he left all except one, Tim Brook.

Brook was able to remain with the rookie and in the closing laps of the race, was able to work his way past.

He went on to take the victory by 2s, Paine scored a weekend best result of second, while Queenslander Diesel Thomas finished third ahead of Josh Thomas and Webster.

Legend Cars Australia

There were three Legend Cars Australia races across Saturday, with the pocket-rockets producing the nail-biting action we have become accustomed to.

Shane Tate won the day’s opener from Race 2 winner Dylan Thomas and young Askr Sendall, Aiden Williams was fourth and Joshua Craig fifth, the margin between the quintet just 1.1s.

It was even tighter in Race 4, a six car fight up the front. Williams won from Thomas, Tate, Sendall, Joshua Benaud and Ryan Pring, all within 1s.

Thomas was the final winner of the weekend; he did so in dominant fashion, (by Legend Cars standards) taking the win by 3.5s.

Australian Super Tin Tops

Super Tin Tops was dominated by BMWs on Saturday, it was a BMW 1-2-3 in Race 1.

Matt Sims controlled the opener, winning by 13s from Stephen Chilby and championship leader Mark Tracey.

However, in the final race Tracey fitted new tyres on the car, and it worked wonders.

He took the lead at the start of the race and was never headed from there. He and Sims were trading lap records, but Sims could not hunt him down. In the end Tracey beat Sims to the line by a margin of 10s.

Benny Tran recovered from a mechanical issue in the earlier race to finish third in his Honda Integra.

Hankook Australian Drivers’ Championship

The Hankook Australian Drivers’ Championship was dominated again on Day 2 by New South Welshman Hayden Crossland.

There were three races across the day, he won all of them, and convincingly.

The reigning champion Damon Sterling suffered damage in Race 1 on Friday and finished down in 14th position, however he stormed through the field in Race 2 of the weekend to finish in second.

Masters competitor Hamish Leighton finished third outright ahead of the inaugural series champion Dean Crooke.

It was much the same in the third race, Crossland from Sterling, Leighton and Kyle Gurton.

In the final race under lights, Leighton suffered many lock ups and fell down to sixth. Crossland won by 1.7s from Sterling, with Gurton coming home in third.

Australian Production Car Series

Incredibly in both Production Car races, the lower classed cars reigned supreme.

Allan and Rob Jarvis stayed out of trouble in the little Polo GTi, in the two-hour enduro both the class A2 Mustangs fell by the wayside in the closing laps.

The Jarvis’s won by 42s from the Holden Astra and two laps ahead of the FPV Ford in third.

The Sprint race was much the same, Supercars driver Bryce Fullwood was leading for much of the encounter before a mechanical issue late in the day.

Chris Gunther in the C Class Mercedes A45 took the win in the sprint race, he got by the Jarvis run Polo on the final lap, third place went the way of Butt.

Notably some invited cars joined the fight in the sprint, and notably Mitch Rice won outright.

Replica Tourers

While Shane Stuart won the first race on Saturday, Jason Grimmond would be victorious in the final two affairs.

The Queensland based series ran a total of five races across the weekend, while Stuart’s day started well it did not end so well.

BMW driver Stuart won the day’s opener from Grimmond and VK Commodore steerer Daniel Ridley.

Grimmond got the better of Stuart in Race 4, while Daniel Ross in the RX8 also beat Ridley.

Competing in the invited Production Car class did not pay off for Stuart, he suffered a mechanical failure and did not take the start of the final Prod car race.

Grimmond won the final race from Rex Scoles who was flying late on, Ridley again rounded out the top three.

Australian Formula Vee

Photo finishes were the talking point in Vees throughout the day, with multiple races decided by mere thousandths.

The first one Daniel Reynolds beat home Alex MacDonald by 0.15s, with Michael Kinsella a further 0.1s back in third.

Race 4 was one of the closest finishes Sydney Motorsport Park has ever seen, Daniel Reynolds came out of the final corner got the tow and stole victory on the line by 0.001s. Kinsella was a devasted second with Craig Sparke third.

The final affair saw a three-car train come out of the last turn, this time it was MacDonald who came out in third position move ahead of both Reynolds and then Sparke.

The trio crossed the line separated by 0.04s, with MacDonald from Reynolds and Sparke.

Innovation Race Cars

IRC had a Sprint and Enduro once again on Saturday, category manager Danny Stutterd won both races.

The first one saw John Hollinger hunt him down late on, but it was not enough, Stutterd held on by 0.4s.

The first half of the enduro saw much the same, Hollinger hounding Stutterd, however in this race he was able to take the lead and held onto the win.