2010 Round 1 - Eastern Creek Recap:

With the first round run and won, no-one could question the dominating performance from the BSM Toyota Starlet driven by past State and National Champion Dave Loftus. Current 2 time State Champ Ryan Brown tried his best to extinguish the Turbo Starlet but by the time the race was run, the #50 rocket was back in-front to take pole and all three races comfortability.

Qualifying results - Here

Race 1 results - Here

Race 2 results - Here

Trophy Race results - Here

The biggest improvement from season 2009 was the Revolution Racegear RX7 of Brett Morse. Morsey made a nuisance of himself all weekend however a driveline vibration progressively got worse across the weekend meaning he would have to fall back in the Trophy Race which unfortunately hurt his overall results.

We struggled a little across the weekend to keep pace with the leading guys. Our test day on the Friday was cut short with a faulty injector driver in the ECU coming back to show it's ugly head and with our chassis guru Nigel Bolling being in Adelaide on Clipsal 500 duty, we were looking a little worse for wear. Thankfully Phil Armour offered to have a quick trouble shoot of the problem and with the help of the Mazsport Duo Bill Nabhan and Craig Wasson (giving us a brand new ECU to run for the weekend) he had the car back running and sounding like a million dollars.

This meant that we ended up testing the car for the first time this season during qualifying (no different from last year) however, with a stronger result. Paul Joyner from Sydney Shocks Absorbers came over after every session and tried to make the car better. Little changes between races made the car easier to drive and without Paul and Phil Armour's help across the weekend, we wouldn't have finished in a pretty healthy position heading into round 2 at Wakefield Park.

Overall Points after Round 1.

1. Dave Loftus - BSM Toyota Starlet - 136

2. Ryan Brown - Ryan Brown Racing Mazda RX7 - 114

3. Pete Harmston - Rockstar Energy Drink Mazda RX7 - 103

4. Anthony Loscialpo - Excelerate Motorsport VY Commodore - 93

5. Ahmed Baghdadi - Sams Performance VX Commodore - 87

6. Brett Morse - Revolution Racegear Mazda RX7 - 85

7. Scott Bucton - Bucton Racing Team VX Commodore - 83

8. Doug Moss - Datsun 120Y Turbo - 80

9. Brad Palmer - Big A's Mechanical VS Commodore - 75

10. William Tyrell - Gulf Western Oil VH Commodore - 67

11. Peter Street - SSS Automotive EVO 3 Lancer - 63

12. Peter Foote - Mazda RX7 - 58

13. Peter Bellett - Kelman Vineyards Audi Quattro - 57

14. Peter Hennessy - Cruise Control BMW M3 - 51

15. Brian Anderson - Anderson Motorsport BMW E46 - 49

16. Jason Priestley - HP Motorsport Mazda RX3 - 28

17. Cameron House - Cameron House Racing Mazda RX4 - 20

18. Steven Cook - VY Commodore - 0

A massive THANK YOU once again to my crew, Cameron Glegg, Paul Bartolo, Joseph Lenthall, Matt Clarke, Brian Troy with the inclusion of Phil Armour, Paul Joyner (Sydney Shock Absorbers) who worked their butts off all weekend to keep us on the track. And not forgetting Issy, Michael and Melissa Sveticic from Selectmaz Performance, Brendan from Rockstar Energy Drink, Mark Hurt from Valvoline Aust., Rob Icono from dashlogger.com.au, Torque Calibration Services, Revolution Racegear Auburn, Paul Mitchell from Emu Signs, Tim Read from Kimurawear Clothing, Bill Nabhan and Craig Wasson from Mazsport, Billy from Repco Bankstown, Daniel and Steph from Coffee Guru Southlands Penrith and of course Conetix Internet Providers for keeping us online...

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