Two of the regular Hi-Tec Oils Super Series categories raced in New South Wales as part of Round 2 of the MRA State Championship at One Raceway.
For the Legend Cars, the event at Goulburn doubled as the second round of the national series and the inaugural round of NSW Legend Cars.
The other national category was the Australian Drivers’ Championship, the Aussie built Hyper Racer X1s had four races across the weekend.
Legend Cars Australia
Something ultra-rare happened at One Raceway in Legend Cars Australia, Aiden Williams took a clean sweep of race wins.
The New South Welshman won all four races, but it was far from dominant, just one of his four wins was by a margin of over half a second.
Williams took pole by 0.39s from former TA2 Muscle Car Series winner Dylan Thomas, and it was this pair that fought for the win in the opener.
Initially it was Thomas who led the race, however just past the midway stage Williams took the lead and went on to win by just under 0.5s.
Riley Skinner pipped Robert Hogan and Askr Sendall for third, the trio were three wide across the line, separated by just 0.1s.
Once again, at the start of Race 2, Thomas took the lead and led across the line at the end of the opening lap.
Williams took the lead on lap 2, however, Thomas did not let him out of his sight. The two could not be separated all race long.
In the end Williams held on by 0.3s, Hogan finished third from Benjamin Goodridge and Askr Sendall.
Race 3 was a shortened affair, an incident on lap 2 wiped out several front runners, Thomas, Hogan and Sendall were all involved.
When the race resumed Williams was attacked by reigning champion Ryan Pring, but he held his nerve and took his third win of the weekend. Goodridge was third, while Tate pipped Zane Morse to fourth by just 0.01s.
Race 4 was the first time Williams took off into the distance, he led all laps and won by nearly 3s, Pring was a lonely second with Morse third.
Australian Drivers’ Championship
All weekend in the Australian Drivers’ Championship, reigning champion Damon Sterling was the man to beat, he went on to take all four race wins and took pole position by over half a second.
There was a surprise alongside side him on the front row, Bradley Smith earnt his career best qualifying position.
Smith qualified ahead of former champion Dean Crooke, perennial front-runner Niko French and Round 1 winner Hayden Crossland.
Sadly Race 1 did not go Smith’s way, but he proved early he had the speed to go with the leaders, until an unfortunate spin on lap 3 resulted in him finishing 18th.
Sterling was untroubled up front and took the win by just under 1s from Crooke, French and Crossland, all were within 1.8s at the end.
Race 2 saw Sterling pull a little margin early, however at the halfway stage the lapped traffic began to play a factor.
Crooke and French were engaged in a duel for second, when on lap 5 French collided with a backmarker wiping him out of the race.
The race resumed with a couple of laps to go, Sterling held onto the lead, taking the win from Crooke and Crossland. After starting from the back Smith made up 13 positions to finish seventh.
Race 3 was run at a relentless pace, 20 laps of green flag action saw Sterling take the win by a comfortable 9.5s from Crooke.
There was drama in the championship fight, Round 1 winner Crossland was forced to retire from third with just five laps remaining, this was due to a broken driveshaft.
Crossland’s loss was Smith’s gain, the Victorian had made his way up to fourth and when Crossland retired he was promoted to third. He remained there to score his first top three finish, and scored the fastest lap of the race, proving qualifying was no fluke
Former Trans Am driver Kyle Gurton, competing in his debut weekend in the series finished fourth.
The final encounter saw Sterling take another comfortable win from Crooke, Gurton matched the pair late on and came home third ahead of Hamish Leighton and Smith. Both Crossland and French again recorded DNFs.
