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R7,
OCT 23, 2005, INDY GOLDCOAST
RACE
REPORT:
- Paul Kemal wrapped
up Round 7 of the WPS Aussie Racing Cars Series by winning Race 3 on
the Gold Coast street circuit today, and his VIP Petfoods team-mate
Travis Edwards made it a team 1-2 in an incident packed race.
- The shape
of the race changed when mid-way through an accident between Aussiefast’s
Simon Arthur and Sime Tyres’ Colin Sieders brought out the safety
car.
- Unbeknown
to Arthur, Sieders had moved up the inside heading into the left turn
onto the straight. As Arthur moved over to protect his line the two
collided and slid along the inside wall, leaving them both out of the
race and Arthur’s car missing the right front suspension.
- “There
is very little peripheral vision in the older bodied cars,” Arthur
said.
- “The
first I knew of the incident was when we collided.”
- After leading
early Arthur, Sieders and Kemal swapped the lead a number of times in
the opening laps, until the incident left Kemal the lead and eventually
the win over Edwards.
- “It
is great to get my personal record of six wins in a row, hopefully I
can make it seven,” Kemal said.
- “I
was unaware of the incident behind. One minute they were in my mirrors,
the next they were gone.”
- Edwards was
not far off the pair when they crashed.
- “I
kind of thought they might come together,” Edwards said.
- “It
was a great result today for VIP Petfoods to get a 1-2 finish, I am
just glad to be part of it,” he said.
- The fight
for third place was just as exciting as Speedy Wheels’ William
Yarwood, Loctite’s Ian Spurle, and Westpoint’s Tim Monte
battled in the closing stages of the race.
- Spurle was
having his best race in his short three-round history until he slid
through a chicane and received a one-minute penalty putting him out
of the results.
- Yarwood and
Monte went toe-to-toe in what was a battle for series points.
- Yarwood won
the battle, but Monte remains on top of the points with Yarwood close
behind in second.
- The final
round of the 2005 WPS Aussie Racing Cars Series is at Tasmania’s
Symmons Plains Raceway on November 11-12.
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