AUSTRALIAS NUMBER ONE IS CROWNED KING OF THE MOUNT IN FLOORLESS DISPLAY

AUSTRALIAS NUMBER ONE IS CROWNED KING OF THE MOUNT IN FLOORLESS DISPLAY

An outright favourite for this seasons Australian Street Stock title was hard to decipher leading up to 

this weekend, however South Australian Anthony Beare went along way to putting that debate to 

bed when he won all three of his heats (including a rear of field start), a top nine shoot out & led all 

forty laps in the Ipta Fibreglass King of the Mount feature event clean sweeping the weekend at 

Mount Buninyong’s Redline Raceway.

Beare was too good for 50 plus other drivers despite a late charge from home club member Mick 

Dann who some say, needed just a couple more laps to get in front of the winner.

In other events on the night Garry Kakoschke the Victorian Marsh Modified Champion won the 

feature in his division & Redline member Tim Hutchinson won the VSC Open Sedan feature.

The Street Stocks completed eighteen heat races before getting into a C Main, B Main & Feature 

race. In first round heats Mick Dann, Darren Giacometti, Dale Blomeley, Morris Ahearn, Anthony 

Beare & Steve Gartner.

Phil Pottage began round two heats with a win before Beare notched up his second, then Lenny 

Bates, Cade Cox, Giacometti matching it with Beare also taking a second heat win & Jason Degoldi 

won the last of the round. In this round after leading Beare for a handful of laps, Dylan Campton fell 

back to second & got tangled up with traffic & ended up on his side with front end & possible engine 

damage to his car.

The final round of heats finished with Mark Gartner, Steven Watts whose mother spent time in 

intensive care this week, Victorian Champion Brad McClure, Darren Forrest, Beare & Ballarat local 

Shaun Henry taking victories.

Jacob Vuillermin won the C Main event transferring with three other competitors into the B Main. 

Next up he came from almost last to finish fifth in the last chance B Main to qualify into the main 

event with Cory Sandow, Chris Whatmore, Jack Bishop, Bhoe Patterson & Nathan Dunn. This was a 

super achievement in such a big field.

The Shoot out to determine the top nine starting positions began with McClure defeating Ahearn, 

Henry & Forrest before his run towards the front was cut off by Dann. Bates defeated Dann, then 

Degoldi defeated beat Bates, Giacometti beat Degoldi before Beare held onto the top starting 

position beating Giacometti.

The twenty laps each direction final began in the clockwise direction with Beare heading straight to 

the lead. Giacometti initially had the chase position & McClure & Henry went high along the 

concrete to run around a few in the field before Bates took up the chase of Beare. 

McClure may have felt he received the wrong end of the stick when was spun twice & thinking the 

race would be pulled up by a caution period continued on in both occasions only to wonder if the 

steward’s fingers were stuck in their pockets.

Dann, Bates & Matt Nelson were involved in a great scrap amongst themselves to try and hold that 

key spot of second in the hope of getting a clear shot at Beare for the win. Nelson put Bates under 

pressure & snatched third place to get the better of the battle between those two.

In the run to the finish line in the second twenty laps Dann assumed the chase role after getting past 

Bates & as the field bunched up again after a Shaun Henry spin, Dann had a sniff and chased hard & 

just needed a couple more laps to catch Beare. 

Beare was crowned the King of the Mountain with Dann, Nelson, Steve Gartner & Bates rounding 

out the top five.

Kakoschke ran out start to finish winner ahead of Mark Ansaldi, Chris Graetz, Brian Graetz & Greg 

Knight in the Marsh Modified Sedan feature event. Earlier Nash Harris before suffering a night 

ending crash won a heat along with Kakoschke & Chris Graetz.

The Open Sedans final was a cracking race between Nathan Fawns in a car supplied by his mate 

Darren Nelson just in front of Hutchinson for much of the feature race before skipping away a little 

through traffic. Fawns felt the car go off & since it was not his machine decided to park it instead of 

risking damage & Hutchinson assumed the lead and went on to defeat Rahmon Rivero who was 

close behind Aaron Bunton, Garry Ainley & Brian Schneider. 

Qualifying heats were won by Fawns, Hutchinson, Fawns again & Colin Tate.

Redline Raceway returns to action on December the 12th with the Late Model Sedans & the visiting 

Grand Prix Midgets & Division 2 Hot Rod Sedans.

Belmont Speedway Drivers Club thanks the following supporters:

Ipta Fibreglass

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Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

for Belmont Speedway Drivers Club

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