Northside’s Brock Dean in the 99Q DTR Mechanical/True Powder Coating King Hawk finally broke the streak of bridesmaid finishes to take round three in the ATRS Midget Series after grabbing the lead off Darren Vine with less than a handful of laps left in the main event this past Saturday night.

Round two winner Rusty Whittaker clocked the nights GSA Fastman Award at 13.475 and would see him highest points scorer after the 4 heat races in the 89Q Steelmart Sunshine Coast/Specialised Energy BOSS Esslinger.

Cal Whatmore JNR was back on all 4 cylinders this show in the Rodney Singleton Racing/Speedy Air Conditioning Spike Esslinger 3Q claiming the line honors of the first heat ahead of the returning ”Beenleigh Bullet” which is in fact the Spike Mopar 11Q of Charlie Brown and Tom Clauss in his TPC Earthmoving 45Q Eagle.

Heat one was a bit scrappy and as a result of damages from battle we unfortunately lost the cars of Brad Dawson and Glenn Wright for the night.

Heat two saw Rusty Whittaker weave his through the 9 car field to the lead with the 18Q Breka Esslinger of Nathan Mathers and Zac McDonald’s Johnny Mc Towing Spike Hawk 23Q in tow crossing the 10 lapper in that order.

Brock Dean took the victory in heat race three on the nights programme ahead of Whittaker and Whatmore JNR incidentally the car back in 6th bagged the quickest actual speed at 94.924kph and that was Mitchell Rooke in the RJR Kitchens Spike Esslinger 34Q.

Darren Vine rounded out the nights heats taking the victory in the shortened event (down from 10 to 8 laps) ahead of the Beenleigh Bullet and Ricky “Bobby” Robinson in the 56Q Benkel Machinery/Watty’s Fabrication Breka Gaerte.

From the get go Darren Vine in the P2 position had a blinder of a start pulling car lengths at the green as Whittaker ducked back down underneath the King Car Brown, Dean and Chaffey all fought for real estate ownership coming off turn two it was now the likes of McDonald, O’Neil, Rooke were all on the scene at race pace, Vine had a moment off turn four which bunched the field up shuffling a couple forward and one back.

“The Wiley Fox” Anthony Chaffey was now on the tail of the Vine and Dean freight train in his RidgeTrans BOSS Chev 25Q

Zac McDonald gave the top shelf a go in the 23Q as Whittaker fought back to the lead pack after being burying it was now a gaggle of cars for 3rd as Chaffey, McDonald , Whittaker and Rooke fought hammer and tongs in the meantime Dean and Vine set sail.

McDonald’s car came to a slow pace and eventually brought on the yellows which bunched up the field and gave everyone a chance to breathe.

On the restart with 22 to go it was a pair of Kings leading a pair of Bosses it appeared Charlie Browns run was coming to an end after dropping a ton of pace and places with what was now evident to be a flat left rear tire.

Both Vine and Dean hit the lower line as Whittaker went up the top to eventually round out Chaffey Rooke hung in with the duo of Chaffey and Whittaker however Nathan Mathers was now in the party as well was Matt O’Neil.

As the laps counted down and going green for a decent stint the front cars caught lapped traffic as Dean decided it was time to pounce and rounded the 6Q coming off turn two and lead the field home in the 99Q King Hawk.

Absolute blinder of a run by Brock Dean to break his streak of 2nds for the season, the Bob Baker Challenge was drawn however as Anthony Chaffey wasn’t at the previous round the $500 cash goes back into Bob’s pocket and onto Toowoomba!

Notable mentions would have to go to The Chaff though putting on a show and a blinder in the feature with Rusty running up high, Matt O Neil took out the ATRS Lucky 7TH place voucher running racers on all four corners he now has a $100 voucher with his name on it.

That’s round 3 in the ATRS Archerfield Midget Series done , run and won so from here we move on back to the Highbanks of the Toowoomba Speedway on December the 5th for round two in the Nexgen Hire/NuPave Asphalt Services Highbank Hussle

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This Saturday the 16th race fans we are back at Archerfield Speedway for round 3 in the ATRS Archerfield Midget Series !

Another sensational field have nominated and at this stage the Bob Baker Challenge will be $1000 providing you ran the last show and more than 16 take the grid

The GSA Fastman Award returns for round 3 also

The nomination link is now open for R3 in the American Tire and Racing Services Archerfield Midget Series !

Please note nominations need to be into Brock Dean by Sunday the 11th @ 6pm for pit bay allocations and the nomination fee MUST BE PAID on line via the link as ZERO CASH will be taken at the track.

Simply text Brock on 0410 195355 the words with the car number (ie) “99Q in for Archerfield” its that easy then click on the link and pay the nomination fee 

Sunshine Coaster Rusty Whittaker stormed to a round win in the recent American Tire and Racing Services Archerfield Midget Series in the Steelmart Sunny Coast/RAW Metal Corp BOSS Esslinger 89Q

Whittaker clocked the nights GSA Fastman in the hot lap session with a 14.702 just ahead of what would be actual feature race top three in order and that was Brock Dean and Darren Vine (Dean 14.913 and Vine 14.950).

Scotty Doyle’s night came to a fiery end in the hot lap stint with his 80Q Ti Bolts and Race Parts Esslinger bursting into flames coming off turn 4 he had just clocked a 16.552 before coming to a halt and ejecting from the flames leaving the crash crew to extinguish the heat and the night the Doyle’s.

A fuel line fitting found to be the culprit and the boys will set about returning for the next round.

The Smith Brothers Racing Pilot Bodie Smith took line honours in the first 10 lapper heat of the night in their ED Pink Spike 77Q after a “ding dong” battle with firstly the Troy Ware Constructions Mopar Bullet by Spike of Troy Ware and Brock Deans DTR King Hawk , Ware and Dean swapped placings at the final flag ahead of the 46Q Aggressor of Chris Singleton in fourth, Audie Malt’s Spike Gaerte crossed in fifth from Mitchel Rooke in the 34Q, Matt O’Neil in seventh as Graeme Flynn in the 82Q King Gaerte rounded out the field.

The Rusty Whittaker and Darren Vine battle went into over drive in the night’s second heat race after Whittaker with the 89Q lead a majority of the distance Viney had the 6Q King SR11 full steam and on a charge it was with 4 laps down when Barry Gibbes in his 66Q Spike Gaerte departed for the night upending in turn one which closed the gap Whittaker had on the field, on the restart Vine kept the pressure on railing the MVT/Craig Thompson Machining King around the outside of Whittaker off turn four taking the lead and it wasn’t until the last two turns where Whittaker ducked 89 BOSS up the inside of Vine for the lead to the flag in front of Vine, Nathan Mathers 18Q Breka Esslinger, Glenn Wrights 41W was next over the line in fourth from The GSA Bandit, Tom Clauss in the 45Q Eagle and Gavin McDowell in seventh.

Troy Ware was on an absolute flyer in the third heat of the night smacking out a 106.163 kph best speed as he took the field to the chequered head of another strong run from the pairing of Dean and Smith, Matt O’Neil put in another solid session of laps with a fourth in the 16Q Breka Porsche from Audie Malt and Tom Clauss, DNF’s were recorded for the 82Q of Graeme Flynn and after leading for the opening lap Chris Singleton retired with a very ill sounding Eagle 46Q.

The APC/DRE Breka Esslinger of Glenn Wright took out the fourth and final heat on the programme for the Midgets leading home Vine and Whittaker from Nathan Mathers, Brad Dawson and Gavin McDowell as Cal Whatmore JNR recorded a second DNF of the night at this stage.

The feature main event was on for young and old at the drop of the green as Whittaker and Ware filled the front row it was only with a minor over cook off turn four from Ware that gave the hard charging field a chance to swoop spots and swoop they did shuffling the 71 race back to fourth, with five on the board the 16Q O’Neil car looped in turn four as Bodie Smith and Ware arrived on scene with nowhere to go the pair collided as a luckless Chris Singleton banged the fence and upending the 46Q Nexgen Hire car in the same spot.

O’Neil and Smith were refired as the Ware and Singleton cars headed infield, Smith would join the pairing with what appeared to be front end damage, Graeme Flynn also parked the 82Q infield with a deflated rear tyre as we now had the 3Q Whatmore JNR and 45Q Claus cars also on the grass.

After a few yellow flags came out before the end the restarts proved to be a very strong point for the 89Q Whittaker car and with car speed to match he continued to set sail as Vine was now barking on the back of the 99 machine the nights top three in the time trials would cross in this order at the black and white Mitchell Rooke ran home in fourth ahead of a super steer from Audie Malt and car 5 ran fifth , Matt O’Neil in 6^th and the Bandit Brad Dawson in the ATRS Lucky 7^th (Running American Racers all round he picks up the $100 voucher !) Glenn Wright banked eighth place points from Nathan Mathers and Gavin McDowell made the cash cut in tenth.

As mentioned Brad “The Bandit” Dawson took out the American Tire and Racing Services Lucky 7^th place voucher with racers on all four corners and the extremely unlucky Cal Whatmore JNR who struggled to run more than 3 laps due to a mechanical gremlin picked up the Bob Baker Challenge $500 cash !

Notable mentions for Audie Malt running some consecutively fast laps and to a 5^th place in the main event as well as Gavin McDowell recording a top ten finish and Mitchell Rooke who’s always looming near the pointy end !

Our next ATRS Midget Series round will be this month on the 16^th so lock in the date and catch you trackside !

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