10/20/2024
Late Model Racing Western Australia
Lady Luck Smiles on Oldfield!
Throughout his career, Jamie Oldfield (Oldfield Racing) certainly hasn’t always been lucky, but tonight at the Perth Motorplex he certainly was as two of the top contenders found themselves out of the race, paving the way for Jamie to grab his first feature win of the 2024/25 Late Model season!
Twenty-one cars would front for the second round of the Pro Dirt Series proudly presented by ABN Trade Mates, with heat race wins going to Joe Chalmers (Team BCM Motorsport:), Jamie Oldfield, Brent Vosbergen (Team Vosbergen Racing - TVR), and Jay Cardy (Cardy Racing Components).
Unfortunately for Australian Champion Chalmers his meeting was over early, unable to take the green in the feature event and joining fellow front runners Brad Blake and Warren Oldfield (Oldfield Racing) on the sidelines.
As the race went green pole sitter Vosbergen was immediately into the lead followed by Ken Macpherson (KMM - Ken Macpherson Motorsport) and Cardy who muscled his way into third.
Vosbergen took advantage of the clear air and checked out, Macpherson left to chase as he was followed by Cardy, Oldfield and Luke Halliday (Halliday Racing) rounding out the top five early in the race.
Lapped traffic came into play on the fifth lap but did nothing to slow down Brent.
Kenny Mac found it a little more difficult initially through the traffic, but then found what he needed and began to close the gap on Vosbergen, down to just a second behind with ten laps complete.
At the same time, Cardy went high through turn three after avoiding a lapped car, allowing fourth placed Oldfield to close in and look for a way through.
Two laps later Cardy again had trouble with a lapped car zigging when he thought it was zagging and Oldfield stuck the nose inside once more, but again Cardy was able to hold strong.
By this point, Vosbergen was half a lap ahead of the third-placed battle, and a quarter lap ahead of second placed Macpherson, having found his straps at the right time and pulled away.
Lap twenty-one saw Chris Barrow (Barrow Motorsports) collect the main straight wall and bounce off, leaving the rapidly approaching Macpherson nowhere to go. Luckily Macpherson was able to throw the model sideways and made reduced contact with the back of Barrow, both able to continue, but half a lap later Macpherson’s once immaculate machine would disappear in a cloud of smoke and steam and head infield.
This left Brent three-quarters of a lap ahead of the now second placed battle, Jamie able to get past Cardy for second as all the issues for Macpherson were happening.
Freddy Kinsella (Team Green Racing) was now fourth having got past Halliday and was beginning to close on Oldfield.
All of a sudden, despite looking like he had the race sewn up, Vosbergen also went up in a plume of smoke and slowed dramatically before coming to a rest against the infield turn four curb, seeing the yellows come on for the first and only time in the race.
Jamie led away Kinsella, Cardy, Halliday and the impressive David Boyes (Boyes Motorsport) on the restart with three laps to go, Jamie making the most of his lead to race away from Kinsella.
Kinsella attempted to go with him, and even showed the nose briefly, but Jamie was simply too strong and raced away to claim his twenty ninth Pro Dirt Series feature race victory.
Kinsella would come home second, claiming both the Heatleys Safety, Industrial & Automotive Hard Charger and Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers All Star Awards in the process while Jay Cardy bounced back in fine fashion after an opening night wreck to claim third.
The Pro Dirt Series drivers will have no time to rest now, with Round Three, proudly presented by Maddington Toyota and CanningVale Toyota, back at the Perth Motorplex in just six days!
The 2024/25 Pro Dirt Series is proudly supported by Maddington Toyota & CanningVale Toyota, ABN Trade Mates, McPhee Freight, Scardifields Smash Repairs, Heatleys Safety, Industrial & Automotive, Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers, SupaFit Seat Covers, My Race Pass, Wilson Brewing Company, The Event Mill and Dirt Track Nutters.
Release by DTN Media.
Pics Courtesy JSP/DTN and Richard Hathaway Photography.
Contingency Awards
DTN Pole Sitter – Brent Vosbergen
Heatley’s Hard Charger – Freddy Kinsella (+7)
Ross’s All Star Award – Freddy Kinsella
Supafit Supa 7th Place – David Nylander
Official Results
Heat One, 8 laps: 1. A1 Joe Chalmers, 2. 4 Brent Vosbergen, 3. 21 Rod Musarra, 4. T6 Brad Smith, 5. 81 Peter Walker, 6. 318 Freddy Kinsella, 7. 04 Greg Horan, 8. 95 Abbey Pickering, 9. 0 Brad Blake, 10. 65 Peter Seaton, 11. 25 Ryan Huxtable. Total Time: 2.16.899. Winning Margin: 0.063. Fastest Lap: 15.964 A1 Joe Chalmers.
Heat Two, 8 laps: 1. 51 Jamie Oldfield, 2. 94 Luke Halliday, 3. 26 Ken
Macpherson, 4. 90 David Boyes, 5. 52 Jay Cardy, 6. 15 Warren Oldfield, 7. 54 David Nylander, 8. 74 Nathan Richards, 9. 80 Damian Hudson, 10. 39 Chris Barrow. Total Time: 2.11.283. Winning Margin: 0.599. Fastest Lap: 15.684 15 Warren Oldfield.
Heat Three, 8 laps: 1. 4 Brent Vosbergen, 2. 26 Ken Macpherson, 3. 318 Freddy Kinsella, 4. 94 Luke Halliday, 5. 54 David Nylander, 6. 80 Damian Hudson, 7. T6 Brad Smith, 8. 81 Peter Walker. DNF: 0 Brad Blake (6). DNS: 15 Warren Oldfield. Total Time: 2.05.286. Winning Margin: 5.079. Fastest Lap: 15.243 4 Brent Vosbergen.
Heat Four, 8 laps: 1. 52 Jay Cardy, 2. 95 Abbey Pickering, 3. 90 David Boyes, 4. 21 Rod Musarra, 5. 51 Jamie Oldfield, 6. A1 Joe Chalmers, 7. 39 Chris Barrow, 8. 04 Greg Horan, 9. 25 Ryan Huxtable, 10. 65 Peter Seaton. DNS: 74 Nathan Richards. Total Time: 2.11.361. Winning Margin: 0.638. Fastest Lap: 15.782 A1 Joe Chalmers.
Feature, 30 laps: 1. 51 Jamie Oldfield, 2. 318 Freddy Kinsella, 3. 52 Jay Cardy, 4. 94 Luke Halliday, 5. 90 David Boyes, 6. 21 Rod Musarra, 7. 54 David Nylander, 8. 95 Abbey Pickering, 9. 80 Damian Hudson, 10. T6 Brad Smith (29), 11. 81 Peter Walker (28), 12. 04 Greg Horan (28), 13. 65 Peter Seaton (27). DNF: 4 Brent Vosbergen (27), 26 Ken Macpherson (22), 39 Chris Barrow (19), 25 Ryan Huxtable (12), 74 Nathan Richards (0). DNS: 0 Brad Blake, A1 Joe Chalmers, 15 Warren Oldfield. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 0.536. Fastest Lap: 15.147 Brent Vosbergen.
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