Cottage Grove, Oregon- It was a weekend of action in all three regions of the Down Under Division in the Sprint Car Rankings.  Six individual races were held with three taking place in the Australia West Region, two in the Kiwi Region, and only one race in the Australia East Region.  In the overall division not much movement occurred with the exception of Kerry Madsen from tenth to sixth after his two wins this last past week.

1. Still at the top of the charts in the “Land of the Down Under” is Robbie Farr.  The Sydney native finished in the top five twice in last week’s action including a win at the Australian Open Sprint Car Nationals at Virginia, South Australia’s Speedway City on the 30^th of January.  The other top five occurred at the World Series of Sprint Cars (WSS) event, held on the 3^rd of February at the Kalgoorlie International Speedway in Western Australia, in which he finished fifth.  He was able to make the margin a hair bit larger but only slightly.

2.  Brooke Tatnell didn’t have the greatest of weeks only posting a fourth place finish at WSS event at Kalgoorlie.  Only earning a couple of points the San Souci driver now is twenty two points behind Farr.  With only two races to go with the WSS series and the American action getting started only a little time is left for him to challenge Farr.  According to Tatnell’s website he will remain in Western Australia for the entirety of February before he heads east across the Pacific.

3.  In third is Jason Johnson the only driver not to post a top five finish in last week’s action.  With many American drivers leaving for their homeland Johnson is one of the few remaining.  With the final races for the WSS this weekend according to his car owner’s website (HM Racing) this will be his last weekend in Australia.

4.  In the fourth place position Max Dumesny of Nelson continues to hold his position.  Dumesny posted only a fourth place finish at the Australian Open Sprint Car Nationals in South Australia but is not out of the clear.  In the midst of a great battle with James McFadden the interval has went from four points to now two.

5.  Making a great spectacle for a battle within the top five is James McFadden of Western Australia.  Ironically McFadden was able to finish one position ahead of Max Dumesny at the same race in South Australia to earn the two points to cut the margin to two points.  Between fourth and tenth place in the rankings it is only twenty-one points.

Down Under Division
Top Ten
Rank   Driver            City, ST            Points
1st   Robbie Farr     Sydney, NSW       157
2nd  Brooke Tatnell San Souci, NSW   135
3rd   Jason Johnson  Eunice, LA           97
4th   Max Dumesny   Nelson, NSW       74
5th   James McFadden WAU                 72 
6th   David Murcott  Gosford, NSW       69 
7th   Kerry Madsen  St. Marys, NSW     61  
8th   Ryan Farrell     Kewdale, WAU      60 (Wins Tiebreaker w/ 4 Wins)
8th   Donny Schatz  Minot, ND              60             
10th Danny Smith    Danville, IN           53

Australia West Region
Top Five
Rank   Driver            City, ST            Points
1.    Kerry Madsen   St. Marys, NSW              41
2.    Ryan Farrell      Kewdale, WAU               36 (Wins Tiebreaker w/ 4 wins)
3.    Jamie Maiolo     Myalup, WAU                 36
4.    Robbie Farr       Sydney, NSW                 35
5.    Jason Johnson Eunice, LA                      28   

Australia East Region
Top Five
Rank   Driver            City, ST            Points
1.   Robbie Farr            Sydney, NSW                122
2.   Brooke Tatnell       San Souci, NSW             110
3.   Jason Johnson      Eunice, LA                       69
4.   James McFadden    WAU                              60 (Wins Tiebreaker with 3 wins)
5.   Max Dumesny       Nelson, NSW                   60

Kiwi Region
Top Five
Rank   Driver            City, ST            Points
1.  Rodney Wood    Auckland, AUK              24
2.  Dean Brindle      Te Awamutu, WKO     22 (Wins Tiebreaker w/ 2 2nd's)
3.  Alan Wakeling    Auckland, AUK              22
4.  Jonathan Allard Chico, CA                    21
5.  Ricky Logan        Little Rock, AR             16

Race Results:

1/29/2010

Ruapana Speedway

Ruana, CAN (Canterbury Region, NZ)

Noel Goodwin Memorial

23 Cars

1. Alan Wakeling

2. Ricky Logan

3. Matt Honeywall

4. Skinny Colson

5. Jamie Duff

1/30/2010

Ruapana Speedway

Ruana, CAN

Gold Cup

21 Cars

1. Alan Wakeling

2. Ricky Logan

3. Jamie McDonald

4. Colin Entwistle

5. Skinny Colson

1/30/2010

Bunburby City Speedway

Bunbury, WAU

Sprint Car Face-Off

20 Cars

1. Kerry Madsen

2. Mark Wells

3. David Priolo

4. Ben Ellement

5. Kris Coyle

1/30/2010

Tyrepower Raceway

Parramatta City, NSW

41 Cars

1. Ian Madsen

2. Mitchell Dumesny

3. Roddy Bell-Bowen

4. Craig Brady

5. James Thompson

1/30/2010

Speedway City

Virginia, SA

Australian Open Sprint Car Nationals

37 Cars

1. Robbie Farr

2. David Murcott

3. James McFadden

4. Max Dumesny

5. Ryan Farrell

2/3/2010

Kalgoorlie International Speedway

Kalgoorlie, WAU

World Series f Sprint Cars

20 Cars

1. Kerry Madsen

2. Ryan Farrell

3. David Murcott

4. Brooke Tatnell

5. Robbie Farr

Last edited on Thursday Feb 4th, 2010 06:07 PM by BennyD