Sides Earns Round 4 Win, Series Lead - Dec 13, 2010 -
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The decision by Krikke Motorsport to put Jason Sides into their car for the first four rounds of World Series Sprintcars has paid off big time. Sides won his second consecutive WSS Feature Race in Latrobe on Sunday.
Last week he won the Hobart round and on Sunday night he won again, this time from national champion James McFadden and Monte Motorsport driver Steven Lines.
Organisers were forced to run the meeting at Bendigo Bank Arena, Latrobe on Sunday after rain washed away any chances of the show being run on Saturday night.
Starting out of position three was no problem for Sides who vacates the seat in the W2 for round five in Adelaide on Boxing Day for regular Krikke Motorsport driver Brooke Tatnell.
Ian Madsen was one of the big chargers through the field, starting from 19th and crossing the line second but was penalised eight spots for illegally passing four cars.
The top 10 was rounded out by Bryan Mann, Max Dumesny, Trevor Green (who started on pole), Adrian, Redpath, Danny Reidy and Madsen.
Robbie Farr, who won the first two rounds of the series in Queensland, again struggled in Tasmania, starting seventh and finishing 15th.
American Jason Johnson, who only just scraped into the A Main, starting out of position 20, salvaged some respectability with a hard-fought 12th.
McFadden posted the quickest qualifying time of 11.088 seconds to edge out Dumesny's 11.107 and David Murcott's 11.108 while Sides showed plenty of place in his last drive for the Krikke team to be fourth in 11.206 seconds.
Adrian Redpath gave the Tasmanian fans something to cheer about when he won the first heat of the night from Farr and Maiolo, with McFadden and Sides claiming some solid points with a fourth and fifth respectively.
Kurt Luttrell in the T45 led home contracted driver Reidy and South Australian star Matt Egel in heat two with Dumesny and Green rounding out the top five.
Lines made the third heat count, taking the win from Gerry Hoekstra and Mann while Reed looked good in the V92 for fourth.
Egel impressed his Tasmanian car owners with a win in the T6 in heat four from local ace Dobson, Maiolo and Sides.
There was plenty of firepower in this heat with Madsen fifth, Farr sixth and Dumesny eighth.
Hoekstra improved on his first heat for the win in heat five from Johnson and Tasmanian Tim Hutchings, while the final heat went to Luttrell from Walker and Reed.
Lines and Mann progressed from the Bronze Top Eight Shootout with times of 12.633 and 12.851 seconds respectively, leaving Farr (12.925) and Dumesny (12.945) to start from the fourth row for the feature race.
Come the Silver Dash and it was again Lines who was the best, this time dropping to 12.430 seconds and making the transfer to the Gold Dash with Green (12.475) while Adrian Redpath (12.670) and Mann (12.788) set themselves up with starts on the third row come feature time.
Lines was unable to continue his progression and had to start on the second row with Sides (12.601 and 12.686 respectively) with Green and McFadden fighting it out for the right to start on pole.
This time around it was Green who was the best, claiming pole with a 12.578-second burst, marginally quicker than McFadden's 12.588.
Tim Hutchins won the 15-lap B Main from Reed, Maiolo, Egel , Madsen and Johnson, all making the cut to the main event.
The teams now have a break before resuming their on-track hostilities in round five in Adelaide on Boxing Day.
This also marks the start of the hectic Speedweek schedule, seeing all the teams trying to tame five tracks in a week.
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