Home
Calendar
Points
Race Results
Hall of Fame
Building a Race Car
Specifications
Cars and Drivers
Cars For Sale
Race Tracks
Downloads
Photo Gallery
Video Gallery
Press Articles
Clothing
Links
Contact Us

The 944

Discussion

Forum

Need a Forum Password?

email here

aPorschaPart

Our Major Sponsor

Our Tyre Supplier

Member's discount offerred

Club clothing for sale

Check our TV coverage on Channel 31 Tuesdays at 9.30

A Surprise win by Rose.

APorschaPart 944 Challenge cars like long distance vents. And so it was at Sandown with 10 laps on Saturday and 20 laps on Sunday.
Mallala showed that Kane Rose is beatable. Qualifying put Kane on pole with 1 :27.51 followed closely by brother Brent, 1:27.86 and the "Challenger", Sam Abay on 1:27.92. Strong charger, John Morriss was next, 1:28.78, Rob Lange, John Smallman, John Goddard and Stephen Canny all under 1:30. 24 cars entered making another top Event.

Kane Rose mode his usual quick start in Race 1 over 10 lops late on Saturday. But Sam Abay jumped quickly to move into 2nd in front of Brent Rose. John Morriss never lets another get away with it and he pressed on hard too. It is a case of top preparation, excellent driving skill and gutsy effort to get the best from these equal machines. Given that, if there is a bit of sparing behind you, then you con get away from the field. Kane Rose mode the best of the bottle between brother Brent and Sam Abay, passing Brent to get into 2nd position. Steve Canny was a mover, from 8th to 6th, pushing John Goddard back to 9th. Over 10 lops, Kane drove faultlessly to finish comfortably by 7 seconds from the second position battle won by Abay, just by 7/10ths from Brent Rose. Further back Lucky Patsiotis improved inside the top ten to finish 8th. The "Quiet Achiever" Rob Lange, drove very consistently to bring a well earned 4th. Bit of talent there.

At the bottom for the pack a couple of long time 944 blokes struggled. Dennis O'Keefe, Damian Harris and former Champion Brendan Morter are finding life in the slow lot hard to take. It shows the improvements mode by others rather than a slipping of talent. It is still top racing a really inexpensive way of enjoying very competitive, close racing.

All the Competitors were able to go Sunday shopping as the Big 20 Lap started at 4 o'clock. Time for a sleep in, breakfast in bed and then shopping with Mum. You would still be on time for the race.

This was to be a race for honour, Kane to show that Mallala was one of those things, Brent to show, whatever he coin do, 1 con do better and Sam Abay, "it's alright about a Rose, but I'm a thorn". And they're racing. Much like the other distance racing, a consideration for tyres, fuel, gearbox and engine. Apart from all that, the driver needs to drink as race time was close to 40 minutes. It settled into a 3 way battle with Abay splitting the Rose boys. Sam made a move on Brent and then Kane to lead, could he do it? Brent had ideas of winning to and after passing big brother, he lead Sam as well. But Sam came back, passed Brent and onwards. With the lost lap running and all three in contention it come down to the lost corner. It appeared that Sam had run wide, missed a gear, what the heck, the Rose boys just went for it, both passing Sam to go over the line Brent Rose 1st, Kane Rose 2nd, Sam Abay 3rd. Another great drive by Rob Lange for 4th with John Morriss 5th. Steve Canny, then John Goddard, Richard Howe! from bloody nowhere, what a drive for 8th, ripper, mate. And Joe DiBenedetto 9th and Dennis O'Keefe for a 10th.

What happened to Sam Abay? Well, he admitted, admirably on the dias that he had miscalculated fuel consumption and ran dry on the lost corner. Justice or robbery, you be the judge?

Ready to Qualify, Saturday.