ARB - Pinjarra Engineering Hyden 400
Round 1 - 2008 Australian Off Road Championships
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd, March 2008
Hyden, WA
Commentary - Sunday 23rd March 2008
Times listed are WA (West Standard Time).
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| 12:37pm |
Styles not in start order hasn't started
Harley Cooke leaves the line bringing Mark Murray to the starter
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| 12:37pm |
Pickering leaves as Ken Styles prepares to depart
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| 12:36pm |
Copeland leaves and Geoff Pickering fronts the starter
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| 12:36pm |
Taylor squeels from the line as Trevor Copeland prepares to leave after having continuing problems all day
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| 12:35pm |
Western leaves as Nev Taylor prepares to complete his 3 laps
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| 12:34pm |
Maddens leaves bringing Matt Western to the line awaiting his turn
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| 12:34pm |
Brad Gallard powers from the line as James Madden fronts the starter
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| 12:33pm |
Travis Milburn sits and waits for the green light = leaving bringing Brad Gallard to the line
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| 12:33pm |
Matt Hanson leaves the line to complete his last section as Travis Robinson driving in his first national event leaves
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| 12:32pm |
Matt Hanson approaches the line as Eric Phillip leaves
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| 12:31pm |
Hayden Bentley leaves the line bringing Eric Phillips to starters orders
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| 12:31pm |
Brad Prout leaves as Hayden Bentley faces the starting lights
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| 12:30pm |
Shannon leaves bringing Brad Prout to the line
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| 12:30pm |
David Fellows leaves the start line with Shannon and Ian Rentsch coming to the line
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| 12:29pm |
David Fellows leads the way as he leaves the start line to commence the "business" end of the weekend.
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| 12:26pm |
Welcome back to the final 3 laps of the Hyden 400 which constitutes Section 3 of the AORC. 29 competitors are being marshalled to the start area. The competitors in this section are only registered AORC competitors and the stage is set for a fantastic finish to this event.
The wind is still blowing strongly across the start area.
Vehicles will be leaving the start arena in 4 minutes, 1 at a time at 30 second intervals
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| 10:56am |
All vehicles from Section 2 have now been accounted for and the expected start time for Section 3 will be around 12:30 WA time
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| 10:47am |
Kozak has now completed his lap time of 1:19:20 giving him a total time of 2:39:45.03
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| 10:46am |
501 Peter Kozak has ran out of the fuel approx 5 kms from the finish area.
Written Permission has been granted by the clerk of course for the crew to return to the vehicle for refuelling to occur under the direction of event officials...
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| 10:39am |
Steven Triscari
Frank Galea
Brett Renton
are all out of the event - reason unknown
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| 10:36am |
Peter Kozak
John House
Dale Hands
Stuart Graham
are all on their lap
Glen Flanagan is out of the event - reason unknown
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| 10:34am |
Darren Russell called it quits after 2 laps with rear suspension about to fall out of the commodore...
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| 10:33am |
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| 10:24am |
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| 10:20am |
We curently have 6 vehicles still on lap 2 and 7 currently on their last lap.
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| 10:18am |
The 'Off Road Rush' team are here this weekend and yesterday gave people the opportunity to have an ride in the buggies....Secretary for the Hyden 400 Brenda Annear was a very hesitant partipant but after doing a stint in the buggy, she was surprised how smooth of a ride it was.....
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| 10:14am |
Adam Greg and Naomi Goddard have completed their lap in a time 44:14 giving them a total time for section 2 of 2:04:41.19 both were pretty tired prior to the start of today competition but extremely happy and excited to get started on todays sections....
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| 10:12am |
Michael French is out of the Hyden 400 after rolling, both crew are OK
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| 10:11am |
Russell Cullen has returned to the event after stopping off in the pits to swap over a flat tyre
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| 10:10am |
John House has broken his tailshaft and is out of the event
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| 10:10am |
The tail enders for the Hyden 400 are now starting to come through the finish control thick and fast....
The audio internet commentary, provided by offroadracing.com.au has attracted over 2000 listeners, which is fantastic, bringing all the action from Hyden to the rest of Australia, and from the phone messages and e-mails received, providing great feed back...
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| 9:55am |
Unofficial outright placings at end of section 2:
David Fellows
Shannon Rentsch
Brad Prout
Hayden Bentley
Eric Phillips
Matt Hanson
Travis Robinson
Travis Milburn
Brad Gallard
James Madden
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| 9:51am |
Max Pilmer is now out of the event with rear wheel stub issues
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| 9:44am |
Matt Hanson did a lap time of 33:02 with a total time for section 2 of 1:38:33.81
Travis Robinson completed his lap in a time of 33:20 giving him a total time for section 2 of 1:38:33.26
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| 9:40am |
Travis Milburn completes his lap in a time of 32:03 and a total time of 1:36:17
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| 9:40am |
Eric Phillips completes his lap in a time of 32:26 completing section 2 in a total time of 1:36:49
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| 9:38am |
Hayden Bentley completes his lap in a time of 31:56 and completing section 2 in a total time of 1:35:23
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| 9:37am |
Brad Prout complets his lap in a time of 31:35 completing section 2 in a total time of 1:34:54
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| 9:36am |
Shannon Rentsch completes lap 3 in a time of 31:46 completing section 2 in a total time 1:34:19
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| 9:34am |
David Fellows approaches the finish line completing Section 2 of the Hyden 400 in a tume of 31:28 giving him a total time of 1:33:38
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| 9:33am |
Paul Robertson is out of the event with engine problems
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| 9:30am |
The lead vehicle is now expected to arrive back in the starting arena, with all eyes toward the jump leading down the straight into the start arena
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| 9:27am |
Jeremy Lia fixed a broken stub axle overnight only to have it break it again and are now out of the event
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| 9:26am |
Brian Robinson has located the problem with his vehicle - a dropped exhaust valve which is a similar problem that affected Beau's vehicle yesterday
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| 9:21am |
Nev Taylor completes lap 2 in a time of 36:09
Dale Hands completes his lap in a time of 1:12:33
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| 9:18am |
David Cowan has re-entered the event
Matt Western completes lap 2 in a time of 35:39
Ian French completes lap 2 in time of 35:47
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| 9:16am |
Max Pilmer completes his 2nd lap in a time of 35:10
David Cowen returns to the course after swapping a flat tyre for a spare
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| 9:15am |
Brad Gallard thunders through completing lap 2 in a time of 34:24
Paul Kelly and Garry Larson are out of their vehicle with the vehicle back on its wheels...
Emergency Services are returning to the Pit area
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| 9:10am |
Paul Kelly has fallen on his side Toyota Bunderra as he was about to complete his 1st lap. Safety officials are currently on the scene.
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| 9:07am |
Travis Milburn completed his 2nd lap in a time 31:50
Matt Hanson completed his lap in a time of 32:46
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| 9:06am |
Hayden Bentley completes lap 2 in a time 31:33
Brad Prout in a time of 31:30
Brad Cooper has fixed his tyre and has now re-entered the event.
Brad Prout is now 8 seconds in front of Hayden Bentley
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| 9:04am |
Shannon Rentsch crosses the line completing his lap in atime of 31:05
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| 9:02am |
Lights heading down into the start area we see David Fellows completing his second lap in a time of 30:59
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| 9:00am |
John House completes his lap 46:42
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| 8:59am |
Gregory Schultz completes his lap in a time of 45:40
Brad Cooper arrives in the start area and goes into the pits with a front left hand flat tyre
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| 8:57am |
Perfect conditions for the competitors, track damp and minimal dust giving all competitors good line of site
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| 8:55am |
Steven Triscari completes his lap in a time of 43:10
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| 8:54am |
Grant Payne
Garry Povah
Dave Rohrlach
Harley cooke
Brett Renton
Peter Kozak
Trevor spencer
Mark Murray
Frank Galea
Adam Greg
David Fong
Have all completed Lap 1
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| 8:48am |
Geoff Pickering goes through in a time of 38:06 after starting in 25th position
Chris Western did a time of 36:18 after starting in 35th osition and is now moving up the field
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| 8:46am |
Dirk Van Geest did a lap time of 38:02
Ken Styles a time of 39:04
Daren Becket a lap of 37:57
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