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400
Thunder Championships on knife
edge after Santo's Super Thunder |
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| Both Top Fuel
and Pro Alcohol Championship points
tables closed right up after an exciting
night of 400 Thunder Drag Racing at
Willowbank Raceway on Good Friday. |
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Kelly Bettes won her second straight
event at the wheel of the Lamattina
Family's Dragster. In winning the event
Bettes scored maximum points and setting
the quickest time in the first two
rounds of racing with a best of 3.892
seconds at 501.6KPH before defeating
Peter Xiberras in the finals. Both
drivers suffered traction problems being
forced to lift off the throttle with
severe tyre shake in the final but it
was Kelly Bettes who recovered first and
lead the PremiAir Dragster across the
finish line by just seventeen hundredths
of a second. |
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| The win moves
Bettes to just two points adrift of
current 400 Thunder Championship leader,
Damien Harris in his Rapisarda Autosport
International car who managed two wins
from his three starts at the event.
Peter Xiberras is in third just twenty
points behind Harris Setting u a
gripping battle over the final two
rounds of the series. |
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| Pro Alcohol
category was no less dramatic with
Russell Mills using a superior start
line reaction to defeat Gary Phillips in
the final with his 5.622 elapsed time
holding out Phillips 5.515by just twenty
two thousandths of a second across the
finish line. Championship leader Steven
Reed won two of his three races but has
seen this points advantage over second
placed Mills shrink to just 13 points
heading into the penultimate round of
the series. |
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| The next round
of the 400 Thunder Professional Drag
Racing Series in the Gulf Western Oils
Nitro Thunder at Sydney Dragway on
Friday 4th and Saturday 5th May 2018. |
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Kevin
Predergast
Email:
manager@400thunder.com.au
Phone: 0439
396 251 |
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