The 2015 MuchMore Masters took place last weekend at Sydney Model Autosports, this yearâ™s racing format was a 1 day event with finals completed under lights in the evening. The classes contended were Touring Car Stock 13.5t, 21.5t, Formula 1 and 12th Scale.
XRAY driver Damien Zarb took victory in the premier Stock Touring car class, with XRAY also claiming podium spots in Formula 1 and 21.5.
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Qualifications
After drying off the track due to overnight rain practice and qualification rounds kicked off just before lunch time. After the 4 qualifications rounds and some very close racing Christian Silva (Top Qualifier) and Damien Zarb were at the front of the touring car stock field in position 1 and 2 with the XRAY T4â™s.
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In Formula 1 several XRAYs made it into the Top 10, with Paul Smith qualifying 2nd behind Christian Silva (Top Qualifier). The cold track conditions called for the soft Pit Shimizuâ™s tires to be used, XRAY kit bodies and wing sets proved to provide the best grip and balance. Anthony Gullotta, Dan Maher and Greg Bakla also qualified in the top 10 with their XRAY X1â™s.
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For Touring Car 21.5 XRAY driver Steve Rich qualified in second place with his T4, other XRAY in the top ten were piloted by Josh Mason, Greg Bakla, and Ray MONDO Zarb. The 21.5 Top qualifier was local SMA expert Matt Morris.
12th scale top qualifier was Aaron Lee who was consistently outpacing the rest of the field during the meeting. Dave Craft qualified 2nd with Hiroshi Ishizaki in 3rd.
Finals were started under lights with cooling track conditions. Triple A Mains were ran for all classes. Racing remained very competitive and close for all of the A Main finals. After completion of the mains results were as follows:
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Touring Car Stock Finals
1. Damien Zarb â“ XRAY T4
2. Christian Silva [TQ] â“XRAY T4
3. Nathan Reese
4. Jeffrey MacKie
5. Bradd Vercoe
6. Christian Atal
7. Ed Clark
8. Raymond Williams
9. Scott Griffiths 10. Alex Ilievski â“ XRAY T4
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Touring Car 21.5
1. Matt Morris [TQ] 2. Josh Mason - XRAY T4
3. Stephen Rich â“ XRAY T4
4. Patrick Saelzle
5. Brett Norris 6. Ray Zarb â“ XRAY T4
7. Dean Paraskevas 8. Greg Bakla â“ XRAY T4
9. Peter Kazanis
10. Simon Stewart
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Formula 1
1. Christian Silva [TQ] 2. Paul Smith â“ XRAY X1
3. Ed Clark
4. Brett Allen 5. Anthony Gullotta â“ XRAY X1
6. Greg Bakla â“ XRAY X1
7. Dan Maher â“ XRAY X1
8. Dennis Leung
9. David Niven
10. Gerad Elias
