Nathan Macdonald made one of the worst mistakes in his career on Saturday night at Charlton Raceway Toowoomba.  While leading the feature race after starting from 4th, Macdonald came up the front straight to greet (what he thought) was the chequered flag.  After slowing down, Macdonald rolled around another lap, and to his disgust the chequered flag was out, which meant he had only seen the white flag the lap before which means one lap to go.  Nathan eventually crossed the line in 3rd place.  Peter Rodgers drove a hard race to win the final with Shane Hollyman in 2nd place.

The first heat of the night was very greasy and wet, with the 6 cylinder cars fairing very well.  Travis Hollyman took an early lead, only to half spin allowing Nathan Macdonald to capitalise after coming from 3rd spot.  Macdonald was then under fire from Michael Zimmerlee in a club car.  Macdonald dropped back to 2nd only to make a manoeuvre around the outside through lapped traffic to take the lead back and win the heat.  Travis Hollyman 2nd and Shane Hollyman 3rd.

Heat 2 was a very tacky track with plenty of grip.  Nathan started from 4th.  Whilst coming into turn one, Macdonald went around the outside of Norm Townsend.  Townsend slid up and hit Macdonald in the left front wheel.  Macdonald knew something was wrong straight away as the steering wheel was off centre.  Macdonald pressed on as the car still felt pretty good.  The Mac1 Designs Commodore of Macdonald made its way into 2nd following Shane Hollyman around the outside of Peter Rodgers.  Macdonald surged ahead to make a right move around the outside of Hollyman as he encountered lapped traffic.  Macdonald won the heat comfortably.  Back in the pits, the collision between Townsend and Macdonald had bent the left hand front strut and rack end.  We repaired this for the next race.

Nathan started from 4th in heat 3.  While running 4th Macdonald pounced when Shane Hollyman got off line slightly up the back straight, he was able to get a good run into turn 4 around the outside into 3rd.  Peter Rodgers in car #44 was the next target sitting in 2nd place.  Nathan pressed on sitting on Rodgers' tail for the entire race.  Macdonald just didn't quite have the pace to make a move, having to settle for 3rd.