Another Macdonald Win
Posted: 22/02/04

Saturday night saw a good turn out for the East Coast A Grade club in Brisbane, with 15 cars turning up to race.  In the first race both Shane and Nathan were off the rear beside each other, but a confused start saw all the cars spread over the track.  Dennis Bullpitt in Car #10 started from position 2 and got the jump on Tony Blacker to take the race lead.  While once the field settled down, it saw Bullpitt out in front with Tony Blacker behind him, and Rodney Pammenter back in 5th, Nathan Macdonald behind him, followed by Darren Lester and Shane Macdonald. 

After attempting to pass Allan Williams, the Australian Outlaw Champion, (Rodney Pammenter) drifted a bit too high and hit the fence, followed by a shunt up the rear from Nathan after he couldn't brake in time, and Shane Macdonald stopping behind Nathan as he had no where to go either.  This put Pammenter out for the night with severe front end damage.  On the restart Bullpitt maintained the lead, until about the last lap when Australia #1, Tony Blacker got up the inside of Bullpitt, and drifted wide which put Dennis into the wall.  Bullpitt was able to hold onto 2nd but his VL Commodore suffered a bent steering rack.  While back in the pack Nathan finished in 5th behind Terry Medcalf, followed by Shane Macdonald and Darren Lester.  1st Tony Blacker    2nd Dennis Bullpitt    3rd Allan Williams.

The second heat saw both Macdonald brothers off the front row, with Nathan on the inside.  Shane managed to get better drive and took the lead into the first corner, with Nathan following him.  Shane opened up a good lead, but Nathan was slowly reeling him in, but wasn't enough to catch his brother.  While Dennis Bullpitt came from the rear of the field to finish in 6th behind Shane Hollyman.  1st Shane Macdonald    2nd Nathan Macdonald    3rd Darren Lester. 

Allan Williams, Shane Macdonald and Nathan Macdonald all drew as highest point scorers for the night.  After drawing out of a hat, the field saw Allan Williams on pole, Shane Macdonald on 2, Nathan Macdonald on 3, Followed by Tony Blacker, Dennis Bullpitt and Darren Lester out of position 6.  Into the first corner, Allan Williams got sideways in front of Nathan, with Macdonald braking hard to miss Williams, he got turned around by Dennis Bullpitt.  Macdonald being narrowly missed by the oncoming cars. 

A full restart saw all cars go back into their position.  This time they got up to the back straight when Tony Blacker and Allan Williams touched which resulted in Williams hitting the concrete wall forcing him to retire.  On the single row restart, Shane was out in front, followed by Tony Blacker, Darren Lester, Nathan Macdonald and Dennis Bullpitt.  Shane was never troubled and opened up a handy lead, while Tony Blacker spun out causing another stoppage after only 5 laps.  This resulted in the race being declared after the track was running out of time to finish their races.  The final positions were- 1st Shane Macdonald    2nd  Darren Lester   3rd Nathan Macdonald.  Dennis Bullpitt came home with 4th place followed by Peter Rodgers to round out the top five.