Lucky break for Nathan at Easter Classic
Friday April 16, 2010

Easter Sunday the 4th of April saw the running of the Easter Classic for Modified Productions at Charlton Raceway.

Starting from third on the grid for heat one, Nathan struggled in the heavy track to go forward, after sitting in fifth Nathan moved past brother Shane to finish 4th after he was suffering an engine misfire.

Shane had a front row start for his first and was running second to Peter Gray for half of the race challenging on occasions for the lead meanwhile Trappy was sneaking his nose up the inside of Shane. Shanes car all of a sudden dropped 2 cylinders, Shane believed it was an electrical problem and kept battling on and ended up in 7th Position. Back in the pits it was discovered that a crook Plug lead had caused the coil pack to throw the towel in and was quickly replaced by the crew to be ready for the second heat

Out of position seven in heat two, Nathan moved his VZ Commodore into 4th when two laps to go the engine cut out which left Nathan to steer the car onto the infield, only to start the car back up again with no problem. After investigating further in the pits, no problem could be found and the crew crossed their fingers that this would not happen again.

Shane started out of position 5 for his second heat and Shane managed to gain one position to come home in 4th Position

Heat 3 for Shane saw him start out of position 6. Shane fought for his position and Brought the car home in 5th spot.

Going out for heat three, Nathan needed a good result, but after starting from 5th position could only manage a 4th at the end of the 10 lap heat.  Nathan and Shane qualified their cars out of 8th and 9th positions respectivley for the 30 lap final.  The track had started to dry out a little back to where it suits Nathan's car and as the green flag waved Nathan began moving forward past Mark Ferguson and Dennis Bullpitt.  After working over the back of David Jacobi's car, Nathan found a gap with a few laps to go to move into 4th, when on the final lap Macdonald had a lucky break after Jason Jolley's engine let go and caught on fire which saw Jolley as a non finisher after being deemed the cause of the stoppage.  The race was actually declared which left Nathan finishing in 3rd place. Shane was having a good battle back in the pack and moved forward to finish in 6th position. Robert Trapp had a great run through  the night by winning all three heats and the 30 lap final.  Greg Worling finished in 2nd, with Nathan 3rd, followed by Dennis Bullpitt and Shane Macdonald.