Gympie 30/30 Rained out
Monday May 30, 2011

Macdonald Racing ventured up to Mothar Mountain on Saturday Night the 28th May, that being Gympie Speedway.  This time however only taking one car, Nathan's VZ Commodore.  This event being the T-Mac Auto Spares 30/30.  A race in which two drivers share one car, competing in two qualifying heats each, determining the starting positions for the final.  One driver will complete a 30 lap feature race, while a driver change happens after that to complete the next 30 laps.

Unfortunately the rain came just before the Modified Production Feature races.  But that never stopped Shane and Nathan having a good time before hand.

Nathan took the wheel in the first heat, starting from 4th position he assumed 3rd place as the green flag waved, chasing Shannon Blackburn and Darren White.  Blackburn made a mistake out of the hairpin allowing Nathan to advance to 2nd, while a mechanical problem for Darren White allowed Nathan into the lead and go onto win the heat.

Shane strapped into the #32 Toowoomba Steering & Suspension/Forbes Batteries commodore next, starting from pole position.  Shane got away to a good start taking the lead, being chased by Gavin Lorensen.  Shane coming to grips with the car and track, made a slight error out of the hairpin corner allowing Lorensen into the lead.  Shane greeted the checkers with a 2nd placing.

Nathan jumped back in for his last heat out of 6th position, but moved into 4th due to a missing car.  On the start Nathan made up tremendous ground going around Darren Lyons at the top of the mountain and into the lead only for the officials to call a restart.  Nathan once again went around the top of the mountain but had to back out of it to avoid a collision, slipping into 3rd place.  Nathan went onto finish in 3rd behind Ty Jones and Glenn Pagel.

Shane's final heat saw him start at the back of the pack, and moved his way forward into 3rd place, but a great battle near the end with Matty Pascoe saw Shane succumb to Pascoe and finish 4th by only a mere .005 of a second. 

After everyone's effort, Shane & Nathan had qualified off the front row for the feature out of position 2 out of 20 cars beside locals Glenn & Mark Pagel.  Unfortunately the rain won from here on in.  A disappointed team for not being able to see an end result for being in a prime position.

The last race for the season is at Blackwater on the 25th June for the CQ Title, in which Shane finished 2nd last year driving Nathan's car.  Nathan will only be competing as Shane will be away.

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