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SRC NEWS 19 JUNE 2006

Perth , Western Australia June 19, 2006 Following the running of the Castrol Edge 2006 Winternationals the ATDC comes to a close for another year with Robin Judd and the "Moonshine Bandit" finishing a close up fourth in the points. According to ANDRA this is how they finished;

2005/2006 ANDRA AUSTRALIAN TOP DOORSLAMMER CHAMPIONSHIP
1	Steve Stanic	NSW	563
2	John Zappia	WA	473
3	Gary Phillips	QLD	440
4	Robin Judd	WA	423
5	Brett Stevens	QLD	370
6	Victor Bray	QLD	340
7	Ben Bray	QLD	333
8	Dennis Brijeski	NSW	320
9	Maurice Fabietti	NSW	240
10	Grant O'Rourke	WA	180
11	Peter Kapiris	VIC	150
12	Paul Greghini	SA	140
13	Peter Lovering	NSW	80
14	Ray Bernard	QLD	80
15	Sean Mifsud	NSW	60
16	Aaron Lynch	QKD	60
17	Steve Dupond	NSW	40
18	Joe Schembri	NSW	40
19	Gary Stevens	WA	40
20	Andrew Searle	QLD	20
21	Paul Messineo	NSW	20
22	Brett Gillespie	NSW	20
23	Peter Hamilton	WA	20
24	Kath Stevens	QLD	20
25	Steve Packman	QLD	20
26	Stuart Bishop	QLD	20

The Winternationals was all but washed out when rain stopped qualifying for most of Saturday. Organisers were forced to make up the Group 1 elimination fields from the one run Friday night. This disappointed many of the racers but with 600+ competitors to be fairly dealt with it was inevitable qualifying would have to be restricted. The Willowbank Track staff did a great job to ensure racing could start early on Sunday morning and for the competitors to have a good track to run on for the finals.

Qualifying Results

JACK DANIELS TOP DOORSLAMMER QUALIFYING LIST
1	1221	BRAY	T/D CHEV	6.095	239.23
2	67	GREGHINI	T/D CORVETTE	6.166	236.72
3	76	PHILLIPS	T/D 53 STUDEBAKER	6.184	232.8
4	1693	JUDD	T/D 53 STUDEBAKER	6.226	237.97
5	283	STANIC	T/D CAMARO	6.288	236.47
6	590	FABIETTI	T/D 2005 MONARO	6.346	232.92
7	4649	STEVENS	T/D 53 STUDEBAKER	6.389	227.85
8	4	KAPIRIS	T/D STUDEBAKER	6.422	238.47
9	1067	O'ROURKE	T/D HOLDEN HK MONARO	6.473	226.82
10	323	BRIJESKI	T/D 67 CAMARO	6.481	234.62
11	2058	LYNCH	T/D 63 CORVETTE	6.644	235.48
12	846	ZAPPIA	T/D 71 MONARO	6.867	213.57
13	2993	LOVERING	T/D 55 CHEV	6.869	179.93
14	65	BERNARD	T/D 57 NOMAD	7.074	216.97
15	952	STEVENS	T/D BA FALCON	10.92	73.96
16	5066	PACKMAN	T/D BA FALCON	11.659	76.95
17	167	BISHOP	T/D 67 CAMARO	22.775	44.63

Only the 8 quickest cars qualified for eliminations leaving some big names to go home early. Despite the cloudy cool conditions many teams attacked the track with aggressive tune ups expecting to run quick numbers. The more cautious teams were rewarded. Judd had some problems in running but managed to secure 4 th position with a 6.22.

"The track was cold, sticky on the start line but loose further out. I spun the tyres and it shook a little so I short-shifted into second gear. The boys said they could hear the clutch being murdered until I activated the lock up and high gear." Judd said about the one shot qualifier.

Elimination Results (data and commentary courtesy of Willowbank Raceway)

Round 1

11/06/2006 3:39 pm
283 Right Lane STEVE STANIC CAMARO , 511
1693 Left Lane ROBIN JUDD 53 STUDEBAKER , 511 KB
#Gp1 RcNo 241 T/D TOP DOORSLAMMER
(L) Left Win Margin:4.615

NUM	.rt	60	330	660	KPH	1000	ET	KPH
283	0.508	1.084	3.155	11.05	124.82
1693	0.543	1.019	2.857	4.281	287.84	5.436	6.4	375.82

Robin Judd and Steve Stanic, Stanic would be a very happy man after having secured the 2006 Championship, a win and a pass to the next round would be the icing on the cake here today, Judd is out hard with tyre shake, so is Stanic also with tyre shake, Judd pulling away, Stanic up on two wheels sliding into the lane behind him and taking out the 330 foot box, and following Judd a good way down the quarter, do I need to say that Judd is the winner of this race.

Expecting conditions to be a little better but similar to Friday night, the team had made adjustments to soften up the set-up to try and avoid tyre shake. Unfortunately, the adjustments were not enough but Judd wins the race regardless.

Round 2

11/06/2006 6:36 pm
1693 Right Lane ROBIN JUDD 53 STUDEBAKER , 511 KB
1221 Left Lane VICTOR BRAY CHEV , BAE 511
#Gp1 RcNo 288 T/D TOP DOORSLAMMER
(L) Left Win

NUM	.rt	60	330	660	KPH	1000	ET	KPH
1693	0	Foul
1221	0.514	1.032	2.694	3.995	308.17	5.097	6.03	388.73

Robin Judd into his burnout procedure, Victor Bray strong and tough thru the burnout, oh no this is an upset, Judd has broken in the burnout, the race will go to Victor Bray and he waits patiently for them to push Judd back so he can leave, what a great run for Victor its 6.03 a personal best, how fitting is this to see Mr Castrol go to the final of the Castrol Edge Winternationals.

A disappointing result for Judd as a simple error costs him the chance to race the Grandfather of Top Doorslammer Victor Bray, who incidentally went on to win the final. Judd said "Victor was going to be hard to beat this weekend. In shooting terms you would call it a "nice grouping" - he has run a pair of 6.09's, a 6.03 and a 6.05 on a track most of us had problems with. After my recent good fortune I said to him I had been lucky, his reply to me was "it's funny, the more testing you do the luckier you seem to become" meaning hard work pays off. Victor (amongst others) was able to test in the week leading up to the Winternationals so I guess what he was saying was true".

Of his misfortune in the race Judd said "Reaching for the handbrake after the burnout my glove brushed the ignition kill switch button cutting the electrics. I have never done that before but testing the switch afterwards it appears the push-pull button may have lost it's "clunk". We'll put in a new one but re-locate it over head some where so that can never happen again. We never stop learning"

Full results and commentary can be found on these web sites;

http://www.willowbank-raceway.com.au

http://www.dragster.com.au/

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