Wild Weekend at Calder for Tremaniac Racing
Calder – Thursday afternoon the Tremaniac Racing team arrive set up for friday racing and check out the facilities and the track.
After walking down the track and surveying all the bumps and the transition from concrete to asphalt where the bitumen was about 40mm higher than the concrete Tyronne and Aaron knew they were in for a wild ride and the cars would have to be tuned to the track conditions to have any chance of getting down.
Qualifying Session 1
Tyronne is out first and if everything could go wrong at one time well this surely was the case. At the end of the burnout the car went into tyre shake causing the parachutes to pop. The crew done the big sprint job to try and save Tyronne backing over them but didn’t make it. An attempt was made to pull the chutes out of the way but this led to more trouble when the chute grabbed the rear wing and split it in two. On backing up the passengers door came off. Team principle Kerry carried the door back only to be nearly run over by Tyronne’s car as the crew were pushing it back, not a good start.
Aaron who was watching all the going’s on would have been extremely frustrated. Last pairing of session 0ne, Aaron is the only driver to do a full under power pass putting him into top qualifying spot after round 1.
Round 2 - because of deteriorating track conditions round 2 of qualifying was cancelled.
Round 3 -Tyronne is out first and not being able to make round 1 and with no data the car had to be much clutch making the engine nearly stall on the hit putting him in the field on a 7.37 sec pass but being bumped out after qualifying was over.
Aaron was next and ran a 7.12 sec pass placing him in no. 3 spot.
Eliminations
We are about to be called out when Emilio Spinizo who qualified 16th informs us that he is out and Tyronne is in. A mad rush to prepare Tyronne’s car for first round.
Round 1 - Aaron goes 7.21 to beat Jason hedges on a 8.73 and give him a semi finals berth, Tyronne is to face top qualifier Bill Kotias, bill creeps forward and red lights handing the win to Tyronne who goes 7.27 secs to advance to the semis.
Semis- Aaron is out first against Rick Chilton. Aaron faster reaction time saving which could have been a disastrous run as ricks car is out of control and goes straight into Aaron’s lane. Aaron has to shut off early as his car gets way out of shape and runs an 8.13.
Aaron is in the finals.
Tyronne and Lee Bektash are out next. During the time it takes to clean the track, the track temperature drops 15 degrees, officials seeing the potential danger in continuing the meeting call it off.
The team were hoping to finish the meeting where Aaron would have had to face the winner out of the other semis between Lee Bekatsh and Tyronne. This should have been on Sunday but the meeting was cancelled. A suggestion was to finish it at the X Champs event at Sydney during qualifying but was rejected by Andra due to a rule infraction.
Another championship round not completed not the way to start a new season. Tremaniac Racing are looking forward to the X-Champs and hopefully will see a completed meeting.