Round 2

Round 2 of the 2007 Australian Motor Racing series will be held at the Calder Park circuit in Victoria.

The circuit is around 30 minutes from the centre of Melbourne, with a range of accommodation available nearby. Click here for more information.

Click here to download the ENTRY FORM for Round 2.

Tickets are available by contacting the circuit, or at the gate.

For further information on the circuit, click here or visit their website: Calder Park

NOTE: Classic Touring Car Championship will not be competing at this round.

MEETING SCHEDULE AVAILABLE by clicking HERE.

AMRS CRANKS UP THE COMPETITION AT CALDER PARK:

The second round of the Australian Motor Racing Series (AMRS) will shift up a gear this weekend (March 24 and 25) when it heads to Victoria’s Calder Park Raceway.

After a thrilling opening round at Wakefield Park Raceway last month, the fast-growing, cost effective series will once again feature the competitive Australian Touring Car Challenge (ATCC) and Oz Boss (including the F3000 V6) categories as event headliners.

ATCC round one winner Brad Lowe will not take the grid at Calder, instead Garry Willmington returns in his # 2 AU Falcon V8 Supercar with experienced racer Darren Saillard expected to be his nearest rival in the EL Falcon V8 Supercar. Luke Searle’s BMW 120i Super Tourer is ready to bounce back after a tough series opener, taking the fight to Peter Kelly (BMW 318i Super Tourer) who claimed third in round one and overall Super Tourer honours.

After clean-sweeping the OZ Boss Championship, Ty Hanger tops the contender list in his Reynard 95D followed by category newcomer Adam Proctor, the consistent Sam Dale and new team owner Matthew Fox are looking to return to form after a frustrating first outing.

Thunder Sports will herald the biggest field of the weekend with 20 plus cars gridding up. The quick drivers to watch will be Tom Drewer in his West WR1000 and opening round winner Phil Whishaw in the Prosports Mulsanne. Bringing light to Future Racers will be Jeff Davy, Tim Monte and Chris Clearihan.

While the HQs and Kingswoods in 3.3 Litre Holdens will chase a close battle between John Predl, Vince Evans and Pedro Marusic amongst others.

Other categories on the mixed grille of racing this weekend will be Super TT and the Australian Sports and GT Inter Marque Championship.

Racing on Saturday and Sunday will commence at 9am.

Saturday entry will be $10 for adults and children 13 and under are free. Entry for Sunday is $25 and children aged 15 and under are free of charge. Parking (security parking also available at a small cost), grandstand and pit paddock entry is also at no cost.

Calder Park Raceway is located on the Calder Highway, Keilor.

For further AMRS information visit their official website: www.amrs.net.au or the official Calder Park Raceway website: www.motorsport.com.au

The TV coverage from this round will be announced when available.

AMRS CHURNS OUT CLOSE COMPETITION AT CALDER PARK

The second round of the Australian Motor Racing Series (AMRS) put on one of the closest weekends of competition last weekend (March 24 – 25) at Victoria’s Calder Park Raceway.

The headlining Australian Touring Car Challenge was won by Darren Saillard in his #25 EL Ford Falcon V8 Supercar, going one better than his opening-round second place to make it onto the top step of the round podium. Now leading the ATCC driver point’s ladder, despite a hard-fought battle with gearbox issues all weekend, Saillard took home V8 Supercar class and outright honours, while Sam Dale won it for V8 Giants in his Ford Mustang, Philip Groeneveld (Future Tourers), David Gardner (Group A), and Daniel Natoli for the Super Tourers aboard the Mumbo Racing Ford Mondeo. After qualifying on pole position John Vergotis (AU Falcon V8 Supercar) won race one and three, whilst race two was taken out by Saillard.

Thunder Sports favourite Tom Drewer qualified fastest in his West WR1000 and despite a race one DNF went on to win the final two races and secured the overall round victory.

In the Australian Sports car/GT Intermarque Championship, the outright dominance of Paul Whitmarsh in the Porsche GT2 was the talking point of the meeting after taking out the first qualifying session and all three races. Darcy Russell in the Dodge Viper and Rod Wilson in Maserati Trofeo battled closely for second and third place respectively.

Another tight challenge emerged in U-Built Homes sponsored Super TT class where Keith Linnell in the Ford Cortina and Michael Ballentyne in the VS Holden Commodore battled out for supremacy. Ballentyne did manage a race one win ahead of Linnell but winning roles reversed for the remaining three races with Linnell’s Ford Cortina beating the outpaced Holden Commodore to the chequered flag on each occasion.

The U-Built Homes supported 3.3 Litre Holdens class had a mixed bag of winners with Simon Latchford and Brendan Niclasen fighting hard all weekend. Latchford was the consistent performer with one race win, one second and two thirds to come out on top of the point’s ladder. Niclasen was fastest in qualifying but only managed a race one win, a DNF putting him out of round winning contention while Greg Niclasen, despite two race wins, suffered dramas in race three causing a non finish but still managed to muster up third place overall.

After clean-sweeping the OZ Boss Championship (including F3000 V6), Ty Hanger topped the score card with another overall win driving his Reynard 95D, and Canberra based Tim Monte took out another Future Racers events narrowly ahead of Jeff Davey.

The third round of the AMRS is to be staged at Winton Motor Raceway (Benalla Victoria) on the weekend of April 28 – 29.

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