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Blog from today's awesome racing
It has been an awesome day at the drags today...been absolutely flat chat myself as we have purchased some high definition cameras for the cars which we were trailing, so it was a busy day testing the new camera equipment, as well as getting all of our other on-board footage with the other in-car video cameras that we use too. So keeping the blog section going was a bit busier than usual, plus to add to the pressure, I also had cameras on Bob St Lawrence's Top Fuel dragster which Martin drove to a very emotional 8.26-second lap.

Phil and Martin did well in qualifying. Phil's first round 4.69-second run was so awesome at just 273.55 mph. He catapulted up the track like he does when that beasty car hooks up, and screamed past me for the early shut-off run. I just knew it was a good number.


Martin's first round pass was also similar, but gremlins struck and he rolled on for a still very good 4.98 at 263.15 mph.

The second round I just knew the cars were going to run hard. The track looked great, and it was a nice Summer evening. The cars hit the track, and again Phil pumped out an awesome 4.681 at 318.02 mph to top qualify the strong field. A stellar effort by the hard working team to sort out the car and run so hard after struggling with gremlins at previous meetings.

Mean time for Stamatis, he was on a mission going 2.243 to the 330' timers, but he hit tyre shake, and coasted through to qualify 5th with his earlier 4.98.

The forecast for tomorrow is for another HOT HOT 37 degrees, so hopefully the Kwinana Doctor (cool sea breeze) will be in early to cool us all down.

I will also try to get some time with Phil Read tomorrow to tell you all about how it felt to go number 1 qualifier. So see you from the track tomorrow.

PHIL BLONDEL
QUALIFYING - TOP FUEL - ROUND 2
QUALIFYING - TOP FUEL - ROUND 2

PRO SERIES TOP FUEL - 04/12/2009

MAXIMUM FIELD SIZE : .. 8

POS# LICENCE DRIVER NAME VEHICLE DESCRIPTION CLASS ET

1... 33 PHIL READ (NSW) ATTAC DRAGSTER T/F 4.681

2... 1957 DARREN MORGAN (VIC) HADMAN DRAGSTER T/F 4.740

3... 3546 MARK MARIANI DRAGSTER T/F 4.849

4... 531 ALLAN DOBSON (WA) DRAGSTER SACRMENTO T/F 4.901

5... 819 MARTIN STAMATIS (WA) DRAGSTER T/F 4.986

6... 282 BOB SHEPHERD UYEHARA RAIL T/F 5.191

7... 145 PHIL LAMATTINA HADMAN DRAGSTER T/F 5.581 RUN LISTING

145 - PHIL LAMATTINA - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 1 19:09:57 10.795 68.85 0.069 0.871 2.672 5.006 92.28 7.767 2 21:39:40 5.581 170.77 0.146 0.861 2.197 3.164 291.62 4.350

1957 - DARREN MORGAN (VIC) - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 1 19:04:28 5.219 179.64 0.122 0.876 2.252 3.235 257.66 4.144 2 21:35:28 4.740 315.78 0.122 0.886 2.255 3.195 326.30 4.037

282 - BOB SHEPHERD - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 2 19:04:28 5.191 207.85 0.135 0.896 2.270 3.190 0.00 4.217

33 - PHIL READ (NSW) - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 2 19:09:57 4.696 273.55 0.167 0.849 2.192 3.031 0.00 3.938 1 21:39:40 4.681 318.02 0.123 0.860 2.216 3.178 263.40 3.983

3546 - MARK MARIANI - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 2 19:13:24 8.053 95.33 0.152 0.899 2.350 3.936 132.77 5.875 1 21:35:28 4.849 262.39 0.140 0.898 2.278 3.245 22.93 4.058

531 - ALLAN DOBSON (WA) - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 2 19:24:35 4.939 240.64 0.187 0.872 2.244 3.241 253.56 4.084 1 21:44:48 4.901 289.38 0.082 0.848 2.272 3.324 245.63 4.167

819 - MARTIN STAMATIS (WA) - T/F LANE RUN TIME ET MPH RT 60' ET 330' ET 660' ET 660' MPH 1000' ET 1 19:13:24 4.986 263.15 0.132 0.856 2.243 3.291 237.81 4.183 2 21:44:48 6.167 142.18 0.157 0.888 2.282 3.367 307.00 4.730

RESULTS COURTESY:

www.motorplex.com.au/results/dr_051209/tf.html

TOP FUEL QUALIFYING PERTH DECEMBER 4 - ROUND 1
TOP FUEL QUALIFYING PERTH DECEMBER 4 - ROUND 1

POS# LICENCE DRIVER NAME VEHICLE DESCRIPTION CLASS ET

1... 33 PHIL READ (NSW) ATTAC DRAGSTER T/F 4.696

2... 531 ALLAN DOBSON (WA) DRAGSTER SACRMENTO T/F 4.939

3... 819 MARTIN STAMATIS (WA) DRAGSTER T/F 4.986

4... 282 BOB SHEPHERD UYEHARA RAIL T/F 5.191

5... 1957 DARREN MORGAN (VIC) HADMAN DRAGSTER T/F 5.219

6... 3546 MARK MARIANI DRAGSTER T/F 8.053

7... 145 PHIL LAMATTINA HADMAN DRAGSTER T/F 10.795
JRR update - Friday 04.12.2009 1pm
The JRR team arrived into Perth on Tuesday, and Phil Read was out testing with Phil Lamattina and Darren Morgan, as well as Martin Stamatis having a test ride in the new Bob St Lawrence car on Wednesday. Phil's first lap was instant tyre smoke, and his second pass got him just out past 100 feet before tyre shake on the warm track, so hopefully tonight will be a bit better once some cars have run up the track and got a race groove happening. For Stamatis, he ran a shut-off at about 300 feet running a 9.23 in St Lawrence's dragster. Stamatis will still be on driving duties in his Billview Top Fueller for this weekend, as well as driving the St Lawrence Top Fueller hopefully for an exhibiton lap only, possibly this evening as one of the last runs of the night. Today (Friday - 1PM) it is a very very hot day, and the forecast for today and tomorrow is for 37 degrees, and with the cars scheduled to be running at 7pm and 9.30pm, hopefully the sun will be down and the track will have cooled off some making traction a little easier on the cars. More updates later on today :) PHIL BLONDEL