JRR READY
FOR 2010 WINTERNATIONALS
Martin Stamatis currently leads the 2009/2010 ANDRA Pro Series Championship
Points
A strong field of 9 Top Fuel Dragsters have entered for this weekend’s season
ending Winternationals to be held at Willowbank Raceway, 10-13th June.
While the crews have been busy turning the cars around getting them ready for
JRR drivers Phil Read and Martin Stamatis, preparations for one of the nation’s
biggest annual events has already attracted in excess of 480 Entrants, with 85
of those coming from the just the professional categories alone.
In an exciting end to the season, just 25 points separate the three main
contenders in this year’s battle for the Australian Top Fuel Championship.
Currently, Stamatis leads with 505 points, while Read is just 15 points behind
him with 490 points, and Phil Lamattina just 10 points behind Read with 480
points, so it’s going to be a great battle to see who will be crowned Australian
Top Fuel Champion.
A review back of the 2009/2010 ANDRA Pro Series season has seen both Stamatis
and Read for Auto One, Wynn’s, Valvoline, McDonalds, MTU Detroit Diesel, Hurlcon,
Snap on and Billview separately make all of the Finals, and has left them both
in a strong position with the Championship points chase.
While gremlins initially plagued Read’s car earlier in the season, Stamatis was
also having his own problems with the supercharger belt coming off on nearly
every pass. But after some cluey detective work was done to firstly replace some
parts on Read’s dragster, and then for Stamatis by replacing his supercharger
drive belt pulley system, the changes were instant, and saw both cars running
hard and competitively again.
So with both of the car’s gremlins now sorted, the team at JRR are confident
going into the 2010 Winternationals that they have two strong and competitive
cars again, and hopeful of quick and fast times for the final race of the
season.
At this stage, Top Fuel is scheduled to race with four qualifying runs at 12pm
and 5pm on Friday, and the final two qualifying runs will then be run from
11.30am and 5pm on Saturday. Round one of eliminations start from 10.30am, the
semi-finals are scheduled to run from 12.45pm, and the Finals will begin from
3pm.
For results of the 2010 Winternationals, stay tuned to
www.willowbank-raceway.com.au
For more team information, check out
www.jimreadracing.com.au
