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BOWE TAKES RACE ONE AT BATHURST
JOHN BOWE has won a safety-car interrupted opening ENZED Touring Car Masters race at Mount Panorama in a record-setting day for the No. 18 Ford Mustang driver.
The double Bathurst winner started from pole and held out early challenges from Andrew Miedecke on the opening lap before extending a three-second lead before the Safety Car was called on lap three.
After earlier scoring his sixth-straight TCM pole position with a record-shattering 2m19.1s time Bowe also re-set the three-year-old race lap record today setting a new benchmark on lap 2 at 2m21.1035s.
Miedecke finished second with Keith Kassulke holding out a determined Greg Crick for third before the race was neutralised.
The Safety car was called when three cars ended buried in the sand trap at McPhillamy Park.
Brett Youlden and Bill Pye made contact when side-by-side at McPhillamy with the pair spearing off the circuit at high speed – though ending up mostly undamaged.
Andrew Fisher’s Jesus Racing Falcon was following the pair and also ended buried in the sand when taking evasive action from the incident.
Safety crews were able to recover and re-start the Youlden and Fisher entries however were unable to re-fire Pye’s ’69 Bob Jane Racing Camaro lookalike taking additional time removing it from the sand and forcing race officials to call the race short by one lap whilst still behind the Safety Car.
With six of the seven scheduled laps complete full points were awarded.
Behind Bowe Miedecke Kassulke and Crick Kim Jane Mark King Jim Richards Jason Gomersall Brad Tilley and Cameron Mason completed the top-10.
Tomorrow’s second race of the TCM Mountain Masters presented by ENZED Rare Spares and Shannons (Live on Seven at 2:55pm AEDST) will provisionally feature a reverse top-10 grid putting Cameron Mason’s Mustang on pole alongside fan-favourite Brad Tilley’s Falcon GTHO.
Final starting positions will be confirmed on Saturday morning.
Click here to read the qualifying wrap from Friday morning that saw John Bowe score pole position for the sixth straight time this season.
RACE 1 RESULTS:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Pos Car Competitor/Team Driver Vehicle Cap CL Laps Race.Time Fastest...Lap1 18 Dunlop Super Dealers/Wilson Se John Bowe (VIC) Mustang Trans Am 5600c 6 20:49.9520 2 2:21.1035R2 95 Whiteline Transport Racing / L Andrew Miedecke (NSW) Camaro SS 5800c 6 20:51.0193 2 2:22.77573 52 Outbound Racing / wheels.com.p Keith Kassulke (QLD) Falcon XB Coupe 5800c 6 20:51.7952 2 2:23.87614 75 Mopar Performance Greg Crick (TAS) Charger E55 5570c 6 20:52.9968 2 2:23.71745 48 Sydneys Cheapest Cars Kim Jane (VIC) Falcon XB Coupe 5800c 6 20:53.6397 2 2:24.19586 85 Whiteline Transport Racing / K Mark King (QLD) Camaro RS 5800c 6 20:54.7120 2 2:23.49947 1 Shannons Insurance Jim Richards (VIC) Falcon Sprint 4700c 6 20:55.6889 2 2:23.66068 35 iseek Racing Jason Gomersall (QLD) Torana SL/R 5000 5047c 6 20:56.6262 2 2:25.48109 28 Brad Tilley (NSW) Falcon XY GT 5800c 6 20:58.1543 2 2:25.789110 3 Hercules Engines Cameron Mason (NSW) Mustang Fastback 5000c 6 20:58.8000 2 2:26.823211 25 Freestones Transport/Freestone Paul Freestone (VIC) Camaro SS 5800c 6 21:03.0150 2 2:26.724012 50 Flo-gineering Carey McMahon (VIC) Torana SL/R 5000 5000c 6 21:03.6416 2 2:27.764713 99 Outbound Racing / Treloar Rose Les Walmsley (VIC) HQ Monaro 5810c 6 21:04.9678 2 2:28.514314 88 TIFS - Warehousing & Distribut Tony Karanfilovski (NSW) Mustang Trans Am 5800c 6 21:05.1423 2 2:29.178015 60 Tilleys Racing Equipment Cameron Tilley (NSW) HQ Monaro 5800c 6 21:07.9578 2 2:28.676516 11 Lion Mill Solutions Adam Bressington (NSW) Falcon XA GT 5768c 6 21:08.8159 2 2:35.401617 33 SportsMed Greg Keene (SA) 911 RS 3600c 6 21:09.9173 2 2:30.302318 10 Sunliner RV Tony Hunter (VIC) Monza 2+2 5000c 6 21:11.0488 2 2:31.297419 6 Chris Stillwell Racing Sven Burchartz (VIC) Mustang Trans Am 5000c 6 21:13.3642 2 2:32.819820 98 Thunder Road Racing Australia William Vining (NSW) Mustang Coupe 5000c 6 21:14.5976 2 2:32.972621 74 Lyndways Builders Wayne Mercer (VIC) Falcon XY GTHO 5800c 6 21:15.6954 2 2:32.387822 4 Skye Sands Rusty French (VIC) 911 RS 3600c 6 21:16.5819 2 2:34.912723 43 Treloar Roses / Mick Wilson Pl Mick Wilson (VIC) Charger RT 4390c 6 21:17.4245 2 2:41.098724 72 BMR Industries Bruce McLeod (NT) Falcon XA Superbird 5000c 6 21:18.3595 2 2:44.814025 5 Northern BM P/L Phillip Showers (VIC) Escort RS 1600 2000c 6 21:19.4939 2 2:45.425826 9 Synergy Race Engines Andrew Fisher (NSW) Falcon XY GTHO 5800c 5 21:20.8235 2 2:26.117727 56 Autolite Spark Plugs Brett Youlden (VIC) HQ Monaro 5800c 5 21:40.2859 2 2:26.4500DNF 46 THD Motorsport Leo Tobin (VIC) Boss Mustang 5000c 3 9:19.7942 2 2:59.6738DNF 7 calga.biz Bill Pye (NSW) Camaro 5800c 2 4:54.6828 2 2:25.2262