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4 November 2014 | General

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