2022 Round Thunder Results
Michelmore brings it home at the home of NASCAR!
The ANZCAR 180 at Charlotte would see an absolute bumper field of 40 cars take the starting flag for this race.
Jaiden Russell the fastest of these to grab the pole position followed closely by “Mr Thunder” Hamish Gallagher, Ruben Phelps and Michael Scurlock.
Russell would lead out the first 4 laps before Gallagher would take over the lead on lap 5.
A 6 car group would break away early on with Aiden Schultz and Ryan Jones battling for 5th and 6th early on. Jones would work his way up to 3rd with Daniel Grzeskiewicz in 4th and Matt Knight in 6th having good early runs.
The races first caution would come out on lap 30 and this would see pretty much every car come into the pits to grab the 1st of their 3 sets of extra tires.
Gallagher would lead off the next run clearing out while a battle pack would fight it out for 2nd through to 7th. Jones would take over the lead of the race on lap 40 and lead until Gallagher would reclaim it on lap 54.
Blaine Densely would move into 3rd place showing good race pace.
Another caution on lap 61 would see the bulk of the field pitting again for fresh tires and fuel. This would start to see a few drivers thinking about conserving their tires hoping to have a fresh set available for a possible late caution.
Justin Whitcher would stay out at this caution saving a set of tires and leading the restart of the race. A caution on lap 81 would see most of the leaders come into the pits again and grab their final set of tires to run the last 35 or so laps.
This is where we would see the gamblers come into play with the first 9 cars on track at the restart not pitting and saving a set of tires hoping for another caution to break up the final run.
If there was another caution after this these drivers would look pretty good and have a lap pace advantage over the other drivers with no tires left to change to.
Grzeszkiewicz would lead off the next restart. Josh Michelmore would use restarting on the low line to his advantage to get ahead of Gallagher as they worked their way back through the field.
New tires vs old tires would make for some interesting action throughout the field.
On lap 91 Michelmore would take over the lead from teammate Grzeszkiewicz and work through traffic to win the race. Gallagher coming in 2nd and Dave Douglas finishing 3rd after starting 22nd.
Grzeszkiewicz finishing in 11th the first of the drivers with 1 set of tires left but didn’t get that final caution to use them.
Results:
1st: Josh Michelmore
2nd: Hamish Gallagher
3rd: Dave Douglas
4th: Aiden Schultz
5th: Ryan Jones
Incidents:
Lap 30 – Caution – Car no 62 – Mirko Dautanac - Single car contact with wall and spin
Lap 61 - Caution – Car 90 – Nigel Paton – Incident Noted
Lap 66 – Race restart – Number of cars changing lanes for avoiding action as a driver was having technical difficulties with internet. No further action.
Lap 81 – Caution – Car 85 – Nathan Rohrlach – Car 023 – Troy Davidson – Both cars have moved towards each other at the same time.
Other Notes:
Messy start of the race again this week with cars not getting into their correct starting position and this throwing the start out for others. If this keeps on happening, we will have to start looking at penalties.
DQ –Car 350 - Michael Scurlock – Abusive language
I’ve chucked in a screenshot of the year long points standings as well for an update.
Remember the year long one will be 27 counting races and 6 drop rounds. If I get a chance ill look at doing the drop rounds in there for a clearer week to week picture.
Catch all the action here thanks to our partners at Locked on Lads TV and the replay of their live broadcast here:
https://youtu.be/N8F0NRigbE4
Next week sees the Thunder series head to Belle Isle for the AJD Australia 60 @ Belle isle!
Now this is going to be an interesting one indeed. See you all there!
This week’s sponsor: AJD Australia
What team do you sponsor if any? Natari Autosport
What do you do? We provide Business-Marketing, Psychology and Disability Consultancy Services
What location are you? Adelaide, SA
How do people get in touch with you? https://www.ajda.com.au/
The ANZCAR 180 at Charlotte would see an absolute bumper field of 40 cars take the starting flag for this race.
Jaiden Russell the fastest of these to grab the pole position followed closely by “Mr Thunder” Hamish Gallagher, Ruben Phelps and Michael Scurlock.
Russell would lead out the first 4 laps before Gallagher would take over the lead on lap 5.
A 6 car group would break away early on with Aiden Schultz and Ryan Jones battling for 5th and 6th early on. Jones would work his way up to 3rd with Daniel Grzeskiewicz in 4th and Matt Knight in 6th having good early runs.
The races first caution would come out on lap 30 and this would see pretty much every car come into the pits to grab the 1st of their 3 sets of extra tires.
Gallagher would lead off the next run clearing out while a battle pack would fight it out for 2nd through to 7th. Jones would take over the lead of the race on lap 40 and lead until Gallagher would reclaim it on lap 54.
Blaine Densely would move into 3rd place showing good race pace.
Another caution on lap 61 would see the bulk of the field pitting again for fresh tires and fuel. This would start to see a few drivers thinking about conserving their tires hoping to have a fresh set available for a possible late caution.
Justin Whitcher would stay out at this caution saving a set of tires and leading the restart of the race. A caution on lap 81 would see most of the leaders come into the pits again and grab their final set of tires to run the last 35 or so laps.
This is where we would see the gamblers come into play with the first 9 cars on track at the restart not pitting and saving a set of tires hoping for another caution to break up the final run.
If there was another caution after this these drivers would look pretty good and have a lap pace advantage over the other drivers with no tires left to change to.
Grzeszkiewicz would lead off the next restart. Josh Michelmore would use restarting on the low line to his advantage to get ahead of Gallagher as they worked their way back through the field.
New tires vs old tires would make for some interesting action throughout the field.
On lap 91 Michelmore would take over the lead from teammate Grzeszkiewicz and work through traffic to win the race. Gallagher coming in 2nd and Dave Douglas finishing 3rd after starting 22nd.
Grzeszkiewicz finishing in 11th the first of the drivers with 1 set of tires left but didn’t get that final caution to use them.
Results:
1st: Josh Michelmore
2nd: Hamish Gallagher
3rd: Dave Douglas
4th: Aiden Schultz
5th: Ryan Jones
Incidents:
Lap 30 – Caution – Car no 62 – Mirko Dautanac - Single car contact with wall and spin
Lap 61 - Caution – Car 90 – Nigel Paton – Incident Noted
Lap 66 – Race restart – Number of cars changing lanes for avoiding action as a driver was having technical difficulties with internet. No further action.
Lap 81 – Caution – Car 85 – Nathan Rohrlach – Car 023 – Troy Davidson – Both cars have moved towards each other at the same time.
Other Notes:
Messy start of the race again this week with cars not getting into their correct starting position and this throwing the start out for others. If this keeps on happening, we will have to start looking at penalties.
DQ –Car 350 - Michael Scurlock – Abusive language
I’ve chucked in a screenshot of the year long points standings as well for an update.
Remember the year long one will be 27 counting races and 6 drop rounds. If I get a chance ill look at doing the drop rounds in there for a clearer week to week picture.
Catch all the action here thanks to our partners at Locked on Lads TV and the replay of their live broadcast here:
https://youtu.be/N8F0NRigbE4
Next week sees the Thunder series head to Belle Isle for the AJD Australia 60 @ Belle isle!
Now this is going to be an interesting one indeed. See you all there!
This week’s sponsor: AJD Australia
What team do you sponsor if any? Natari Autosport
What do you do? We provide Business-Marketing, Psychology and Disability Consultancy Services
What location are you? Adelaide, SA
How do people get in touch with you? https://www.ajda.com.au/
