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Two to go for KRE Sprintcar Series

07/05/2014

By Jodie Bell

Two to go for KRE Sprintcar Series

 

It’s the penultimate round of the KRE Race Engines Sprintcar Series this Saturday night at Supercheap Auto Archerfield Speedway and Toowoomba’s Andrew Scheuerle is poised to round things up on top of the leader board for a second year in a row.  Australian Sprintcar champion Dave Murcott may prevent Scheuerle from amassing the ultimate points package this weekend but for Scheuerle to win another KRE Series, first he must finish.

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              Andrew Scheuerle 

The Ausdeck Patios and Roofing #25 team have raced hard week-in and week-out and now have an impenetrable lead in the KRE Series.  Scheuerle’s plans of a clean sweep of both the KRE Series and the Queensland Club championship have been revived.

 

Scheuerle now leads the KRE Series by 144 points and leads the Queensland Club championship by 68 points.  With two rounds remaining, something major would have to go wrong for him to lose from here.

 

Things didn’t go well for Scheuerle at two rounds of the Easter Tri-City Shootout which allowed Luke Oldfield to close the gap to within 3 points of Scheuerle’s lead in the Queensland Club championship.  

 

Even though Oldfield finished third in the Queensland Title, Scheuerle strengthened his point’s standing in the Club championship and now has 1102, Oldfield remains in second on 1034 and Kevin Titman holds third with 842 points.

 

The KRE Race Engines Series top 5 remains unchanged – Scheuerle (1013), Oldfield (869), Titman (720), Darren Jensen (705), Danny Riedy (601).

 

Although absent from the nomination’s list, Danny Reidy is said to be racing this weekend.  The two-time Queensland championship runner-up is set for a top five finish in both the KRE series and the Queensland Club championship.  It was a disappointing result for Reidy a fortnight ago when the throttle jammed wide-open in the Desert Palms Resort #5 during the formation laps of the Queensland Title feature race at Archerfield.  He masterfully muscled the car away from others but the mechanical failure relegated him to the infield before the green flag dropped.

 

Surely lady luck will be on Murcott’s side this time ‘round at Archerfield.  He won the preliminary feature race on night 1 of the Queensland Sprintcar Title and was in the lead of the feature on night 2 when his engine just died.

 

Nominations for round 14 of the KRE Race Engines Sprintcar Series stand at 26.  Support divisions on Saturday night include the Modlites who will stage round 3 of the chase in the Western Landscape Supplies/David Grose Real Estate Driver to America Series.  The Compact Speedcars are also on the schedule as are the Wingless Sprints, Formula 500’s and the SSA Juniors.

 

Pit gates open at 3pm, spectator gates open at 4pm and there will be early racing from approximately 5pm with the main program commencing at 6pm. Check www.brisbanespeedway.com.au for prices and facebook.com/archerfieldspeedway for updates.


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