Natsoft timing wasn’t on for Friday but Roy Ellery’s MotorsportArchives.com was at Winton filming the action and they got some really beautiful footage of the cars in action, poetry in motion.

Qualifying

Jeff and Daniel Stubbs were the first two to log a lap with Daniel Stubbs taking front, Scott Nind moved up to second just 0.0474 behind Daniel Stubbs.

Jeff Stubbs moved up to pole position with a time of 1:37.3073, Robert Marchese lead the OzTrucks with 2:04.4378, Brendon Hourigan then moved up to third with a time of 1:40.8674.

Lukas Gates led SCA AUSCAR with a time of 1:49.6163 with Jeff Stubbs improved his time to 1:32.2608

Richard White moved up to fourth with a time of 1:36.2776, Jake Frisch moved up to sixth with a time of 1:40.3394.

Danny Burgess moved up to third with a time of 1:32.1877, Brendon Hourigan then moved back up to third position with a time of 1:31.7784.

Jeff Stubbs improved his time to 1:28.7742 while Scott Nind recorded a time of 1:29.7512, both drivers were on their fourth lap.

Robert Marchese secured seventh position with a time of 1:35.9759 with Jake Frisch in the second Richard White Racing car getting position eight with a time of 1:40.3394.

Lukas Gates’ fourth lap of 1:45.6509 kept him on top of the SCA AUSCAR runners, Brad Lighton taken tenth position with lap of 1:51.7902, Colin Matton was the third of the SCA AUSCAR runners with a time of 1:52.0730.

Michael Rice in the VT Commodore qualified twelfth with a time of 1:54.2092 followed by Jamey Hollier in the EF Falcon with a time of 1:54.6868.

Troy Perichon won the battle of the XF Falcon’s with a time of 1:55.3602 and Chris Robertson rounds out the field with a time of 2:30.8299, the #54 only doing two laps.

Seven out of the fifteen drivers done their best lap on their fourth lap.

Race One

The history making moment arrived for Stock Cars Australia, the biggest field of SCA AUSCARs in category history was part of a total field of fifteen vehicles for first race of the round.

Jeff Stubbs led the field to green and Scott Nind was into the lead of the race by the end of the first lap.

Scott Nind improved his lap time to 1:29.5454 on Lap 2 and the yellow flag came out for Colin Matton whose #2 Commodore was out of action.

Racing resumed quickly with fourteen runners in the race, Michael Rice quickly gained two positions to sit eleventh to be one place ahead of his starting position.

Scott Nind got the ponies going to improve his lap time to 1:27.2060 and Michael Rice moved up to tenth.

Lap 6 was the lap most of the field put in their best laps with Jeff Stubbs, Brendon Hourigan, Danny Burgess, Richard White, Lukas Gates and Chris Robertson all doing race best times.

Michael Rice who was running in the VT Commodore had dropped down as far as thirteenth after cracking the Top 10 earlier in the race but was heading back up the order.

Back up the field, Danny Burgess was closing right in on Brendon Hourigan for third but was unable to make a passing move.

Behind the duelling OzTrucks, Richard White was closing in on Daniel Stubbs for fifth.

Back further down the field, SCA debutant Brad Lighton was closing in on Jamey Hollier for tenth.

Chris Robertson’s race ended at Lap 6, overall, it was a good debut, the #54 XF Falcon Sportsman looked good for a car that had not been run since December 1999, and there was no doubt that the car would improve over the weekend.

The race order up the front stayed steady for the remainder of the race, Scott Nind taken the win from Jeff Stubbs, Brendon Hourigan, Danny Burgess and Daniel Stubbs.

Rounding out the Top 10 was Richard White, Robert Marchese, Jake Frisch, Lukas Gates and Jamey Hollier.

Brad Lighton finished 11th in his first race in the #26 Commodore, Michael Rice who had climbed back into the Top 10 dropped down to finish twelfth in the VT Commodore and Troy Perichon was thirteenth.

Race Two

All fifteen SCA vehicles were back in for Race 2 which is always a good thing.

Scott Nind got out to a 3.27 second lead at the end of the first lap and increased it to 5.93 seconds in the second.

Daniel Stubbs and Richard White were in battle for fifth spot with lap times being close together.

Colin Matton got past the two Ford Falcon’s to move up to thirteenth position.

Jamey Hollier’s promising race ended on Lap 3, the SCA AUSCAR driver was in tenth position and the second of the six SCA AUSCARs in the field.

Michael Rice gained two positions to sit in tenth position on Lap 4 and Brad Lighton occupied eleventh after the retirement of Jamey Hollier.

Scott Nind’s lead got out to 10.09 seconds as Brendon Hourigan was starting to drop away from Jeff Stubbs in the race for second place.

Troy Perichon and Chris Robertson were doing lap times in the 1min 53sec range in their XF Falcon’s while Michael Rice, Colin Matton and Brad Lighton further up the road were doing 1min 44secs.

Troy Perichon’s XF Falcon was retired on the fifth lap of the race in what was not a good race for the Falcon contingent.

Lap seven saw Danny Burgess, Daniel Stubbs and Richard White all record their fastest lap of the race, all were in the 1min 31sec range.

Colin Matton recorded his best lap on his eighth lap with a time of 1:43.0735 which made him the fastest SCA AUSCAR driver that lap.

Lukas Gates had a nice, clean race to finish ninth and was the leading SCA AUSCAR for the race.

Jake Frisch finished the race with a flourish as he recorded a best time of 1:33.0993 to finish just over a second adrift of Robert Marchese who had a solid race in seventh position.

Scott Nind won the race by 6.47 seconds from Jeff Stubbs, Brendon Hourigan, Danny Burgess and Daniel Stubbs.

Rounding out the Top 10 was Richard White, Robert Marchese, Jake Frisch, Lukas Gates and Michael Rice.

Colin Matton finished eleventh in the #2 Commodore, Brad Lighton finished twelfth and Chris Robertson finished thirteenth in the #54 Ford XF Falcon.

Race Three

Scott Nind got a good start and was racing away from the pack, Richard White had a good start and got ahead of the #19 of Daniel Stubbs to sit in the Top 5.

Richard White had a moment going into Turn 1, his #8 Monte Carlo spun in the front a pack, a nervous moment captured by the onboard camera.

Daniel Stubbs who started fifth ended up being behind Jake Frisch and Robert Marchese with the trio battling each other while Richard White chased after them.

Scott Nind and Jeff Stubbs recorded their best laps on Lap 4 with Scott recording a lap of 1:27.6456 and Jeff a lap of 1:27.6678.

Richard White caught up to and passed Robert Marchese and was sitting behind the battling duo of Jake Frisch and Daniel Stubbs when the #8 Monte Carlo went around again dropping the #8 down to ninth.

Daniel Stubbs got around Jake Frisch for fifth and then Robert Marchese got around the #3 Lumina for sixth and leaving the #3 in seventh.

Lukas Gates in the lead SCA AUSCAR was running all by his lonesome in tenth position while Colin Matton and Brad Lighton were battling for eleventh position in the Commodores.

Thirteenth was Jamey Hollier who gained two positions in the race driving the EF Falcon.

Troy Perichon won the battle of the XF’s for fourteenth by holding off Chris Robertson, the two were running close to each other for the entire race with both cars have strengths and weaknesses in different parts of the track.

Richard White had his best lap of 1:31.4198 on the final lap to show that the #8 Monte Carlo has good speed and will no doubt be battling for a Top 5 in the last race.

Scott Nind won the race by 6.55 seconds from Jeff Stubbs, Brendon Hourigan, Danny Burgess and Daniel Stubbs.

Rounding out the Top 10 was Robert Marchese, Jake Frisch, Richard White, Michael Rice and Lukas Gates.

Colin Matton finished eleventh, Brad Lighton finished twelfth, Jamey Hollier finished thirteenth, Troy Perichon finished fourteenth and rounding out the field was Chris Robertson.

Race 4

A change up for this race, the Top 8 positions were reversed, and it was an all-Richard White Racing front row with team leader Richard White leading the thirteen-vehicle field to the green flag.

The penalties started coming out almost right away, Richard White, Jake Frisch and Michael Rice all got penalties with Richard’s penalty being withdrawn.

Scott Nind started eighth and was fifth by the end of the first lap and by the third he was in the lead.

Robert Marchese who started third, dropped down to seventh and got back to sixth before his race ended on the third lap.

Lap 4 saw Lukas Gates, Troy Perichon and Michael Rice battling for position, this caught the attention of the Blend Line TV commentators who focused on the action, and they loved the cars.

Jeff Stubbs in the Dodge almost ended up in Daniel Stubb’s Monte Carlo, thankfully awkwardness in the Stubbs camp was avoided and racing resumed.

Richard White went on an off-road excursion on Lap 5, but he found himself back on the track and behind Brendon Hourigan.

Brendon Hourigan as mentioned earlier passed Richard White who dropped down to third position on Lap 5, but Richard’s lap times were keeping up with the likes of Brendon, Danny Burgess, Daniel Stubbs and Jeff Stubbs making it very enthralling racing in the battle to see who would finish behind Scott Nind.

Danny Burgess was running fourth on Lap 6 but had two offs to lose fourth and fifth on Laps 7 and 8 and ended up running in sixth position.

Jake Frisch settled into seventh position and encountered no opposition; the #3 Lumina was a popular choice of admiration for the commentators.

Colin Matton who started eleventh made his way into the Top 10 and was making eighth place his home from Lap 4 and ended up finishing in that position, a solid round from the newcomer to the series.

Chris Robertson’s debut also went well, the XF Falcon driver was thirteenth and last on Lap 1 and made his way to eleventh and was tenth by the time the third lap was logged, Chris ended the race in ninth position.

Michael Rice finished tenth in the VT Commodore, his fifteen second penalty did not affect his finishing position as he would have been just short of Chris Robertson.

Lukas Gates who was leading the SCA AUSCAR charge all weekend, dropped back in the field and was battling Troy Perichon for eleventh position, Lukas held on to be the third SCA AUSCAR finisher.

Scott Nind won the race by 14.16 seconds with Brendon Hourigan, Richard White, Daniel Stubbs and Jeff Stubbs rounding out the Top 5.

The battle of the race belonged to Brendon Hourigan, Richard White, Daniel Stubbs and Jeff Stubbs with less than three seconds covering the four drivers at the finish.

Rounding out the Top 10 was Danny Burgess, Jake Frisch, Colin Matton for his first Top 10 in the series, Chris Robertson who also got his first Top 10 in the series and Michael Rice finished tenth in the VT Commodore.

Lukas Gates finished eleventh in the #22 Commodore and Troy Perichon rounded out the field in the #6 XF Falcon.

Wrap Up

A successful weekend of action, the SCA AUSCAR’s got through the weekend, there was plenty of racing action from top to bottom, some spins, some close calls and hopefully nobody finds any mechanical dramas that will deprive them of going to Calder Park at the end of September.

The Race 4 experiment of changing the starting order appears to be a success, while it didn’t really slow the #16 Mustang down, it did make competition for finishing positions much tougher.

Next up is Calder Park Raceway on September 28-29, the complex where it all began and what is shaping up to be the biggest event on Stock Cars Australia’s calendar.

Many thanks to Roy Ellery for pictures and video and to Blend Line TV for streaming the races allowing hundreds of people to see what Stock Cars Australia and other categories have to offer.