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Hazelwood Sweeps Sunday in the Sunshine State
Todd Hazelwood has capped a stellar weekend at EVENTelec Race Queensland, taking out a chaotic Trico Trans Am Race 4.
Hazelwood again got the jump on Nathan Herne to seize the lead, and this time Jordan Boys followed him through to put the Race 1 winner on the back foot.
Deeper in the pack, there was first-corner trouble as Tom Davies and John Holinger collided and together careered into the gravel trap, with James Simpson forced to go even wider as a means of evasive action.
Holinger got going again – if only to wobble back to the pits – but Davies was beached.
By the time the Safety Car intervened there had been more drama, with Jordan Cox out on the spot at Turn 4.
Mark Bailey joined Holinger in the pitlane after battering his #12 car when he piled into the back of Brett Holdsworth as yellow flags came out; all the while recovery crews got to work on freeing Davies and loading Cox’s Camaro up onto the tilt tray.
Herne was the big winner when racing resumed, passing Boys into Turn 4.
He’d have no answer for Hazelwood though, who took the flag with 2.3043s in hand to seal the round win.
Arguably the star of the show though was Elliott Cleary, who picked off one car after another post-restart to apply immense pressure to the back of Boys for the final podium position.
Boys hung on, by less than a tenth of a second.
James Moffat was the lead Garry Rogers Motorsport Mustang in fifth, ahead of teammates James Golding and Edan Thornburrow.
Behind Jackson Rice, Lee Stibbs upstaged Josh Thomas in the Pro-Am class, that duo coming home outright ninth and 10th respectively.
The hard-luck story was Elliot Barbour, who’d been fourth at the restart but mysteriously faded to 16th with some sort of ailment.
Hazelwood now has a 38-point series lead over Moffat with two rounds remaining, at Mount Panorama and Adelaide.