The Flight Centre Classic was held on the popular Bendigo circuit which is an outdoor painted asphalt track in Victoria, Australia. The weather was warm with track temps that ranged between 60-70 centigrade. The Classes run were 17.5 Stock, 10.5 Super Stock and Modified and format was 6 qualifiers with best 3 placing in rounds to count and then 3 finals with the best two to count.
It was an awesome performance by the Tekin RS speedy and its drivers...

Super Stock
It was an awesome dominating performance by Team Tekin in the 10.5 class this year with the Tekin RS filling 3 out of the top 4 winning positions in the A Main. Again with the new Tekin software the cars were hitting similar speeds to the modified cars down the straights and put on a real show. Antoni Caretti using a Tekin RS took the T.Q position winning 5 out of 6 qualifiers and then go onto a perfect 3 out of 3 in the A main. In second place was Joe Ghiringhelli who put in a barnstorming drive from 9th place on the grid, in the other positions were Anthony Iavazzo in 3rd and James Ainslie in 4th with both drivers putting in consistent runs in the A main.
Stock
This class was as competitive as ever this year and with the new range of speed controllers the 17.5 motors were really moving. It was an awesome result for Team Tekin with 7 out of the top 10 A main positions filled by the Tekin RS speed control. Setting the hot pace all weekend was Luke Gunnell who was using the Tekin RS speed controller. Over the course of the weekend it was a dominant performance by Luke who T.Q'd by winning all 6 rounds of Qualifying and then going on to a dominant 3 out of 3 finals in the A main. Luke was also the only person to break into the 24 lap territory in stock with all others in the 23 and 22 range. In the final podium position was Matt Wicks who also put in some quick runs over the weekend. |