Asian Motor Sports

Tearaway series leader Shawn Jamieson has put his Morphet Vale Holden Commodore VT on pole position here at Winton Raceway today for the first race of round four of the Kumho Tyres Australian Saloon Car Series.

With only seven rivals Jamieson posted a 1 minute 38.4927 seconds which was just two tenths of a second off the lap record and six tenths faster than his nearest rival. “I went out and nailed a time as early as possible so I could save the tyres for the first race and have a crack at the lap record,” he said.

Fellow South Australian and Holden driver John Goodacre (Avery VT) nabbed the outside of the front row. Despite staying on old rubber Victorian Tim Rouse (Rouse Motors VT) made it a Commodore trifecta when he snare third ahead of the best of the Fords, the v8touringcars.com.au Falcon AU of Geoff Brown in only its meeting following the writing off of his original Ford at Phillip Island’s round two.

Next was the Saloon Cars owned Falcon driven by former Development Series campaigner Victorian Tony Evangelou, ahead of New South Wales Mark Primmer in the Dial Before You Dig AU with Victorians Paul Pennisi in the Kentucky Bourbon VT and Dan Hodge (BJ Plumbing AU) rounding out the small field.

2009 Kumho Tyres Australian Saloon Car Series Round Four Qualifying

1 Shawn Jamieson (SA) Holden Commodore VT 1:38.4927
2 John Goodacre (SA) Holden Commodore VT 1:39.0242
3 Tim Rowse (VIC) Holden Commodore VT 1:39.4179
4 Geoff Brown (VIC) Ford Falcon AU 1:39.9700
5 Tony Evangelou (VIC) Ford Falcon AU 1:40.3428
6 Mark Primmer (NSW) Ford Falcon AU 1:41.1241
7 Paul Pennisi (VIC) Holden Commodore VT 1:41.7542
8 Dan Hodge (VIC) Ford Falcon AU 1:42.2520

Kumho Tyres Australian Saloon Car Series Provisional Points (after three rounds)

Jamieson 320, Harvey 136, Milton 134, Walton 132, Davidson 119, Gate 113, *Kwiatkowski (Holden) 105, Brown 81, Rouse 81, Tabinor 71, Dawson 67, *Kwiatkowski (Ford) 66, Pennisi 63, Nowland 63, Hoey 61, Goodacre 50, B Niall 45, P Dane 43, Maltby 41, Heinrich 38, Burr 37, Youlden 27, Fox 23, D Panizza 22, French 18, Heath 17, M Niall 16, Seal 15, Primmer 13, Westall 12, Price 11, Shanks 11, Borich 7, Stratos 7, Rogers 6, Piggott 5, Mason 4, Piavinini 4, K millier 4, F Panizza 3, Carra 3, Papageorgio 3, Stevens3, Drummond 3, R Millier 3, Hodge 2, Lonie 2, Christie 2, Croft 2, Hodge 2, Kearns 2, King 2, Kelland 2, Patten 2, Van Gilst 2, Barbara 1, Niclasen 1, Miscample 1, R Dane.