By: Steven & Peter.

Steven & Dad (pitman) ran motors in all day Wednesday.We had 120 competitors at this event, the most we have had at a Nationals for a number of years. We had the normal pace setting competitors like Jesse Davis, Chris Reade, Wayne Walker, Simon Nicholson & Michael Kerr who just came back to Australia after 4 years.
 
We got to the track on Thursday morning looking to finalize setups as Peter Junior was unable to get to the track before then as he had work commitments. We where all ready to start practice until the normal thing that always happens at these events, it started to rain. It rained all day Thursday which was good for Steven as he was very sick & slept in the car all day.
 
After a good nights rest we where all prepared to get some qualifiying in. After the first qualifying heat we had Steven in TQ in touring car & Simon Nicholson in 1/8th scale.Steven set a new track record in the 1/8th scale car & also posted the fastest single best lap in touring car. By the end of the day we had Peter in TQ for touring with Steven in second & Peter was in second for 1/8th with Steven in third.After qualifying was finished we had Peter top qualifier in touring with Steven in second & we had Steven qualify 3rd in 1/8th with Peter in 2nd place.
 
Going in to the finals Peter & Steven where very confident with there setups & motors. The touring car final was first up & we  had a clean start to the race.By the end of the first lap we had Peter & Steven out in front & racing for first place.Steven was desperatly trying to get past Peter as his car was alot better early in the race.As Steven tried to take Peter his motor stopped. The glow plug was changed & Steven was back out there but lost about 2-3 laps. Peter drove a clean race & finished with out a scratch on the car to take his second Nationals in a row.Steven managed to unlap himself once to Peter but couldnt do much better than that.Steven finished 5th.
 
That 1/8th scale race was now on. There was a delay called by Peter as he had some mechanical problem that he found with his car.He got it all fixed & was all ready for the race.Steven got his ready to go out when there was 1 minute left in the delay when he found the steering wasnt working in the car.All the car got lined up on the grid when suddenly the radio gear all started working. Stevens pitman managed to get him out on the grid & again it was a fairly clean start but after the corner Steven was in 10th position.Peter got a clean start but ended up smashing his car into the tyres & that put him out of the race.Steven after about 2minutes in managed to get in to second position as he set the fastest time of the race. At the 20 minute mark Steven came in for a tyre change that was blistering fast & return to running the race. The first 5 minutes after the tyre change for Steven where very slow.But after the next fuel stop he was was around .5 of a second faster tha any other car on the track. The lead car came in to do a tyre change after the 35 minute mark & took around 1 lap longer than Stevens with him having 5 people changing his tyres( and got no penalty for it).With 5 minute to go Steven was now chasing a new leader( Michael Kerr) that didnt do a tyre change.After changing positions with him around 10 times Steven managed to get past on the seond last lap & take the win for his first Nationals Championships.
 
We would like to thank NOVAROSSI for their super fast engines, Motonica for the awsome new 1/8th scale car, AT Racing Fuels..