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Photo: Tom Tweedie
mixed it up with the Championship class cars at Winton
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Photo: Tom with the spoils of
victory at Wakefield Park
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TOM TWEEDIE has completed a most
rewarding weekend on his first visit to Victoria’s Winton Motor Raceway
in Australia’s fastest racing cars.
Tweedie took his
Battery World / Tizzana Vineyards / Team Tom Dallara F304 to a handy
pair of F3 National Class wins, but it wasn’t the class points that gave
the small team the most satisfaction at the weekend.
What did
was, firstly, a strong rebound from challenging practice and qualifying
sessions and secondly, two spirited races that saw the Blue and Yellow
Dallara mixing it up with the latest and greatest cars contesting the
Australian Drivers’ Championship this year.
Tweedie finished
fourth outright in both races at the 3.0km circuit in his older model
2004 Dallara, racing the 2007-spec outright cars hard on both occasions.
Tweedies’ only major incident of the weekend came when he was
turned around by Mat Sofi in the first race, sending the Team Tom
Dallara into a harmless spin in turn eleven.
Earlier in the
weekend the team had struggled for setup but after some timely advice
from 2007-champion Tim Macrow and hard work from the team, Tweedie
bounced back with two stunning performances on Sunday.
As a
result he now leads the National Class by 30 points ahead of his first
race on ‘home turf’, at Eastern Creek in July.
“It was a really
good weekend in the end, the pace we had today (race day) were very
satisfying,” said Tweedie.
“Mat and I were dicing after he had a
bad start and had a shot down the inside at turn eleven, in race one. He
just clipped my rear wheel and that sent both of us out into the mud. It
was a bit frustrating but he came and apologised afterwards and in the
end it was just one of those incidents that can happen.
“I’m
really happy with the pace of the car. We went back to basics and lapped
in the same times as Ben Crighton and Mat Sofi so that was very
pleasing.
The next round of the Formula 3 Australian Drivers’
Championship will be held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway, the scene
of Tweedies’ first ever tests of an F3 car mid way last year.
“Given Eastern Creek was the first place I drove an F3
car, it’s going to be good to go back there and actually race one on
what is basically my home track,” he said.
“We’re on the right
track. We had a really good weekend at Winton and we’re looking forward
to going to Eastern Creek to keep trying to race with the ‘07 cars at
the front.”
The Eastern Creek round will be held between July 17
– 19.
Tom Tweedie would like to thank supporters including
Battery World, Tizzana Vineyards, the Team Tom Membership base and
everyone else who has provided support throughout the 2009 championship.
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