A third place finish during the annual Kings Challenge last Friday night at Borderline Speedway (Mt. Gambier, SA) for Grant ‘The Gun’ Anderson and the Horrell Motorsport team was to date their strongest performance of the 09/10 season.
The podium finish at the Kings Challenge was certainly a welcomed result for Anderson and the Horrell Motorsport team after they have struggled throughout the majority of this current season.
“To finally to finish on the podium was not only a great relief but also a big confidence boost for the whole team,” Anderson expressed, who had earlier in the night at the Kings Challenge qualified 16th in time trials, then finished fourth and second in his two heat races and started the feature race out of position seven. “Throughout this season we’ve been right up there in the mix but just haven’t been able to break through for a podium finish.”
After a strong performance at the Kings Challenge Anderson and the Horrell Motorsport then headed to the Grand Annual Classic at Warrnambool’s Premier Speedway and it was one of mixed fortunes. Anderson qualified inside the Top 10 in qualifying and then finished his opening heat race in second place. In his second heat his Grand Annual Classic campaign came undone after he was caught up in someone else’s crash and it brought his night to a premature end. Anderson returned for the second night of the Grand Annual Classic and finished both of his remaining heat races in fourth place. Anderson started from the second row in the C-main and picked up the win. Starting from the back of the B-main Anderson worked his way up to eighth place.
“We dropped one heat race and that ruined what shaped up to be one of our strongest ever Grand Annual Classic campaigns,” commented Anderson. “In hindsight had we not been crashed out of our second heat race on the opening night we probably would’ve been right up there in Top 10 contention and when you look through the class of the field that is certainly not a bad result.”
Last Tuesday night (January 26) Anderson returned to Premier Speedway for the 12th round of the World Series Sprintcar (WSS) Championship and unfortunately he was unable to advance directly through to the feature race despite finishing with a second place and a win in his two heat races.
“Since we didn’t time trial too good due to being one of the first cars out on a heavy track it made our night quite hard,” he explained. “We finished our two heat races strongly and started in the middle of the pack in the B-main and with so many good cars ahead of me it was always going to be difficult to move into a Top 4 transfer and we finished back in seventh place.”
Anderson and the Horrell Motorsport are not going to be contesting the final leg of the WSS Championship over in Western Australia, so their next appearance is going to be up in Queensland on Saturday night, February 13 at Toowoomba’s Charlton Raceway for the annual ‘Crispy Memorial’ event.
The Anderson Motorsport team has a large range of 09/10 season Grant ‘The Gun’ Anderson merchandise available for sale, such as t shirts in a range of sizes, styles and colours for men, ladies and kids. There is also a range of flex fit caps, umbrellas, stubby coolers and so much more. All merchandise can be purchase from either the VIC # 37 Anderson Motorsport or the QLD # 83 Horrell Motorsport transporters throughout the 09/10 season. Mobile eftpos facilities are available too.
Grant Anderson is proudly supported during the 09/10 season by the following organisations:
* Wagga Mobile Cranes & Heavy Haulage
* Latrobe Valley Bandag
* East Coast Logistics
* Scott Inglis Race Engines
* Judjam Promotions & Entertainment
* Beef Growers
* Multispares
* D&F Racing Products
* Townsend Service Centre
To find out more about Grant Anderson visit his official website: www.grantanderson.com.au