By Daniel Powell
The Tasmanian Sprintcar Title was one event that Jamie Bricknell was looking forward to most in the 2009/10 season but last Saturday night at Carrick Speedway the event didn’t quite go according to plan.
A crash, which resulted in a DNF, in the opening heat race of the night didn’t help Bricknell’s Tasmanian Title aspirations one bit. Despite a fifth place finish in the next heat race he was forced to qualify for the Tasmanian Title deciding feature race via the B-main.
In the B-main, where he started from position seven, Bricknell worked his way into a feature race transfer after he finished in third place. With a lot of work ahead of him in the feature race; Bricknell started from position 15 in the field, and by the middle stages he had worked his way up to ninth place only to spin out of contention and be forced to go to the rear of the field once he was restarted. From the restart through to the finish Bricknell charged his way forward and ended up finishing in sixth spot.
“Crashing out of my opening heat race put me on the back foot from the get go and I just had to play catch up for remainder of the night and at times it got frustrating and I made a few driving errors,” Bricknell expressed. “To end up sixth at the end of the feature race wasn’t a bad result considering what we had to do to get there but it was a very disappointing overall as certainly would have liked to have done better.”
This Saturday night (February 20) the sixth round of the Farmers Union Sprintcar Series is to be battled out at Hobart’s Mountain Dew Ice International Raceway and Bricknell is looking to maintain his lead in the current overall point standings.
For the 09/10 Season Jamie Bricknell is proudly supported by the following organisations:
Montile Tile Boutique – Launceston, Devonport and Hobart
A.B.E.L Landscape Supplies
Precision Autos
Longford Bodyworks
All Sorts of Treats
DOC Signs
PM Race Engines
To find out more about Jamie Bricknell visit his official website: www.jamiebricknell.com