By Daniel Powell
A fourth place finish last Saturday nightโs Australian Sprintcar Championship B-main at Premier Speedway wasnโt enough for Danny Reidy to advance into the feature race line-up and he blamed that on simply not doing enough in his earlier heat races.
With the Australian Championship format being four rounds of heat races for each driver over the two nights Reidy admitted that he didnโt make enough forward progress in his heat races and therefore had take his place in the last chance B-main in order to make the final two spots in the feature race field.
The NT # 5 Desert Palms Resort supported Eagle driver had started from outside the front row in the B-main, but was outmuscled at the start and consequently dropped back to fifth place. On a one lane track where passing was a difficult task, Reidy fought his way back to finish in fourth place, but that was only good enough to be the second reserve for the feature race. As it turned out, Reidy didnโt get a feature race start and had to watch from the infield.
โAlthough we moved forward in our heat races it simply wasnโt good enough to make the feature race field directly,โ Reidy explained, who on the Wednesday night had finished sixth in the Prelude to the Championship event. โThe B-main, where two drivers make the transfer spot, is always going to be a tough deal and I didnโt make the start and that hurt me in the end and disappointingly I missed out on making a transfer spot.โ
The Reidy Racing team now turn their focus to this Saturday night (February 5) where they will run the Australian Nationals at Speedway City (Adelaide, SA) before they contest the Western Australian swing of the World Series Sprintcar Championship.
Reidy would like to thank Desert Palms Resort in Alice Springs, Camden Neon Signs, P & M Motor Body Repairs, Gonzoโs Race Pipes and Inglis Race Engines for all their support throughout the 2010/11 season.
The official Danny Reidy website can be viewed at: www.dannyreidy.com