Seaton and Halliday supreme with Queensland FX-Nationals wins
Aprilia Racing's Chris Seaton won today's FX-Nationals event at Queensland Raceway ahead of Sunday's official Australian FX-Superbike Championship round.
Cru Halliday won the FX-600 overall today for Yamaha.
Aprilia Racing’s Chris Seaton won today’s FX-Nationals event at Queensland Raceway ahead of Sunday’s official Australian FX-Superbike Championship round.
Seaton claimed a surprise overall with 2-1-2 finishes, heading Yamaha Racing with Yamalube’s Broc Parkes and Kawasaki privateer Matt Walters.
Parkes, fresh from a podium finish in the German round of the World Endurance Championship earlier this month, progressively improved, scoring 4-2-1 results.
Walters continued his fine 2013 form with a 3-4-3 scorecard, edging out defending champion Kevin Curtain (Yamaha Racing with Ipone) for the final podium slot.
Curtain won race one, but a seventh in the second denied him the overall podium. He bounced back for fourth in race three. Curtain’s YRT teammate Rick Olson rounded out the top five.
Experienced former Australian Superbike regular Dan Stauffer made his return to racing with sixth overall aboard an Alumalite Racing BMW.
The FX-600 class was won by Yamaha Racing with Yamalube’s Cru Halliday, who was second in race one before winning the final two outings.
Olson won race one by a narrow margin over Halliday, however contact between the pair on the final corner of the final lap in race two saw Olson go down and forced out of proceedings in a dramatic turn of events.
Queenslander Aiden Wagner (Yamaha) was second overall ahead of Callum Spriggs (Yamaha), while Mike Jones (Yamaha) returned from Europe to claim fourth.
Olson ended up fifth overall after climbing to fourth in the final race of the class for Saturday.
Other winners on Saturday included Curtain (Formula Oz), Grant Hay (Supersport), Rennie Scaysbrook (FX-450GP) Callum Barker (FX-125GP), Ben Leonard (250cc Mono), Stephen Craig (FX Ultra-Lites), Nathan Mahboub (Pro-Twins), Lachie Thomas (Nakedbikes) and Michael McMillan (Thunderbikes).
2013 Australian FX-Superbike Championship
Round four – Queensland Raceway, QLD
FX-Superbike Saturday results:
1. Chris SEATON 69
2. Broc PARKES 65
3. Matthew WALTERS 58
4. Kevin CURTAIN 56
5. Rick OLSON 48
6. Daniel STAUFFER 44
7. Ben BURKE 43
8. Chris TROUNSON 42
9. Sean CONDON 32
10. Paul BYRNE 31
FX-600 Saturday results:
1. Cru HALLIDAY 72
2. Aiden WAGNER 62
3. Callum SPRIGGS 60
4. Mike JONES 50
5. Rick OLSON 43
6. Justin DI GIANDOMENICO 41
7. Michael BLAIR 38
8. Tony JONES 37
9. Nicky DILES 36
10. Mitch PAYNTER 29
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