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Brad Maiolo is king again


BRAD Maiolo claimed back to back Scardifields Smash Repairs King of Wings at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday night, winning the 40-lap feature race from brother Jamie, with Lee Nash third.

Brad started on the outside front row next to Jason Kendrick in the fourth round of the AHG Sprintcar Series that featured an infield pitstop after the first 20 laps.

Maiolo dropped back to third in the early stages of the race, behind Kendrick and David Priolo, inheriting the lead on lap 23 when Kendrick hooked a rut in pits bend and flipped.

Priolo tagged the upside down Kendrick car and had one of the bars pushing on the right rear tyre that officials deemed unsafe, putting the unhappy Priolo on the infield as well.

From that point on Maiolo set sail for home and stayed out of trouble to take the win by 2.337 seconds.

Just like last year his older brother took second – Jamie’s best result so far this season.

Brad started the night in the best possible fashion, setting the Victory 1 Performance Quick Time and then claimed a fifth in his heat race.

In the main event the leaders were in lapped traffic after just six laps and Kye Scroop was the first casualty, parking the 89 on the infield on lap five.

As Kendrick struggled to get by a lapped car on lap eight, Priolo pounced and claimed the lead, only to see the spots reversed a couple of laps later.

When officials called the pitstop Kendrick was leading from Priolo, Brad Maiolo, Cameron Gessner, Lee Nash and Callum Williamson.

Ben Ellement and Scott Chatwin both elected to change right rear tyres, seeing them resume at the rear of the field.

Shaun Bradford, who was having a dog of a night in the 57, elected to head infield with his ill-handling car that saw the front-end damaged in an earlier heat race incident.

Lee Redmond spun in pits bend on lap 23 and was collected by Scott Chatwin who had nowhere to go, putting both of them out of the show.

Gessner, who won seven days earlier in Bunbury, was struggling and tagged the wall on several occasions but managed to limp the car home in sixth spot, behind Carl Dowling in fourth and Ben Ellement in fifth.

It was a good drive for Dowling, in his first race of the season, and starting from P11

Ellement started from P9.

James Inglis was seventh, ahead of Mitchell Wormall and Andrew Priolo to be the only other finishers.

Qualifying: Brad Maiolo 13.679, Jason Kendrick 13.742, Shaun Bradford 13.765, Ben Ellement 13.781, Cameron Gessner 13.802, James Inglis 13.806, Jamie Maiolo 13.813, Carl Dowling 13.883, Lee Nash 13.918, Callum Williamsom 13.937, David Priolo 14.042, Kye Scroop 14.161, Andrew Priolo 14.254, Mitchell Wormall 14.371, Danny Porter 14.808, Scott Chatwin 14.933 and Lee Redmond.

Heat 1: 1st David Priolo, 2nd Lee Nash, 3rd Cameron Gessner, 4th Jamie Maiolo, 5th Bradley Maiolo. DNF: Lee Redmond, Danny Porter, Andrew Priolo, Shaun Bradford.

Heat 2: 1st Callum Williamson, 2nd Kye Scroop, 3rd Jason Kendrick, 4th James Inglis, 5th Carl Dowling, 6th Ben Ellement, 7th Mitchell Wormall, 8th Scott Chatwin.

Feature: 1st Brad Maiolo, 2nd Jamie Maiolo, 3rd Lee Nash, 4th Carl Dowling, 5th Ben Ellement, 6th Cameron Gessner, 7th James Inglis, 8th Mitchell Wormall, 9th Andrew Priolo. DNF: Callum Williamson, Scott Chatwin, Lee Redmond, David Priolo, Jason Kendrick, Danny Porter and Kye Scroop.
 
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