SLIPPIN' and SLIDIN'
Photos by Gary Trounson - Story by Jon Crooke
2008 Rd 6 VSKC - Winton
31st August 2008

Dean Crooke took 4 wins from 4 starts in dry, then very wet conditions, to win the light division.
Hyper driver Dean Crooke had a great day, in very testing conditions, to hold off strong challenges from both Russ Occhipinti in the dry and Aaron Gazzola in the wet to take the round win. Only 3 weeks after Hyper drivers Mark Wicks and Sean Whitfield won the Nationals at the Island on both dry and wet tracks, Crooke, driving on both dry and wet conditions on the twisty Winton circuit, once again proved the capabilities of the Hyper Racer chassis in all conditions. With both Occhipinti and Gazzola having torn their wets up in the first wet race and having to switch to a second set of wets for the final, Crooke's Hyper was able to win both wet heats on one set of tyres and finish with the tyres in near perfect condition. Crooke said after the race "It's perfect, so balanced it drives itself. I could do that all day. That was fun".

Chris Jewell had a reasonable day, finishing 4th in the heavy division.
VSKC Round 6 Rotax Results
Rotax Light
Rotax Heavy
Dean Crooke
Colin McIntyre
Russ Occhipinti
Rod Clarke
Aaron Gazzola
Lee Filliponi
Full results here

Chris Jewell leads an ailing Rod Clarke in heat 4. Clarke finished second on the day.

Dean Crooke leads Russ Occhipinti into turn 2. Occhipinti finished second on the day.

Aaron Gazzola goes swimming.

Aaron Gazzola's performance in the wet heats was superb.

Colin McIntyre drove hard all day winning 4 from 4 to take the heavy division win.

Qualifying.

The heavies grid up.

Chris Jewell.
125MAX Light
.
Race No.
 Name
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 3
Final
1 88 Dean Crooke
1
1
1
1
2 93 Russ Occhipinti
2
2
3
5
3 54 Aaron Gazzola
5
5
2
2
4 43 Jason McIntyre
3
3
4
6
5 35 Peter Gazzola
4
4
7
3
6 14 Stephen Castles
6
6
5
4
7 28 Frank Kessels
8
7
6
7
8 71 Jon Grant
7
DNS
DNF
8
9 23 Rob James
9
DNF
8
DNF
125MAX Heavy
.
Race No.
 Name
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 3
Final
1 7 Colin McIntyre
1
1
1
1
2 27 Rod Clarke
2
2
2
5
3 24 Lee Filliponi
4
4
4
3
4 15 Chris Jewell
3
3
6
4
5 10 Dean Davies
5
6
3
9
6 21 Rick Setterfield
9
DNS
5
2
7 30 Leigh Cavallin
7
7
10
7
8 56 David Byrne
6
10
DNF
6
9 67 Troy Grewcock
10
11
11
8
10 49 Gary Vick
8
8
9
DNF
11 48 Mathew Palmer
11
9
7
DNF
12 41 Brendan Luneman
DNF
5
8
DNF

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