DATE	CIRCUIT	TYPE
18/20 May	Eastern Creek	NSW Tascco Challenge    Rd 1
21/22 July	Oran Park	NSW Tascco Challenge    Rd 2
10/12 August	Wakefield Pak	NSW Tascco Challenge    Rd 3
21/23 Sept	Eastern Creek	NSW Tascco Challenge    Rd 4
25/28 Oct	Oran Park	NSW Tascco Challenge    Rd 5
	AMRS
19-20 August	Wakefield Park	AMRS EVENT *
23-24 September	Oran Park	AMRS EVENT *
8/9 December	Sandown	Tascco National  *

 

* marked events are non Tascco Challenge 2007 events

 

There is one main title in 2007 - NSW Tascco Challenge 2007  race over 5 rounds  (National feeder class )

 

 

RESULTS for 2007

1   placed  11th       NSWSSC 

2   placed  4th         NSW SALOON CAR CHAMPIONSHIP

3   placed  2nd        TASSCO  CHALLENGE

 

 

THE ENDURO

Well what an event to finish with the Enduro was a massive event and one I think will be a main stay for the NSW Tassco Challenge. With all driving falling in love with the event and with pitcrews loving the oppitunty to flex some muscle

Qualifying

was quite the mind play with some teams looking at the two sprint races with glee and others focusing on the big prize of the one hour .Luke Westall  fired off a good 1.23.7 a fast time a good sprint race time and this gave Luke his 4th Micheal Seal Automotive Pole award for 2007, 2nd Place was Adam Hughes with a 1.24.6 not his fastest time round Oran but never the less he was "very happy with the time , we look very strong " comments . 3rd Place late charger Mathew Newman with a 1.26.9 with new boy Mario Terrie with a 1.28.7 taking 4th ,Warren Younan rounded out the Challenge feild with a 1.28.9 while Dean Kelland appear in grid without points with a 1.25.0

Race 1

With Luke looking very sprinty and make a fantastic Westall start was never head and took 1st place this putting one hand on the 2007 NSW title while Adam and Dean fought all race dean did pip Adam on track Adam took 2nd place to a with Mathew taking 3rd place and Warren having a dnf , Mario did not start

Race 2

Again Luke was flawless taking the win and the 2007 NSW Challenge Title ( well done Luke and all at LWR a classy effort all year and rightfull champs ) . Adam had handling issues as a lower camber bolt wound off (guess whats not going to be there in 08 ) but was still able to bring it home for 2nd . Mathew having a stellar event brought the car home in 3rd to Warren in 4th & Mario was a dns

Race 3 THE FINAL (enduro)

Luke again went out hard and took an early lead with Adam in chase until lap 21 when Adam (HRE) took an early stop leaving Luke to his own Adam rentered in front of Mathew in 3rd who pitted on lap 15 and was on the long slog home .Luke had a good gap but was yet to pit .Luke pitted on lap 25 and rejoined ahead of Mathew in 2nd place some two car head on track of Mathew but one car adrift to Adam in 1st place and Adam responded with some faster paced laps . Luke hit the track running but in doing so damaged his panhard rod and repitted on lap 27 culling his day, Adam settled into a groove the team put down and started to mow down the cars in front to win the event (Tascco Challenge ) and to come from 16th on track to 7th and take 2nd outright Saloon . Mathew 1 lap down to Adam took 2nd place (Mathew had the most mechincal issues this year and  drove a stellar weekend) and took a fantastic 3rd place on another note congrats to the boys at HUGHES RACING ENTERPRISES both Nathan Fitton and Chris Fitton who carried both Adam and Mathew's pitstop so double time was done and set the fastest time in the Challenge field and saloon field

 

Final Placing for 2007

1. Luke Westall            153 pts        2007  NSW Champ

2. Adam Hughes          120 pts

3 Warren Yuonan          54 pts

4 Mathew Newman       44 pts

5 Glen Kenny                17 pts

6 Luke Hannan               7 pts

6 Mario Terrie               7 pts

 

 Driver of the year / Rookie of the year table #

1st  Luke Westall               97pts      Driver Of the Year

2nd Adam Hughes              81pts

3rd Warren Younan           45pts    Rookie Of the Year

4th Mathew Newman         26pts  

5th Glenn Kenny                16pts  

6th MarioTerrie                 10pts 

7th Luke Hannan                  8pts

Steady ship brings home the silverware

Qualifying

Was a mixed bag with Westall have a good clean run to record a 1.52.9 and taking out Pole for the 3rd time this year Hughes was next with a 1.54.0 with a soild effot in heavy traffic 3rd was Newman at a 1.57.9 with Younan hot on his heels 1.58.0 both newcomers Herington and Terrie round out the grid

 

Race 1

Was a tight race with both Westall and Hughes only apart by a bumper most of the race until a turn nine rub . Hughes was mindful of the gap due a his poor run in qualifying an the race showed that with only .300 of a second between 1st and 2nd . As was the duel a little further back between Younan and Newman with .900sec between 3rd and 4th .Herington drove a only race to 5th while Terrie in his 1st race took 6th bring the car home without a mark

Race 2

Was stopped due to a major crash at turn one only 2laps where completed. 1st Westall , 2nd Hughes , 3rd Newman , 4th Younan , 5th Herington , 6th Terrie

Race 3

Not the cracker everyone was expecting in  Race 3  Westall pulling a early lead and holding to take the win with Hughes have a lonely race to bring home 2nd to Younan with Terrie have a great race to 4th in front of Herington. Newman dnf

1st and 2nd   Westall / Hughes

 

3rd and  4th     Younan / Newman

 

Tascco Challange NSW 2007

 1st   Luke Westall                  103pts

 2nd Adam Hughes                   82pts

 3rd Warren Younan                42pts

 4th Glen Kenny                       17pts 

5th Matthew Newman              17pts

6th Luke Hannan                      7pts 

 7thMario  Terrie                      7pts

 

 

 6th  Driver of the year / Rookie of the year table #

1st  Luke Westall               76pts

2nd Adam Hughes              69pts

3rd Warren Younan           42pts 

4th Glenn Kenny                16pts  

5th Mathew Newman         16pts  

6th MarioTerrie                 10pts 

7th Luke Hannan                  8pts

Finally a clean weekend at Wakefield Park !

HRE has broken the hoodoo with a mechanically  trouble free round at Wakefield for round 3 . This is the first time in years the team has completed a full weekend at Wakefield without a problem and scored a fine 2nd place as well .

no real race report due to car failures really
a small grid turned tiny on friday practice as Mathew Newman blew a pinion and then Warren Yuonan was give a minor infrigement notice on Saturday Morning due to tyres...
so results wise

Qualifying

1 Luke Westall
2 Adam Hughes
3 Warren Yuonan

Race 1

1 Luke Westall
2 Adam Hughes
3 Warren Younan

Race 2

1 Luke Westall
2 Adam Hughes
3 Warren Younan

Race 3

1 Luke Westall
2 Adam Hughes
3 Warren Younan

 

Luke with Pole award and 1st place

 

Adam with 2nd place

 

Points tables

Tascco Challange NSW 2007

 1st   Luke Westall                  73pts
 2nd Adam Hughes                  61pts
 3rd Warren Younan                28pts
 4th Glen Kenny                      17pts
 5th Luke Hannan                      7pts
 6th Mathew Newman               6pts

 

  Driver of the year / Rookie of the year table #

  1st  Luke Westall               55pts
  2nd Adam Hughes              51pts
  3rd Warren Younan           28pts #
  4th Glen Kenny                  16pts #
  5th Luke Hannan                  8pts #
  6th Mathew Newman           7pts                         

  7th Mario Terri                    0pts #

 

A CHANGE UP FRONT

 

A small but tight grid was present for Rd2 but troubles where in the air
wth two of the cars running bridgestones one being a memeber Luke Hannan was given a minor infrigement notice to be allowed to run but for no points in the Challenge the other Dean Kelland was a non member .

Qualifying

was tight at the top with Luke Westall now powered by a croft engine was fast out of the blocks but stuck the car into the turn 2 sandtrap on his 4th lap but was able to do the job with a 1.22.6 followed by Adam Hughes with a 1.23.3 next on grid was Dean Kelland with a 1.23.8 with Luke Hannan with a fine drive on a 1.24.6 Warren Younan followed up with a 1.27.1 with early signs of streeing issues


Race 1

With the top three just over a sec apart a close race was on the cards
until Hughes had another poor start and drop from 2nd toThird behind Luke Hannan mean Kelland had his own problems with a combined car dropping him to 4th from 3rd, Westall was showing a clean pair of heels up front with Hannanand Hughes in toe followed by Kelland and Younan who was shown real skill keeping the car on track with his rack binding up . By lap two Hughes had made his move on Hannan this made it Westall ,Hughes,Hannan Kelland, Younan. On starting lap 4 Hughes suffered a gearbox failure on the main straight and rolled the car to a dnf and the gokart track ,Westall unchallenged skip of to a 11 sec lead which he maintained to take 1st place in what was a controlled drive ,2nd place was the hot spot with Kelland having a diced with a combined car (coming to blows / dents ) and disposed now came after Hannan but with 2 laps remaing just had to much to do and Hannan took 2nd with a 4 sec gap to Kelland followed by Younan

with both Hannan and Kelland having minor infrigements the result was

1st Westall
2nd Younan
3rd Hughes (dnf)
4th Hannan (minor infrigement )
5th Kellamd (minor infrigement non member)

Race 2

Westall stormed to a early lead but was soon hounded but Hannan with Hughes in toe from rear of grid ,Kelland on the other hand was in Combined car hell with XR8's and v8 street sedan putting pay to his foward movement and final was put out with mechanical issues , Younan with rack issue behind was making great time unitl a right front tyre parted with car and caused a dnf and a saftey car .This bunched the grid with Westall,Hannan and Hughes nose to tail on the restart Hughes was a opening at turn three as Westall covered his line on a attacking Hannan, Hughes dived to the inside and the door closed causing Hannan and Hughes to make contact turning Hannan around and damaging the steering on Hughes car , Hughes made hay after Westall but to no avail as Westall took 1st place but some 9sec from Hughes to Hannan


with both Hannan and Kelland having minor infrigements the result was

1st Westall
2nd Hughes
3rd Younan (dnf)
4th Hannan (minor infrigement )
5th Kelland (minor infrigement non member)

Race 3

Westall making a good start lead but Hannan make a Great start jumped Hughes to Kelland to Younan whiched it stayed for the bulk of the race until Younan dnf'd with only 3 laps to go Kelland again in Combined hell maintain 4th place until the end .Up front Westall, Hannan , Hughes where with .5 of a sec for over 6 laps until a move was put on and shut down off the bridge between Westall and Hannan , turning Hannan around (again) which left Westall and Hughes to go at it again but the Hannan car stalled and bought out the saftey car . Hughes was thinking this was the moment until a massvie brake shudder happen in the Saftey car period which after the race was found to be a cracked rotor on the restart Hughes had no answer to Westall who took 1st by 4sec . Westall took the clean sweep in what was a well deserved drive over the weekend .

with both Hannan and Kelland having minor infrigements the result was

1 Westall
2 Hughes
3 Younan
4 Hannan (minor infrigement )
5 Kelland (minor infrigement non member)

moment off the bridge for luke

Weekend results (nsw points)

1st   Luke Westall               27pts
2nd Adam Hughes             16pts
3rd Warren Younan           14pts
4th  Luke Hannan                0pts (minor infrigement)

1st Place round 2

 

2nd Place round 2

Points Table after two rounds

Driver of the year / Rookie of the year table

  1st  Luke Westall               34pts
  2nd Adam Hughes            33pts
  3rd Warren Younan          27pts
  4th Glen Kenny                  16pts
  5th Luke Hannan                  8pts
  6th Mathew Newman           7pts

1st and 2nd

2nd & 3rd

Tascco Challange NSW 2007

 1st   Luke Westall                  46pts
 2nd Adam Hughes                43pts
 3rd Warren Younan              27pts
 4th Glen Kenny                      17pts
 5th Luke Hannan                     7pts
 6th Mathew Newman              6pts

HRE STARTS 2007 WITH SUCCESS

 

 

Quailfing

saw a close battle for the Micheal Seal Automotive Pole award between Adam Hughes and luke Westall with Adam taking Pole and the award just 4/100s head of luke Westall with Rookie Luke Hannan taking 3rd with fellow newcomer Glen Kenny just 3/100s of a sec behind in 4th . Mathew Newman was stuggling with understeer in 5th and Warren Younan learning his way in 6th . The track was very green from heavy showers on the friday

Pole Hughes, 2nd Westall, 3rd Hannan, 4th Kenny, 5th Newman, 6th Yuonan

Race 1

Was very hard fought up front with Westall making a flying start to grab the lead from Hughes make a shocking start dropping back to 2nd , Westall lead lap one till Hughes took the lead back on lap two at the turn 9 hairpin
Westall chased hard till a gear level snap on lap three , Glen Kenny further back was putting in soild laps now taking 2nd with Westall dismise Hannan was showning great form in his first race with a strong 3rd and both Newman and Younan had spins and finished 4th and 5th repectively

1st Adam Hughes
2nd Glen Kenny
3rd Luke Hannan
4th Mathew Newman
5th Warren Younan
6th Luke Westall

Race 2

Saw Adam on pole and making another messy start but held 1st place to take the win , Westall mean while drove soild from rear of grid to take 2nd , Kenny was run smoothly in 3rd and Yuonan ran out fifth . the real stroy was from both Newman and Hannan , While Newman was running in battle with Younan on the last lap just 100 meters sort of the flag waving in front of him his driver front wheel bearing locked soild and force the car of the track to a dnf (he could have walked over the line ) his car was undriveable, mean time back on lap 4 Hannan's car was blazing smoke (which the officals did like ) and was meatballed.
His gearbox went for a early lunch .

1, Hughes , 2nd  Westall , 3rd Kenny , 4th Younan , 5th Newman ,6th Hannan dnf

Race 3

Well Adam saved his best till last the worse start in history dropped him to dead last before turn one and behind the feild by sum 50+ meters . Westall made hast in the lead and skipped to a good lead and took to win , by lap Three Hughes made is way back to 2nd but then looped the car at turn nine hairpin to drop back to dead last  mean while Kenny was strom along in 2nd and Yuonan driving and grest race in thrid till lap 8 when he was caught by Hughes and just ran wide on to the straight to drop back to fourth until Kenny was shown the meatball flag for leaking fuel this aided Hughes to 2nd and Yuonan back to 3rd with Kenny into 4th
both Newman and Hannan where non - starters

1st Westall , 2nd Hughes ,3rd Yuonan , 4th Kenny 

1st     

2nd    

3rd

Weekend results (nsw points)

1st  ADAM HUGHES       27pts
2nd LUKE WESTALL      19pts
3rd GLEN KENNY           17pts
4th WARREN YOUNAN  13pts
5th LUKE HANNAN          7pts
6th MATHEW NEWMAN  6pts

4th   

5th  

6th

Driver of the year / Rookie of the year table

  1st  ADAM HUGHES        20pts
  2nd CLEN KENNY            16pts
  3rd  LUKE WESTALL       13pts
    = WARREN YOUNAN    13pts
  5th LUKE HANNAN            8pts
  6th MATHEW NEWMAN    7pts