Bricknell Fights Back with Strong WSS Round Result                                               8-12-2008

After a string of rain outs over in the state of Tasmania, Jamie Bricknell returned to the track last Saturday night during the sixth round of the World Series Sprintcar (WSS) Championship at Hobart International Speedway and came away with a top 10 feature race result.

Due to a power steering pump failure in the second round of heat races early in the night, Bricknell was forced to qualify for the feature race via the B-main. With the top six transferring through to the feature race in the B-main Bricknell finished in third place and started the feature race from position 15 in the field.

With a tough task ahead of them Bricknell and his # 55 TAS Giraffe Civil Contracting backed Maxim fought their way forward and at the fall of the chequered flag in the feature race he finished eighth.

“Considering where we started and the fact that we didn’t have much time to work on setup between the B-main and feature race due to being forced to work on our cars on the infield eighth place is a good result,” Bricknell said. “It was disappointing to have the power steering pump fail during our heat race and at the time I was running in third and had we finished there we would have started further up the field.”

Earlier in the night Bricknell had qualified eighth fastest and the top 8 times were all equal or better than the existing lap record held by Jason Dawkins.

Bricknell’s attention now turns to next Saturday night (December 13) for when the seventh round of the WSS Championship heads to Latrobe International Speedway and the 19-year-old is hoping to duplicate, or better, his performance from last year’s WSS round at the venue. Last season at Latrobe saw Bricknell finish the feature race in sixth place and he also won the hard charger award that night.

Bricknell in the 2008/09 Season is proudly supported by the Following Organisations:

Giraffe Civil Contracting

A.B.E.L Landscape Supplies

Precision Autos

Altegra Pit Tents and Marquees

Longford Bodyworks

JAX Quickfit Tyres – Launceston

Exide Batteries

JF Machinery

Radiators Plus

BP Top Drop Service Station

Snap-On Tools – Launceston

Central Wholesale Wreckers

Dragway

Phillip Davey Sheetmetal

Jail House Grill

Launceston Powder Coating

All Sorts of Treats

Glen’s Gardening and Property Maintenance

DOC Signs

PM Race Engines