STATE SUPERSPRINT // ROUND 4 @ EASTERN CREEK

Radical...Radical...Radical... the one word that seemed to echo through pit lane at last weekend’s round 4 of the NSW State Supersprint. What’s 'Radical' you may ask? A “Radical” is a type of purpose built kit race car that is powered by a 1300cc Suzuki motorcycle motor. There were four present and they blitzed the field with some unbelievably quick lap times. Going on from my round 3 review, this event was held at Eastern Creek International Raceway about 40min drive from Sydney. In my usual morning pit lane walk it was interesting to see the slight modifications some competitors had made in-between rounds. Some as small as minimal aero mods to full resprays to fancy motec computers all in the hope of better lap times... [read more]


The radicals were all business taking the top spots on the time sheet. The radicals were lead by Garth Walden with a 1:33.19.

The big surprise of the event was Jason Naidoo in his relatively standard EVO 8 he pulled out a blinder of a lap with a 1:44.96 which made him fastest tin top for the day, beating his PB by 5 seconds and a lap record for his class


Clubman’s were out in force again out numbering the field with around 20 competitors.

Michelle Guyer was also present in her March 87B open wheeler who showed her inexperience at Eastern Creek and was not at the top of the time sheets at the end of the day. Give her a few more days and she will be seriously fast on this track. Unforutnely I think she lunched her engine at the end of the day.

This FC rx7 of Bradley Shiels was notorious for bellowing massive flames out under brakes.

Duncan Forrest was again out in his R35 putting in a solid effort with lap times around the 1:46 mark. This car has so much more potential.

Although State Supersprint is a 9 round series there were some new faces to the grid including Andrew Woodcock in his HSV Maloo Ute, which looked like it was fresh of the showroom floor.

Everyone takes this event quite seriously and wants to put down some solid lap times but you always see friendly chatter amongst drivers in the dummy grid.

With the sun setting in the early afternoon the track cooled down and was when most people pumped out their fastest lap times.

Benny Tran in his B20 powered EG Honda Civic took full advantage of the track temperature to clock a 1:47.58 which broke his class record. I spoke to Benny and he has recently picked up a sponsor so this car should get faster and faster.

Another impressive combo is Mark Sattlers Datsun 120y which was wearing some seriously wide steelies wrapped in full slicks.

My favourite car of the event was Steven Shipways old school Toyota Crown powered by a 1JZ with a big single turbo. The car looks like it was painted with a paint brush but has so much character. He was doing some really fast lap times around the 1:47 mark.

Once again the State Supersprint series didn’t disappoint, the next round will be at Wakefield Park in a few weeks time. If you would like to find out more about Superpsrint in NSW check out the newly created website for the series by clicking here

Official lap times can be found here

More photos from the day can be found here


Photo/Editorial: Matthew Mead