TMR – RACING TO VICTORY!

TMR
ran Rod Salmon in the TMR Built and owned EVO X, as well as debuting our brand
new latest spec EVO X production car for Adelaide’s Steve
Glenney. It was the first time Glenney
has been in an official national motor race and his first time behind the wheel
of a TMR prepared race car in race conditions.

We
ran 3 practice sessions on Friday 17th July with both the TMR prepared EVO X’s
in the top two positions constantly.

Saturday
18th July saw Steve Glenney qualify 0.9sec in front of Rod Salmon, clearing 2.0
seconds in front of 3rd place.Rod
Salmon was a comfortable 1.1sec in front of 3rd place.

For
race 1, it was TMR filling the two front positions of the grid.Both cars had a good start and by the second
corner Steve Glenney had control of the race leading by a convincing margin for
the entire race. Rod Salmon was very
comfortable in position 2.

Race
2 saw a similar start with both TMR prepared cars on the front row of the grid,
and Steve Glenney again led the entire race taking out another 1st
position. Rod Salmon had an altercation
with Garry Holt in the BMW 335 during race 2 (for which Holt was penalized 10
points) and finished in 4th position.

Race
3 was a handicapped race with both TMR prepared cars having a 46sec handicap
from the first cars off the grid, with only 9 laps to make their way to the
pointy end of the field. Steve Glenney
made his way through traffic easily finishing only 0.5sec behind the leader
taking out 2nd place for the race, with Rod Salmon coming home in 6th position.

The
overall round win was taken out by Steve Glenney debuting his TMR prepared EVO
X, with 2nd place going to Garry Holt in his BMW 335 followed by Mark King in
3rd place in his EVO X. Rod Salmon just
missed out on a podium finish for the day in 4th place.

Overall
the two TMR prepared EVO X’s stole the limelight of the day with convincing
drives by both Steve Glenney and Rod Salmon backed up by the preparation and organization
of the TMR team!

Due to the efforts of TMR and their engineering
development program of the EVO X, Mitsubishi on 296 points currently leads the
Australian Manufactures Championship by a healthy 38 points.