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Formula Motorsports GroupMEDIA RELEASE

May 2013

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FMG Team Drivers, Paul Solomon (V7) and Chris Solomon (V83) made the trip to Moama Speedway on the 3rd of November to compete in the first round of the Eureka Sprintcar Series for 2012/13

The team arrived at the track early in the afternoon and was greeted to an already large number of sprintcars in the pits which seemed to just keep on growing throughout the afternoon.Most pleasing was the large number of new competitors to sprintcar racing, many of which had extensive experience in other classes of speedway.

The team thought that the cars maybe at a disadvantage due to not having 410 en-gines on the night however Paul with the 372 power plant and Chris with the ASCS 360 engine seemed to be able to run mid

field and be competitive throughout the night.

Heat 2: Paul started out of position 6 and finished in position 4 with a best lap time of 14.8 seconds, then in heat 5, Paul started out of position 1 and ended in 4th position. This put him out of position 1 in the B main. Unfortunately the car developed a fuel leak and Paul had to pull in after only 4 laps of the race.

Chris (V83) on the other hand only got a few laps in his first heat when he hooked a rut and flipped over into the concrete wall. The car was wrecked . Chris was OK other than suffering some discom-fort resulting from the submarine belt.(See pages 4 & 5))

PAUL SOLOMON # 7HEARTLAND RACEWAY NOV 2012

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CHRIS SOLOMON #V83

HEARTLAND RACEWAY NOV 2012 SRA SERIES

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Formula Motorsports - on the pace in the chase for the gold cup.

Last weekends (4th May) running of the Gold Cup for 360 Sprintcars at Hamilton’s Western Speedway was a mix of both good and not so good for the Gisborne based team of brothers Paul and Chris Solomon and their pair of FMG-Fair Dinkum Sheds/In action Photo’s Ea-gles.

While elder brother Paul grabbed a po-dium finish younger brother Chris had a gift win snatched away by a freak event within sight of the chequered flag.

Both drivers struggled in the heats as the team had difficulty in "loosening" the cars up enough so they could take advantage of the ultra fast track conditions. The track in fact was so fast that the drivers were setting times faster than when the lighter, higher horsepower 410 cubic inch cars ran here earlier in the season.

After the heats, the V83 of Chris qualified into the dash and ended with a 4th place starting position in the Main event. Mean-while Paul (V7) had qualified into 8th starting position.

Throughout the final, Chris was holding down 3rd place although he did manage to take second place away from Domain Ramsay for a brief period out of turn two but was to give it back down the back straight.

On the very last lap in the turn final pair of corners, the V20 of Ramsay came to-gether with race leader, Matt Reed who'd been baulked by a lapped car with both cars crashing out. Chris continued over

the finishing line and stopped on the en-trance to turn one.

Unfortunately, there was a build-up of fuel in the left side header pipes which was belching flames onto the left rear tyre. Despite the tyre smoke, Chris revving the engine, the crowd yelling and Chris wav-ing his arms, I’m not sure what else he could have been done to get attention to his predicament.After what seemed like several minutes, the left hand tyre finally burst, Chris shut his engine down and dejectedly exited the car. This ended Chris’s run to the flag and a potential victory.

Fellow competitor Ken Hutchins who had pulled in during the final and was already on the infield, managed to get a fire extin-guisher from somewhere and put the fire out. Thanks Ken!

With Reed, Ramsay and Chris now out of the event, Paul (V7) started out of posi-tion four for the two lap scramble to the chequered flag.

On the restart Paul immediately charged into turn one and powered under Eddie Lumbar to take up third spot which he held to the finish behind winner Daniel Pestka and defending Gold Cup titlist Darren Hickman.

While the team was excited by the late season return to form of former All Star Sprintcar series champion Paul, they were equally frustrated by the bizarre se-ries of events that firstly held the Gold Cup out to Chris but then snatched it away before he could get both hands on the trophy.

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The entire team would like to thank all of their valued hard working and often abused crew, as well as their sponsors and supporters.

Chris in particular would like to thank Mark and Jason Smith for giving him the opportunity behind the wheel of their Master Fitout Solutions V60 “open” 410 Sprintcar at various times throughout the season.

“They are a very different car to drive, with the lighter weight and the massive horsepower, and it takes some time to adjust your driving technique which I never quite got right,” explained Chris. “But the experience I gained from those few shows I ran was invaluable and I’m confident that next time I run with the big dogs next season, I’ll put up a better showing.”

The Formula Motorsports Group will now take a break and a well earned rest before the winter refurbishment and build up process will commence for sea-son 2013/2014. Stay tuned for some ex-citing news on the season still to come.

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Chris Solomon in the Smith Bros #60Chris Solomon was engaged by Smith Bros Racing (SBR) to race in some early rounds of the SRA series. It’s fair to say that Chris had some mixed results but was thankful for the opportunity to drive a 410 on a regular basis.

Chris passes on his thanks Jason and Mark!

SBR Sponsors include: Master Fitout Solutions, Archskirt Aluminium Partitions, Velocita Safety Wear, Boss Plaster, Zone Design and Construction, Superior Glass, Moto-sign, Upwright Enterprizes, Scibilia Design, Griffs Engine and Machine, Kendall Oils, Kears Speed Shop Please contact Jason if you would like to be a future Sponsor partner of the Vic #60 [email protected] or 0403 464 270

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Chris Solomon in the Smith Bros #60

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HEARTLAND RACEWAY 2012 (SRA Series)

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HEARTLAND RACEWAY 2012 (SRA Series)

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