After two days of fine weather, the Fujitsu Teams were greeted with a rain soaked Queensland Raceway this morning for the second of three races. This added to a huge workload for many teams after the incident packed race on Saturday. Tim Blanchard lined up in 11^th place as was confident of a good wet set up in the Jayco Falcon.

At the start cars were searching for grip and Tim was caught out by a slow starting Rod Jane who tagged the back left wheel of Blanchard’s car spinning him off the track at turn one. A Safety Car was called as Rod Jane too was off the track with a damaged front suspension.

Blanchard was quickly into the pits to check for any damage and effect a tyre change and the Jayco Team got him back out before the Safety Car finished the lap. A second visit to ensure the car was in race shape saw Tim at the back of the queue for the restart.

‘The start was very frustrating as we are all told to hold our line off the start particularly in the wet. I was past Rod when he clipped my rear wheel and that was it’ Tim commented after the race. ‘Our wet set up was OK but starting again at the back of the pack is a tough gig.”

Blanchard set about picking cars off and climbing up the order in a strong display gaining ten spots before a wild spin at Turn 1 and some great avoiding action by Marcus Zukanovic dropped Tim back a few spots. The laps ran down with Blanchard again gaining ground to finish in 14^th position.

The final race will be held later today to decide the overall round 4 results.

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