McFadden dominates WSS at Warrnambool

James McFadden has taken his first win of the 2019/20 QSS World Series Sprintcars season with a dominant showing in Round 3 at Warrnambool’s Premier Speedway.

The four-time WSS champion finished third and second in his heats with fastest laps in each, then topped the Gold Shootout to earn pole for the A-Main.

McFadden set what would prove to be the fastest lap of the race on the very first tour as fellow front row starter Cory Eliason slotted into second, from Kerry Madsen and Brock Hallett.

Eliason nevertheless got close to McFadden until caution lights came on when Aidan Hall rolled at Turn 4 on Lap 6 after a suspected component failure.

Madsen nabbed second position from Eliason upon the restart but was unable to provide a series challenge to McFadden.

The #W17 Monte Motorsport entry led all 35 laps and McFadden in fact lapped up to eighth in the field as he won by five seconds.

Madsen took second and Eliason remained third while Hallett, who was the Revolution Racegear Quick Time winner earlier in the evening, ended up fourth.

Rounding out the top 10 were Grant Anderson, Matt Egel, Lachlan McHugh, Taylor Millings, Jock Goodyer, and Jack Lee.

Having won on the previous evening in Mount Gambier, Brooke Tatnell was unable to get past the B-Main in the series’ first visit to Warrnambool of the campaign.

Tatnell suffered a steering failure in qualifying which put the #V55 Ray Scott Transport machine into the wall at Turn 4.

While the team managed to turn the car around for the heats, he could only grab enough points to start at the front of the C-Main, which he won before finishing 11th in the B-Main.

Madsen continues to lead the series having been on the podium in each of the four features so far, while McFadden and Eliason are each 46 points behind in a tie for second.

Round 4 takes place tonight at Geelong’s Avalon Raceway.

StandingsTop of Form

Top of Form

Pos	Num	Driver	Pts
1	W2	Kerry Madsen	997
2	W17	James McFadden	951
2	W26	Cory Eliason	951
4	S13	Brock Hallett	946
5	V55	Brooke Tatnell	781
6	T22	Jock Goodyer	725
7	W5	Lucas Wolfe	719
8	S97	Matt Egel	716
9	S45	Jake Tranter	693
10	W60	Lockie McHugh	666
11	W25	Taylor Milling	644
12	S15	Aidan Hall	643
13	V40	Rusty Hickman	611
14	Q83	Steven Lines	550
15	W14	Jason Pryde	540
16	Q54	Randy Morgan	538
17	V88	Dave Murcott	519
18	T62	Tate Frost	516
19	S24	Ricky Maiolo	507
20	S27	Daniel Pestka	485
21	V37	Grant Anderson	473
22	N89	Braydan Willmington	459
23	V25	Jack Lee	452
24	S3	Ben Morris	451
25	S20	Glen Sutherland	441
26	S81	Luke Dillon	417
27	S4	Lisa Walker	414
28	NT21	Chace Karpenko	409
29	S14	Brendan Quinn	333
29	V42	Jye O’Keeffe	333
31	V48	Adam King	312
32	V72	Jacob Smith	271
33	S33	Mark Caruso	270
34	S2	Craig Vanderstelt	269
35	S10	Steven Caruso	261
36	NT17	Lenny Cole	260
37	V77	Brayden Parr	245
38	V17	Dennis Jones	236
39	V60	Jordyn Charge	209
40	V3	Darren Mollenoyux	184
40	V98	Peter Doukas	184
42	T7	Tim Hutchins	172
43	S16	Joel Heinrich	169
44	S23	Daniel Smith	166
45	S93	Mike Frost	164
46	V90	Corey McCullagh	140
47	V81	Robbie Paton	137
48	V70	John Vogels	132
49	V2	Domain Ramsay	103
50	S11	Scott Enderl	100
51	VA88	Grant Stansfield	98
52	V82	Matthew O’Shannassy	96
53	V32	Stephen Spark	88
54	V45	Mike Van Bremen	84
55	V20	Brayden Cooley	80
56	V50	Darren Clarke	69
57	V8	Bobby Daly	22