Tuesday night, Brooke Tatnell and the Krikke Motorsport team continued their assault on the Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway’s Scott Darley $50, 000 to win meeting and will a sensational drive the #2 Cool greeted the checker in third place, just trailing home American stars Donny Schatz and Tim Shaffer.

Brooke was by far the best performing Aussie in the star studded 24 car field and while going into the Parramatta biggie of the summer as the current World Series Champ and the 2009/10 WSS points leader, racing in front of his home Sydney fans, Brooke was certainly on a mission.

Brooke ended night one in sixth position in points and it was only the likes World of Outlaws Champ Donny Schatz, NASCAR superstar Tony Stewart, two other American’s stars and fellow Aussie Robbie Farr in front of the Toyota Genuine Parts sprintcar racer. The qualifying night saw Brooke finishing with solid results but the team knew only too well pay day was night two and with rain again threatening it was all systems go with Brooke and the guys eager to snatch that $50,000 from the American dominance.

After a good result in the dash race Brooke started the 40 lap 50g final from 5th position and right from the green, he was racing hot trying to stop the American attack. Early in the race the yanks were running 1,2,3 & 4 while Skip Jackson and Brooke staged a thrilling battle. Lap after lap, the Aussie pair fought it out and had Tony Stewart the NASCAR champ joining in a they traded positions in what was a superb race battle. Brooke finally forged into third, while both Skip and Stewart were retirements the Toyota Genuine Parts machine set after the two leading American’s. Brooke tried everything and at one stage looked like it might have least secured second from Shaffer but it wasn’t to be with Brooke in the Krikke Motorsport Cool had to settle for third, giving Schatz his 8th victory and Shaffer a second placing.

Brooke started his sprintcar racing at Parramatta and he was the best Aussie last night finishing two places ahead of the next Sydney local which also gave the team a good confidence boost going into the prestigious races in Brisbane over the next few days.

“Third place, well you can only be happy as you can be with 3rd place! We had set up for 40 laps and I think we had a car for 40 laps. Ten laps in I got caught up behind Skip (Jackson) & Tony Stewart and I pulled a tear off, unfortunately I couldn’t get it off so I had to keep wipe off the mud. We got lucky the yellows came out so I got to pull it off the reverse side and we got racing again. I thought we had a good enough car but I really didn’t want to see that last yellow stoppage. I thought I was going to get Tim (Shaffer) at that point and you knew we were pulling Donny in as well. We will take third and our guys did a great job all weekend.”

The guys are off racing in Brisbane tonight and well be in Queensland for the big WSS rounds this weekend before heading back to Parramatta for the two night WSS weekend.

And race fans, the all-new Krikke MotorSport merchandise is now available online and will be available direct from the Team Transporter at each Speed Week event, so don’t forget to head down to the pits after the meeting to buy some great gear and perhaps get an autograph from Brooke while you’re there.

Brooke and Krikke MotorSport thank the following sponsors and corporate partners for their support during the 2009/2010 season: Toyota Genuine Parts, AJC All Colour Painting Group, Maxwill Race Engines, Cool Chassis, Mercure Hotel Parramatta, PWR Performance Products, Alberts Car Stereo, Pioneer, Revolution Racegear, BR Motorsports, Vortex, Valvoline, Mega Motors, A.Lucas Spraypainters, GT Fabrication, A1 Sign Shop, Bunbury Toyota and BCM Motorsport Marketing.

Greg Boscato - Speedsport Media Services