Daniel Hartigan takes out Sprintcar Stampede at Nickol Bay Speedway’s FeNaClNG festival

Perth’s Daniel Hartigan drove a perfect performance to claim the win in the City of Karratha Sprintcar Stampede with a margin of 2.794 seconds. The City of Karratha Sprintcar Stampede at the Nickol Bay Speedway on July 29-30 was part of the club’s FeNaCING Festival 50th anniversary race meeting. The two-night, high-octane extravaganza featured a variety of different categories, including the sprintcars, wingless and stock sedans. The sprintcar feature starting grid was decided after six two-lap shootouts, with Nathan Davis starting on pole ahead of Hartigan, David Guy and Jamie Landrigan. Matty Magerl started the race in fifth followed by Jerome Tunstead, Colin Stannard and Grant Atkinson. Hartigan looked good throughout the 20-lap race, setting the fastest lap with a time of 15.169 sec and crossing the finish line in first 2.794 seconds clear of Landrigan, with Stannard rounding out the top three. The chaotic race saw Davis, Atkinson, Guy, Tunstead and Magerl all record DNF’s. In the 15-lap stock sedans feature, pole-sitter Matt Herbert took the chequered flag with a winning margin of 1.030 ahead of Jack McAuley. James Hunt rounded out the podium while Harry Wingfield finished fifth, followed by Andrew Norten and Paul O’Dwyer. Herbert held off the fast finishing McAuley, who recorded the fastest lap of the race with a 20.919. In the super mods 15-lap feature, Mark Shepherd took the win by more than five seconds from Daniel Guy and Wayne Bingham. Shepherd also recorded the fastest lap, 19.366 seconds. Ben Maes took out the wingless sprintcar feature ahead of Nathan Condo, Rod Snellin, and Brett White.