Andrew Bardetta wins at Serpent Cup race

The Australian Serpent Cup was held over the weekend with rain reduced qualifying from 6 rounds down to 4. Tim Lee took the TQ in 1/10th 200mm Touring followed by David Chen and Joel Casey. In the final Tim got the early lead followed by David Chen and Andrew Bardetta, all three drivers within a couple of seconds of each other. Chen managed to get the lead a few mins in and Bardetta moved into second. From their it was a race long battle between the pair with the lead swapping a couple of times and never more than 2 seconds separating them. Lee was in a comfortable 3rd only 6 seconds behind the leading duo. The battle was on in the pits with every pitstop critical. With a couple of mins to go Bardetta closed the gap to within one second of Chen. On the last lap Chen ran out of fuel coming onto the back straight which gave Bardetta the victory and moving Lee up to second for an Xray 1-2. David Chen (Serpent) managed to hold onto third, being a lap ahead of fourth.

1/10th 200mm A-main result:
1. Andrew Bardetta – Xray
2. Timothy Lee – Xray
3. David Chen – Serpent
4. George Karozis – Xray
5. Tim Moylan – n/a
6. Craig Hawkins – Mugen
7. Michael Ruimiz – n/a
8. Michael Stone – Xray
9. Jeffrey Mackie – Serpent
10. David Mac – ARC
11.Joel Casey – Mugen

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]