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In the Toyo Drift Australia Series’ first visit to Western Australia, local driver Adam Trewhella overcame the odds to take his first win in the series.

A crowd of over 5,000 people flocked to Barbagallo Raceway yesterday - the biggest crowd at the circuit for a non-V8 Supercar event - to witness Trewhella take out the opening round of the series and claim an early lead in the Australian Drift Championship.

The final result was in stark contrast to the start of his weekend, which begun on an inauspicious note after engine problems sidelined his regular Nissan Cefiro in the opening practice session.

Overheating problems meant his replacement car, a Nissan Silvia, was of little more use, before Trewhella’s boss Clinton Brown stepped up and loaned him a Nissan Skyline for the day.

Fortunately for Trewhella, it was a case of third time lucky.

Despite limited tracktime in the car, he progressed through the preliminary rounds of competition, defeating Leighton Fine (Peer Industries Nissan Onevia) and Darren Appleton (Peer Industries Nissan 180SX) to book a spot in the final.

He would go up against Christian Pickering (Commercial Truck Sales Nissan 200SX), who had earlier knocked out Robbie Bolger (VIP Petfoods Holden Monaro), Fernando Wiehrl (Auto Salon Nissan S15) and Chris Easton (JustJap.com Nissan Skyline).

The battle between Trewhella and South Australian Pickering went right down to the wire, with judges unable to split them during the first two runs.

Eventually, a Pickering spin saw Trewhella emerge as the victor.

“I still don’t know how it all came together, but somehow it did and I’m stoked,” Trewhella said.

“We had some problems early in the weekend and it wasn’t looking very good.

“When you have two cars put out of action with technical problems, you don’t really expect to be up there at the end of the round.

“Fortunately Clinton loaned me his car so I could compete, and then here I am winning the event.

“I would’ve preferred to have won in my own car, but we did it anyway.”

Pickering’s second place finish made it a 1-2 finish for Toyo Tyres, and was his best result in the series.

“It’s great to get such a strong result first up with the CTS team,” Pickering said.

“I haven’t had a lot of time in this car, but everything went to plan for us today.

“Bring on my home round at Mallala in April.”

On debut in the series, Super Drift graduate Easton was one of the revelations of the meeting aboard his near-stock R31 model Skyline.

In the battle for third place, Easton held out 2005 series champion Appleton to take the final podium position, with four different states represented in the top four.

Earlier, Appleton progressed from an all-Team Peer battle with defending Australian Drift Champion Beau Yates (Peer Industries Toyota Sprinter).

Yates took sixth place for the weekend, behind top-qualifier Nathan Weissel (Gatorz Nissan Skyline), with Wiehrl and Fine completing the top eight.

In addition to Weissel’s strong result, Rob Arborlino made it a great day for Gatorz Racing, winning the opening round of Super Drift competition in his Nissan Skyline ahead of local drivers Jackson Sithauong and Kieran Morgan.

Round two of the series will be held at South Australia’s Mallala Motorsport Park on April 14-15.

Between now and then, action from Barbagallo will hit the airwaves, with telecasts of the opening round including SBS’ Speedweek on Sunday March 11, and Channel Nine on Saturday March 17, check local guides for details.

Barbagallo Raceway Top Eight

1. Adam Trewhella (WA, Nissan Skyline)

2. Christian Pickering (SA, Nissan 180SX)

3. Chris Easton (NSW, Nissan Skyline)

4. Darren Appleton (QLD, Nissan 180SX)

5. Nathan Weissel (NSW, Nissan Skyline)

6. Beau Yates (NSW, Toyota Sprinter)

7. Fernando Wiehrl (NSW, Nissan S15)

8. Leighton Fine (SA, Toyota Sprinter)

Toyo Drift Australia Series standings after Round 1

1. Adam Trewhella 499

2. Christian Pickering 465

3. Chris Easton 429

4. Darren Appleton 383

5. Nathan Weissel 372

6. Beau Yates 370

7. Fernando Wiehrl 368

8. Leighton Fine 366

great day out and my amatuer (very) vids of it will be on you tube later today will post link :) when i get around to it

just click more from user for more clips still being uploaded now (had power failure here so not many up yet

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http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u153/ja...allo/?start=all

Thats my pics, all 797 of them

Mate - love your work.

especially the one of the heroes of the day - the sweepers! :wave:

(that was me on the far right)

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