Sydney Sprintcar Superstar Troy Little made his 2006 American season debut with an almost fairytale first up at win at Ohio’s Sharon speedway last weekend.

With the absence of regular Aussie crew chief Bill Roberts, Intense Fabrication and Designs’ Doug Kekich stepped into the breach and gave Troy a brilliant car for his first race at the historic Sharon Speedway.

Little had never even seen the track before and after a handful of hot laps started his one and only heat in fourth place. “I backed the car up to sixth but then took it forward to finish the heat in 3^rd place.” Stated Little.

“I don’t know how it works but after that heat result they somehow started us off pole in the feature.” Explained the bemused Sydney-sider.

From the front row Little led the field away and had a handy gap after nine laps. Little then got held up behind a lapped car and fearing that the pack was closing in was a little impatient when he attempted to lap the backmarker and unfortunately spun out. After coming to a stop on the track Little was then hit hard by Scott Bonnell. “It was a big impact - It rattled my family jewels if you know what I mean.” He said with that impish grin on his face. “Incredibly it did severe damage to the chassis but hardly touched anything else.”

From the back of the pack in a car that was severely damaged Little put in a gutsy effort to get the car back up to an eleventh place finish, but more importantly he completed some crucial laps ahead of his next race at Sharon, in the All-Stars Ohio Speedweek race  tomorrow night (28^th June).

Since then Little and Kekich have been working almost non-stop replacing tubes and rebuilding the car. Aussie crew chief Roberts, along with crew members Chris Solomon and Garry McKelvey have landed in Ohio and have added their manpower to the rebuilding effort.

“Dougs’ work is first class and the car will be as good as new, if not better, than it was to start with.” Stated Roberts upon examination of the repair work.