Released: 3rd January  2008

Jason Johnson in the Supaloc/Jim Beam Disbury racing Eagle resumed his winning ways on a tough night at Rolling Thunder Raceway last night (January 2^nd).

Johnson was declared the winner of the Sprintcar Thunder Showdown following a sickening crash that left Northern Territorian Mark Grosvenor in a serious condition.

Grosvenor was attended by the Race Safe team and Paramedics and was carefully extracted from his mangled car and air lifted to hospital were his condition was described as serious.

Rolling Thunder management had no hesitation in cancelling the remainder of the race program and would like to express their deep concern and best wishes for Marks wellbeing and recovery.

Prior to Grosvenor’s accident Johnson had driven brilliantly to run down early leader Danny Reidy who was able to hang on for second place ahead of Mark Dobmeier, Troy Little and Max Dumesny. Grosvenor himself had been driving well sitting just outside a top five finish.

Earlier in the night the heat race action in both the open and Sprintcar Thunder (360’s) events had been top class with a number of thrilling finishes keeping the crowd on their toes.

Dobmeier had made his Rolling Thunder Raceway debut a successful one winning the opening heat from the front row and then Luke Dillon, making his 410ci Sprintcar debut in brother Lee’s car, won the second heat. Reidy backed up his opening heat runner up finish with a win in heat three to secure pole for the final with Little scoring the win in heat four.

In the Sprintcar Thunder Series heats it was South Australian Darryl Wright he scored the first heat win Little, Tony Moule and Ian Lewis taking the other heat wins.

Little had secured pole for this classes feature event where he was scheduled to line up alongside Moule with Darren Hickman and Lewis on the second row.