If Texan Travis Rilat ever considers a career change he should think about taking up motorcycle racing because he’s spent a bit of time running the Rolling Thunder Raceway Eagle on two wheels at Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway Saturday recently. For the second meeting in a row Rilat “biked” the eagle and almost rolled it over.

In time trials with 76 cars in the pits Rilat was in the 13^th group of 3 cars to go out and time trail.
“We timed okay and were fourth fastest for a while.” Stated the Texan. “As the time trials went on though the track got better and some of the latter guys improved on our times and pushed us back to 13^th.” Rilats' time of 12.073 seconds was officially 14^th quickest behind Max Dumesny’s fast time of 11.793 seconds

The fourth heat of the night saw Rilat race starting from 3^rd, which is exactly where he finished.

 “There was not much going on in the heats or in our dash.” Rilat explained.

The dash was more of the same. After starting 5^th Rilat brought the Daytec/Forbes Auto Centre car home in the same position.

“The track didn’t move up like it did last week and the weather conditions were overcast all day which I think affected the track.” Rilat surmised.

The feature race proved to be equally as frustrating. Having started from position nine the car was a bit tight early on.

“We’d dropped a couple of spots early on.” Said Rilat. “Then we hit the cushion and nearly tipped it over again like we did last week. This time when the car came down it stalled and I had to go to the rear of the field. The problem with that is that on the restart the leader hits the start line while I’m still only half way down the back straight which means that it doesn’t take long for the leader to come around an be on you because some of these back markers were all over the track and were hard to get past. Once (Donny) Schatz came past me I just pulled her in because it wasn’t worth the aggro to move from 21^st to 18^th.

Rilat has two more opportunities to show the PCR crowd his best tonight (Friday) and tomorrow night (Saturday) as the running of the Outlaws Down Under IIII heads towards its conclusion.