Queensland ace, Nathan Pronger made it a hat trick of state titles when he powered to victory on Saturday night at Murray Machining and Sheds Murray Bridge Speedway, adding it to the Queensland and New South Wales titles, he already owns.
Earlier in the night, it was the Bordertown Bandit, Brad Tink in the QuickTime Electrical s81 who set the fastest lap in time trails with a 13.231, claiming maximum points before heading into the heats. The heats themselves action packed on a very dry slick surface. Conditions providing close, tight racing but free of any major damage and incidents.
From the heats, it was Nathan Pronger who emerged highest point scorer for the top six dash, where he was never headed to put himself off of pole ahead of Jye O'Keeffe in the V55, while Dylan Willsher and Matthew Symons filled the second row ahead of Ash Sinclair and the v30 of Jarrod Woolstencroft.
The feature was a thriller as the opening laps were run on a wet slick track which came in nicely as the action heated up with the top four drivers putting on a show with Pronger leading the early laps before O'Keeffe took the lead with Willsher third and Hallett fourth, who had made his way through from seventh starting position.
The top four would share positions through traffic and the occasional contact with random selected wet spots on the still drying surface. As the race wore on, Pronger had got the best of O'Keeffe, while Hallett had passed Willsher for third. By this time Willsher was starting to nurse a sick race car, which would eventually see him pull infield.
With six laps to go and the leaders held up in traffic, Hallett pounced on Pronger to take the lead and also dive bomb the s22 car of Rory Stevenson, who he was trying to lap. The two making contact with Stevenson coming off worse, making contact with the wall, while Hallett was put to the rear of the field, being deemed the cause of the crash.
From there, Pronger was never headed, taking the win and his first South Australian championship ahead of O'Keeffe, Ash Sinclair, Symons fourth and Woolstencroft wounding out the top five.