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Hi All

Just to let you all know the BSM GTR's took out 1st and 7th at the IPRA National titles held at Warick QLD last weekend. I had a clean sweep taking pole, 3 race wins and the 24 lap final. John Boston driving the 2nd car finished a fantastic 7th.

This toped off a fantastic year for BSM Winning the NSW IPRA Championship and setting lap records at Oran park (1.15.5 ) and Eastern Creek (1.42.5 ) All this with turbo restrictors.

cheers Dave Loftus :)

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congrats on the win! I went out there on the Sunday to watch, saw all 4 IPRA races on Sunday and had a bit of a sticky beak at the GTRs in the pits - very nice. Also got to catch up with a few mates who were either competing or crewing for other cars, plus I picked up a front spoiler and some race fuel for my Datto.

Dave and the BSM GTR were definitely the class of the field, although Justin Keys (a local QLD RX3 runner) threw everything he had at him after the safety car in the middle of the 24 lap final. Dave drove really well to hold him off and then re-establish his lead. I was wondering how the tyres would hold up for 24 laps on the GTR compared to the much lighter rotaries... And the under 2L guys put on a good show too - there were some crazy fast fwd U2L cars from interstate, even as far away as WA. And Kevin Ledger's WRX from WA was running very competitively too until problems struck. Well done to all who made the effort to come up here for the IPRA Nationals - I really enjoyed the racing you guys put on!

Great work Dave, and John. Pass on my congrats to Geoff as well he must be stoked, all that development has really paid off.

There were plenty of people, me included, that thought a GTR would never get to the front of Improved Production.

Will you guys be at Oran Park in 3 weeks? We are bringing ours back to the track for the combined touring enduro

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