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[6-HOUR] Hour 4 Update
- Team Mitsubishi Ralliart continues to streak ahead as the 2010 Dial Before You Dig Australian Six Hour reaches the end of its fourth hour.
- Stewart Kostera closed in on a two lap lead over team-mate Inky Tulloch, who in turn holds down a comfortable lead over Peter Conroy. The third TMR entry, with Matt Cherry behind the wheel holds down fourth – and is currently the fastest car on the race track.
- Alan Heaphy’s prediction of a 1:47 second race pace continues to prove accurate, with Kostera and co-driver Warren Luff consistently running low 47s and high 46s.
- Biggest news of the hour was the right front wheel failure on the East’s Holiday Parks Evo IX. Des Wall was nearing the end of his double-stint behind the wheel of the car when it the wheel studs sheered while negotiating Turn 12 on lap 117. The team did an outstanding job to change the right front corner of the car in just six laps, with the incident dropping the car from fourth to eleventh place.
- Tony Alford brought the Donut King entry in the for the second time on leader lap 114 (107 for the team) with battery failure – costing them four laps and six positions.
- Hadrian Morrall continues to strike trouble in the second Osbourne Motorsport Mazda 3 MPS, a flat tyre at the close of the hour dropping them further behind as they nursed the car back to the pits.
- The start of hour four saw the official retirement of the FPV F6 Typhoon, which failed to complete more than seven laps before a repeat of its Saturday turbo failure.
- John Bowe returned to the GWS BMW 335i after Peter O’Donnell struggled with tyre wear in the closing laps of his session. The car’s owner only spent one hour on the race track, and will have to return to the car later in the race.
- Pit lane penalties continued to haunt teams in hour four, with both HSV entries receiving drive-throughs courtesy of speeding in pit-lane.
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