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Adam eases to Super GT victory at Ruapuna

by Zane Shackleton
January 22, 2022
in New Zealand, News
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Everyone, well, mostly everyone thought Connor Adam claimed his debut Super GT New Zealand victory seven days ago at Highlands Motorsport Park.

That wasn’t the case. But Adam wouldn’t have to wait much longer to do so, picking up the win in the opening race at Ruapuna today.

Adam qualified on the third row and was fifth on the road before making his compulsory pitstop five minutes into the 30-minute affair.

He wasn’t the only driver to complete their mandatory Balance of Performance pitstop right as the window opened.

All the leaders pounced on the opportunity to get their stop out of the way.

Polesitter Paul Kelly had to wait in the lane for an agonisingly long 90-seconds, the longest of anyone.

Highlands feature race winner Ben Byers ran strongly in second before making his pitstop. He also lost a chunk of time and position due to sitting in the lane for so long.

Ultimately, once the pitstops played themselves out, Adam had vaulted into the lead.

He wouldn’t relinquish the position all the way until the finish flag – a red finish flag due to a big crash for Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes at the final corner.

Even though the race was cut short, Adam was still awarded the win.

“We probably should have won a race at the last round, and we finally got one,” he said.

“We just needed to stay out of trouble and I think we did that to bring it home.”

The Porsche 991 of Martin Dippie made a late move on the McLaren GT4 of Nigel Cromie at turn one to snatch P2.

Despite losing the second step on the podium, Cromie was still ecstatic.

“When I heard that we were third, I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “There was only one lap to go, was pretty confident I could hold on. I couldn’t ask for much more. I’m stoked.”

Byers’ late chase of Cromie for a podium spot was cut short due to the red flag. He finished fourth.

Allan Sargeant was fifth overall and the second GT4 car home.

Initial leader Kelly had a disastrous race after his pitstop, picking up a puncture and finishing two laps down in 21st.

Race Result:

PosDriver
1Connor Adam
2Martin Dippie
3Nigel Cromie
4Ben Byers
5Allan Sargeant
6Shane Helms
7Dave Cremer
8Stephen Harrison
9Grant Aitken
10Todd Bawden
11Brent Forman
12Steve Sullivan
13Adam Julian
14Rob Steele
15Heremana Mana
16Martin Neil
17Stewart Callaway
18Francois Beziac
19David Rogers
20David Cranna
21Paul Kelly
DNFLochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes

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