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For
the second year running, the Morcom Motorsport team,
headed by Barry Morcom and joined by co-drivers Steve
Owen and Layton Crambrook, has finished fourth outright
and second in their class, during the running of the
Bathurst 12 Hour last weekend at Mount Panorama in Bathurst
NSW.
There
was no question about it; the Morcom Motorsport team
were in contention for the outright
Bathurst 12 Hour victory, had they not firstly encountered
an electrical issue with their Rondo Building Services
supported BMW 335i Turbo during the middle stages of
the event, and then in the latter stages they fought
with a rear brake issue.
“We
held down the lead on three occasions over the first
half of the race, and were looking good for a win, if
not a podium finish, but we came up short on both accounts,”
explained Morcom Motorsport lead driver, Barry Morcom.
“Despite
our electrical issue and the rear brake problem we faced,
the car ran faultlessly all weekend, and my two co-drivers
Steve [Owen] and Layton [Crambrook] performed very well,
it was just a shame that we didn’t finish higher up
in the field as we were more than capable of a better
result.”
After
starting the Bathurst 12 Hour from seventh on the grid
after qualifying in that position it didn’t take the
Morcom Motorsport team long to charge their way towards
the front of the field.
“Our
strategy was working a treat and we manage to get ourselves
to the pointy end of the field without much of a hassle,”
Morcom commented.

“Earlier
in the weekend we had an electrical problem and we thought
we had fixed the drama only for it to resurface during
the race. At that time we were at the front of the field
and we lost a lap in the pits as a result of the electrical
problem, and from there we were chasing our tails and
simply couldn’t recover.”
Although
fourth outright and second in class is by no means a
bad result, the efforts of the preparation, thanks to
the Eastern Creek Karts Raceway team, and the pace of
their BMW 335i, should have resulted in a better Bathurst
12 Hour result for the Morcom Motorsport team.
Morcom
Motorsport is proudly supported in 2008 by the following
organisations: Rondo Building Services, C.I.S. Group,
P & I Smash Repairs, Yokohama, Hydrolyte, Premier
One, NSW Stretch Ceilings, and Hi-Tech Computers.
-ENDS
RELEASE-
Morcom
Motorsport media enquiries Daniel Powell – Redline Media
Phone:
0246 832 287
Mobile:
0432 126 210
Email:
Daniel@redlinemedia.com.au
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