{"id":296096,"date":"2023-05-13T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296096"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:59:21","slug":"stars-brutal-response-to-rivals-retaliation-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296096","title":{"rendered":"Star's brutal response to rival's retaliation threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Brett Holdsworth fired a grenade over pit lane<\/a>, Owen Kelly was asking where he was after a dominant Trans Am<\/a> race win at Phillip Island.<\/p>\n

Kelly cruised home to a five-second win, his first of the season.<\/p>\n

Prior to the 13-lapper, Holdsworth doubled down on his warning suggesting he had "a fairly good shot" at Kelly.<\/p>\n

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The Chevrolet racer never got a chance to fire a bullet as he battled to keep his place on the podium and watched the Ford in front of him walk away.<\/p>\n

\"Trans<\/p>\n

"I'm not going to run my mouth like some of these other blokes and clearly it doesn't pay off, right? I was trying to look in the mirror for him, I couldn't see him," said Kelly after the win.<\/p>\n

"I don't know where he was, so I guess he was way back there somewhere."<\/p>\n

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A race win looked an unlikely thing for Kelly in the early going after pole position winner James Moffat cleared away from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, it was a case of hero to zero, going from top spot to stone cold last after officials deemed his car wasn't fit to race.<\/p>\n

The Garry Rogers Motorsport driver held a comfortable lead before his window net came unstuck, resulting in a breach of the series' rules.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

Moffat came to the pit lane for his team to fix the unstuck window net before sending him on his way.<\/p>\n

That gifted former NASCAR race winner Kelly the lead, who skipped away from the battle for second between Brett Holdsworth, Lachie Dalton, and Nash Morris.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1657262913709817864<\/a><\/p>\n

Morris was the star of the race, rising seven places to pip Holdsworth for second.<\/p>\n

The son of Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Morris was forceful in his drive towards the podium, nudging Dalton at Siberia and divebombing Holdsworth late at Lukey Heights.<\/p>\n

Holdsworth might not have even made the podium if not for Dalton also copping a mechanical black flag when his door flung open.<\/p>\n

\"Brett<\/p>\n

Dalton wound up second-to-last while Moffat finished a lap down in last.<\/p>\n

Holdsworth conceded Kelly was just too good, and gave Morris kudos for his drive.<\/p>\n

"Well done to Owen, he blitzed us," said Holdsworth.<\/p>\n

"Good drive by Nash too. I don't know where he came from. I didn't even know he was there and just fired up the inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"There were some tough battles out there, that was a wicked race."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1657270252957499392<\/a><\/p>\n

With the progressive grid format, Kelly will start from pole position with Holdsworth directly behind him in third. Morris will start alongside Kelly in second.<\/p>\n

Race two of the weekend gets underway at 10:55am on Sunday with race three to close out the weekend 3:25pm.<\/p>\n

Stan Sport will carry live, ad-free coverage of Sunday's racing from 9:30am.<\/p>\n

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