With five rounds in the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship now complete, Kiwi Callum Hedge takes a commanding 116-point Equity-One Pro class lead over Jackson Walls heading to Mount Panorama in three-weeks time.
Callum Hedge and Dylan O’Keedde split the Saturday wins in Round 5 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship in a dramatic pair of races at Sandown.
O’Keeffe went on to seal the round victory after a second win from three starts in a lights-to-flag performance in Race 3 (Sunday), taking his second ever Carrera Cup round win and his first since the 2018 event in Darwin.
He’s also the fifth different round winner from five rounds so far this season.
The final sprint race was a dramatic affair that saw a multi-car incident at the start that was triggered by a slow-starting Callum Hedge spinning following contact from behind from Fabian Coulthard.
That then sent the field scrambling as they checked up with multiple cars involved in a turn one crash that saw Nick McBride’s Porsche Centre Melbourne / Hallmarc entry tipped onto its side and into the path of a Sam Shahin, who was an innocent player trying to take evasive action.
The incident removed four cars from the equation with Christian Pancione, Nick McBride, Adrian Flack and Sam Shahin all non-finishers.
A lengthy Safety Car set up a dash to the flag for the remainder of the field with O’Keeffe leading the outright pack and Jane in front in Pro-Am.
Both were able to hold on despite close challenges from behind, O’Keeffe claiming the win in the race and round over Bayley Hall and Dale Wood.
Hedge has provisionally claimed the Michelin Junior prize of a trip to contest the Porsche Junior Shootout later this year after nearest rival Jackson Walls endured a challenging day.
The next round of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship resumes in three weeks at the Repco Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama.
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