South Australian driver Tom Drewer is the 2007 Australian Thundersports Champion in the Australian Motor Racing Series that was decided at Sydney’s Oran Park circuit at the weekend. (November 24-25).
Driving the Oasis Systems sponsored WEST factory entry car, Drewer adopted a more conservative approach to the final round in order to secure his first Australian motor racing title.
‘I put the WEST on pole and won the first scratch race and then played a safe game for the two handicap events’, Drewer said after taking a fourth and third respectively despite starting race two 85 seconds behind the pole man and being given a full lap handicap in race 3.
‘All year we have proved we can win off the back of the grid with some mighty handicaps and its made for great racing having to push so hard and pass so many cars, but this was m y Championship round and there was too much at stake to go for a win in each race.
There was no way I was going to risk the trophy, given the effort that the team has put in all year. I might be driving but you don’t let down the sponsors and the guys like car owner Greg Steer who have given you the opportunity to take an Australian title by being rash at the last round’.
The newly crowned 23 year old champion said 2007 had been ‘the best’ of his motor racing career that began at the age of seven in karts.
‘I also had my first Fujitsu V8 Supercar drive with the Prodigy team and won first time out in Garry Wilmington’s V8 Supercar in the V8 Giants category, so it’s been pretty hectic but you wouldn’t have it any other way’.
Drewer’s success in the American built WEST sports racing car has seen four other examples of the marque already sold and racing in Australia with at least another three cars heading ‘down under’ for the 2008 season.
Drewer said that he was extremely optimistic that his racing program for next year would be finalised within the next couple of weeks.
‘We have been looking at several options and it’s a matter of making the final decision and getting the deal done, but I do know that its going to involve a lot more racing at a higher level again. Its going to be tough but that’s what its all about’.
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