Round 2 of the Feilding Auto Electrical Winter Series provided plenty of action at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon where three drivers were victorious in the TR Group Formula Ford Cup.

Qualifying started the day in dry conditions, led once again by Callum Crawley in a Spectrum 015 on a 1:13.324 over Brodie McConkey in the Mygale and Speedsport scholarship winner Ronan Murphy in the sister spectrum.

Zac Stichbury (Mygale) was fourth only 0.011 seconds behind Murphy, with Blake Evans (Mygale) only three tenths behind the pair.

Cameron Tanner (Van Diemen ) set a new personal best after a slight off at Splash when caught out following Billy Frazer to set the sixth fastest time, followed by Jordan Mountfort (Stealth) and Keith Millar (van Diemen).

Unfortunately a transponder issue resulted in Billy Frazer (Spectrum) and Kaleb Ngatoa (Spectrum) both failing to set a time.

Race 1 started in equally dry conditions, and Callum Crawley was able to jump the wings and slicks Formula Ford 2000 of Josh Donahue, while Cameron Tanner got an Equally good jump to pass Zac Sticbury and go side by side with Blake Evans into Turn 1.

Unfortunately Evans slowed with gearbox issue coming out of the hairpin, ending his day on Lap 1. However, it was Crawley out front who was controlling the FF1600 pack, while also having some great racing against the FF2000 car of Donahue.

Ronan Murphy sealed second place from start to finish ahead of a hard charging Billy Frazer, who had stormed his way through the field to finish on the podium.

Kaleb Ngatoa was fourth, but only half a second behind Murphy at the line to show just how close the racing was. Zac Stichbury, Brody McConkey, Cameron Tanner, Jordan Mounfort and Keith Millar rounded out the finishers.

Race 2 and the rain started to come causing multiple headaches for the engineers on the dummy grid, with some competitors coming to the dummy grid, disconnecting and reconnecting the Anti-roll bars all within five minutes.

The rain did stay away for the race, however, the damage had been done and the track was damp. Some confusion on the grid added to the challenge of the conditions, and the race was under safety car on Lap 2 for Billy Frazer, who had a spectacular pirouetted into the gravel trap at Turn 1 (pictured above).

Brodie McConke had been awarded a drive through penalty for running wide at the last corner on Lap 1, but tried to serve it under the safety car, much to the officials displeasure. He was later disqualified after the race.

Kaleb Ngatoa led the field to green, followed by Murphy and Crawley, who had been run off the road at the hairpin on Lap 1 and lost ground. Stichbury and Tanner rounded out the top five at the re-start.

Ngatoa would go on to extend his lead to two seconds across the line, taking his first win for himself and the car on debut in the championship. Stichbury made his way up to second, followed closely by Crawley and Murphy, with Tanner having another strong showing in fifth. Mounfort finished sixth, while Keith Millar had failed to make the start.

The final race of the day once again started in wet but drying conditions, and had plenty of drama within.

Crawley got another clean start to lead into Turn 1, and Tanner continued his form of excellent starts to easily leapfrog Murphy and McConkey. However, he got baulked behind a slow starting Frazer, who tried to go Three-wide into turn 1 with Murphy and Ngatoa.

A lap later Ngatoa was tagged by Murphy after trying to go into Turn 1 three-wide once again, this time with McConke. The end result being Ngatoa facing the wrong way and losing a bunch of positions and time. T

Tanner then had an off on Lap 4 at Higgins after locking a wheel, the superb gravel trap catching the car and not releasing it.

Crawley and McConkie Promptly followed his lead at Turn 1, both out-braking themselves side-by-side and simultaneously sliding off the road. Crawley was able to rejoin the first of the two.

On the last lap Murphy attempted to pass two of the slower Formula First cars, however, this was done under yellow flags for the stranded Tanner, resulting in a post-race penalty that stripped the win off him. That handed Zac Stichbury his first win of the series and the third different winner of the day.

Crawley managed to hold on to second from Frazer, who had been struggling for pace but had the consistency to finish third

Round three of the Feilding Auto Electrical Winter Series takes place on 3-4 August.