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SELWYN TIMES Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 15<br />
Ransley takes out first ARG eSport Cup<br />
PREBBLETON’S Jaden Ransley<br />
has been awarded the ARG<br />
eSport Cup after a thrilling two<br />
hour touring car endurance race<br />
at Mount Panorama, Bathurst.<br />
Ransley and Supercars star<br />
Andre Heimgartner finished<br />
fourth in the race, edging<br />
season-long leader Harley Haber<br />
by just seven points after Haber<br />
and team-mate Fawzan El-Nabi<br />
had a night they’d rather forget.<br />
After two hours of entertaining<br />
racing, it was wildcard entrants<br />
Josh Files and Cooper Webster<br />
who emerged on top in a thrilling<br />
finish, edging out the GRM entry<br />
of Dylan O’Keeffe and team-mate<br />
Jackson Souslin-Harlow.<br />
The first leg of the race was<br />
dominated by title rival protagonists<br />
Haber and Ash Sutton,<br />
while polesitter Dylan O’Keefe<br />
and Files ran not far behind in<br />
the top five.<br />
A safety car around the midrace<br />
mark shook up the order at<br />
the front, leaving Brett Holdsworth<br />
leading from Will Brown,<br />
Souslin-Harlow, and Webster,<br />
who had taken over from Files.<br />
At the restart, Webster quickly<br />
dispatched Souslin-Harlow, took<br />
advantage of Brown’s troubles<br />
to move up to second, and then<br />
passed Holdsworth to assume<br />
the lead.<br />
The order at the front remained<br />
the same until a second<br />
safety car was deployed later in<br />
the race, setting up a 18min dash<br />
SUCCESS: Jaden Ransley has triumphed over the likes of Scott<br />
McLaughlin and Shane van Gisbergen in the ARG eSport Cup.<br />
PHOTO: RANSLEY FAMILY<br />
to the flag.<br />
Webster and Souslin-Harlow<br />
traded positions multiple times<br />
as they checked out from the rest<br />
of the field.<br />
At Hell Corner on the final lap,<br />
Webster made a successful lunge<br />
on Souslin-Harlow and immediately<br />
built a buffer, doing just<br />
enough to secure victory.<br />
Souslin-Harlow finished<br />
0.88sec behind, while Scott<br />
McLaughlin, paired with Ben<br />
McMellan, pulled off a last-lap<br />
move on Supercars rival Heimgartner<br />
to steal the final spot on<br />
the podium.<br />
Fourth place, however, was<br />
enough for Heimgartner’s teammate<br />
Ransley to wrap up the<br />
ARG eSport title on a day his<br />
title rivals Haber and Sutton<br />
faltered.<br />
Haber was hit with a drive<br />
through penalty early on in the<br />
race and his team-mate El-Nabi<br />
was unlucky when Michael Clemente<br />
spun in front of him at<br />
Skyline Corner. El-Nabi made a<br />
dangerous move tryng to get back<br />
into the race, causing more carnage<br />
and sealing Haber’s title fate.<br />
Sutton led the race early on but<br />
was shuffled down the order at<br />
the first pitstop, and his teammate<br />
Jake Blackhall was later<br />
punted off the track. The two<br />
eventually retired from the race.<br />
Meanwhile, Aaron Seton and<br />
Ed Williams finished fifth ahead<br />
of Thomas Randle and Lochie<br />
Hughes, while real-life Supercars<br />
enduro team-mates Shane van<br />
Gisbergen and Garth Tander<br />
were classified seventh after running<br />
as high as third in the final<br />
safety car period.<br />
SPORT<br />
ARG eSPORT CUP<br />
Top-30 series positions:<br />
1 Jaden Ransley 589<br />
2 Harley Haber 584<br />
3 Dylan O’Keeffe 546<br />
4 Jordan Cox 494<br />
5 Ash Sutton 487<br />
6 Nathan Herne 455<br />
7 James Golding 450<br />
8 Garth Tander 427<br />
9 Aaron Seton 355<br />
<strong>10</strong> Tim Brook 352<br />
11 John Martin 334<br />
12 Ben Bargwanna 333<br />
13 Ben McMellan 333<br />
14 Aaron Cameron 321<br />
15 Thomas Randle 321<br />
16 Jonathan Beikoff 287<br />
17 Nic Carroll 282<br />
18 George Miedecke 266<br />
19 Braydan Willmington 261<br />
20 Chelsea Angelo 252<br />
21 Brett Holdsworth 251<br />
22 Jay Hanson 233<br />
23 Michael Clemente 231<br />
24 Tim Mcreynolds 228<br />
25 Cody Burcher 212<br />
26 Declan Fraser 207<br />
27 Tom Alexander 187<br />
28 Nathan Morcom 182<br />
29 Ricky Capo 175<br />
30 Luca Giacomin 171<br />
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