Only One Spot Short For Farrell Farrell PR - BCM posted Wednesday March 3, 2010. When it comes to the Krikke Boys Shootout no one in Australia wants to win it more then the man who carries the number that means so much to the Krikke family – Ryan Farrell and the number 95. Last weekend he came oh so close to finally achieving his dream when he put in one of the most remarkable drives ever seen at a dirt track in Australia, only for it to finish one spot so agonizingly short and in second place. Farrell had some work to do as his first night wasn’t what he needed to put himself in the position to win by finishing sixteenth in the preliminary A-Main, but he knew he had a job to do and gave it everything he could to achieve his goal. “I hadn’t had a good weekend” he stated after the final night “I didn’t do well last night, spun out in my heat race and had a good chat to myself prior to today and said to myself ‘I gotta get up and do it for the boys’. If I hadn’t got together with Kerry (Madsen) in the dash I think we would have started out of six or seven (instead of fifteenth) and I think we would have been a real chance to win it. In the last two years we have had enough car speed to do it but I’ve started too far back which is different to the previous years before that when I’ve led and gone backwards.” Something clicked early though at the start of the thirty five lap finale and it was not the car that caused any problems that had him slipping as far back as nineteenth in the twenty car field. “We didn’t touch the car at all (during the red light stoppages) I felt like the car was super glued to the track. I actually had a reasonable start but I had one bad corner as I drove in to three and it pushed real bad in the slop and I almost hit the fence and lost about six spots in one corner. It was a blue by me and I really got upset with myself and decided I was gonna go the top and I wasn’t going to slow down or going to stop ‘til I got to the front.” And that’s just what Farrell did, putting in one of the drives that will go down in folklore of the Krikke Boys Shootout. As he made his way through the field the large crowd on hand started to back him as he drove the wheels off the Miracle Recreation Equipment/NRW sponsored Monte Motorsports J&J. He progressed through the carnage and red light stoppages to eventually be behind leader Jason Johnson with two laps to go, but that was as far as he would get and had to settle with the runners up trophy. Even with the disappointment of finishing so close to his first ever win, he was still very proud of his team’s efforts. “For sure, it’s a good team effort to come from nineteenth in a field like this in a race like this is a credit to any team. To have Luch (Monte – team owner) out there pushing me along….I mean he is one of a kind and really in terms of car owners you couldn’t ask for more. He supports me 100% and believes in me which to me is the really important thing and that means the world. Personally it’s another second and it is unfinished business but I’m a true believer that when the time is right my time will come. I used to get myself all bent out of shape and wound up about this race but I’ve matured as a racecar driver and it will happen one day.” The KBS has been run and won but for Farrell and the Monte Motorsports team its time to turn their attention to this weekend and a return to the Kwinana Beach complex for another round of the AHG series. For more on Farrell Motorsport Visit www.flyanryanfarrell.com Farrell Motorsport Racing For:NRW, Gibbs Corp, Revolution Racegear, KTM, Arai Helmets, Hi Com Motors, BCM Motorsports Marketing, BCM Promotions Release From The Office Of BCM Motorsports Marketing www.bcmbear.com - bear@bcmbear.com Info From FRMS Ends Release   [ Back To Referring Page | Back To Luch News ]