SWEET PODIUM POWER - BAILEY BREAKS THROUGH FOR PODIUM AT IPSWICH
Blanchard Racing Team driver Bailey Sweeny has claimed his first podium finish, coming home in third place, during Race 1, on Day 2, of Round 4 of the 2025 Dunlop Super 2 series, at Queensland Raceway at Ipswich.
Sweeny secured his first podium in the series, making it to the line just behind leader Rylan Gray and Brad Vaughan.
It is the first podium in the championship for the 22 year old from Batemans Bay.
Bailey Sweeny is seen at Ipswich
Winner Rylan Gray remains as provisional winner but is under investigation by the stewards for a safety car breach.
Sweeny got the best jump from the front two rows of the grid, and went side by side with Gray through Turn 2, before being squeezed wide and allowing Vaughan back up into second at Turn 3.
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Turn 3 was the action zone again on Lap 2, when Mason Kelly speared into the side of Jarrod Hughes after taking to the grass with a locked inside front.
Both Kelly and Hughes climbed from their heavily damaged cars, with the Erebus Academy prospect being taken to Ipswich Hospital for precautionary x-rays on his left upper arm.
Two of Eggleston Motorsport's five Commodores didn't see the other side of the Safety Car either, with Bradi Owen diving into pit lane, and Elliott Cleary never making it out to the starting grid.
The race restarted with 10 and a half minutes remaining on Lap 14, with Vaughan eager to get going and rattling the rear bumper of Gray's Mustang.
Gray handled the pressure from Vaughan and set a lap record on the restart lap to put six tenths on Vaughan after the first lap back to green, though it would be Sweeny in third who re-set the record on the following lap.
Sweeny had to fend off late pressure himself to claim his first race podium in Super2, with Lochie Dalton attempting a crossover at Turn 6 in the dying laps but being unable to pull it off.
Bailey Sweeny is seen at Ipswich