The first round race between Westralian drivers, Martin Stamatis and Allan Dobson saw the latter pull a hole-shot on his rival. Around half track both cars started dropping cylinders and while they were neck and neck at the 1000 foot mark Stamatis slowly pulled away to win by a narrow margin – 6.104 to 6.157. Stamatis didn’t get away unscathed as can be seen here when a small engine fire accompanied his car in his trip across the finish line.