Lismore Kart Club racers Lachlan O'Reilly and Michelle Attard headed north over the border when most Lismore drivers headed south to Grafton last weekend. Lachlan and Michelle were the only two NSW drivers at the first round of the Qld Supercheap Series held at Toowoomba on the 10th and 11th of April, 2010. The race format, with a timed qualifying session late Saturday afternoon and three long 15km heats on Sunday at mid weights for Junior National and Senior Clubman classes ensuring big fields, lots of track time and tough competition.

Both incidentally were showing obvious signs of carrying injuries into the event, with each of them heavily strapped up and bandaged. Michelle's shoulder and wrist still taped up and in rehabilitation from a crash at Oran Park, whilst Lachlan's elbow, ribs, hip, thigh, knee and ankle freshly bandaged from a road cycling training fall and subsequent trip to the emergency department at the Grafton Hospital the previous day.

Lachlan qualified 5th of 17 and Michelle 8th of 24, with both showing good speed throughout the weekend whilst still coming to terms with the tricky reverse track direction but ultimately not able to match the home track experience of the likes of locals Brendan Nelson and Tyler Greenbury in Clubman Pro and Scotty Hines in Junior National Pro. Lachlan finished where he qualified in 5th place, with Michelle's overall result spoiled by a deflating tyre in race 3 taking her out of a top 10 overall finish.

The drive of the weekend actually went to young Ipswich driver, Jack Wood in Junior National Pro, who drove from the rear of the grid to win race three after an unfortunate DNF whilst making a move at the lead in the latter stages of race two.

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