Beautiful sunshine and awesome racing were the themes of Round 4 of the Australian Superbike Championship this past weekend at Queensland Raceway. The racing across all classes provided first rate entertainment for the strong crowd and the GYT-R Superstock Cup field certainly played its part with some exciting battles. Some of which SD Racing's Darren Sciberras was fortunate enough to be involved with.

With Darren's broken ribs almost fully heeled the team was looking forward to a strong showing on the back of some great performances from the Team's 2 other riders, Lisa Brothers and Ian Wiltshire in the Hartwell and Interclub series. Although Darren's performance this weekend may not look so good on paper, the team was extremely proud and happy with how the weekend paned out in what was truly a fun filled weekend.

Local rider's Anton Kokshoorn & Anthony Quinn set a cracking pace from the outset and went on to fight it out for the weekend's honours, with Kokshoorn emerging as the eventual winner, but the SD Racing rider, along with a few other usual front runners, weren't too far behind. At the conclusion of Friday's proceedings Darren had managed to set the 4 th fastest time and was looking good for securing his second front row start for the season. The team was well aware that another strong performance was required in Saturday's final qualifying session but unfortunately Super Daz was not so super on Saturday morning and fell back to 7 th by the end of final qualifying which was where he would start for the weekend's three races.

With another even start in race 3 Darren picked up from where he had left off and moved from 7 th up to 5 th on the opening laps which then saw him locked in a battle with Josh Houwen and Chris Trounson. Fighting hard to keep Trounson at bay, Darren managed to find a way passed Houwen into 4 th only to have the Queenslander get straight back passed as the two exited turn three side by side with only millimeters separating them. Darren continued trying to sneak passed Houwen, as Trounson in turn tried to find a way passed Darren, but both efforts were futile and Daz crossed the line in 5 th behind Houwen but ahead of Trounson. The result was good enough to elevate Darren to 6 th overall for the weekend and into 8 th in the series with three rounds, Tasmania , Winton and Eastern Creek, to go.

So although the results aren't exactly what we set out for, it was still a great weekend for the team. Yes Darren is still without a win this year, as a couple of particular sods like to remind him, BUT at least he kept his butt off the deck for the whole weekend!!!

SD Racing would like to thank all of our sponsors and visitors on the weekend for all their continued help and support. Visit www.sdracing.com.au for all the latest team news including race reports from Lisa and Ian's recent triumphs and an update on Megacycle's Ken Onus' upcoming Isle of Man adventure.