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<\/p>\nDylan O\u2019Keeffe has staged a spectacular Sunday fightback in Round 2 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup at Darwin\u2019s Hidden Valley raceway, after contact and damage in Saturday\u2019s opener left him down the order.<\/p>\n
After topping the practice times on Friday, O\u2019Keeffe qualified fourth in a hotly-contested Sunday morning qualifying session in which the top four drivers were separated by less than 0.1s.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s hopes of a strong result in Race 1 were short-lived, due to contact at Turn 4 that bent the steering of his Dexion Victoria Porsche GT3 and also caused radiator damage.<\/p>\n
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\u201cUnfortunately, I just got caught up in the cut and thrust of the opening lap jostling for position, and copped a big hit on the exit of Turn 6,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to press on but the steering damage made the car a real handful, to the point where it was unsafe, so I came into the pits for repairs. We got back out to get classified as a finisher but I was lucky to bring it home, because the radiator was leaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting 20th<\/sup> on the grid for Race 2, a combination of strong speed and fine race-craft enabled O\u2019Keeffe to charge through to eighth.<\/p>\n \u201cThe GWR Australia boys gave me a very good car for Race 2 and I was determined to reward them with a result,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe said.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the cars in Carrera Cup being so evenly matched, it\u2019s normally hard to overtake but my car was handling so well through the final sequence of corners, I was able to set up several overtaking moves heading into the last turn.\u201d<\/p>\n In the final race, O\u2019Keeffe was again on target to make up places, but was briefly baulked at the start and slotted into eighth, a position he held through to the finish.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t quite have the extra speed we needed to make up more positions in Race 3, so it was a case of just bringing the car home,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe said.<\/p>\n While O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s Race 2 and 3 results enabled him to salvage an overall top 10 result for the weekend, he admitted the start of his 2023 championship campaign has not gone to plan so far.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve had good pace at both rounds so far, but dramas in the opening race of each weekend have cost us valuable points, so it\u2019s going to be important to score some race wins to get our title challenge back on track, starting at the next round,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe concluded.<\/p>\n The third round of Carrera Cup will be held in Townsville, 7-9 July.<\/p>\n Carrera Cup Round Results Summary Race 1:<\/strong> 20th<\/sup><\/p>\n Race 2: <\/strong>8th<\/sup><\/p>\n Race 3:<\/strong> 8th<\/sup><\/p>\n Overall:<\/strong> 10th<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carrera Cup \u2013 Top 10 Points<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Dylan O\u2019Keeffe has staged a spectacular Sunday fightback in Round 2 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup at Darwin\u2019s Hidden Valley raceway, after contact and damage in Saturday\u2019s opener left him down the order. After topping the practice times on Friday, O\u2019Keeffe qualified fourth in a hotly-contested Sunday morning qualifying session in which the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/355192412_web-1024x682.jpg\")
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\n<\/u>Qualifying: <\/strong>4th<\/sup><\/p>\n\n