YARRAMUNDI’S David Sieders won his first Australian V8 Ute championship at the weekend.
Sieders has lead the series all year, taking a lead in the first race of the season in his MangoCredit Holden and never relinquishing his grip.
Since 2010 Sieders has been racing in the V8 series. He has come close to winning a couple of times, but for various reasons the championship eluded him, until the weekend at Homebush.
Sieders came into the final round of the series with a firm grasp on the lead, and barring an outright disaster was going to finish with both hands on the championship trophy.
"It's taken so much to get here, I just don't think it has really sunk in," he said.
“It's amazing to think of everything we have achieved, the frustrations and the celebrations, it really has been a great journey.
"It's definitely been a lot of hard work to finally win this title.
“We've always gone out with the goal of winning races, and being the fastest car on track, and this year it finally all went together to give us the championship.
"To finally win the championship, win the round and reset the lap records on the final weekend that this track will be used seems so perfect.”
On the same weekend, Sieders finished in second place in the newly established Toyota 86 Racing Series.
He entered the final round of the series with a slim chance at claiming the title, but it was not to be.
Regardless, Sieders said he was completely thrilled with how the weekend turned out.
“To score another outright second in a national series has definitely added to what has been a pretty big year,” he said.
“It's been a really fun year helping to develop the 86s with the team this year.
"Running in the 86 also made it a full on season, pulling double duties with the Ute at some of the toughest tracks in Australia, so to be at the front of both is an amazing feeling.”
Over the course of the weekend, Sieders was jumping in and out of his two cars, which in itself was quite a feat, because they both handle very differently.
