Tintops took the first three outright positions at the Jimna High Country Enduro, Round 3 of the Queensland Off Road Series which was held over the weekend of 25th and 26th of April. Tintops in the first three positions is not a regular occurrence in Off Road Racing.

After the trip home across the Nullarbor to sunny Queensland from a mixed assault on the ARB Pinjarra Engineering Hyden 450 at Easter the Chapman Off Road Team spent time sorting out a few teething problems with the Rob's new Pajero and isolated and fixed the electrical fault with the Triton that put an end Clayton in the last section at Hyden in readiness for the Jimna High Country Enduro.

The Jimna High Country Enduro consisted of 4 sections of 2 laps of a 25km course that took in some of the roughest and most technical off road terrain. There was only a couple of fast open sections splitting up the tight mountainous and heavily treed parts of the course.

At the conclusion of the first section it was Robert Chapman in the new Pajero who led the Extreme 4WD class and a credible 3rd outright. Son, Clayton in his Triton was close behind in 4th outright and the leader in the Production 4WD class.

During section 2, Robert had front drive shaft problems which meant that he was now competing in two wheel drive which made the Pajero a bit of a handful to drive. However Robert rose to the occasion and was able to retain 3rd outright with Clayton retaining 4th place.

Section 3 saw Clayton suffer from a flat tyre. After a quick race change and being passed by three other competitors Clayton was back in the race. Clayton drove the wheels off the Triton catching and passing two of the three competitors.

This meant that Clayton was now only 30 seconds in front of his other Production 4WD class competitor Michael Topfer and running 3rd outright. Another consistent and trouble free run for the section and with a buggy pulling out of the race, Robert Chapman was now 2nd outright.

The fourth and final section of the enduro saw another one of the front running buggies out with mechanical issues which then moved Robert and Ross in the Pajero up into 1st outright and Clayton and Adam in the Triton into 2nd outright position. With Michael and Linda Topfer in their SWB Pajero finishing in 3rd outright position this meant that Tin Tops finished first, second and third. Also the third Chapmans car, the lady powered Pajero of Leila Chapman and navigator Melissa Huxstep finished second in Extreme 4WD, and 6th outright in this gruelling event.

The Chapman Off Road Team are now back in the workshop checking and preparing the Pajero and Triton for the next round of the 2009 Australian Off Road Championship, the Tattersall's Finke Desert Race to be held at Alice Springs (NT) over the Queen's Birthday weekend in June.