WHAT was going to be a big meeting surely laid out some spectacular racing. We had over 95 cars turn up for this meeting, coming from all over the state. We had racers from the age of 10 and upwards.
The racing was fast and hard. We had a few new drivers to the sport and they took like a duck to water Amelia “Milly” Henskens N 38, she is going to be an upcoming champion in our sport. She drove perfectly for her first meet in a race car.
Juniors – 1200s, Top Stars and New Stars: A massive turnout across all junior classes – the future of speedway is looking bright!
Winners on the night were as follows:
• 1200s: Jaylen Knight – competing in two classes and proving once again why she’s one of the standout juniors.
• Top Stars: Will Fallon – his final race in Juniors, and the praise from officials and stewards spoke volumes. Well done, Will!
• New Stars: Chase Davey fantastic driving from him and that smile every time he hops out makes it all worthwhile.
This weekend saw a couple of features happening, we had the Shake’ n Bake Round 1 Diva series for Standard ladies happening with our local lady racer Ally Morrison taking out this title for the weekend, driving her N36 Ford, followed home in second by Bree Walker RD50 from Rosedale Speedway and coming home in third was local Drouin lady driver Ella Sheedy DS21.
Our other series on the night was the Street Stocks Round 1 Coastal Series. These guys haven’t been to the track for a long time, so it was good to see them return. Local member Maurice “Oggie” Ahearn took the honours on the night with a few victories and a win in the final. Coming home in second was Mitch Viney, and third was Nathan Fawns.
Amcas returned to Nyora for the first time this season, and they didn’t disappoint. The thundering sound of the cars made the ground shake, with a field of eight cars. We ran two heats and a final.
Both heats saw two different winners. Stephen Hopkins took out the first heat, then Mick Kirally took the next one. This would see them both start on the front row of the grid for the final, in which Mick was the victor with a winning time of 3:26.052, and his fastest lap was 16.786, followed home by Brydon Bradley and Dean Hesletine.
Sports sedans were also another feature of the night with a massive 44 cars. With the massive field, we had to split them into four heats over three rounds.
They didn’t disappoint the crowd with their display of racing, a little bit of rubbing was had with panels coming off and bumpers dragging. We also unfortunately had a roll over with Ian Thomson taking a big spill in turns one and two spinning on his side and nose which saw the crowd rise to their feet, Ian hopped out with no injuries thanks to the great safety gear we all have to run.
We also had pole shuffle, which saw eight contenders try and fight their way to the front some good battles, but it came down to the last two, in which the two Miller brothers battled it out.
Damien fought his way through to have it out with his brother to see who could start on pole. It was a good start, but Brendan was to go on and take the win to have the honour of starting on pole in the JP Asphalting series round two Final.
The B-main for the sports would also be a hard-fought battle in which the top four would progress to the A-main. The winner of this was Matt Shankland.
The final would be run over 30 laps, lots of battles throughout the field, a few stoppages; race time was 12-53 minutes long. The victor was our local member, Harry Cecil, who has now taken out both rounds of this series. Harry had a winning margin of 1.720 seconds over Damien Miller and Brad Warren. Out of the 22 starters, we had 18 finish. The fastest racer in the final was Dale Smith in his AX64 machine with a time of 17.187 seconds.
We all hope everyone had a good night, and we hope to see you back here on December 13 for the Christmas meet, where Santa will pay a visit.
