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| Added: 10 Apr 2012 |
Category: 2012 Oval Racing |
| 2012 - #9 – Nuttscorner Oval – 9/4/12 |
It may only have been Easter Monday but it seemed as though every other track had been racing for quite some time and Nuttscorner Oval would be the last to kick their season off, and perhaps the best was saved to last.
If the Tullyroan facility is to be open for the start of May as it is expected then this meeting was the first of only four more meetings that Davy McCall’s promotion will hold at Nuttscorner Oval.
Given the current economic climate as people keep calling it, now that the word recession isn’t being branded about as much, the turnout at Nuttscorner yesterday showed that there is still a lot to be positive and upbeat about within our sport. A turnout of 96 cars and at least another one in the pits which didn’t race, is one more car than both the meetings that I attended in Scotland put together, and as I said at the time, Cowdie perhaps doesn’t seem to be as good as it used to be partly because our racing has come on so much in recent years.
As ever there was lot of nice tidy new motors on track, some new faces and some old faces returning or moving formula. The biggest change was in the ProStocks where a new set of rules has outlawed some of the previously popular cars like the Tigras and Corsas and quite a few drivers have switched to Astras and cars that are more inkeeping with the formulas original look and feel.
The Juniors got the meeting underway and Edmund Davis took the opening win of the season. Bradley McKinstry took heat two and Jack Gilpin took the honours in the final. The Nuttscorner Oval juniors have produced many a star in recent years and with Derek McMillan moving up into the Stock Rods it will be interesting to see who becomes the next dominant Junior.
The Lightning Rods had a very healthy turn out of twenty seven cars, with twenty six of them out in the opening heat. It felt like a Speedweekend or a really big meeting from the infield as the big saloons roared around the track with action, passing and three abreast racing everywhere you looked. Not surprisingly the big field suited the big drivers and it was David Hearst who took their opening heat. Tim Hazelett won the second and another ex Junior star in the form of Jordan Rochford took the final.
The ProStocks too had a twenty seven car turnout, and while everyone gets used to their new rides, there was an opening heat win for Ryan Abernethy in his Tigra after the lead pair ran each other wide in the last bend and he sailed up the inside to take the win. Lee Booth gave his Astra a win in heat two before the final again went to Abernethy and again was care of a last bend pass.
The 2 Litre heats went to more ex Junior drivers as Bradley Dynes took the opener and it was Lee McCracken who took heat two. Mark Madhill crashed heavily out of heat one when it looked as though the throttle jammed and a pile up in heat two collected Davy Potter, Derek Martin, Wayne Woolsey and Petie Donnelly. The 2 Litres had a wet final and it was the experience of Gary Wilson that threaded him through the field to take the win.
Mark Heatrick took both heat wins in the National Hot Rods before Glenn Bell took the win in a very wet final as the heavens opened at the end of the meeting.
Approx Car Turnout: 96 cars (Juniors 12, Lightning Rods 27, ProStocks 27, 2L Hot Rods 23, National Hot Rods 9)
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