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| Added: 14 Apr 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
| 2013 - #9 - Tullyroan Oval - 14/4/13 |
The second meeting for the Superstox, a decent field of Nationals and a even better field of ProStocks were in action at Tullyroan on a night which somehow stayed reasonably dry yet you never felt the rain was far away.
My idea at the start of the season, as with 2011 and 2012 was that I’d like to do 50 meetings, it’s not some sort of lankmark amount which no person has ever done before, nor is it anything which isn’t easily achievable locally with the amount of meeting that there is in Northern Ireland, it’s just a nice round number that would be nice to hit.
It had been my intention throughout the week to go to Ballymena on the Friday night and Tullyroan on the Saturday night, but already this season I’m feeling a bit overloaded with racing. It’s not the going to the racing that is the problem, it’s the sorting photos, reports etc that follow it. To do Ballymena on a Friday night means you lose your Friday night to the racing, then Saturday morning sorting photos and doing reports to early afternoon before heading to Tullyroan late afternoon, then Saturday night has gone and here I am on Sunday at 7.30pm having done nothing but racing stuff today but watch the Grand Prix and half of the FA cup semi final. So perhaps the big 50 meetings is simply going to have to remain a nemesis of mine and in order to try and maintain some sort of life I’ll just need to be more selective about the meetings I take in this year.
Anyhow, onto the Tullyroan meeting. I’d been watching the forecast since the middle of the week and it pretty much guaranteed that at very best it would only be light rain at some part of the meeting, I don’t know how it’s happened, but we once again got away with a light shower near the end of the meeting and relatively dry throughout the rest of it.
The Junior Productions had an action packed evening with Dean McCrory winning the final, which was his third of the week, that’s some going for any driver in any class. Jordan Robinson and Ethan Dilly shared the heat wins.
The ProStocks managed another 30+ car turnout with Robert McIlroy taking the opening heat after a great move to put two cars out of his path to take the lead. A mix up on a heat two restart seen Robbie Diffin take the flag only for the result to be reverted to before the restart and the win awarded to Stephen Boyd. Steffan McClelland once again came through to take the honours in the final.
In the second week of racing for the Superstox Neil Davison joined the action in Graham Fegan’s 2012 F2 which has been converted. Gary Grattan took a heat and final win with Kyle Beattie taking heat two. In all three races Daisy Grattan came close to taking the win only to lose the lead in the closing few laps, I’m sure a win won’t be far away.
The Lightning Rods raced for the first round of the Challenge series with Francis Allen taking a heat and final double, with Mark Taylor the victor in the opening heat.
In the National Hot Rods it was John Christie who did the double, winning the opening heat and the final, which was delayed due to a shower before the race, with the drivers being allowed to change their tyres. Glenn Bell won the second heat.
Approx Car Turnout: 80 cars (32 ProStocks, 13 National Hot Rods, 7 Superstox, 16 Lightning Rods, 12 Junior Productions)
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Big fields of Nationals under the lights, looks great, sounds better |
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Dean McCrory on his was to his third final in 4 days |
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Jack Gilpin will have better days in the ProStocks |
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Still the most spectacular Junior |
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Close racing in the ProStocks |
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.... Anything the ProStocks can do... |
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I'm sure that's not the way the radiator should sit in that |
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Lightning Rods go into turn one |
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Infield art probably won't catch on |
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Superstox action |
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ProStock Action |
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Wrong Way! |
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