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Added: 01 May 2013	Category: 2013 Oval Racing
2013 - #12 – Ballymena Raceway – 26/4/13
The first meeting of three over the weekend. This meeting gave me quite a dilemma, because as much as I wanted to support the charity race and be there to take a few photos, I had 101 things to get done ahead of going to Scotland. To try and be diplomatic about the class line up, I’ll just say that it would have been an easier sell with the F2’s or Nationals on the bill. With everything sitting cleaned and charged up, ready for Scotland, I took an old lens and went to see how it got on, on my new camera and made the decision that I was leaving Ballymena at 9 regardless of whether they’d run 1 race or the meeting had ended at 8.30 and I was going to be standing about on my own, 9 was the magic number, I was going home at 9, end of. Darren Bevan was the sole Lightning Rod driver, therefore taking 2 heats and a final, this interests me though, as one car attended and was credited with two heats and a final win, does that mean they go up a grade for the two heats wins and up a further grade for winning the final as well? In the ladies race itself there was a heat and final double for Rachel McMillan in Jason Clyde’s car and a heat win for Caroline McNeilly in Lucinda Smyth’s car. It has to be said it’s quite strange seeing the same cars going around the track as when the guys are in it, but them not falling into the order you’d normally expect them to….. and I feel I might have dug a big enough hole with that statement, so I’ll leave it there, but hopefully you get what I mean. I don’t think I’d seen the saloons since the 35th anniversary meeting at Ballymena last year, so to be honest I’m not terribly clued in one who is or isn’t going well, it’s almost like being at another track watching a class I’d never seen before when it comes to trying to figure out form. Ross Houston however was the man on form and he took all three wins. While there was plenty of tidy new cars on display that were at least new to me. The Speed Stocks had a few more cars this week. 87 won heat one, whoever he is, Stewart Nicholl won heat two and Billy Finnegan Junior won the final. In the Juniors there was heat wins for Dean McCrory and Christopher Kincaid before Aaron Moody took the final. Approx Car Turnout: 42 Cars (10 Junior Rods, 1 Lightning Rod, 15 Gp 2’s, 9 Saloon Stock Cars, 7 Speed Stocks)















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