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| Added: 02 Jun 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
| 2013 - #21 - Tullyroan Oval - 1/6/13 |
Hard to believe it’s the start of June already, although at least the weather looked a bit more like it was the start of June anyway. June is a frantic month for oval racing fans in Northern Ireland, I think I counted a total of 15 meetings in June with a few clashing ones.
I’m starting the like the new breakdown of the classes at Tullyroan this season, less racing for each class equals more cars and more cars equals more action. Last year for example if the 2 Litre’s weren’t out at Tullyroan they tended to be out somewhere else, so drivers didn’t get a break and I think cars numbers suffered a bit, we maybe didn’t really appreciate them the same when they were next on simply because we’d seen them somewhere else in the meantime. This year the 2 Litre’s and ProStocks are as good as they’ve been I think, car numbers in the ProStocks are at a level I never thought I’d see and 2 Litre Hot Rods are providing action packed racing every week, I miss both classes when they aren’t out, they bring a real vibrance to a meeting at the minute.
Anyway, the on track stuff, the Juniors were first out and missing a few regulars, but still managed to provide good racing. Daniel Campbell won the opening heat and the final with Edmund Davis taking heat two.
The Stock Rods raced for the first round of their PC Paints & Components series. Fifteen cars were in action including visiting drivers from Tipperary and Ballymena. It was visiting driver Colm O’Sullivan who took the opening heat before later taking the final with Colin McNiece the winner in heat two.
No less than 37 ProStocks were in action throughout the night and they certainly provided the entertainment. A regrading since the last meeting has seen the huge white grade split amongst the field, but it didn’t stop Allen Cherry for coming through and taking all three race wins. The final was a real shootout type of race with huge hits and drama from flag to flag. Chris Hammill looks a man to watch at the minute putting in some big hits throughout the evening and was perhaps unlucky not to have some better results.
The opening Lightning Rod race was disrupted by the arrival of a helicopter, after 10 minutes of mucking about I decided it was going to be the closest thing to a comfort break and went and got my dinner (crisp baps this week incidentally). Typically enough at that point the racing resumed and I got to watch a race not through a lens. Mark Taylor took heat one before Gordy McKee took the second heat and the final of the first round of the Greystone Joinery and Construction series.
That just leaves the 2 Litres, Philip Beatty almost took heat one until the car died on the final bend and Davy McMenemy nipped through to pip Beatty to the win on the line. Gary Wilson took the second heat before Beatty took the honours in the final. The final itself seen a great scrap early on as Adam Hylands and Adam Best diced side by side for the lead of the reds from the off, a great spectacle.
Approx Car Turnout: 104 cars (ProStocks - 37, Stock Rods - 15, Lightning Rods - 20, 2.0 Hot Rods - 21, Junior Productions - 11) +1 Helicopter
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