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Added: 18 Aug 2014	Category: 2014 Oval Racing
Cup Success for Jackson and Murray
If you read the 2Litre Hot Rod site then you’ll probably realise I’ve run out of headline ideas for “Murray wins…….”, on this occasion it may be a different Murray, a different family and a different class, but the writer’s block remains. John Murray won the Micro Bangers European Cup at Tullyroan on Sunday and went on to take the all comers race too. Steven Reynolds won the DD, which was starting to feel a bit like an endurance race and I reckon it was lap fourteen before it was settled, but in a weird way it was still entertaining and ended with a head on between Reynolds and Steven Bolton who was entertainer of the day. On a side note it was good to see a Last Rites car back at Tullyroan with Kevin Moran at the wheel. As has often been the case in the past the masterclass of the day came from Nigel Jackson in the Lightning Rods. Jackson drove around Scott Cochrane late on in the opening heat in changing weather conditions thanks to a brief shower mid race. Jordon Rochford took heat two before Jackson won the Tullyroan Challenge Cup having started it on pole with Weir alongside. Adam Maxwell was out in Gordy McKee’s car, but suffered from handling problems after a knock in heat two and looked to retire with engine problems in the final. The Superstox opened with an extra heat for the NIOvalTV series, left over from last weekend’s meeting at Aghadowey. Denver Grattan took the NIOvalTV heat, then the opening meeting heat and the final with Gregg Hyndman taking the second heat of the meeting. Billy McClean won the Reliant Robins final















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