Bairnsdale Speedway Association’s latest race meeting at Granite Rock has been run and won with the crowd enjoying the action put on by all classes. Trevor Perry won the visiting Compact Speedcars final, Caroline Allen from Warragul won the Ladies Standard Saloon series round, Darren Adams won Limited Sportsman, Jacob Vuillermin from the Latrobe Valley won the Open Standard Saloons and Bairnsdale man Trent Wilson won the Division 2 Hot Rods, with both Allen and Wilson setting twelve lap records for their classes with no previous finals of the same distance having been completed.
The Victorian Compact Speedcar Club were competing for club aggregate points accumulated across the season. Trevor Perry, Ash Booker and Tania Hallett were the winners of the qualifying races leading into the fifteen-lap final. Perry led every lap in the final whilst Duane Cordina found his car up into the concrete wall in turn three during the race. Perry defeated Booker, Bowen Donkers, Hallett, and Glen Wiles.
Bree Walker with one and Caroline Allen with two wins were the standouts in the Ladies Standard Saloon heat races. Allen then led the twelve-lap final all the way under pressure form Walker in a green to chequered flag race. In third place was Michelle George holding back Kath George and Breanna Lee in the battle for third to fifth.
Bren Crittenden claimed victory in the first two of three heat races for the Division 2 Hot Rods before Trent Wilson won the third. Wlson then led every lap in the twelve-lap final despite pressure from Josh Thomas. Wilson claiming the win from Thomas, his teammate Chris Greaves and Jordan Van Dyk.
Jacob Vuillermin won two of his three heat races during Open Standard Saloon qualifying. Bairnsdale man Jamie Curtis, Jack Yeomans, Bryce Leek, and Blake Smith from the Latrobe Valley were other winners in the six lead in races. During the fifteen-lap final Jay Miles held second for the first third of the race before Blake Smith moved past him. Yeomans in the back half of the race moved forward quickly and assumed second spot whilst Vuillermin had led all the way and held that position until the end. Vuillermin beating Yeomans, Smith, Steven Dadswell and Miles.
Darren Adams won the first of three heat races with Mal Seily winning the next two. The two veterans of the class put on great racing during the heats heaping plenty of pressure on each other and that continued into the final. Adams led all twelve laps in the final with Seily claiming second place and Chris Woeltjes terrific in third place. Rookie race Sean Axnick picked up a fourth in his very first Speedway event.
Bairnsdale’s next event will be February the 22nd with the up to 1500cc Junior Sedans competing in the Junior Sedan Promotional Association visiting Bairnsdale. The Club is working on providing a Sprintcar feature event whilst Junior Standard Saloons, Unlimited Sedans, and Division 2 Hot Rods are also slated to compete.
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Written by
Dean Thompson
DMT Speedway Media
For Bairnsdale Speedway Association