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Added: 16 Jul 2012 |
Category: 2012 Oval Racing |
2012 - #25 – Tullyroan Oval – 15/7/12 |
The second meeting for me in two days and a trip to the track I’m slowly but surely starting to refer to as home, even if the motorway drive is starting to bore the life out of me and I’m running out of things to listen to on the way down the road.
A week ahead of the Speedweekend and Tullyroan was packed out for the first of our gimmick events. As a “pure” racing fan, I don’t get what attracts people to come to these things that wouldn’t bring them to any other meeting, I could type the ins and outs of that all night, but I’ve a lot to get through tonight.
I’ll start with the caravan DD then, Dave Haugh took the win in what was a short but quite spectacular Caravan DD which has provided me with many decent shots and featured some cars which looked in better nick than my road car, and they still did at the end.
The 2 Litre Hot Rods started with a similar sort of devastation as Philip Beatty and Leigh Nicholl came together in the opening bend and a mass pileup followed, causing quite a bit of damage to several cars and reducing the field quite quickly. Sean Dynes took the heat win and the final, with Shane Murray the other heat winner.
The “Blood and Thunder” brigade of the National Saloon Stock Cars made their first appearance of the season at Tullyroan with a superb thirteen car turnout. I never know what to make of the saloons being on a fixture billing, I don’t ever seem to be there on the night people talk about them being good and the numbers can be a bit hit and miss, I regularly think a few more cars would make all the difference, even with thirteen cars and great racing, I was still thinking that twenty cars would be great. All the same the saloons put on a great show, Ross Houston won the opening heat before Ryan Millar took heat two and Anthony McIvor took the win in the final. I’m looking forward to seeing them out again.
The Open Hot Rods seen the heats shared between Davy Gurney and Andy Cochrane before Gurney took his second final win in as many days fending off three current spec National Hot Rods in one of the closest finishes of the day.
The ProStocks seen a number of fresh new cars out on track, perhaps a brave move ahead of the Irish open next weekend. Stefan McClelland took the opening heat and the final while it was Jame Litter who took heat two and was unlucky not to have held on to take the final as well.
The Junior Productions there was a heat and final double for Shane McMillan with Jack Gilpin the other victor on the day.
Approx. Car Turnout – 75 cars (11 Junior Productions, 18 ProStocks, 7 Open Hot Rods, 13 Saloon Stock Cars, 26 2.0 Hot Rods)
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