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| Added: 19 May 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Superstox on Top form again at Tullyroan |
You’d expect that after a run since the season began of nearly all of my weekend being taken up by racing and a fair proportion of my free time during the week, that I’d have been glad to have a weekend with just one meeting, but no, a combination of the complete dribble that passes for Saturday night television and everyone’s updates from Cowdenbeath on facebook meant I kind of missed having racing on a Saturday night. Thankfully that normality will be restored next weekend.
As with their previous meeting at Tullyroan it was the Superstox that very much stole the show. Almost from the first hint of open wheeled action coming to Tullyroan at the end of 2012, NIOvalTV decided that it would be a class we’d get behind sponsoring, to be honest mainly because everything else at the time had a sponsor for it’s series and this was an opening for us to get behind something new. This meant in the run up to the 2013 season we’d committed to buying 4 tyres for the series in which we didn’t really know how successful it was going to become, and it left us wondering would we find ourselves presenting a tyre to someone who’d won a three car race. Thankfully this season we didn’t have the same worries, and it was always going to be a case of just how many cars came out, and after the races the Superstox put on throughout the day at Tullyraon it’s fair to say I was brimming with pride when I came off the infield after a superb final.
A regrading going into the meeting mixed the pack a little with several drivers moving up to blue roof, while Jack Gilpin had remained a yellow grader, he took advantage of his grade to take both heat wins, which in turn put him up a grade for the final.
The final itself was a lively affair with Davy McMenemy leading for most of the race with Nigel Sinnamon in close pursuit, high drama in the closing laps seen Kyle Beattie spin the lead pair from a lap down with Gary Grattan picking his way through the spinning cars to take the lead, Gregg Hyndman was hot on the heels of Grattan and when Grattan lost a bit of momentum while shifting McMenemy wide with just over a lap to go it offered Hyndman the chance to attack the 917 car, and indeed he did, in turn one and two of the last lap Hyndman pushed Grattan wide and took the lead, Grattan went up the wall on the exit of turn two losing more places and leaving Hyndman to take the win with Jeff Minish second and Nathan Beattie third.
Jazz Moore made his third appearance of the season in NI, a very commendable effort, as any driver will be able to tell you that wee stretch of water between NI and Scotland isn’t a cheap thing to get a car across. Jazz Moore came close on completing a hat trick of wins, having won the opening heats he was well up in the final and muscled out a bit in the closing stages, while upfront Gregg McMullan took the final win.
The 2 Litre Hot Rods were also racing for the opening round of their challenge series, theirs being sponsored by Tullymore Road Motors. Adam Hylands took the opener in wet and slippery conditions. Stuart Cochrane was the heat two winner. With the points from the heats added up to produce the grid for the final it was Adam Heatrick who took pole with Hylands alongside. Within a few laps Shane Murray was through to the front with Hylands in second and the pair broke away with Hylands challenging around the outside. In the closing stages the pack closed up allowing Stephen Emerson a run around the outside where there wasn’t a lot of grip and he subsequently went backwards down the pack. Murray took the win, Hylands second and Heatrick third.
Rather surprisingly in recent weeks the slippier the conditions the less stops are required in the Ninja karts and they managed two races run stripe to stripe with no stoppages. Adam McFall took the opening heat, Matthew Nicholl took the flag in heat two and McFall took the win in the final, closely followed by Nicholl.
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