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Added: 07 Jun 2014	Category: 2014 Oval Racing
Martin’s final as Murray Tops the Points
In a nutshell it’s a busy weekend of racing this weekend, and I’ve a lot to get done between meetings, most of which is also racing related, so I’m keeping this report short(ish). I’ve found it quite a frustrating week to be a motorsport fan and a believer in freedom of choice. It’s been a week where Rallying and Road Racing have had quite a bad press and lots of people who know sweet F all about what they are talking about choose to air their views on radio phone ins, tele, blogs, papers and wherever else they choose. I’ve mentioned this in the past with regards to Oval Racing’s H&S regimes, I don’t want to live my life within the bubble wrapped limits of what anyone else believes is safe, and I don’t think anyone else should have it forced upon them either, hanging off a bike at 180mph on a closed road isn’t something I’d choose to do myself, but the folk who do it know the risks, and while it’s a long time since I attended a proper “on closed roads” rally, I’d still like it to be my choice to do that. Listening to the radio on my trip to Ballymena was a bit more humbling though and got me thinking a bit more, now that the Cool FM breakfast show is crap again and I’d rather listen to someone scraping a blackboard than Radio 1 in the mornings, I’ve become a Radio 5 listener in the car at least, and Radio 5 had coverage of the D-Day commemorations on while I was making my way to the racing, interviewing veterans and heroes, initially I thought here I am screwed up by people Muppets who want to ban anything fun with an engine, while these people seen some horrific things in their time and made great sacrifice in their own lives for us to live ours, and suddenly that give my grumblings a sense of perspective. Thoughts for the week aside and onto the racing. It was the final World Series round for the Nationals and Andrew Murray only really needed to finish a race to win the points title (so I’m told, I still haven’t looked at the points this season), I had expected a strange evening of racing with all the places pretty much tied down in which there would be a lot of car conserving, and some people trying to scrub down their averages a little in what could have easily have become a race to finish last each time, but thankfully it didn’t turn out that way. It was however a night of highs and lows for the drivers though, Andy Stewart won the opening heat and then didn’t finish heat two, John Christie won the second heat and blew up on the warm up laps ahead of the final and Derek Martin won the final having pulled out of heat one. Andrew Murray got 3 finishes and had the points series confirmed ahead of the final. In the other classes, the group 2’s were up in numbers and Jason Clyde won the final, and I spent the finals playing with the monochrome settings on my camera and forgot to write down the other winners, I think #38 won the Juniors, #4 the Speedstocks and #333 The Retro Rods. Next stop Aghadowey!















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