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Added: 31 Jul 2014	Category: 2014 Oval Racing
Speedweekend Sunday
The second day of the speedweekend always seems like you’ve never been away, I think I got home on Saturday night at 11.40 and was sorting photos out and clearing memory cards until around 1am then up again at 8 to get batteries charged and get back to Tullyroan. The second day is also big race day, and going by the earlier forecasts I’d seen during the week it was going to be dry and the worst of the weather should have been on Saturday night….. it turns out I need a different weather app on my phone. Prior to the start of the meeting I was thinking I was going to get burnt to a crisp and regretting not bringing suncream, then it got darker, and darker and then wet. Nigel Jackson took a lights to flag win in the Lightning Rod Irish and it started to rain at the end of it ahead of the 2 litre world, and then it got heavier and more miserable. I’m quite disapointed with my haul of World final grid shots, it’s normally when I take the stuff I’m happiest with, but it never seemed clear enough for my normal shots and trying to keep the cameras dry became the priority as it got wetter. Shane Murray bossed the big race, winning by around ¾ of a lap, Chris Crane got through into second at the end, I didn’t see how, but presumably he was docked for his pass on Beatty who had been second and Beatty himself was docked for his pass on Stephen Emerson earlier in the race, this promoted Mark Madill and Emerson to second and third. The incident of the race was when Heatrick and Woolsey tangled and Hylands went for a gap up the inside of Woolsey and Charlie Jowers, within one bend Heatrick, Woolsey and Jowers were out and Hylands was well down and the car didn’t look to be handling, it killed off the interest of where the chargers in the second group could end up. Of the support classes the Superstox put on a superb display again, boosted by visiting English Superstar Jason Cooper. Jeff Minish took the opener, Jack Gilpin took heat two and Denver Grattan won the final. Billy Finnegan won the ProStocks Final, Curtis Greer won the 1300s and Bradley McKinstry was declared the win in a Junior Production race in which most of the field was black crossed, I thought at one stage the guy in last was going to be promoted to a top 3 place. The main event of the local season…… DONE! Roll on November!

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