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Added: 21 Jul 2015	Category: 2015 Oval Racing
Another Wet One At Tullyroan
It’s been a tough season at Tullyroan weather wise, I think there has been more wet meetings than dry meetings and the dry meetings there has been have been mainly cloudy, overcast, cold or threatening to rain. Saturday night followed that trend and definitely felt more like the middle of October than the middle of July, it also featured one of the very few races I’ve seen have to be abandoned because of the rain. It was a strange evening of racing, aside from the unseasonal weather, all ten heats went passed without a single stoppage, I’m not even sure there was a car needed recovered from the infield. Normally I’d jump on that as a benchmark of how dull a meeting was if there isn’t even stoppages, but the heats provided some great racing with the open Superstox heat providing a last bend hit from Jordan Robinson on David McMenemy with McMenemy holding on to take the win. The Stock Rods opened with a great heat too with Ben McCully pipping Shane McMillan to the win on the last lap. In the 2.0 Hot Rods Derek McMillan won the opener using a much wider line than anyone else on the track and making it work. Such had been the smooth run through the heats the finals got underway at 8.10, I’ve kept an eye on timings before and if you’re turning a normal race round in 15 minutes you’re doing OK, so to average 10 minutes a race you’re trucking on rightly. For a few races I’d been predicting it was going to go all NASCAR like and it would be plain sailing up until “The Big One”, and the Junior Production final brought just that, a big smash on the first start and then a second big smash on the restart. Chris Knipe actually ended up the only car on the grid not to have been involved in both of them and get damage or to have received assistance in fixing the car, he went on to win the final. Marc Morrell took a likely stock rod final just pipping Shane McMillan to second on the road behind Jonny Cardwell who had been docked for contact earlier in the race. Gary Grattan won the Superstox final which was turning into a race of attrition. Peter Henderson won the Thunder Rods and Adam Best won the 2.0 Hot Rods final which was abandoned due to rather thundery shower that came along mid race, a call I don’t think anyone could disagree with. Next up, the Speedweekend and hopefully some better weather!















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