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Last Updated: Jan 5th, 2010 - 12:50:06 |
An overcast night with a mix of light drizzle welcomed the SANDVIK sponsored night at Paris Speedway on Friday July 3rd. A smaller rider turnout and crowd still enjoyed a superb night of racing.
The night began with four quads taking to the track, which had been superbly race prepared by Michael Zelaska following a week of rain. Jeremy Zelaska, Travis Lyle Carpenter, Jason Law and Clarke Voil all put on a great display of racing throughout the night, with Clarke Voil taking the chequered flag in the final event!
Mike Hammond, Scott Collier and John Bennett, represented our Divisions 2 class, in this work and illness reduced class. They did however put on quite a show. Mike Hammond was finding the damp tacky surface difficult for a few laps, as was John Bennett with them both performing 360-degree slides mid turn! One of the highlights of the night was the perfect lay-down by Mike Hammond as John Bennett fell in front of him in turn 1, great job by Mike! The racing was very competitive with all three riders winning a heat each, but with only one winner of the night, fittingly, it was down to Sandvik’s very own, Mike Hammond who greeted the chequered flag from “Tiger” Tom Marriott for a well-deserved lap of honour!
Braden Vallee was due to have his debut on a junior speedway bike this night, but due to mechanical problems, he was unable to get the junior bike running. This allowed him to have some fun on the track with junior speedway rider Tommy Hensby. A staggered start allowed both Vallee and Hensby to show the different styles of the P85 flat track bike and the 500cc speedway bike. Tommy Hensby was suffering from some ignition problems, and had to pull out of one heat as his bike quit on lap 3, but the enjoyment of watching Vallee pushing Hensby was great fun to see on the night!
Our reduced class of Division 1 riders, put on a classic night of thrills and spills that we expect from these top-flite riders. Joe Heye, Aaron Hesmer, Jeff Orosz and Terry Rideout thrashed out some amazing close racing on every lap raced. The first two heats saw Aaron Hesmer and Jeff Orosz going toe to toe, both taking the win, superb racing! Terry Rideout was a bit off the pace this night after he crashed out twice, while sliding out on the wet surface. He re-injured his buttock from a Welland Speedway crash two weeks ago, and rode on valiantly to help the show along!
Joe Heye was never far fro the action and did all he could to spoil to Hesmer/Orosz show, with a heat win and by splitting the pair in a breathtaking move on lap 2 of heat 3 coming out of turn 2. His over-zealous push did cause him to slide out in heat four and cause a restart, but his best race was left till last. A superb final race where he kept the hard-charging Aaron Hesmer behind him to grab the well deserved win. Jeff Orosz and Terry Rideout finished in this order behind them, to complete a superb SANDVIK night of racing.
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