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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
A warm sunny and humid night welcomed a good field of riders and fans to Paris Speedway, on the last day of July for 2009.
The riders were split into two groups and the additional P85 flat track bikes and the Quads added to the excitement for the night.
Division 2 riding saw Tommy Hensby make his debut with other riders following his weeks of demonstration laps, joining Graham Wale and Gary Moody, who himself welcomed his return to the Paris track for the second time.
Division 1 was spilt into two 3-man heats with a four man final. Aaron Hesmer, Gary Hesmer, Joe Heye and Terry Rideout were joined by Mike Hammond and Katalin Davis to complete the class.
The night's racing in the P85 class also welcomed Nathan Hammond into the racing world, joining the fast racers, Matt Sehl and Braden Vallee. The night was a duel of these two guys passing and pressing each other right to the flag in every race. The final event was completed with Matt Sehl beating out Braden Vallee and Nathan Hammond to take the well-deserved checkered flag win!
Division 2 riders were all equally paced with some great dueling between Moody and Wale as Hensby watched closely from the rear in heat 1. Their second heat saw Moody go out with mechanical problems on lap 2 leaving Graham Wale to defend the lead from Tommy Hensby, Hensby saw an opportunity on lap 3 when Wale went wide in turn 2 and swooped underneath to gain and hold the lead for his first win of the night! The next heat sadly was the last as Wale and Hensby clashed on lap 1 and were forced to retire, leaving Moody to be the only Division 2 rider running, which gave him the opportunity to join the other class for the remainder of the night.
The Division 1 racing was dominated with the riders showing their status of the countries top riders, as they battled each and every lap to gain that all important point! Aaron Hesmer pushed all night as well as cousin Gary, to both finish on the same total points, a toss of a coin for the final gate position was won by Aaron!
Mike Hammond enjoyed his first encounter in Division 1 despite feeling the side of Gary Hesmer in turn 2 and sliding out. He held his own for the night and did very well. Katalin Davis joined the fun in her first 2 heats, but sadly mechanical problems caused her to retire from the night to allow Gary Moody to fill her spot in the program. Terry Rideout had some serious clutch problems during his first race and was able to complete the heat with a badly troubled machine. The pits became a frenzy, as many other riders and pit crews all jumped on Terry's bike to strip and rebuild the bike to allow him to continue onward in the night,
Joe Heye was a man on mission this night, but despite his heroic efforts, the ever changing rack caught him out as the humid air drew out a lot of moisture in the track and caught him off guard as he slid out a few times. Heye kept the push on Aaron Hesmer all night, continuing the battle of the titans for the great enjoyment of the crowd! Also for the first time this year, Heye jumped the start in heat 5 and broke the tapes from gate 1.
The final event of the night was probably the longest race in time, that we have ever seen at Paris! It began with Aaron Hesmer in gate 1, Gary Hesmer, gate 2, Joe Heye gate 3 and Terry Rideout in gate 4. The tapes flew and all four riders attacked turn 1 with Aaron Hesmer pulling out front, Gary Hesmer in second was challenged hard by Joe Heye in turn 3 and he slid out. The first restart was duplicated exactly in the same corner and we went to restart number 3.
This restart saw Heye starting from the penalty line and he blasted outside Gary Hesmer in turn 3 on lap 2, but they clashed hard and Heye fell awkwardly leaving Hesmer to go nowhere but straight. Gary Hesmer's bike took off and smashed into the fence with Gary sliding through it with his bike. After a quick look by the ambulance, Gary was up and back in the pits, but in need of some rest!
Track workers quickly replaced the safety fence and we went into restart number four with only three riders. The start also with Heye back on the penalty line proved not to be the last! Again same place on the track caused the hard pushing Heye to slide out again!
This caused the fifth and final restart with Heye back on a 30-yard penalty line. Aaron Hesmer refueled and pulled out a classic display of speedway. as Heye passed Rideout on the last turn to grab second place.
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