Nowhere in the world will you see speedway racing as good as Canada. The event at Paris Speedway on Friday night was an absolute cracker.

With a large field of riders and fans, the night was set to be a beauty, on a warm summer's night! The night started on a bad note for Chris Hesmer though, his bike was deemed unfit for action when his rubber inlet gasket blew on his carb! sadly, Chris was left to work alongside Gary and Aaron Hesmer in the pits.

Mark Engel had made the long trip from the US after working all day, he was great! Racing in a mixed Division 2/3 group, he did really well against Terry Rideout the current Division 2 points leader. Some close battles ensued with Terry, Peter Fornal, Graham Wale, Tom Brown and Scott Collier as well, giving the crowd something to really cheer about! The Final event was comfortably won by a hard charging Terry Rideout - Great Job Terry! The Junior speedway kids were on hand to give some thrills too! Matt Sehl, Tyler Thompson, Braden Vallee and Dalton Gauthier rode their hearts out.

The crowd loves to see these guys ride! Each heat was ridden with passion and some good duels between Matt Sehl and Dalton Gauthier proved this! Dalton twice lost his lead to a hard charging Matt, and the final event was no different! Dalton led for 3 laps and on the fourth lap, Matt took Dalton on the back straight, his momentum was fast and coming out of the last bend his bike lost grip and he flew across the line to win the final sideways!!!

He landed past the line still holding his bike!!! Great job and what excitement! Division 1 racing was not to be missed either, Marc Gauthier, Aaron Hesmer, Gary Hesmer, Aaron DeVeau, Jeff Orosz, Fred Legault and Joe Heye gave the crowd their monies worth alone! All night Joe Heye and Jeff Orosz rode side by side, they didn't give each other an inch to move! - Brilliant stuff! - Gary Hesmer looked cool and composed as he took a good heat win and Fred Legault did some great things to pass an out of shape Aaron DeVeau. who found the track not to his liking this night, with a few tumbles!

Aaron Hesmer and Marc Gauthier also were racing hard and put on a great display of riding. The final race of the night was probably the most exciting that there has been at Paris for many years! The race began with Joe Heye taking a lead over Jeff Orosz, Aaron Hesmer and Gary Hesmer. This lead was short lived though, as Gary went down hard on turn 3 and ended up in the fence. The restart was all Jeff Orosz, Jeff put the back wheel in the groove and away he went! What he missed was brilliant to see behind him.

Joe Heye was pushing hard and on the last lap, Aaron Hesmer came off the last bend so hard that he lifted violently and his bike rode up Joe's back, Aaron let the bike go and the bike went over the line spinning in the air, with Aaron smacking into the boards. Gary Hesmer did a great job to miss both Aaron and his bike as they landed on the racing line to grab 3rd place. Aaron got up and actually ran over the line to ensure of his points!

What a cracker! - Congratulations to Jeff Orosz and to all who took part in this amazing night!