Canadian Speedway
Canadian Speedway: Paris speedway weekend meeting report.
By Admin
Jun 25, 2007, 21:03

With another low rider turnout, the GT Tuning Time Trial event was quickly orchestrated by Duncan Luke and Carol Havill, to be a complete night of good racing!

The individual events that regularly occur, were replaced with team racing of mixed Division 1 and Division 2 riders. 2 riders from each division were paired together and the fun began. The heats became two races, with the D1 riders having their own battles and the D2 having their's too!

It was great for the crowd, as the event was action packed. With each heat being timed, the evening progressed with some close racing and good track times. Aaron Hesmer took the early strong lead in the times and Joe Heye followed close behind for the D1 riders. D2 saw Terry Rideout and Tim Murray, who was returning to Paris after his nasty bout of flu, have some strong times in their own heats.

With the heats over, the decision was made to have a first at Paris - Single time trials. Each rider had a 2-lap run, the first gated start lap, allowed for the warm-up and the second was timed from start to finish upon a flying start. This was also based upon the riders points scores for the night and the crowd really got into it. The times were very close for each rider and the final D2 rider to win the night was Terry Rideout. He looked very composed and showed why he is a definite threat to all the other D2 riders this season!

Division 1 riders Aaron Hesmer and Joe Heye again battled the time out, surprisingly Jeff Orosz hooked up on his warm-up lap and lost ground and Gary Hesmer pushed too hard on his final corner and wiped out! Aaron took to the track and flew to gain the best time of the night, but was beaten by just .04 seconds by Joe Heye!!! This was a superb way for the evening to end upon!