Farewell Welland 2007 Saturday night was the final event at Welland Speedway for 2007, and the riders let the crowd see why speedway racing is the most thrilling sport in the world!

A 14 man/lady line-up rose to the occasion, and from the get-go gave their all! The first heat saw John "Crash" Dymtrow in a fiery mood to take a good lead in front of John Bennett, John did an excellent job in keeping Tim Murray and Terry Rideout from passing him! Their second heat was a cracker, "Crash" was pushed to his limit by Terry Rideout, Terry did everything in his powers to get by "Crash" but just couldn't do it!

The final for the Division 2 riders was full of fun, Tim Murray came out of the gate like a rocket, he held the lead up to lap 2 until Terry Rideout went flying past on the back straight, then "Crash" took Tim on the next bend with Tim's bike suddenly lacking power, John Bennett and Allan Chisholm also passed Tim to take 3rd and 4th place respectively. Tim coasted home in last place with a sad sounding engine!

Congratulations to Terry Rideout for the winning this final event and continuing on in a great way, in his rookie year at Welland! Division 1 riders, Jeff Orosz, Aaron Hesmer, Gary Hesmer, Joe Heye, John Kehoe, Drew Kehoe, Rob Dixon, Katalin Davis and Fred Legault, did a superb job in their own show this night! Heat 1 action saw Gary Hesmer have a great start, he took the lead ahead of Aaron Hesmer, but lost this to Aaron on lap 1, then he lost power and was unexpectedly left to chase Rob Dixon, Joe Heye and Fred Legault! He found out after the heat, that he had lost power from his rear tire coming off the rim!!!!!

Heat 2 was a cracker, John Kehoe and Jeff Orosz were side by side from the start and battled like this all the way round lap 1, but on lap 2 Jeff took the lead holding it to the end. Round 2 saw Katalin Davis suffer another Welland misery, on the start of lap 2, Drew Kehoe was passing Katalin Davis when Katalin on Tim Murray's bike suddenly went into an aggressive speed-wobble and landed face first on bend 1-2. She arose feeling a bit shaky and withdrew from the night!

The re-run was superb!!!! Gary Hesmer, Rob Dixon and John Kehoe were side by side for 2 laps at which point Rob Dixon took the lead leaving John Kehoe and Gary Hesmer to battle the second position, John Kehoe having none of this pushed passed Gary into second and launched toward Rob and on a last lap gasp, he threw himself alongside Rob and beat him on the line by a wheel!!! Brilliant racing!!!!!!!!!

The next heat saw Aaron Hesmer having to pull a rabbit out of hat! Jeff Orosz, Joe Heye, Aaron Hesmer and Fred Legault were all having a great race when Fred suffered a mechanical problem and pulled off the track, leaving Aaron to blast past the leading Joe Heye on lap 3, Joe did a great solid job of holding back a "Jumping" Jeff Orosz! The B Final was between, Drew Kehoe, Gary Hesmer and Fred Legault. From the gate Drew Kehoe took a comfortable lead ahead of Fred legault to win comfortably!

The main Final event saw Aaron Hesmer, John Kehoe, Jeff Orosz, Rob Dixon and Joe Heye take to the stage! Aaron Hesmer took the lead for lap one, he was closely followed by hard chasing John Kehoe, Joe Heye and Rob Dixon, sadly Joe Heye dropped back after being taken by John Kehoe as Jeff went by Rob, Jeff took Aaron in hand and took the lead on lap 2 on the back straight, leaving Rob Dixon to chase down Aaron, this he did on the start of lap 4 to hold a good second place!

Congratulations to Jeff Orosz for adding another great win to his Welland results and to all the riders for providing a great season at Welland Speedway. The CSRA run races for 2007 have proven to be very successful and thanks to Karen Hanshaw for her dedication throughout the season!