Taranaki Midget champs 22-02-20 (Read 1,446 times)

[jneil]

The weather forecast not looking too flash for Saturday.
Only 9 entries so far.

6s   Neville Thompson
7v   Glen Huijs
12v Brent Huijs
24s Mark Willans 
67s Tyla Robins
68p Chris Bagrie
74v Ben Huijs
93p Karl McGill
95s Duane Hickman

I suspect there's a couple of cars a bit too badly damaged from Saturday night's meeting. 42s in particular.

[jneil]

[jneil]

From the club website;


At this stage (7:50am), we are all go for tonights speedway meeting.  From this point on, due to technical difficulties, we will be unable to update this website so please check our Facebook page or phone our track number (06 765 5693) for any updates.

[jneil]

Heat 1:
24s 6s
68p 12v
4m 74v
67s 93p
7v 95s

Heat 2:
74v 67s
93p 7v
95s 24s
6s 68p
12v 4m

Heat 3:
95s 4m
7v 12v
93p 68p
67s 6s
74v 24s

She's all go mate.
The "big" class tonight is Youth Ministocks. There's about 3,000 of them here. Well it looks like that many. My money's on the Hodge brothers 12p and 21p. Find these boys a couple of midgets.

[jneil]

Heat one ten laps.

Mark Willans shot away into the lead and stayed there till the chequer.
Behind him Brent Huijs and Duane Hickman were having a great battle for third behind Chris Bagrie.
But ... when the white waved Bagrie got it all wrong in the south bend bringing out the yellow. Somehow 7v & 67s tangled under the yellow putting Robin's on the infield.
So it was green, white, chequer and the 24s stuck to his guns and kept it clean to the finish. Hickman however picked the wrong line into one on the flag and got shuffled back.
Across the line, 24s, 12v, 74v. However Ben Huijs was called to meet the stewards. The official result is on hold.

[jneil]

Officially: heat one
24s, 12v, 4m, 68s, 74v 6s, 7v, 95s, 93p, 67s dnf

74vBen Huijs relegated from 3rd to 5th.

[jneil]

[jneil]

Heat two.

7v & 12v DNS.

The 74v of Ben Huijs got off to a cracker of a start, but behind him Hickman was carving through the field and at half distance he pushed through under Ben to take the lead which he never relinquished.

Across the line it was 95s, 74v, 67s, 4m, 24s, 93p, 6s and 68p.

In the points 74v holds a narrow lead over Ricky McGough in the 4m with Duane Hickman up to third and starting from pole in the third and final heat.

[jneil]

She's all go in the pits ahead of the final heat.

[jneil]

Ricky McGough wins heat three and Taranaki midget title.

McGough started outside Duane Hickman on the front row and chose the highline while Hickman hugged the pole and for ten laps these two went at it. Hickman getting his nose under McGough, but the northern visitor stayed up high and carried his speed out of the corners.

A race of real quality with half a length between them at the finish.

Result: 4m, 95s, 74v, 67s, 93p, 24s, 6v.

Congratulations to Ricky.

A few of the cars will be at Oceanview speedway Whanganui tomorrow.

[jneil]

Your Taranaki midget champion all the way from Pukekohe.