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Meeting Review. by Mat Kermeen
Three trophies were on offer at AmPro Tools Woodford Glen Speedway on Saturday night, but any local engraver’s getting excited were in for a disappointment.
By mid morning Sunday, all three pieces of silverware had rolled out of town.
As expected, the McCall Trophy was comfortably retained by the Nelson Tigers Super Stock team, Ian Burson kept the Canterbury Super Saloon title away from the locals for another 12 months and New Zealand’s highest profile Saloon driver, Steve Williams claimed his first Canterbury Championship.
Despite a gutsy effort from the home side, the TTL Bouncy Castles’ Glen Eagles were soundly beaten by the classy Nelson Tigers.
Tiger, Dale McKenzie, started from pole position and roared off the start line to go straight to a lead that was never seriously threatened.
McKenzie’s charmed run was no fluke. Shane Harwood, Blair Cunningham and Brett Nicholls are top class block men who kept the Glen Eagles well away from their 20 year old runner.
There was no spectacular wall rides or cars on their lids but, the damage to Cunningham, Nicholls, Harwood and Field proved the hits were for real. Most of the action happened down on the pole line and cars shooting into the infield after big hits and spins, was a common sight.
Nicholls’ race was as good as over when he took Donny Inns to the turn two wall and damaged his front end while Inns continued. Ordinarily that would be counted a mistake but, in a few short laps, Nicholls had more than done his job.
After smashing Peter Field from behind in turn one-lap one, in a matter of laps he had spun out Canterbury’s leading two cars, Inns and Andrew Good – giving McKenzie a huge lead before finishing off Field with another hit from behind.
Harwood and Cunningham occupied Canterbury’s Matt Boulton for much of the race, as well as having the odd swipe at Good and Inns who tried to chase down McKenzie, but to no avail.
Good and Boulton stuck Cunningham hard into the turn four wall, but it was not enough to stop Cunningham, who was fearless in hitting from behind, as was Boulton.
Had the Glen Eagles managed to get to McKenzie, the highly rated Tigers would have been in trouble with Inns finishing second and Good third but, the reality was they never did.
The Tigers were clinical but credit must go to the Glen Eagles who fronted with a thrown together line up, and most definitely did not let anyone down. The efforts of Boulton, Good and Inns can not be underestimated. The trio had little to no racing time under their belts before Saturday night.
The Glen Eagles were dealt a serious blow in the warm up when Nick Selfe dropped out with a minor fuel pump problem. Selfe was racing his his second car that had not been run this season.
Selfe returned in the open races and gave a great advertisement for one of the cheaper Super Stocks around, finishing right up there with the Nelson cars, that are among the quickest in the country.
A spectacular end-for-end from Ryan Berry had a big impact on the Canterbury Super Saloon Championships.
After a first heat win and a third in the second, Burson started the final heat with a three point lead over Mark Osborne while Richie Taylor was lurking just one point further back.
Burson started from near the back of the 20 car field, just ahead of Osborne while Taylor was sitting pretty on grid five.
Taylor found the front soon enough but, Burson was running near the back, with work to do. When Berry made contact with Invercargill’s Dion McMurdo and went end for end, no less than four cars were caught up in the aftermath.
Burson eventually moved up to fifth after gaining five places due to the Berry crash, enough to beat Taylor by one point with last year’s winner Mike Verdoner in third.
Williams started the final heat of the Canterbury A Grade/Saloon title tied on points with Cromwell’s Daryl Ainsley and local Steve Peterson, who was shaping as the low budget, giant killer, against the former national champion and highly rated Hypermac driver.
A three way battle between Williams, Ainsley and Adam Gent went down to the wire in the final heat. Williams just held out Gent and Ainsley, while Peterson came home strongly in fourth to take third overall.
Superstocks will again take centre stage this Saturday when the South Island Championships are contested but the DHL Speedweek making its first ever appearance at Woodford Glen will be an interesting edition to the program.