Rushworth Speedway hosted the Victorian Street Stock Series along with its local race action and the visiting Victorian Speedway Council Sport Sedans.
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A terrific 40-lap final for the Street Stocks closed out the night with Melbourne's Mick Dann taking a long-awaited victory in front of Bendigo and Rushworth fan favourite Jamie Lock and Allen Treble from Nagambie. The Bendigo-based Lamb family is set to take a sabbatical from the sport, but won the Open Saloon final with Paul Lamb and the Ladies Saloons with Kelly Lamb.
Braden Claridge won the Junior Sedans, Jamie Paull the Sports Sedans and Mick Boyle the Production Sedans.Six qualifying races in the Street Stocks determined where drivers would start in the Grand in the Hand final with $1000 to the winner. Jason Duell was the top qualifier and knocked back a prize offer to start at the rear of the field.
Lock knocked back the same offer and started alongside in second spot.
Nathan Dunn, from Bendigo, started in third spot and Tim Hutchinson, Dann and Greg Parks rounded out the top six. Duell led early after the green flag dropped before Lock took the lead on lap seven with Dann following him past Duell before the first 20 laps finished racing in the clockwise direction.
The cars then spun around and headed anti-clockwise for the final 20 laps. Zoey Salau started to make her move forward from 10th and Treble, who started in 13th, was seventh as the cars switched direction.
Dann took the lead from the first lap of the second half of the race, while Treble was in sixth spot at this point with a run still to come for him.
With 10 to run Salau was seventh and Treble in fourth. Dann still led Lock and Duell before Treble took third with three laps to run and Salau moved to fifth ahead of Parks with two to go. In an exciting finish Dann stretched his small margin between he and Lock and as his father and partner looked on after a drought since his last feature win, Dann went on to defeat Lock, Treble, Duell and Salau.Kelly Lamb made a clean sweep of the Ladies Saloon racing winning both the heat races and the final. Claridge won both heat races and the final for the Junior Sedans after earlier in the night his brother Connor crashed out when caught by another competitor in an unintentional incident.
Boyle won two heats in Production Sedans and Andrew Ahearn the other before a terrific final. Jamie Paull who normally competes at the track in an Open Wheel race car brought his sedan to take wins in the Sports Sedans. Paull was too good in qualifying and then won the final with a decisive margin from Lucas Walker, Marc Hanson, Kate Meyer and Marcus Griffith rounding out the top five.
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