Last Saturday night Wangaratta City Raceway had more than 90 competitors start their engines and give their race cars some stick in the first race meeting of the season.
Eight classes competed, with two visiting classes and six club classes all having a run.
And it was a memorable night for Kialla husband and wife duo Shane and Felicity Roycroft.
Street Stock action from a small yet competitive line-up finished with Shane winning two heats of the three, and Shane Ardley the other.
If your name was not Shane, there was no chance of winning in Street Stocks, as Shane Roycroft went on to win the final from his wife, Ardley, and Darren Henderson who visited from NSW.
Felicity enjoyed an outstanding night where she finished fourth in Sports Sedans and second in Street Stocks, with a win in the Ladies Open Sedans class.
Felicity won all three heats on her way to cleaning up in the feature event, defeating Katie Meyer from Ballarat, Jaimi Barber, Emily Mason, and Renah Pollard.
“My husband re-shelled the car in the week prior, we put the engine in and it had no compressions, then on the Friday night he did an engine swap so it was just a car that got thrown together and we really had no idea how it was going to perform,” Felicity said.
“I went out and won every ladies’ race, there was three ladies’ races in a field of about eight or nine.
“I also raced in Vic Sports, which is an open class, so they run men and ladies together.
“My car was under-powered compared to the rest, but I got a second in the heat, a third and a fourth, and then finished fourth in the final, which was amazing out of 25 cars.
“We were then up at 6am, our little five-year-old fella raced down at Avalon. He had a cool run as well — a second, a fourth, and a third in the final ... it’s pretty cool.
“It’s just so much fun, our whole life is this and it’s just getting better and better.”
Racing returns on January 15 with the AMCA Nationals Victorian series, the Grand Prix Midgets Wangaratta Cup, the second round of the Darren Levy Memorial Sports Sedan series and the second round of the Production Sedan track series along with club classes.
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