It was a terrific night of racing which finished with wins to Kali Hovey in the Ray Welsh Memorial for hot rods, Justin Paull in the Compact Speedcars’ Presidents Trophy, Tristan McGraw in the Sports Sedan feature race, Wayne Sheerman in the Standard Saloon feature race and Dean Heseltine in the AMCA Nationals state series round.
Also picking up wins were Mick Boyle in Goulburn Valley Open Saloons, Anthony Hanson in Goulburn Valley Junior Sedans and Andrew Ahearn in Goulburn Valley Production Sedans.
Heseltine’s victory in the AMCA Nationals was impressive when he came from fifth and working his way forward to win after taking the race lead halfway through from Tim Reidy.
Victorian champion Paull won all three qualifiers in the Compact Speedcars before winning the feature event.
Behind Paull his sister Tania Hallett and Mike Conway jockeyed for position and swapped second and third before Conway pulled a little distance away from Hallett.
Paull, Conway, Daniel James from Shepparton finished third, then Hallett and Gavin Cooper were the top five order.
Shannon Meakins won all three qualifiers in the lead up to the Ray Welsh Memorial.
As is tradition a random draw decided where the qualifiers would start the final and Meakins drew last spot, while his wife Kali, drew pole position with everybody else in between.
Meakins passed three cars on lap one determined to win the event.
By lap seven Hovey still led with Dean West in second and Meakins in third ahead of Phil Jenkins.
As the chequered flag dropped at the end of 15 laps Hovey defeated her husband by .164 of a second with Jenkins third.
Matt Domburg, Wayne Sheerman and Warrick Howie shared two wins apiece in the Standard Saloon qualifying races.
Howie from Wodonga qualified on the front row with Sheerman in a 17-car field.
At the halfway mark of the final Howie was leading Sheerman with Nick Chrystie, who started in sixth, in third place.
On lap 17 from third spot Sheerman passed not only Chrystie, who was just ahead of him, but Howie too and took the race lead.
Sheerman in an exciting finish won by .018 of a second from Howie, Chrystie, Domburg and Aaron Marshall from Bendigo.
Mick Rizzoli was the strongest driver in qualifying for Sports Sedans and qualified for the pole position ahead of Tristan McGraw from Numurkah.
Marcus Reddecliffe, Zac Swanson, Lucas Walker from Echuca, and Rhys Collins were all top six starters in the final.
At the 10-lap mark of the feature Reddecliffe led, Rizzoli, McGraw, Brooke Ferguson, who had raced from 17th spot to fourth in 10 laps and Walker.
McGraw took the race lead from lap 16 with four laps to run and he went on to win from Reddecliffe, Rizzoli. Ferguson and Walker.
In a combined Goulburn Valley Opens, Productions and Ladies final Lennie Clark led the first six laps of the race before Boyle took the lead.
Production Sedan racer Ahearn moved through to third place.
On lap 14 Ahearn passed Clark and at the chequered flag Boyle picked up the overall win and first in Open Saloons, Ahearn picked up second in the overall and first in Productions with Clark third in the overall.
Rounding out the results Anthony Hanson led from lap two in winning the Junior Sedan final from Jack Houlahan and Caleb Simmonds.
With the season over, Goulburn Valley Auto Club wishes to thank the fans, drivers and business supporters for their support and encouragement.
— Dean Thompson
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