BY DENNIS NEWLYN

Former National Champion Mark Robinson took out a rough and tumble Lord Mayor's Cup at Lismore Speedway on Saturday night.

Robinson overcame a strong challenge from current Australian titleholder Peter Britten – and a number of race interruptions – to score a convincing win over Garry Wathen and Kelvin Hamilton.

The 30-lap final was a race of high attrition as more than half of the field retired from the event.

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Starting from position two for the 30-lap final, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ out dragged youngster Nick Lacey into the first turn in what he describes as a “gutsy move”.

It was without a doubt one of the best ever races in the history of the Sydney Street Stock Club Championship and it was current Australian RSA Champion Brett Mitchell was the winner.

Last Saturday night (October 31) at Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway (TPCR) there was very little that separated the Ford Falcons of leader Mitchell, Adam Brook, current Sydney Club Champion Shane Carlson and Jason Martin throughout the feature race.

Despite coming under some immense pressure from the drivers behind him; Mitchell kept his nerve and held command for the whole 20 lap feature race distance. Mitchell, who charged his way into the lead within the opening stages, firstly had to fend off Carlson and then towards the latter stages Brook and he definitely had to work hard to capture back-to-back feature race wins at the TPCR track.

Current South Australian Champion Steve Lines looked on track to clinch his maiden feature race victory for the 2009/10 season last Saturday night during the opening round of the Speedway City Track Championship but it wasn’t to be.

After making his way lead of the feature race during the middle stages Lines ran out of tear offs on his helmet in the closing laps and it was in the end what denied him of taking out maiden victory for the 09/10 season.

“It’s not the way you want to lose a feature race and it is both disappointing and very frustrating,” expressed Lines when reflecting on his second place finish behind winner Jamie Cobby. “With a couple of laps to go I had ran completely out of tear offs but I thought that I could still make it through to the finish. Then with two laps from the finish I had approached a group of lapped cars battling amongst one another and that was when my helmet got caked with mud as I attempted to pass them.”

No, we are not talking about a fishing trip. Last Saturday night at Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway (TPCR) James Thompson was eight laps away from taking out his maiden TPCR feature race only to have his winning hopes dashed.

Thompson, who had started from pole position, bolted to a runaway lead and looked set to take the victory honours but on lap 22 of 30 that run was destroyed when he tagged a lapped car, who had just spun out between turns three and four. The impact resulted in Thompson flipping over and consequently caused race ending damage to the NSW # 22 Hills Motorcycles supported Maxim.

“I guess it just wasn’t to be,” remarked a disappointed Thompson, who had earlier in the night time trialled 12th and finished his two heat races in fifth and fourth place. “Up until that incident I was passing lapped cars like there was no tomorrow, as I knew I had to put as many lapped cars between me and my rivals as possible. When the lapped car spun I initially thought that I had got through but just as I thought that I tagged him and flipped over.”

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 Korn started his racing career more than 30 years ago in Gladstone and enjoyed tremendous success throughout the central Queensland region with a multitude of feature race victories and track championships, including a win in the prestigious Rebel 1000 event at Bundaberg’s Carina Speedway.  After 17 years of racing, he stepped out of the *****pit to focus on the relocation of his transport business from Gladstone to Dysart. 

For the second season in a row the NSW V8 Super Sedan Title is to be held at Gunnedah Speedway (North Western NSW). A field of some of the country’s best V8 Super Sedan drivers will be vying for the NSW Title honours this Saturday night (December 6).

The defending NSW Title holder is Wayne Brims is he is no doubt looking to make it back-to-back victories and the Northern NSW hard charger wants to keep the NSW Title in its own state.

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Michael Nicola needs no introduction to Australian speedway fans.  As a three-time Australian Super Sedan champion, Nicola is quite rightly regarded as one of Australia’s finest ever Super Sedan exponents.  In fact, Nicola is one of only three drivers to have won the national title on three occasions.  Having also won five state championships over a 10-year period, this season will see Nicola once again chasing the one major championship to thus far elude him, the Carline Mufflers National Super Sedan Series.

Tom Worsley- www.sprintcar94.com

Darryl Campbell hasn’t let last weekend’s Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway washout dampen his spirits. This weekend the Sydney based Sprintcar driver is heading west with much anticipation for Round Two of the Sprintcar Association of New South Wales’ Thunder Thru The Plains Series.

“I, like many others, am pumped about racing at a new track,” commented Campbell in preparation for the trip. “Personally, I’m looking forward to learning more about the car at different tracks and excited about meeting new fans away from our home track”