Sidewinders- Troy Wyten Memorial

[Marty]

SIDEWINDERS JUNIOR SPEEDWAY (Adelaide Aust)

TROY WYTEN MEMORIAL

The annual Troy Wyten memorial was held at the Sidewinder Junior Speedway on Sat 1st Nov. Held on a cold night with patchy showers the young riders put on their normal entertaining racing.

One of the great races of the night was heat 7 with the battle between Jason Norman & Jonathon Hepburn. Hepburn chased Norman hard for 2 laps & then entering turn 1 on the 3rd lap made a big dive under Norman & made the pass only for Norman to come down. Norman quickly remounted to come in 2nd, after the race was finished the ref then excluded Hepburn for unfair riding.

After the heats had finished the 4 riders to make the Final were top point scorer Jason Norman who chose gate 1 followed by Harley Liersch who had some great rides in the heats who took gate 2. Jonathon Hepburn then had gate 3 after having 3 wins & an exclusion and gate 4 was left to Sam Martin who just snuck into the final after breaking a throttle cable in his 1st ride.

The final was defiantly the race of the night, as the tapes went up it was Norman from gate one & the surprise start of Martin from the (sometimes) difficult gate 4 on the tight 120 meter track. Going down the back straight it was Martin by half a wheel with Norman on the inside. For 2 laps the pair stayed side by side while Hepburn was right on their tail followed by Liersch. On the 3rd lap Martin was still on the outside of Norman but got taken slightly wide allowing Hepburn to duck into 2nd place. As they crossed the finish line it was a fine win to Norman closely followed by Hepburn, Martin & Liersch.

In the B final it was a nice win to Robert Medson followed by Ashleigh Dennis & Mikael Brereton. In the sidecars the battle continued between the 2 Irwin brothers, Jesse & Dylan with both showing improvement with every ride.

Next meeting for the Sidewinders is the State Title to be held on the 29th of Nov.