By Dean Thompson
Nyora Raceway has held its last event before Christmas on Saturday night and families and fans were entertained on track with some great racing.
There were also Christmas shenanigans from the Grinch and Santa Claus whilst one lucky fan was given a bicycle from Nyora Raceway Inc.
In racing the main events were the visiting Sprintcars and the Junior Sedan Promotional Association series round.
The Sprintcars were fast, very fast, and the eventual winner Shane Steenholdt scorched around the track in 13.5 seconds during the final.
Steenholdt won the feature event that originally ran 17 laps without stoppage from Steven Horton, Alistair Bastian, Adam Greenwood, and Peter Laity.
Junior Sedan competition in the Top Star and New Star Junior Sedan series events for Speedway Sedan Australian Junior 1500cc cars was frenetic, especially in the Top Stars.
Alexandra members Bree Simpson, River Paterson and his brother Linken, won the three heat races in races that had the fastest kids getting around mostly in the low 18-second times.
In the final the Paterson brothers went at it head-to-head at the front after starting from the front row.
Younger brother River, 14, held the lead for most of the race before Linken passed his brother on the last lap to take the win with Bree Simpson in third spot.
Continuing his dominance of the New Star class so far this season Cruz Farrell from Pakenham took his third successive feature win in the class.
He has won both events at Nyora so far this season and the first show at Alexandra last weekend.
Farrell won the three qualifying races and then the final where Tyson Heaphy finished in second place with James Peacock third.
Junior competition continued into the Junior Standard Saloon class also.
Nyora members Harry Cecil from Poowong – who won two heats – and Chase Ingram from Warragul won another.
Cecil was given a run for the trophy in the final from Beau Stuchbery and Jack Braz.
Eventually Cecil won from Stuchbery, Braz, Ingram, and Cooper Joynson.
Further Junior Sedan competition came from the Victorian Speedway Council Junior 1200cc Sedan class.
Braiden Webster from Wonthaggi and Bryce Leek took heat race victories before Webster picked up the win from Leek, Ella Sheedy, Xander Baxter and Chase Doherty.
Trish Dike, a former two-time Victorian champion in Ladies Standard Saloons, and the current back-to-back champion Ally Morrison, then shared a heat race each before going head-to-head in the final.
A great battle lasted 10 laps when the chequered flag resulted in Morrison winning from Dike, Stacey Sheedy, and Kylie Lansdown the last of the finishers.
Kacey Ingram, Wayne Sheerman and then Rhys Lansdown won the three Open Standard Saloon heat races with Sheerman reducing lap times to below the eighteen second mark at his fastest.
Starting from first position in the feature event Sheerman held Ingram at bay, winning from Ingram, Ardley, Lansdown, and Matt Leek.
Rounding out all the action was the Sports Sedan class, with Lee Beach from Lysterfield able to record a lap of 16.9 during the qualifiers.
But Caleb Lincoln would come through from the second row and take the big win. Lincoln beat Beach, Knight, Ray Gould, and Felicity Roycroft.
Nyora Raceway Inc wish all its members, supporters and paying public the best for the Christmas Holiday season and hope to see you all again in the new year.
