The Drouin Speedway Club wound up their race season on the weekend with the running of the ‘Warragul Autobarn’ VSC Sedans Top Gun, the Mini Sprints Gold Cup final round and the closing out of all the club divisions track championship series & Darren Nelson from Werribee took out the ‘Top Gun’ event whilst series victories in the Standard Saloons & Division 2 Hot Rods were secured by Jacob Vuillermin and Ricky Mills respectively.
The VSC Sedan event was a cracking final between Nelson and Mick Evans. They led the whole race whilst Joel Andrews was clear in third place. Nelson had the early race lead with Evans right up high on the race track trying to drive around Nelson. Nelson washed high in turn two and lost speed and Evans pounced punching down the inside to take the lead. It was soon to be Evans mistake that cost him the lead in the closing laps and Nelson took the win from Evans and Labertouche’s Andrews. Earlier Nelson took two heat wins and Evans one.
Nelson commented on his win. “Firstly thank you to Warragul Autobarn for supporting motoring in their local community. I would like to thank Drouin for supporting VSC racing and my crew and everybody at Nelo Racing. I enjoyed the race with Mick, who would have fought you could drive up that high at Drouin. Well done to the volunteers at the track for the work they have done.”
Drouin Standard Saloons club member Leigh Gooding from Trafalgar had the best day taking the feature race win in style as he defeated Jacob Vuillermin, Mark Miles, Patrick Vuillermin and Bunyip racer Jeff Blencowe in the final round of the Standard Saloon track championship. Earlier Patrick Vuillermin, Miles, Gooding, Vuillermin again, Gooding again & Jacob Vuillermin won the qualifying heats.
In the Mini Sprints Gold Cup round local racer Matt Parsons (a Warragul resident) won the feature after a great scrap with Dave May. Both drivers had time in the lead before Parsons took the win, Third was Kevin Bomford followed by Jason Lynn & Danny Milton. Parsons, Bomford & May all took heat race wins.
Great racing in the Division Two Hot Rod’s resulted in Scotty Laidlaw winning the final from Ricky Mills and Broderick Stray after Mills had earlier secured the track championship winning two out of the three heats with Laidlaw winning the other.
In Junior Sedan racing the 1200cc division was won by Jack Van Breman from Ricky Cornwall & Kasey Ingram whilst in the Junior Standard Saloon division Steve Danks took the win ahead of Tyson Cull & Adrian Lawrence.
Drouin Speedway thanks the following for their support:
Ampworks
Robin Hood Hotel
Drysdale Chaff Mills
Brimstone Fire
Polish N Shine
Victory Lane Race Gear
Ramsdale Wreckers
Laser Electrical
Inaction Photos
Drouin Waste Recyclers
TNT Autos
Monckton Concrete
Latrobe Waste & Recycling
Written by
Dean Thompson
DMT Sports Media
For Drouin Speedway Club