Need for speed: Trevor Mills, a Corowa resident, won the Bob Bailey Memorial for Productions.
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Vern Parker Photography
Trevor Mills from Corowa has won another Bob Bailey Memorial for Production Sedans in honour of an old mate who died a few years ago while at the time holding the Corowa–Rutherglen Speedway Club presidency.
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The event was held for the first time at Wangaratta City Raceway, a track Bailey supported by competing at as much as he could.
In addition, on Saturday night Ash Booker won the Grand Prix Midgets Wangaratta Cup, Felicity Roycroft from Kialla won the second round of the Sports Sedan Darren Levy Memorial series and Justin Richardson won the state series round for Australian Motor Contest Association (Amca) Nationals.
Cars from Victoria and NSW provided enough entrants for six qualifiers for the Production Sedan feature event.
Mills began his night coming from back in the field to win the first of those.
Leeton driver Danny Harrison won the second, then Mills again and Wangaratta member Brendan Harper.
Harper doubled up with another win in the final round before Mills became the only driver to win all three of his heat races.
Tearing up the track: Wangaratta member Felicity Roycroft from Kialla won the Sports Sedans and the Ladies Open Sedans finals.
Photo by
Vern Parker Photography
Mills began the feature ahead of Harper, Craig McAlister, Harrison, Wayne Bourke and Kenneth Mankey the president at Wangaratta Speedway Club.
Mills controlled the race at the front with Harrison moving to second by lap seven and Stephen Laidlaw moving into fifth by the same stage.
At the finish and after some attrition with more than half the field suffering break down or damage, Mills won from Bourke, Chris Fitzgerald, Tom Barnard and David Parker.
Competitors in the Sports Sedan Darren Levy Memorial second round raced across three qualifying heat races with Rhys Collins winning one and Roycroft, a committee member at Wangaratta, winning two close finishes to determine the starting positions for the final.
Caleb Lincoln and Roycroft started at the front of the field with Roycroft taking the lead on lap one.
By Lap nine, Lincoln assumed the lead before a few laps later Roycroft again led.
The 15-lap final came to a close with Roycroft more than four seconds in front of Collins, Darren Shortis, James Wood and Renah Pollard.
Amca Nationals drivers also competed through three heat race qualifiers with Steve Lodwick, Hugene Charvat, and Darren McCarthy the winners.
McCarthy put himself out in front of the final early from Paul Sullivan and Justin Richardson, however, on lap eight McCarthy pulled infield and out of the race.
Sullivan became the new leader, however, Richardson became the third and final race leader on lap 11 and went on to greet the chequered flag in front of Sullivan, Kent Davey, Charvat and Jimmy Harris.
The Wangaratta Cup for Grand Prix Midgets attracted some interest from across the border with a handful of NSW competitors taking part.
Chris Fowler, the defending winner of the event, started well by winning the first heat with Ash Booker superb in the second in speed and in margin circulating some 1.3 seconds a lap quicker than his closest rival as he won.
Gary Bowyer from NSW won the third and Booker again too good in the fourth.
Booker won the fifth to be the only three-heat winner with Fowler winning the last qualifier, his second victory.
In the final, Terry Brown led the feature event early from Benalla racer Jack Ward, Janelle Saville, Adam Buckley and Booker.
By lap four Booker from seventh starting spot assumed the lead from Fowler, Brown, Saville and Ward.
Saville passed Booker on lap nine to become the third race leader before Booker wrested the lead back on lap 13.
The top three had a terrific tussle and with the chequered flag out on lap 15 Booker won ahead of Fowler and Saville with .162 the distance between the three of them at the line with Bowyer in fourth and Anthony Lea in fifth.
Trevor Evans banked yet another Evans Brothers feature win when he won the Standard Saloon final in front of Warrick Howie, Daryl Joosten, Scott Chippindall and Scott McAuliffe.
Marty Bassett came up trumps in the Junior Sedans with a win ahead of Rhys Meakins, Hunter Carey, Toby Parks and Cooper Lack and Roycroft won her second final of the evening when she won the Ladies Open Sedans in front of Jaimi Barber, Sarah Meakins, Renah Pollard and Bianca Ballantyne.
