John Stephens Memorial Geraldton January 24th 2015

Well it was off to Geraldton on the 24^th January for the annual  John Stephens Memorial Event over 30 laps. This is one of the biggest events on the Limited Sprintcars Calendar  and a great night was had by all

 

The event was run over six heats and a final of 30 laps

 The first heat saw Geoff Drew and Wayne Harrington off the front row. Geoff took off and was never headed and took the win from Benny Migro second and Andrew Pedlar coming from near the rear to take third

                                                                          

Heat 1 Winner Geoff Drew

2nd Benny Migro

3rd Andrew Pedlar

Next Heat saw Tahni Doble and Greg Clarke off the front. Both front runners were overrun by Anthony Gaudio closely followed by Nathan Chant.  Anthony First,  Nathan second and Robert Garraway third

2nd Heat Winner Anthony Gaudio

                                       

2nd Nathan Chant

                                                                              

3rd Robert Garraway

Next heat saw Nathan Chant and Robbie Stephens off the front. This was a great race. Nathan took the win, Mick McInnis from the rear second and Robert Garraway third

                                                                    

Heat 3 Winner Nathan Chant

 

2nd Mick McInnis

 


3rd Robert Garraway

Fourth heat saw Anthony Gaudio and Mick Burnett off the front. Anthony took the lead straight away till the finish closely followed by Andrew Pedlar and Geoff Drew from the rear to finish third

                                                                     

4th Heat Winner Anthony Gaudio

2nd Andrew Pedlar

3rd Geoff Drew

Second last heat saw Daniel Giles and Tahni Doble off the front row. Half way thru  this race we saw Anthony making a move down low but just clipped a car and rolled. The finishing order was Mick Mcinnes first, Robert Garraway second and Geoff Drew coming from the rear to finish third
                                                                        

Heat 5 Winner Mick McInnis

                                                                             

2nd Robert Garraway

3rd Geoff Drew

Last heat saw Mick Burnet and Wayne Harrington off the front. This was also was a great race which saw Robbie Stephens first, Nathan Chant second and Andrew Pedler third                                                   
                                                             

Heat 6 Winner Robbie Stephens

 

2nd Nathan Chant

 

3rd Andrew Pedlar

The feature saw Nathan Chant off the front with Geoff Drew. The race was a tussle with Nathan leading and Geoff Drew  closely following  then Anthony spun putting him to the rear. After a few more laps Geoff lost it too and had to go to the rear of the field. The track had got very slick and we had some more restarts, but at the end it was Andrew Pedlar first and Robbie Stephens second with Robert Garraway third. It was bad luck for Mick McInnis as he was making ground and lost a wheel that put an end to his race. Ben Migro was holding his own and doing well but was caught up in and incident and damaged his car that put him out of contention.
                                                                       

Feature Winner Andrew Pedlar 2nd Robbie Stephens 3rd Robert Garraway

 Thanks to all drivers for making this event another great night to remember
meet some of our other drivers who attended this event
                                                                  

Mick Doble # 40  Current Club Champion 2014-2015

 

Daniel Giles # 117

 

Grant Ingram # 76

 

Andrew Pedlar # 34

 

Robbie Stephens # 67

 

Tahni Doble # 42

 

Geoff Drew #84

 

Wayne Harrington # 93

 

Nathan Chant # 52

 

Anthony Gaudio #43

 

Mick McInnis # 91

 

Mick Burnett # 78

 

Ross Atkinson # 96

 

Benny Migro #79

Greg Clarke # 6

 

Robert Garraway # 18

Next event is Bunbury Speedway for night 4 of 6 for mini round Saturday January 31st
ahead of the State Title February 14th 2015 at Bunbury