Rain hampered competition at Redline Raceway on Saturday night, but it didn’t stop Mitch Foster and Lenny Bates from claiming victory.
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As the wet weather came and went, Foster lit up the circuit in the Sprintcars with some sensationally quick laps and amazing highline passing of his competitors.
The Street Stocks completed all their heats to set up finals and a great little Shootout for the top nine drivers had resulted in Bates qualifying in pole position for the Duo Mobile Eliminator.
Early in the Sprintcars feature race, Foster checked out on the field and had a commanding lead. He then slowed to get around some back-markers, allowing Adam Greenwood to catch up. Shane Steenholdt passed Alistair Bastian before the rain came, which saw the race declared to Foster ahead of Greenwood, Steenholdt, Bastian and Wayne Nicholls.
This rain caused the end of the meeting before the Duo Mobile Eliminator for Street Stocks could be run.
The finishing order was declared on Shootout results, with a minor adjustment due to a mistake club officials had admitted to making.
Bates was declared the winner from Matt Nelson, Anthony Beare, Darryl Atkinson, Mick Dann, Mick Hetherington, Mick Clark, Jason Degoldi and Leigh Gooding.
In Standard Saloon racing, there was no feature so the result was decided on points. Priscilla Grech was named the champion ahead of Patrick Walsh, Dave Chivers, Fred Cattermole and Michelle Sinclair.
While the V8 Thunder Sedans did not have a feature, heat races were won by Wally Hucker, Graeme Nugent and Greg Raggatt.