As the sun set over Mildura’s Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip, round six of the ANDRA Regional Sportsman Championship heated up the track Saturday evening to determine the winners of the coveted ANDRA Christmas Tree trophies.
The final qualifying session of the weekend kicked off Saturday’s on-track activities, where the following racers took home the Top Qualifier Medallions, presented by New Gen Business Park, for their respective brackets: Edge Mallis (Lectron Australia Competition Bike), Davydd Estcourt (Huntsman Racing Supercharged Outlaws), Vlado Turic (Top Sportsman Competitors Top Sportsman), Adriana Cartledge (Gallagher Modified), Tony Miskelly (Super Sedan Competitors Super Sedan), Dean Jamieson (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike), Dean Doolan (Goodyear Racing Super Street), Graeme Spencer (The South Australian Drag Racers Association Super Gas), and Brock Furlanetto (Langtree’s Machinery Services Junior Dragster).
With qualifying complete, attention then turned to the racing runs, with the following racers emerging victorious in their respective brackets: Edge Mallis (Lectron Australia Competition Bike), Davydd Estcourt (Huntsman Racing Supercharged Outlaws), Leon Davies (Top Sportsman Competitors Top Sportsman), Adriana Cartledge (Gallagher Modified), Tony Miskelly (Super Sedan Competitors Super Sedan), Derryn McGregor (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike), Andrew ‘Chicka’ Waight (Goodyear Racing Super Street), Adrian McGrotty (The South Australian Drag Racers Association Super Gas), and Taylor Horton (Langtree’s Machinery Services Junior Dragster).
In Lectron Australia Competition Bike Top Qualifier and round five winner Edge Mallis went back-to-back with a win over runner-up Cheryl Beddoes. Running the All-Run format this weekend, the pair lined up twice over the four rounds of racing, with Mallis getting the better of Beddoes in round two as well as the final. Mallis also took wins over Rob Church in round one and Nick Stewart in round three. To get to the final, Beddoes also enjoyed wins over Stewart (round one) and Church (round two).
In Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike, Derryn McGregor claimed victory over runner-up Dean Jamieson after four rounds of All-Run racing. To get to the final McGregor took wins over Jason Rattray in round one and Matthew Jones in round three before a second match-up against Jamieson in the final. Jamieson meanwhile took wins over Jones in round one, McGregor in round two and Rattray in round three.
ANDRA thanks the Sunraysia Drag Racing Association and all of its volunteers and sponsors as well as all of the ANDRA officials and volunteers for an outstanding racetrack and a well-run event.
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