Saturday night at Stratford Speedway was a busy night with the pervious race meeting being rained off & coming into the end of the season. The night was jammed packed with Club titles including Taranaki Superstock Champs, Heritage Shield for Stockcars and Midgets, King of The Mountain Champs for Saloons and the last Ramp Demolition Derby for the season.
Stockcars started the night's program with 20 cars on the grid, all determine to place somewhere in the Heritage Shield or to gain those extra few season points. Bevan Phillips (72s) who has shown some great form all season was the winner of the first race, followed by Tyler Walker (33s) in 2nd place and Dale Michielsen in 3rd. Monty Good (56s) took the wins for the 2nd and 3rd races, with Kylee Symes (229s) finishing in 2nd place for both those heats. Tyler (33s) finished heat 2 in 3nd and Bevan finished the 3rd race in 3rd place. A run off was needed to determine the winner for the Stockcars as Bevan and Kylee were both tied on 54, Bevan went on to win the run off which meant he was awarded the Heritage Shield for the 2015/16 season, with Kylee finishing in 2nd place and Monty finishing in 3rd place with 51 points.
The Superstocks saw a field of 19 cars, with 2 visitors from Wanganui Adam Mosley (26v) and Heath Hammett (31v). After a slight mishap at the last race meeting where he rolled his car, Bruce Williams (41s) won the first race in good form & then went on to finish the 2nd heat in 2nd place. In the 3rd race Bruce was taken to the wall coming into turn 4 by Mitch Vickery (26s) which saw him end his night with a DNF. Paul Johnson (82s) went on to become the Taranaki Superstock Champion for this season with 50 points, Carl Shearer (75s) and Mark Phipps (35s) were both tied 47 points so a run off was required. Carl went on to win the run off finishing him in 2nd place and Mark finishing in 3rd place.
The winners for the Midget Heritage Shield was Duane Hickman (95s) with 35 points, Lydia Dickinson (75s) finished in 2nd place with 29 points and Auckland Driver Dayne Maxwell (81a) finished in 3rd place with 28 points.
Saloons ran for the King of the Mountain title which saw Thomas Korff (16s) who has been in excellent form this season, finish the night in 1st place, taking the title of King of the Mountain on 37 points. A run off was required to determine 2nd and 3rd place, Mark Hinton (45s) and Bodie Abrahamson (49m) battled it out in a 4 lap run off which saw Bodie take the win placing him in 2nd place and Mark finishing in 3rd place.
Supporting Class was Youth Ministocks.