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SELWYN TIMES Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 25<br />
Ruapuna revs up this weekend<br />
SPORTS<br />
THE BUILD-UP for this<br />
summer’s New Zealand<br />
Sprintcar Championship begins<br />
in earnest at Ruapuna on<br />
Saturday night.<br />
The Racecourse Hotel and<br />
Motor Lodge Ruapuna Speedway<br />
hosts the first round of the<br />
$60,000 War of the Wings series,<br />
with 25 drivers set to enter the<br />
event.<br />
Drivers will qualify in two<br />
lap-time trials and take part in<br />
heat races before 18 cars face the<br />
starter in the 25-lap feature race.<br />
A number of drivers will be<br />
using this weekend’s race as a<br />
springboard to the nationals,<br />
which will be held at Ruapuna in<br />
January.<br />
Hornby racer Jamie Duff is<br />
likely to carry the favourite tag<br />
into Saturday night’s event after<br />
a commanding win in the King<br />
of the Clay event at Ruapuna<br />
earlier this month.<br />
Duff has not contested the<br />
entire War of the Wings series<br />
for several years, preferring to<br />
contract and race at Western<br />
Springs in Auckland.<br />
However, Duff Motorsport<br />
has moved its allegiance back<br />
to the mainland and the War of<br />
the Wings is a priority.<br />
There will be a lot of interest<br />
in the showing of four former<br />
Woodford Glen competitors<br />
who have all changed classes to<br />
participate in the series.<br />
READY TO GO: About 25 sprintcars will line up for the War of the Wings series at Ruapuna.<br />
Former superstock racer Jason<br />
Smith is now in his second season<br />
of racing sprintcars and he<br />
has shown plenty of pace in early<br />
season events and can now see<br />
some familiar faces with Martin<br />
Harcourt (super saloons), Jackson<br />
Lovelady (saloons) and Luke<br />
Keegan (modifieds) having come<br />
across town for the summer.<br />
Keegan, a three-time winner<br />
of the national modified crown,<br />
has looked particularly sharp in<br />
early season races, campaigning<br />
in a Maxim, imported from the<br />
United States by the Boulton<br />
Racing Team.<br />
One seasoned campaigner<br />
who is relishing the influx of<br />
drivers to the class is veteran Ray<br />
Baughan, a long-time stalwart of<br />
the sprintcar section at Ruapuna.<br />
Last summer, Baughan shared<br />
the overall War of the Wings<br />
title with Ashburton’s Matt<br />
Honeywell and Australian Allan<br />
Woods, and he is very determined<br />
not to have to share the<br />
honours this summer.<br />
Saturday night’s action starts<br />
at 6pm, with the two-lap time<br />
trials. Racing begins at 6.30pm.<br />
Halswell<br />
bounce<br />
back to beat<br />
Heathcote<br />
HALSWELL HAS come back<br />
from two consecutive losses to<br />
beat previous one-day cricket<br />
table leader Heathcote at<br />
Halswell Domain.<br />
Heathcote won the toss and<br />
put Halswell in to bat first on<br />
Saturday.<br />
Geoff Barclay hit a brisk 36<br />
and was well-supported by his<br />
captain Leighton Johnston (28),<br />
but the loss of these two wickets<br />
saw a collapse for Halswell.<br />
Matt Parr scored a wellcompiled<br />
47, but Halswell were<br />
dismissed for 149 on a very good<br />
batting deck.<br />
Halswell bowled a great<br />
line and length and took early<br />
Heathcote wickets to have them<br />
in all sorts of trouble at 32/5<br />
before rolling them for 54.<br />
Parr took 2-12 from his four<br />
overs, Barclay took 3-13 from<br />
six overs, Mike Chatterton<br />
took 3-12 from seven overs and<br />
Johnston took 2-10 from nine<br />
overs.<br />
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