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Kyle Glover put together a tidy performance to win the TQ Feature race on saturday night. Plauged with minor mechanical isuues in the recent NZ and South Island championships Glover has been putting in good peformances without reward, starting from grid seven in the feature Glover put together a series of nice passes to make his way to the front and eventually win by 1/4 of a lap.

Nelson’s Nevil Basalaj took out the penultimate round of the Barry Butterworth Midgetcar Series at Ruapuna Speedway on Saturday evening, from Nick Marquet (Nelson) with Christchurch ’s Gary Chadwick in third place.

In the Feature it was Dunedin ’s Gavin Wilkie that lead for the opening laps from Nelson’s Andrew Brown but Brown’s raced ended when his rolled his car coming out on the Town bend.

Gareth Bindon driving his new (red 45) TQ for the first time after purcahsing off Glen Milroy got things wrong in turn two. Bindon showed good pace in the early stages of the race but went round with a full field of cars behind him, despite taking a hammering the car had minor damage after the incident and was able to restart in the next race.

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With the Canterbury championship on the line in all classes close competition was the hallmark of racing at Ruapuna Speedway on Saturday evening.

Jamie Duff backed up being the first South Islander home in the New Zealand sprintcar title last weekend when taking out the provincial title. Duff and Scotti Savage each took out one of the qualifying heats while also claiming a second placing which saw them start on the from row for the championship feature.

Rookie Modified Sprint driver Anthony Dawson won his first race at Xpress Printing House Ruapuna Speedway last night
the quickly improving Dawson has shown in his short carreer he isn't afraid to mix it with the best and has gone toe to toe with the best drivers in canterbury but last night he put it altogether and took out the second heat of the Modified Sprints

Dawson's is supported by his extended family including his grandfather who pit crews for him and all of them were very excited after the race. The only small dissapointment was some of his other regular crew members had a wedding to attend and missed the rookie drivers maiden win.

"Good on ya Ants"

Brian Fridd took out his first TQ feature win last night at Xpress Printing Ruapuna Speedway.  After a horror run in the NZ TQ Title and repeated mechanical issues hampering the team for the first part of the season the Peter Diver plumbing sponsored TQ put a tidy performance together to take out the TQ feature race. 

The race wasn't without incident as Calvin Mathers flipped his TQ while entering turn one corner the flip was more impressive as his car landed on all four wheels and continued tra

Allan ‘Wako’ Wakeling completed the ,double, when he took out the second leg of the Sprintcar Summer Slam when the Auckland driver won the Latimer Hotel and Conference Centre Gold Cup after having already won the Salute to Goodie the previous evening at Xpress Printing House Ruapuna Speedway.

Wakeling became the first driver to win the Gold Cup for a second time when heading home American Ricky Logan with Jamie McDonald (Auckland) in third place, with Wakeling’s form likely to see him among the favorite's for next Saturday’s New Zealand Championship at Cromwell.

Photos Brian Hopping - Video Kelvin Heany

New driver to the Midget ranks Blair Low put on a amazing display of driving last night before he got it all wrong and went for a spectacular crash - Low a former 2NZ Mini Sprint driver is now the driver of the ex Gary Robertson 19c midget and raced it for the first time last night. 

After initial setup problems in the first heat Low started the second heat from grid seven and was not expected to make progre