Speedway draws big crowd

A record number of just under 5,000 people attended the annual Scrapman Caravan & Demolition Derby at Baypark Speedway on Saturday night. 

Soaking up the atmosphere were a large number of families and avid speedway supporters who came to enjoy an exciting evening with a full field of sprint cars, super saloons, saloon cars, stock cars and mini stocks racing. 

The penultimate event for the evening was the always popular caravan derby with seven entries.  Anything on wheels can be towed and this year did not disappoint, with entries including a portaloo, an interesting version of the Rena complete with cardboard box 'containers' and the usual array of beaten up caravans. 

The portaloo and Rena were no match for race winner Mike Lowe with a mini in tow.

The demolition derby with a field of twenty cars completed a thrilling evening.  The crowd favourite was a transformed Honda civic which started strong, eventually limping all the way to the end and conceding defeat to race winner number 77, a Toyota station wagon driven by Chris Traill.

The next meeting on 24 March sees the long awaited return of the super stocks to the Baypark clay quarter mile.  Get the family together and come along to see some of the best racers from all over the North Island ready to lay claim to the fastest super stock in the land.