By Dean Thompson
Nyora Raceway attracted a huge crowd of motorsport fans on Saturday night when the All Star Sprintcars came to town for their annual spectacular show.
Fans went home delighted when Brett Milburn – who developed as a race driver at Nyora – went on to take the feature race win.
Also winning on the night was Daryl Hickson in the Dirt Modifieds, Poowong racer Harry Cecil in the Junior Standard Saloons, Rhys Lansdown in the Open Standard Saloons and Michael Conway in the Mini-Lightning Sprints.
It was a great night of fast racing with new records set in various classes including a new one-lap Sprintcar record of 13.194 set by Milburn in his qualifying lap.
He then won his first qualifying heat race with South Australian Mark Caruso winning the following race then Steven Loader and Todd Hobson from Clyde won the last.
In the thirty-lap feature, local young gun Chis Temby was having a great night until he was the first car to exit the racing with tyre damage.
Boyd Harris then had a huge rollover in the middle of turn three and four, tearing up his car and finishing his race on lap 18.
At the 25-lap mark there were still 15 of the original 17 cars circulating with Milburn in the front three.
Daniel Scott was the next to exit in a big way, rolling in the same spot as Harris, and also tearing his car to pieces.
Everything changed on lap 28 as Caruso and then Chris Solomon both suffered flat tyres and dropped out of the top-two positions, allowing Milburn to take the chequered flag.
In Dirt Modified action, Warrick Taylor, another talent that developed at Nyora won the first heat race of three for the class.
Daryl Hickson, the Victorian state champion, went on to win the second with Taylor winning the third and taking pole position. Hickson went on to win the 20-lap feature event in a new distance record time of five minutes and nine seconds.
Beau Stuchbery won the first two heats in the Junior Standard Saloons before Harry Cecil claimed the third and a front row start alongside Stuchbery in the final, setting a new one-lap record of 18.037. Cecil went on to take victory in the feature.
Mark Miles, Rhys Lansdown, and Shane Stewart won the three Open Standard Saloon heat races with Lansdown setting a new eight-lap record at 2:26seconds before also setting a new 15-lap record on his way to victory in the feature.
Also on the program was the Mini-Lightning Sprints, which began with a new eight-lap record delivered by Michael Conway of two minutes nine seconds.
Andrew Burleigh then won the second race of the night before Ally Moore won the third heat race as lap times got faster and faster.
In the feature event, over 15 laps, Conway led the way whilst David Alie got into the action with a rollover bending his car.
Harley Graham moved forward into the second spot quickly and Conway set a new one-lap record on his way to victory.
Conway won from Graham, Danny Stone, Luke Graham, and Scott Burchett.
Racing returns to Nyora on 25 February with the Russell Bent Memorial for Modified Sedans, Victorian Mini-Lightning Sprint state title, Production Sedans, and Hot Rods.
