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18-01-2014  Southland Outlaws Stage Comeback Win Southland Outlaws captain Grant Tregoning side by side with Canterbury Comets captain Dale Finch (photo credit to Corey Varcoe Photography) Meeting review by Daryl Shuttleworth In what looked like a case of deja vu, the Southland Outlaw Solo team seemed destined to finish the Inter-provincial Solos in last place without claiming a win in the series, and with five heats to go the Canterbury Comets had a convincing five point lead and looked like they were going to hand the Southland team defeat once again, but Grant Tregoning and his team consisting of Jeremy Godfrey, Paul Hayes, Jack McRae and Hayden Sims were not about to give up lightly. It was McRae and Godfrey that turned things around for Southland, they had a heat that earn't them maximum points with a first and a second, this bought the scores level, but the same pairing couldnt repeat the dose in the next heat allowing Canterbury to edge ahead with two races still to run. Tregoning and Hayes then managed maximum points for Southland to once again bring the scores level and meant whatever team won the final, won the Interprovincial match. For Southland it was Tregoning and Sims left to face two former national champions, Andrew Aldridge and captain Dale Finch, the race only lasted as long as the first corner when Finch dropped his bike making slight contact with Sims, this sent Sims into the wall at high speed and bought the race to a halt. Sims was attended to by St John Ambulance Officers and taken off to Southland Hospital, this meant a restart and it was now down to Tregoning and Finch to settle the score. Finch got the best start of the two and managed to hold the lead right up till the last lap when Tregoning took a dive to take the lead, as the pair raced handlebar to handlebar down the home straight they clipped causing Finch to fall extremely hard and hand the win to Tregoning and the Southland Outlaws. Grant Tregoning and Dale Finch make contact in the final of the Interprovincial Teams Champs (photo credit to Corey Varcoe Photography) Kevin McDonald and Karl Hosie head off Scott Ayto and Dylan Carnie (19) and Bradley Sharp and Neville Chalmers (24) in the final of the Southland Sidecar Champs (photo credit to Corey Varcoe Photography) In the Southland Sidecar Championships it was Kevin McDonald and Karl Hosie who made up for their start line infringement last weekend to dominate the night, the pair won all four heats, and after a restart in the final they claimed themselves a very hard fought Southland Championship. Second place went to a deserving Scott Ayto and Dylan Carnie, the pair won three of the four heats and held off last weekend's Peter Blick Memorial winners Bradley Sharp and Neville Chalmers who only made the final by winning the repêchage. Last years champions Lionel Green and Shane Breach of Christchurch failed to even make the repêchage with a number of local pairings hitting form just a few weeks out from the New Zealand Sidecar Championships in Christchurch. Kevin McDonald and Karl Hosie celebrating winning the Southland Sidecar Championships (photo credit to Corey Varcoe Photography) It was also Southland Champs night at The Russell Cunningham Properties Oreti Park Speedway for Pee Wees, and Juniors and there was some exciting racing across all these grades, in the Pee Wees Hayden Brookland was expected to win and the youngster didn't disappoint winning every heat and his final, second and third was a lot closer with Caleb Whalley of Christchurch just holding out Cormac Buchanan. In 125cc solos Southlands Sam Taylor won the first heat but a big spill in the second put him out of the running, and out for the night, Storm LeQuesne took the Southland Champs title followed by Ben Whalley in second, Taylor was third, it was an all Christchurch affair in the 200cc solos, the trio battled it out wheel to wheel all night but Tom Harvey took the spoils of victory from George Congrieve and George Harvey. In support classes Zane Pay won 250cc solos, John Tuffley solo support and Les Payne classic solos. The club does it all over again next Saturday night when they host the Southland Solo Championships.