Fast Fridays Speedway

Gold Country Fairgrounds
1273 High Street
Auburn, California

Team Challenge Final
Fast Friday’s Motorcycle Speedway
AUBURN, CALIFORNIA, August 9, 2024
Michael Kirby Story and Photos

It was another great night of speedway racing at the Fast Friday's Motorcycle Speedway in Auburn. Fast Friday's finished up their Friday night events with a bang and will move to Saturday nights beginning next Saturday August 17. Fast Fridays will also move into their championship portion of the season presenting championship racing events beginning with the Fast Fridays Track Championship and Peewee Championship also on August 17. It is the most exciting part of the season as the racers get really serious and championship racing begins.

This week was the last chance to accumulate points for the Fast Friday's track championship for Division I and Support Class Riders. It was also the last and championship round of the season long Team Challenge.

The team challenge is team racing at its best as rider’s race and score points as teammates instead of individuals. The riders score points for their team with finishing order in heat races, three points for a win, two points for a second-place finish, one points for third place and zero for a fourth-place finish. The points are scored round after round and end with the championship round, six rounds total. Coming into the championship round The Law Tigers held a secure lead over Team IFC Financial 44-32 and for sure sitting in the driver’s seat with the IFC team facing an uphill battle if they were to pull off an upset win.

Broc Nicol and Greg Moore had great first place rides and scored three points each for IFC, Bart Bast kicked in two points for a second-place finish and Tisiah Prout added one with a third-place finish, but IFC's nine points were not enough to bump off the Law Tigers who also scored nine points for the evening.

For the Law Tigers Slater Lightcap picked up a win and three points, John Peters and Russell Green added two points each with second place finishes and Charlie Trana and Timmy Dion added one each for third place finishes for the Law Tigers. Each team scored nine in the final round and the score ended with the Law Tigers taking the championship 53 points to IFC Financial 41 points. It was a fantastic series and the teams both did great jobs. Billy Janniro and Trana led the Law Tigers scoring nine points each for the series and Broc Nicol scored nine points also throughout the series for Team IFC Financial.

The young guns of speedway at Fast Fridays worked their way into the scratch main event in one of the youngest line-ups for the scratch main event in memory. Blake Borello being the oldest racer at 23-years-old faced Slater Lightcap who is almost 19 years old, Timmy Dion at 20 years old and Charlie Trana who is 18 years old, definitely the youngest main event line-up in years. Dion got a great gate and led going into turn one and holding a comfortable lead. Borello was right behind him in second but Dion just pulled ahead further of him even more and Borello found himself in a battle for second place with Trana. In the third lap Borello and Lightcap got tangled in a serious crash that left both riders on the ground and referee Steve Lucero called the race. Dion was first, Trana was second, Lightcap was awarded third and Borello fourth. The win was the first scratch main event win of the season and of his career for Dion.

Dion has been racing since he was nine years old beginning in the peewee division. He followed his father Tim Dion and his uncle Nick Dion who both raced in the adult divisions. Dion worked his way through the youth divisions, then division three and two until he began racing in division one. His win Friday night was the first time he won a division one scratch main event. Paying his dues has finally been worth the time and effort this young man has put into his racing career.

Russell Green got into the winner's circle again with an impressive win in the handicap main event. The win in the handicap program's finale was Green's second of the season, and his first since his first handicap main event win in the week two. Green, handicapped on the 20-yard-line was second in his first heat race, first in his semi-final and then took the main event. Blake Borello was second for the entire race following Green but not able to make a move to pass. Borello took second and Slater Lightcap was third.

Tisiah Prout again won the Support Class main event his fifth main event win of the season and his second in a row. Prout is very impressive considering this is his first season on a speedway bike. John Peters was second and Antonio Coffman was third.

Riley Rearick kept his main event win streak alive with another win in the Youth 150 main event. The win is Rearick's 14th main event win of the season. Zander Schroeder was second and Gavin Evans Seeley was third.

Darren Armbruster and Brady Landon put on a great show with some exciting racing in the Youth 250 division. Armbruster won heat one, Landon won heats two and three then Armbruster came through with a win in the main event his eighth for the season so far. Landon was second and Jameson Hutchinson was third in the main event. Look for these two young riders to go head-to-head in the upcoming AMA Youth 250 national championship on August 31.

Just another reminder that Fast Friday's Motorcycle Speedway will move to Saturday events for the rest of the season. Same start time just on Saturday nights instead of Friday nights. Schedule dates and other information came be found at www.fastfridays.com.

Fast Friday's Results for 8-9-24

Division I Scratch Main Event
1-Timmy Dion, 2-Charlie Trana, 3-Slater Lightcap 4-Blake Borello

Division I Scratch Consolation Event
1-Alex Martin, 2-Broc Nicol, 3-Russell Green, 4-Bart Bast,

Division I Handicap Main Event
1-Russell Green, 2-Blake Borello, 3-Slater Lightcap, 4-Alex Martin, 5-Charlie Trana, 6-Timmy Dion

Division I Handicap Consolation Event
1-Bart Bast, 2-Broc Nicol, 3-Gregory Moore

Support Class Main Event
1-Tisiah Prout, 2-John Peters, 3-Antonio Coffman, 4-Catherine Moore, 5-Brian Leventon, 6-Les Veale

Support Class Consolation Event
1-Brandon Hendrickson

Youth 250 Main Event
1-Darren Armbruster, 2-Brady Landon, 3-Jameson Hutchinson, 4-Caden Cavrikas, 5-Wesley Rearick

Youth 150 Main Event
1-Riley Rearick, 2-Zander Schroeder, 3-Gavin Evans Seeley, 4-William Bruce

Team Challenge Series (Championship Round)
Team IFC-9 Team Law Tigers-9

Total Score After Five Rounds and Championship
Team IFC-41 Team Law Tigers-53

Michael Kirby Photos
	Russell Green won the handicap main event for the second time this season. His first handicap main win was in week two of the Fast Fridays this season. Second in his heat race, first in his semi-final Green picked up another main event win.
	Logan Kerr was on fire in the peewee division. Kerr is one of the beloved peewees that enthusiastically race every week at Fast Fridays.
	3256 Dion-Timmy Dion won the scratch main event Friday night. Dion, racing since he was a peewee rider at nine years-old won his first scratch main event of his career.
	3265 Prout- Tisiah Prout picked up another main event win in the Support Class. The win is his fifth so far this season.
	3277 Armbruster- Darren Armbruster (left) races against Brady Landon (right) in a heat race. The pair rode hard against each other Friday night with Armbruster winning a heat race and the main event and Landon winning two heat races.
	3307 Team Law- Team Law Tigers members Timmy Dion (left) and Slater Lightcap (right) talk race strategy before the championship round of the Team Challenge Friday night. The Law Tigers came into the final round with a comfortable lead and held it coming out on top of Team IFC 53-41 winning the series.
	3336 Youth 150 Start-Riley Rearick (near 05) gets a good gate off the line in the Youth 150 main event. Rearick won the main his 14th of the season, he has yet to lose a main event at Fast Fridays this season.
	3348 Scratch Start-Timmy Dion (second from left) starts the scratch main event Friday night at Fast Fridays. Dion won the race, the first division one scratch main event of his career which he began as a peewee rider at age nine.