Fast Fridays Speedway

Gold Country Fairgrounds
1273 High Street
Auburn, California

Track Championship - Peewee Championship
Fast Friday’s Motorcycle Speedway
AUBURN, CALIFORNIA, August 17, 2024
Michael Kirby Story and Photos

Paul Flanders Photo

Speedway racing at Fast Friday's Motorcycle Speedway in Auburn Ca. moved its race nights to Saturdays beginning this week and kicked off their championship racing programs. This week it was the Fast Fridays Division I, Support Class and Peewee Track Championships.

In Division I the top 16 riders that scored points during the season accumulating points each week were seeded into 20 scratch races so each rider rode against the other riders at least once. It was a championship format with riders scoring points for finishing order in the event races. Three points for a win, two points for a second-place finish, one point for third and zero points for a fourth-place finish.

Billy Janniro was the Fast Friday's season points winner with 1683 points, followed by Bart Bast with 1530 points and Charlie Trana with 1448 points. Janniro continued his winning ways by also winning the Fast Fridays Track Championship Saturday night. Janniro scored 13 points leading all riders and claiming the championship outright dropping just two points thru the 20 heats. Battling a back injury for three unfortunate mishaps on the track over the last three weeks he was able to soldier on and pick up the track championship. “I think my injury was a combination of injures from the three crashes I was involved recently and maybe I am just getting older,” he said.

Second place required a run-off because Timmy Dion and Broc Nicol each earned 12 points dropping just three points each in heat races. They ran a 21st race just the two of them which Nicol won and took second place. Dion was third in the track championship.

In the Support Class the riders raced in two races with the top two finishers in each race transferring to a main event. John Peters won his heat race to transfer to the main championship race which he won. Antonio Coffman was second and Brian Leventon was third.

The Peewee championship was a crowd pleaser. The peewees are very popular with Fast Friday fans and they put on a great program. The peewees did the same thing as the Division I riders did, scoring points in four heat races accumulating points to transfer into a consolation race and the top four riders made it to the peewee main event. Liam Falcon, who seemed to be the man to beat this season in the peewee division prevailed Saturday with two wins in his heat races then topped his night with the main event win. Logan Kerr who has given Falcon a run for his money each week finished second and William Bruce finished third.

On the podium the boys all had smiles on their faces as they stood next to their trophies that were as nearly as tall as they were. Families snapped photos that will for sure in up in their scrapbooks, it was a very special night.

Results 8-17-24

Division I Track Championship
1. 14 Billy Janniro  3 3 3 3 1- 13
2. 98 Broc Nicol  0 3 3 3 3- 12 (Run Off)
3. 217 Timmy Dion  2 2 3 2 3- 12 (Run Off)
4. 30 Alex Martin  2 3 2 2 2 - 11
5. 321 Russell Green  2 3 0 2 3- 10
5. 27 Blake Borello  2 2 2 3 1- 10
5. Danny Faria  3 2 2 3 0- 10
8. 66 Charlie Trana  3 0 3 1 2- 9
9. 188 Louie Mersaroli  0 2 1 2 3- 8
9. 87 Bart Bast  3 1 1 1 3 2- 8
11. 173 Rees Todd  1 1 2 0 2- 6
12. 56 Will McCloskey  0 1 1 1 0- 3
12. 35 Gregory Moore  1 0 1 0 1- 3
14. 109 Tisiah Prout  1 1 0 0 0- 2
14. 205 John Peters  1 0 0 0 1- 2
16. 222 Antonio Coffman  0 0 0 1 0- 1
R. Catherine Moore  0 - - - - 0

Support Class Track Championship
1-John Peters, 2-Antonio Coffman, 3-Brian Leventon

Support Class Consolation
1-Mike Newnham, 2-Catherine Moore, 3-Les Veale

Pee Wee Championship
1-Liam Falcon, 2-Logan Kerr, 3-William Bruce

Season Points Final Division I
1-Billy Janniro 1683, 2-Bart Bast 1530, 3-Charlie Trana 1448

Season Points Final Support Class
1-Catherine Moore 658, 2-Antonio Coffman 595, 3-Brian Leventon 580