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Ollie stepped up to blue lane in the B Final and would face Ash (red) and the Bulldogs of Terry (white) and Alex (yellow) in the gutter lanes...

   

It was Alex who led the early stages and first to drop sub-3 second laps, before successive offs on laps 8 and 9 left him at the back...

   

Terry took over the lead, but had Ash right behind him and on a similar pace. Ollie was trying to hang on in third. Terry could not shake Ash, but a brief off for the Gen6 racer cost him almost a lap at half distance. Ollie and Ash were now in a close race for the Gen6 win...

   

It all went wrong for Ollie on lap 23 - an off costing him nearly five laps. Ash continued to push and almost got what he needed when Terry had a late off. However, the green Bulldog was marshalled rapidly and Ash had to make do with a close second, missing out on the A Final by less than a third of a lap...

   

Terry stepped up to red lane in the all-Bulldog A Final, facing pole-sitter Oliver in white, Matthew in yellow and Andy in blue...

   

This race had plenty of drama, including a restart after turn two was destroyed in an early marshalling mishap. Oliver and Andy had got away at that first start and they did so again as the race was reset back to zero...

   

This time it was Andy's red retro-bodied Bulldog that had the lead for the first 13 laps, until a crash at turn one... and that retro body came off. That left the other three on the same lap, Oliver having the lead...

   

It was all going nicely for the champion-elect until an off with twenty five seconds to go let Terry and Matthew through. There was still plenty of time for Oliver to catch up and he set about the chase with gusto. The three came back together briefly before Terry crashed out with just seconds to go, collecting Oliver in the process. Terry continued, Oliver did not and Matthew took the chequered flag half a lap ahead...

   

It was another massive score - 42.35 laps to give Matthew his second HO A Final win!

   

Huge congrats to our race winners - Matthew, Isaac and Ash...

   


And here are the results and stats from all the finals...

   

There was still the Gen6 Championship Shoot-out to go, but those results confirmed Oliver as our 2026 WHO Nascar champion, 60 points ahead of Matthew...

   

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