Saturday night (February 27th) saw Dave May break through for his maiden AMCA Nationals feature win in round six of the Country Cup Series at Bairnsdale Speedway. Frank Thierry, buoyed buy a great run at the recent Aussie Title challenged for the win but just missed out with Alan Howe securing the final podium position.

Heat 1 was taken out comfortably by veteran Bruce Tait from Howe with May showing early form by charging from ninth to third. Paul Sullivan, Tim Reidy, Robert Taylor, Thierry and Hans Lovski completed the distance with Darran O’Reilly the only non-finisher thanks to some bent steering.

Reidy failed to make it to the green flag in heat two due to clutch problems while outside pole sitter May took the lead at turn one and never looked back with Thierry coming home in second and Howe in third. Tait, Lovski, Taylor and O’Reilly finished the race but Sullivan didn’t due to engine dramas.

The third and final heat saw top point scorer May start from the rear once again. O'Reilly took the lead at the drop of the flag closely followed by Lovski, but the big mover over the first couple of laps was Thierry who eventually took the lead on lap 4 after an outside move on O'Reilly. May had also started to make his way through the field and a risky outside move on 3 cars who were battling for 2nd, 3rd & 4th saw him take over 2nd position and start the chase after Thierry. At race end Thierry greeted the chequer first only to be put back 2 places for passing under the pole line earlier in the race. May was given the win from O’Reilly, Thierry, Tait, Taylor, Howe and Lovski.

In the final May started out of pole position with Tait starting alongside. May took the lead into turn one and set about getting a break on the rest of the field. Also at the start of the race Tait's car jumped out of gear and he dropped back through the field before he could recover. Thierry, who had started out of 4th quickly tried to catch May but in the end he ran out of laps as May won from Thierry, Howe, Taylor, O’Reilly, Tait and Lovski.

The Smileys drive of the night went to Dave May.

Remaining Season 2009/2010 Race Dates
13/03/10 Ballarat - Country Cup
20/03/10 Avalon - 50 Lapper - Action Series
27/03/10 Simpson - Country Cup
2 & 4/04/10 Mildura - Action Series
10/04/10 Hamilton - Action Series
17/04/10 Wangaratta - Action Series
24/04/10 Swan Hill - Action Series
02/05/10 Ballarat - Country Cup