Canadian speedway round-up.

Paris, June 25th: This meeting had lots to offer the best crowd of the season. Close racing, plenty of passing and a very competitive main event that took four tries before it was settled with all four riders hitting the deck at least once in the first three attempts to run it.

All these incidents took place around the first two turns and the competition was so tight that the referee ruled that there would be a full restart on each occasion attributing the problems to (first turn) bunching.

At the fourth try it was Aaron Hesmer who got the jump off the line and he held off a race long challenge from Joe Heye to take the checkered flag while behind them Gary Hesmer was third ahead of Steve Glasgow.

The excitement wasn't restricted to action in D1 with the D2 final providing perhaps the best race of the night. Shawn Morrison and Aaron De Veau swapped the lead back and forth with De Veau producing a final burst out of turn four to squeeze past on the outside and snatch victory by half a wheel.

D3 also had its share of the action with 13-year-old Michael Small making his debut on a 250cc machine and more than holding his own against much older riders on 500cc bikes. He did well to take second place in the final but it was Corrine Franic who once again showed the guys her rear wheel and took the win for the third week in a row.

Welland, June 26: The following night at Welland, despite a couple of cracking heat races between John Kehoe and Kyle Legault, most of the action once again happened in the final which rook three tries to complete.

In the first attempt Kehoe was leading Legault when Rob Dixon in third slid off going into the turn. Behind him Aaron Hesmer laid his bike down while Chris Houtby went wide and ended up against the fence in the hay bales. The main problem arose in the restart when Hesmer, in third place, lost control going into turn three, came off and slid hard into the fence.

It was then found that there was a considerable amount of oil spilled on the back straight that likely caused Hesmer to lose control. As there is no almost no surface dirt to absorb the oil on Welland's clay based track this meant a lengthy delay to resolve the problem including checking all the bikes on the track to, unsuccessfully, try to trace the source of the oil.

At the third try Kehoe again beat Legault to the first turn and held on for the win with both Hesmer and Dixon coming from the penalty line to overtake Houtby for third and fourth.