It was an emotional win as his father Ian also won this event 28 years ago in 1988.

Beechey started from the outside of the front row alongside Callum Harper, proving the old adage that you can’t win the race in the first corner wrong by storming into the lead.

Harper gave chase and threw everything apart from the steering wheel at Beechey.

Although able to close the gap on several occasions, he was unable to pass as both drivers struggled with a track that had more grip than expected and the setups were not quite right.

Steve Latham had started well, but put the car up onto two wheels.

Unbelievably, rather than rolling, quick thinking put him end up in the wall rather than on his roof.

Laura Davidson drove superbly holding down a solid third, until she was deemed to have caused a late race stoppage, ending her run to the podium.

Despite several restarts with three laps to go, Beechey kept a cool head under pressure to take victory.

Robbie Bird and Gill Aylett had a race-long battle with Bird finishing third.

Matt Redpath also took an emotional win in the Peter Redpath Memorial for Formula 500s, pulling away to a commanding lead from Rick Weatherill and James Amicosante.

The race was stopped on lap 17 as Taylor Johnson had a savage brawl with the wall.

She exited the totalled car battered and bruised.

This closed Weatherill back up for the restart, and he was unable to keep in touch with the hard-charging Redpath who was intent on winning his father’s memorial race.

Rain stopped racing and it was only the two memorial feature races that were run on the main track. 

This left sprintcars, street stocks, speedcars and junior sedans to pack up without a result from their finals.

The kart racing earlier had produced close racing with Kaleb Sims taking a strong victory in the Junior Karts ahead of Tasmanian Champion Cooper Stuart and Australian champion Jak Laneyrie.

Results

Super Sedans Gary Devlin Memorial – Final: A Beechey 1, C Harper 2, R Bird 3.

Formula 500’s Peter Redpath Memorial – Final: M Redpath 1, R Weatherill 2 J Amicosante 3

Kart 125s – Final; J Dillon 1, J Benge 2, S Crack 3.

Junior Karts – Final: K Sims 1, C Stuart 2, J Laneyrie 3.

Senior Karts – Final: G Lawrence 1, B Clarke 2, C Bryan 3.