Midgley In A Breeze: Langford, BC., February 21, 2010:                 Sunny skies, warm temperatures, and a dry track greeted twenty drivers and teams for another Enduro race in the Steve Copp Construction sponsored Hornet Series held at Western Speedway Sunday afternoon. Phil and Jean-Luc Lagan held the front row for the start of two hours or two hundred laps of racing with Phil taking the early lead. On lap four, Ken Featherby moved into the second spot followed by Darren Yates, from the WilRoc Sprint Car Series, moving into third, Cody Laughran into fourth followed by Steve Sager into fifth. On lap seven, Cody Aumen took over the fifth spot and then moving to fourth on lap eleven. Phil Lagan still led up front while Yates took over the second spot on lap thirteen dropping Featherby back to third. On lap nineteen, Darrell Midgley moved from his seventh place start to take over the fifth spot then taking fourth on lap twenty-five passing Aumen. On lap thirty, Phil Lagan entered the pits handing the lead to Jean-Luc for two laps as Featherby passed for the lead on lap thirty-two followed by Alex Carey and Midgley now in the top three positions. For the next thirty laps Featherby, Carey, Midgley, Jean-Luc, and Aumen ran in a file while the rest of the field tried to play catch up. On lap sixty-one, and leading, Featherby slid a bit nailing the tires on the chicane flipping his car completely upside down bringing out the red flag. Weatherby was unhurt in this spectacular crash but his day was finished.                 On the restart, Midgley moved into the lead followed by Carey, Jean-Luc, Aumen, with Curtis Williams, from Agassiz, moving into the fifth spot. On lap seventy-one, Jean-Luc took over the second spot dropping Carey back to third. Carey again took over second and kept Jean-Luc at bay until lap eighty-nine when Jean-Luc went by again to regain the second spot. Meanwhile, Phil Lagan moved back into the top five three laps earlier then taking fourth on lap ninety. Over the next several laps Midgley remained in the lead driving almost flawless as Jean-Luc, Aumen, Lagan, and Williams chased him. On lap one hundred and seven Lagan moved up to third dropping Aumen back one spot. This formation lasted several laps until Williams moved up to fourth and Carey moved back into the fifth spot on lap one hundred fifty-one. Phil Lagan passed Jean-Luc on lap one fifty-eight to take over the second spot and chasing Midgley. On this day no one had anything for Midgley as he drove a new car to a three lap victory over Phil Lagan, Jean-Luc Lagan, Curtis Williams, and Richard Carey the top five positions.                 This race lasted one hundred and ninety laps as the two hour time limit took effect before two hundred laps were complete. The race featured a few yellow flags for debris or stalled cars but ran mostly clean of major interruptions. Several drivers experienced mechanical problems and over heated motors with only about eight cars taking the checkered flag well behind the winner. Midgley, as so often happens, elected to pass the rewards to the other drivers in the field.                 Again, several new drivers tested the waters in this fast growing series just "To have some fun" as some put it and the support still seems to be consistent with twenty cars or so showing up for the winter schedule. The next race is scheduled for March 7th starting at one o'clock in the afternoon and promises to be another great race.   #81   Darrell Midgley #59   Phil Lagan #57   Jean Luc Lagan #41   Curtis Williams #86   Richard Carey #11   Rob Newell #04   Cody Aumen #56   Carl Jones #91   Darren Yates #43   Steve Sager #54   Vinc Bird #76   Alex Carey #55   Troy Tarbuck #74   Ken Featherby #98   George Newell # 3    Rob Lewis #14   Kevin Knight #15   Steve Copp # 1    Cody Laughran # 8    Howie Mace
	Photos by Ken Keating and Barrie Goodwin