A number of titles were claimed in style during Saturday night's main events at the Dubbo Speedway.
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Drivers and motorheads travelled from all across the country to witness the action at Morris Park, with a mammoth crowd attending the event.
According to organisers at the Dubbo City Speedway Club, over 1200 people attended the event, one of the biggest crowds recorded over the past 10 year, according to club president Ian Boland.
"It was definitely one of the biggest meetings we've had for quite a while," Boland said.
"Overall, the event went really well, we were down by a little bit on the number of cars compared to the last event, but we had two divisions with great numbers who put on some incredible racing."
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The two featured events, involving the NSW Late Model State Title and the AMCA Nationals Country Cup, both provided plenty of thrilling action, with a number number of crashes occurring during the fast-paced races.
"The heats went really fast, there was a bit of carnage and a few stoppages, plenty of action and plenty of thrills and spills," Boland said.
A former Dubbo star, in the form of the now Queensland based, Carter Armstrong kicked off the heat race victories, with the Hunter Valley's John Lodge and Nathan Disney and Ben Nicastri also securing wins.
Nicastri went on to claim the fastest time during the qualification stage of the Late Model State Title, but Disney gave as good a fight during the race itself, before succumbing to Victoria's Peter Nicola.
"Carter Armstrong, his father was the president of the club for a number of seasons and a lot of the drivers in the Late Model competition were also involved previously, it's good to see some of them back," Boland said.
"John Lodge from the Hunter Valley, he used to race a lot at Dubbo and Gilgandra, there's a lot of second generation drivers who have, like Damien Hodges."
Armstrong won the trophy for the fastest run with a blistering 13 second trip around the track in the heats.
"It gets pretty fast out there, they're moving pretty quick around those four corners once you factor in the length of the track," Boland said.
The AMCA National feature was won by Darrell Klime, who was followed by Terry Pankhurt and Spano Gutierrez.
The Junior Sedans event was also hotly contested, with Jackson Goldie taking out a win, Tyler Burnham in second place and Narromine's Zac Hignett in third.
In the Production event, Dubbo drivers ruled the roost, with Chris Blyton managing a miraculous recovery after his night almost ended following a first lap spin.
Blyton pulled together and mounted recovery, winning in front of Shane Holmgreen and Matt Vicary.
