Autograss champ Michelle Arnett is set to seek a new challenge this year.
The Eaglescliffe driver was crowned Yorkshire Dales AC club champion after a glittering 2014 season with the Thornborough-based club.
But after racing with - and beating - the men, she’s going back to competing in the ladies’ section in 2015.
Michelle has spent 22 years on the autograss scene, rising out of the junior ranks into the ladies’ classes and winning every possible title along the way.
Her most successful season was 2013 when she became ladies’ class two National and British Autograss Series champion - the two biggest titles on offer.
That prompted the move from being a lady racer to a competing in the men’s class two for the 2014 season.
It didn’t take long for her to find her feet, first taking heat wins which turned into final wins by mid-season.
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Michelle Arnett recieves her Yorkshire Dales AC champion’s trophy from Don Hilton (centre) and Roger Gill
Her 2014 highlight of the season was winning men’s class two title at the Yorkshire Open, going unbeaten throughout the heats and final against the top drivers in the North-east and Yorkshire.
But now she is going back to race with the ladies in class seven after selling her class two car.
However it will be loaned back to her for the Ladies’ Nationals in September as she bids to become a double national champion in classes seven and two on her home track.
Another Teessider to taste YDAC title victory was Chris Chilvers from Acklam who took the F600 crown.
Other trophy winners included Darlington’s Graham Blackburn who was the runner-up in classes seven and eight while his wife Pam won ladies’ class seven and was second in ladies’ class eight.
Angie Hilton from Hartlepool was third in ladies’ class two, Phil Peek from Thornaby was second in the stock hatch championship and Brian Arnett finished second in class three.
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