Fast Fridays was a hub of activity at the Gold Country Fairgrounds Friday night.

Including the regular speedway program, the AMA/USA Youth National and the AMA/USA Under 21 National Speedway Championships were also staged at the Auburn speedway track.

2009 Youth National Champion Austin Novratil again topped all competitors and with a perfect performance was crowned the 2010 champion. Novratil scored wins in all four of his heat races, and won the final main event to take the championship. Novratil outpaced Auburn’s Tyler Warren and Tanner Kane who each finished the heat races with 10 points, and Gabe Price who finished the heats with 5 points. Kane finished second in the final, Price was third and Warren fourth.

Auburn’s Bryce Starks also repeated his performance of last year winning the Under-21 National Championship. Starks finished his four heat races and semifinal heat with wins and went into the final with 15 points. Gino Manzares finished the heats and semifinal with 10, Russell Green had tallied 12 going into the final, and Brad Pappalardo had nine entering the final.

Starks struggled in the final for the first time of the evening and finished third behind Manzares who was second and Green who finished first. Pappalardo finished fourth. With a comfortable lead going into the final, and with the championship awarded by total points for all races, Starks won the championship, finishing one point ahead of Green with 16.

The win again qualifies Starks to race in Europe at the 2011 Under-21 World Cup qualifier, representing the United States, which he missed this year because of injury.

“It feels great,” Starks said. “I hope to stay injury free this year and go overseas next year and achieve my goal to race in the Under-21 championships.”

Charlie Venegas won the Division I scratch main event, getting a good gate out of lane four, and holding off Billy Janniro, who working the outside of the track was unable to pass Venegas, and finished second out of lane two.

Auburn’s Tommy Hedden finished third and Auburn’s Bart Bast was fourth. Hedden who is on a Division I main event winning streak, won the Division I handicap main event. Bast finished second, Janniro finished third, and Alex Marcucci was fourth. Last week Hedden won the Div. I scratch main event.

Rounding out the exciting night of speedway racing, Dustin Berdolt won the Division II main event and Robby Northam won the Division III main event. Jim Lewis again topped the Run What U Brung program.