A terrific afternoon and evening on Easter Sunday warmed motorsport fans who arrived to watch the last Bairnsdale Speedway Association event of the season, with the Wingless Sprints Gary Bowden Cup the headlining event producing a local winner in Dillon Siely. Other winners included Dillon’s father Mal claiming a win in Limited Sportsman, Trafalgar woman Bree Walker winning Ladies Standard Saloons, Alex Vanduren a winner in Junior Standard Saloons, another local Daniel Argoon won the final in Open Standard Saloons and Victorian champion Beau Stuchbery was a winner in Division 2 Hot Rods. With the late Gary Bowden being honoured…
Author: Dean Thompson
Bairnsdale Speedway Association and the Victorian Speedway Council pulled together to push through with the ‘Lakes Hydraulics’ Victorian Sports Sedan title after weather decided to throw a spanner in the works on the 21st and 22nd of March. Brendan Miller on day two of what was supposed to be a one-night show thrilled fans that returned for Sunday’s action going on to win the big title event. Drizzle during the week had the track perfect for Saturday, on one condition, that the drizzle did not continue all day. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the weather did and after an attempt…
Wahgunyah Speedway held a terrific Maverick Marine race night on the weekend (March 14th) with the final round of the annual Colin Young Memorial the latest event promoted by the Goulburn Ovens Sedans Association for their competitors, taking top billing. A cracking nights racing from the competitors seen Nathan Shortis, Brandan Lovell and Marty Bassett thrilling fans. They were not the only competitors putting on a show, with Bryce Leek and Micheal Fleming-Robertson in Standard Saloons outstanding in their final and Kade Brockley won all four Junior Sedan races to sweep the evening for his class. Samantha Lord was the…
A field of seventy plus Victorian Speedway Council Standard Saloons have completed battle across two nights at Australian Racing Products Redline Raceway in their quest to be crowned Victorian champion for the next twelve months and at the conclusion, It would be Mitch Foster from Morwell in Gippsland that would come out on top ahead of Kacey Ingram, Redline member Scott Whittle, Jack Braz, and Ballarat racer Austin Chivers. Over the two nights Mick Kiraly arrived and won the Australian Motor Contest Associational Nationals, and Zac Macdonald won the Dirt Modifieds. Healthy crowds enjoyed the two nights of competition with…
Saturday night (28th of February) at Bairnsdale Speedway was attended to by over eighty race drivers with three big events highlighting the evenings racing after over fifty mils of rain had soaked the track prior to race day. Damien Miller from Melbourne’s southeast took the win in the JP Asphalting Extreme Sports Sedans Series round after his brother lost a wheel whilst leading, causing the final stoppage of the race handing the win to big brother Damien. Mal Siely from Bairnsdale won yet another King of the Rock final for Limited Sportsman, Ella Sheedy from Bunyip won the latest Ladies…
Race fans at Redline Raceway in greater Ballarat were treated to a terrific nights racing on (February 21st) Saturday night with Standard Saloons, Unlimited Sedans and Wingless Sprints all producing great racing. Mitch Foster would win the Gold Rush feature for Open Standard Saloons, Riley Taylor come out on top in the Lucky Sevens series for Unlimited Sedans and Christopher Temby on his way home from Bordertown South Australia dropped into Redline to claim the win in round eight of the Wingless Super Series. With a Victorian title at Redline Raceway on Labour Day weekend, some of the states best…
Drouin Speedway Club have held their latest race meeting (on February 21st) with the Victorian Junior Standard Saloon title up for grabs, the Race for Dougo for Open Standard Saloons, and a mini feature for Street Stocks, along with some freestyle Motorcross performances. Southeast Melbourne racer Hunter Carey claimed top honours in the state title Jack Yeomans winning the Drive for Dougo and Leigh Gooding claiming victory in the Street Stocks. The crowd was entertained by the freestyle MX riders with high flying jumps and flips and twists bringing new people to the speedway complex on Jindivick Road in Drouin…
Bairnsdale Speedway driver Trent Wilson is about to return to the track after some time away from racing as he spent time working on customers race cars, before recently investing in his own car which will see him back at Bairnsdale Speedway on February 28th in the locally popular Division 2 Hot Rod category. With seventeen years of racing behind him, Wilson has taken on an enthusiastic role behind the scenes that has seen him off the track for most of the current season. He has undertaken developing his own fabrication and suspension business to take on race car work,…
This past Saturday night (February 7th) Australian Racing Products Redline Raceway restarted after a new year break with the hugely popular Modified Sedans attracting a packed house as the Victorian Modified Promotional Association arrived in town for it’s latest series round, Ballarat raised Darcy Wilson was a popular victor in the main event whilst the Production Sedan Southern Series round was won by Stephen Laidlaw and Standard Saloons by Jake Vuillermin. A terrific racetrack with racing from top to bottom was delivered up for competitors and drivers made good use of it with pole line and high line runners and…
Bairnsdale Speedway Association have held their latest race meeting with a healthy crowd enjoying a terrific mixture of classes with the highlight of the night being the Presidents Cup for Compact Speedcars being run and won by Australian champion Justin Paull whilst Beau Stuchbery won his fourth Division 2 Hot Rod final in succession at Bairnsdale Speedway. Other winners on Club Eastwood race night included Mick Nicola Junior in Super Sedans, Jacob Vuillermin in Standard Saloons and Liam Ingram in Junior Standard Saloons. The visiting Compact Speedcar class were competing for their Presidents Cup trophy event with Australian…