On January 17th on ‘Wyatt Automotive’ race night five winners bagged all important series points in their race classes with wins at Wahgunyah Speedway including David Donegan in the Extreme Sports Sedan Series, Keith Simmonds in the Lucky 7s Unlimited Sedan Series, Nathan Shortis in the Goulburn Ovens Sedan State Series and Zach Erickson and Jai Hallett in the Junior Sedan Promotional Association Series. Fans at the track helped raise over two thousand dollars for the Alexandra and District Speedway Club down in the Murrindindi Shire through a silent auction where people would make donation bids with the persons handing…
Author: Dean Thompson
Bairnsdale Speedway Association continued its Boxing Day traditional night of entertainment with a great family night out with Wingless Sprints featuring with their Eastern Series round along with all local classes. Craig Plater from Warrnambool claimed a first ever Wingless Sprint feature victory ahead of fancied Gippsland competition whilst Beau Stuchbery went back-to-back following last meetings victory in Division Two Hot Rods. Also, Bree Walker from Trafalgar won the Ladies Standard Saloons, Mark Miles won the Open Standard Saloons, his son Nathan won the Junior Standard Saloons and Bairnsdale man Dillon Siely won the Limited Sportsman. Plater was one of…
Wahgunyah Speedway was the place to be on December 27th Willett Transport race night for the annual Christmas season Speedway event in the northeast of Victoria with the annual Queen of the Murray for Ladies Open Sedans and Noel McGrath Memorial for Production Sedans supported by other club classes in support. Kellie Latham from the Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and Dehne Sparrow from the Western district town of Hamilton were the big winners in the Queen of the Murray and the Noel McGrath Memorial respectively. The Dirt Track Girls Queen of the Murray Ladies Open Sedans feature even has been on…
At Australian Racing Products Redline Raceway on (December 13th) Warrnambool’s Steven Watts drove to back to back victories in the annual King of the Mount for Street Stocks after a terrific race long battle that at times had seven cars in a lead pack swapping door and bumper paint on their way to the finish where Watts remained King in front of Redline’s own Jason Degoldi and Ballarat resident Shaun Henry who was also third last season. Also winning on the night was Mick Kiraly in AMCA Nationals and Rhys Meakins in Sports Sedans. Across nine heat races in the…
LANSDOWN WINS ELIMINATOR CUP AT DROUIN, FARRELL WINS JUNIOR 500S Drouin Speedway was able to kick off its season on Sunday (December 14th) with the popular annual Standard Saloon Eliminator Cup event headlining a day that included the introduction of Junior Formula 500s to Drouin fans along with a series round for the Ladies Standard Saloons and the Unlimited Sedans series also. Rhys Lansdown from Koo Wee Rup won the Eliminator Cup whilst Cruz Farrell from Pakenham Upper won the Junior Formula 500’s, Corey McDonald the Unlimited Sedans, Ella Sheedy the Ladies Standard Saloons and Nathan Miles the Junior Standard…
Everything at Australian Racing Products Redline Raceway was going along brilliantly, the Street Stocks had the local drivers in charge, the Juniors were racing at a rapid speed, the Sprintcars were flying with Brett Clarke unfortunately going for a rollover, and the Sprintcar final was on track when the rain came and that was the end of that. In four heat races across ten laps for the Kings Marine Scrap Metal Sprintcar Stampede, Matthew Symons, Koby Noonan, Shaun Lyness, and Delacombe man Sam Wren all were winners from front row starting positions before the thirty lap final starting positions were…
Drouin Speedway is back, and this Saturday from 1pm fans will be thrilled by the headlining Wingless Sprints competing in the Eastern Wingless Sprint series Drouin Wingless Classic with a cool $2000- up for grabs for first passed the line. Fans will also see all their favourite local Gippsland and Southeastern Suburbs based sedan heroes in Standard Saloons for the open, ladies and junior classes plus Sports Sedans in their Gippsland Cup annual feature. Wingless Sprint competitors includes the likes of Wayne Logue from Morwell, Thomas McDonald from Koo Wee Rup, Ricky Mills from Traralgon, Nathan Orton from…
A terrific ‘Wyatt Mechanical’ opening race night was held for race fans as Wahgunyah Speedway entertained a healthy crowd to watch race drivers set about their battles for victory with the Super Sedan class the headlining event in a class Victorian point series event. Lucas Roberts from Bendigo claimed the win in the class whilst Aiden Cunningham from Henty won Junior Sedans, Scott Hawkins from Leeton won the Production Sedans and Danny McCarten from Albury won the Goulburn Ovens Sedans. Whilst the Super Sedans did not have a large field, they had very strong competitors in attendance with Lucas…
The New South Wales Grand Prix Midget Racing Association, together with Goulburn Speedway have successfully held this season’s NSW Grand Prix Midget Title with Adam Buckley coming up trumps as he was able to secure the victory ahead up and coming stars of the class Riley Bowyer and Dylan Lees. A number of NSW based drivers and teams were unavailable to compete which had an effect on overall numbers for the event and Victorian class counterparts were also unable to commit to the event having raced just last weekend themselves, however eight determined racers were on hand to…
After spending his early Speedway racing career in local sedan competition in the north-east, Corowa businessman Billy O’Donoghue will this season step into one of the national scenes most popular classes, the Modified Sedans and test himself out against Victoria’s best including current Victorian champion Numurkah ace Tristan McGraw and possibly venture interstate and to go up against the nations toughest scene up north. During this past offseason with the help of Justin McGraw and Trevor Mills, O’Donoghue and his crew spent time on some critical conversions and set up changes to his race car to allow him to…