Author: Dean Thompson

This coming Saturday, Redline Raceway’s second show of the season is set to be action packed and stacked with huge numbers nominated across four classes which includes the Australian Motor Contest Nationals for state points, Standard Saloons for club points, Sports Sedans for the latest round of the Dirt X Industries supported state series and the Street Stocks in the ‘Daimler Trucks Ballarat Gold Cup’ as part of the Victorian state series. Across the four classes are one hundred and four nominations. It stacks up as a show you do not want to miss. The Dirt X Industries Victorian state…

Alexandra and District Speedway Club’s second show of the current season is fast approaching with this Saturday night headlined by one of the nations leading national classes, the Super Sedans. The Victorian Super Sedan Association bring their state series to Alexandra, Compact Speedcars are on the show along with the Junior Sedan Promotional Association series second round and local supporting classes. Led by Jamie Collins the Victorian champion and including the likes of Mick Nicola Jnr and Eastern Suburbs based racer Dave Mackenzie, the Super Sedans with high powered eight-cylinder engines up to 366ci thrill the fans usually hiking up…

This Sunday at Drouin Speedway a full day of racing will be headlined by the Eliminator Cup for the Open Standard Saloons where drivers in the feature race need to stay in the top eight cars for the first two segments of a three-segment race or be in the top eight cars by the third and final race segment in order to be able to race for the prizemoney on offer.

Along with the featured event for the Standard Saloons, will be the popular high powered Unlimited Sedans and the modified performance Sports Sedans plus Junior Standard Saloons, Junior 1200cc Sedans and Ladies Standard Saloons.

Nyora Raceway this Saturday from 4pm has a huge show packed with family fun with the Sprintcars headlining the racing portion of the program in the ‘Battle at the Bullring’ whilst club President Marcus Reddecliffe has made a special call to Santa Claus, and he will make an appearance for all the kids that are in attendance. The fun doesn’t stop there with Standard Saloons, Ladies Standard Saloons, Junior Standard Saloons, 1200cc Junior Sedans and Sports Sedans all in competition with the night closed down by a spectacular Fireworks show put on by the team at Kangaroo Fireworks Company to send everybody home happy.

In Sprintcar action early signs are that all of Gippsland’s best drivers will be in town to compete for the $2000 cash up for grabs for winning the race with Travis Millar from Wandin and Frankston man Kim Gosling whom both call Nyora Raceway their home track coming up against the likes of Victorian champion Nigel Laity from Wiseleigh in East Gippsland, Jett Bell, Dennis Jones from Morwell a four-time state champion, Alistair Bastian from Lucknow, and Adam Greenwood from Sale. Competing with Chevrolet LS CT525 engines these machines make all the noise that we come to expect from any Sprintcar no matter the powerplant.

All roads lead to Blue Ribbon Raceway for opening night this weekend. Sprintcars and Modified Sedans are set to headline the action at Blue Ribbon Raceway this Saturday night as the local Horsham Motor Sports Club gets their season underway. Supporting the big events will be all the local heroes in the exciting Production Sedans and the crowd pleasing V8 Trucks with racing from 5:00pm. Twenty-one Sprintcars have nominated for the ‘Mainline Dynolog Dynamometers’ All Star Sprintcars. South Australian driver and Australian champion Mark Caruso is the biggest of names on the entry list that includes the likes of Christopher…

Round two of the Ladies Standard Saloon state series has been run and won at Bairnsdale Speedway with nine drivers in the seat for competition on Saturday night with Tahlia Campbell from the Rosedale Speedway Club roaring to victory on a perfect night of racing for her as she tasted success in all three qualifier heats and then in the feature event of the evening.

Supported by local Bairnsdale business AME Ace Marine Electrics competing in the second round with Campbell was South Australian Sarah Gartner, early season victor at Bairnsdale Bree Walker, Elise Halliday, Kate Stuchbery representing the host club Bairnsdale, Michelle George from South Gippsland, Caroline Allen, Tasharni Murray and Bree Campbell.

Bairnsdale Speedway held its second race meeting of the season on Saturday night with five classes in action and four winners from Latrobe Valley suburbs collecting victory out of the five classes competing. Tom Braz won the Junior Standard Saloon feature whilst fellow Latrobe Valley racers Troy Hutchinson won Division 2 Hot Rods, Jacob Vuillermin the Standard Saloons and Tahlia Campbell the Ladies Standard Saloons with Bryce Leek from Wangaratta via West Gippsland a winner in the Junior 1200cc Sedans. Competing in the ‘Skidz Next Gen Junior Standard Saloons Showdown’ Hunter Carey from Melbourne’s Southeastern Suburbs got away to a…

Sixty-five entrants are ready for the second event of Bairnsdale Speedway Associations season coming up this Saturday evening with twenty-nine Standard Saloons set to do battle plus a handy field in the Next Gen Standard Saloon Showdown for Junior competitors with all the action to start at 5:30pm.

Fierce competition is expected in the Open Standard Saloons with Josh Thomas the current state number three ranked racer in the class set to do battle with Mitch Foster, Shane Stewart, Glen Pendlebury, Leigh Gooding, Andrew Cormack, Jack Braz, Luke King, Matt Leek, Steve Dadswell and Jacob Vuillermin amongst those who will stive to take the victory. Vuillermin was second last weekend at Alexandra in the Murrindindi Shire and is set to go, whilst there are many in the field who will vie for victory.

Alexandra and District Speedway Club got underway with their season on Saturday night with visiting competitors from right across Victoria and from interstate in town. The Late Model Sedans brought their speed and noise with Tasmanian Callum Harper taking a big $4000 payday when he finished first, whilst Neale Peachey won the first Australian Motor Contest Association Barry Reidy Memorial series first round at Alexandra in the transponder era and local star Linken Paterson took a big victory in the Standard Saloon feature event serving as an opportunity for the state’s best to test set ups prior to the Victorian title at the same venue in the new year.

This Saturday from 3pm Alexandra Speedway fires up for the new season with the return of the big, fast, and loud Late Models who will feature in their Southern Pro Late Model Series with four thousand dollars to win, whilst the Victorian Speedway Council Standard Saloons compete in a feature event also, Australian Motor Contest Association drivers will compete for state division points, and they will have support from Junior Sedan racing and Sports Sedans. Late Model Sedan competition will include drivers from Eildon including the Edwards brothers Brock and Chevy and long time Alexandra associated racer Tim McPherson, and…