Author: Dean Thompson

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…

Drouin Speedway Club has opened their season after the original season start in October was curtailed by rain and in a great day of Saturday racing husband and wife Andrew and Bronwyn Miles won between them the Open Standard Saloons and Ladies Standard Saloons classes, with visiting racer Jake Warren winning the Wingless Sprints and Pakenham Upper based racer Cruz Farrell smashing records in his Junior Sedan class on his way to victory.

With the second round of the Gippsland Wingless Sprints series being up for grabs drivers competed in two of the three heat race qualifiers each before the twenty-five-lap final. Ben Hodge from Lang Lang was the first driver to pick up a win winning by almost ten seconds in heat one. Jake Warren then visiting from the Southwest of Victoria was the next to win before a third different winner closed out the qualifiers in Aron Lawrence. All three heat race winners led their races from start to finish to win.

Nyora Raceway held not one but two days of racing across to start there season with a early evening start on the Sunday and a mid-evening start on the Monday to allow Monday workers to get to the track, with a very decent crowds on both days getting dished up plenty of action to send them home happy.

On the Sunday, Simon Bent one Victorian Speedway Council Sedans, Travis Millar won the Gippsland Wingless Sprint series opening round, Bree Walker won the Ladies Standard Saloon feature event and Leanne Young took the win in the Ladies Crash and Bash.

The Victorian Grand Prix Midget Racing Association headed back to one of their favourite venues this past Saturday night when they climbed the mountain at Buninyong and scorched around Redline Raceway for the first time in a few seasons.The Redline venue is very popular amongst classes without a track home of their own and those that require series events spread around Victoria, so getting back onto the calendar was pleasing with the racing quite enjoyable for the fans despite some having mechanical issues troubling them most of the night.Three heat races were contested as drawn, before the top qualifier from…

A  terrific crowd filed into Redline Raceway to see it’s opening show of the season with a series round for the Grand Prix Midgets, plus the start of the Ballarat season for Street Stocks, Standard Saloons and Unlimited Sedans providing the entertainment. A close finish in the Grand Prix Midgets where Chris Fowler from Geelong defeated Alex Myers from Shepparton by just .015 of a second at the finish line as the two made differing passing decisions to get around Shawn Ward, produced a grandstand finish to their feature. Whilst in Street Stocks Jayden Blomeley of Ballarat beat Jason Degoldi by just .295 of a second to start their season. Scott Whittle put on a master class in Standard Saloons and Sean Lister was too good for the competition in the Unlimited Sedans.