Author: Dean Thompson

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.

Ballarat’s home of motorsport Redline Raceway kicks off the new season this Saturday with local club racers given an opportunity to compete as club classes Street Stocks, Unlimited Sedans, and Standard Saloons providing that opportunity whilst the Grand Prix Midgets return to Redline with round two of their state series attracting a dozen entrants from the Goulburn Valley, Eastern Melbourne, and Geelong. Whilst the Grand Prix Midgets are the only class with a series round or blue-ribbon feature event, the Sedans will dish up no shortage of action with everybody wanting to win at Redline no matter the occasion. The…

With Melbourne Cup day coming up next Tuesday and many in the community given the opportunity to take Monday off work, Nyora Raceway will hold competition Sunday and Monday this weekend with major events across both days for the Open Standard Saloons, Crash and Bash Association and Wingless Sprints and Dirt Modifieds. All four classes will compete on both days of racing whilst Ladies Standard Saloons, Sports Sedans and Division 2 Hot Rods will also have a run on either of the two days. Fans of eight-cylinder engines and the noise and power the cars with them produce will be…

Rosedale International Speedway played host to round one of the ‘Shake and Bake Diva’s Victorian Ladies Standard Saloon series for 2023/24 and after three hard fought qualifiers and a speedy feature event it would be Warragul racer Caroline Allen that would leave Rosedale victorious. Rosedale club members Bree Walker and Tahlia Campbell filled in the podium positions in second and third respectively as the season got off to a fast and furious start. The racing from heat one through to the final on the Pakenham Radiators supported race night increased to a faster pace race after race with Allen setting…

For the second season running, Ladies from around Gippsland Victoria have put together a self-promoted series in which the competitors will race throughout the 23/24 season to determine a series champion. This season the series starts at Rosedale International Speedway this Saturday with thirteen competitors set to entertain. The series is an opportunity for the Ladies to be in the limelight more than ever before as their numbers continue to increase with more Ladies each season becoming race drivers. Differing from years of the past, many of the drivers now have their own cars dedicated to themselves instead of sharing…