Author: Dean Thompson

Drouin Speedway entered into 2023 with their first race meeting of the new year with the Junior Standard Saloons the main event of the day and it would be Catani based racer Nathan Miles who would take victory ahead of the fancied Harry Cecil who finished back in third. Other winners on the day included Jaiden Santin from Lismore New South Wales winning the Top Star 1500cc Junior Sedans Tyson Heaphy won the New Star 1500cc Junior Sedans, Johnny Young the Unlimited Sedan’s, Lea Judd the Ladies Standard Saloons and Andrew Miles the Open Standard Saloons. Miles began the race…

Wangaratta City Raceway was the host venue for the Goulburn Ovens Sedans Victorian title on Saturday night (Jan 14th) with a healthy crowd enjoying the Carnival atmosphere around the facility as the local club continued to provide activities for families to bring their children to enjoy. In the on-track action Corowa based racer Justin Brockley won the Victorian title in the main event of the evening for the Goulburn Oven’s Sedans. Whilst another Corowa resident Trevor Mills won the prestigious blue-ribbon event for Production Sedans, the Bob Bailey Memorial. In Junior Sedan action Connor Claridge won the latest series round…

Bairnsdale Speedway has been having a rough trot of it this season with serious accidents to competitors, and poor weather regardless of it being too wet or too hot affecting race meetings so far and this past Saturday the rain poured down on the track twice before any racing could get underway after track preparations whilst young Latrobe Valley racer Kaine Smith from the Junior Standard Saloons suffered a lower leg injury in a crash that ended the night for everybody as a major delay occurred waiting for the Ambulance to attend for a non-life threatening injury. Major events included…

At Nyora Raceway on Saturday night (Jan 14th) more than thirty Junior Sedan competitors from around Australia including Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania arrived to do battle with Victorian racers as they set about trying to win the Speedway Sedans Victoria Junior title and at the end of the evening it would be Australian champion and Queensland racer Aidan Rigby who would come out the victor after just securing his national championship the previous weekend. Also, on the program Bradley Hill from Drouin went on to take the win in the Miles Cup for Standard Saloon’s whilst…

This Saturday night Wangaratta City Raceway swings into action once again with a huge show of racing with the evenings racing which will include the Goulburn Ovens Sedans Victorian title, Bob Bailey Memorial for Production Sedans, and Wangaratta Cup for Grand Prix Midgets along with support class action. Goulburn Ovens Sedans competition has field of over twenty entrants with most of the fancied racers Northeast Victoria and Riverina based drivers. Peter Little the winner recently at Wangaratta, Wayne O’Keefe, Daniel McCarten, Rhys Collins, Justin Brockley, Nathan Shortis, and Robert Garlick are just some of the names to keep an eye…

Blue Ribbon Raceway’s mega weekend of racing across the 7th and 8th of January seen over one hundred and fifty different race cars compete in seven different classes finishing with an American winner, two next generation Horsham raised stars winning races and important series victories to many of the winners. On Friday night American Alex Panella secured victory in the Formula 500 ‘Dash for Cash’ series event. Panella was too strong across twenty laps for his brother Nikko winning by more than two seconds whilst Nikko got the better of Victorian Max Owen in the stoush for second spot. Queensland…

Bairnsdale Speedway returns this Saturday night with a long list of local Latrobe Valley and East Gippsland dirt track sedan heroes set to entertain in support of the annual King of the Rock for open wheel Limited Sportsman, which has attracted competitors from the Wimmera, the South-West and East Gippsland. Limited Sportsman have their first run of the season at Bairnsdale Speedway with Victorian champion Jock Baker set to resume battle with his own son Tommy who won last Saturday night in Horsham beating his father in his second ever race meeting. Andrew Wilson whom was third in the same…

Drouin’s number one sports entertainment promotion the Drouin Speedway fires up again this Sunday for the first event of the New Year with Junior Sedan racing the main event focus of the day. Whilst a large and strong field of Standard Saloons has also nominated as they do each and every meeting at Drouin, Ladies Standard Saloons, the Aces of Spades Vintage Hot Rods class and the Unlimited Sedans will also feature in action. Junior Standard Saloons feature on the program with Harry Cecil leading the way against Nathan Miles, Jack and Tom Braz, Cooper Joynson, Beau Stuchbery, and Zac…

Nineteen year old Ally Morrison from Warragul is Victoria’s number one Ladies Standard Saloon driver having gone back to back in the last two state titles ran at Nyora Raceway, and now the gun driver has her eyes on a third state title having set the standard so far this year winning round one of the Ladies state series in Bairnsdale and setting a lap time faster than any of the men racing that night in the Standard Saloon class, before winning a heat race recently against all the guys at Rosedale in the Rosedale Christmas Classic. Ally races for…

Wangaratta Speedway Club’s community spirit resulted in a terrific night for the nearby Corowa-Rutherglen Speedway club who held their first meeting of the season at the Wangaratta Speedway whilst the Wahgunyah Speedway goes through a clean up after the Murray River channels around the speedway broke over the levy and flooded the track damaging equipment and making a mess of the soil, and track. By opening the gates to their venue to the Corowa club, Wangaratta were able to help them raise funding to assist with being ready for the next event at Wahgunyah Speedway on January the 21st which…