Author: Dean Thompson

Sunday this weekend will finally see the Daylesford Speedway beat the weather gods and start their season with a huge amount of nominations keen to skid after a terrific amount of venue maintenance in recent weekends took care of some of the damage weather created. The spirit of the Daylesford club members seen many pitch in on a recent working bee and now all is set for this Sunday’s racing with all club classes and Standard Saloons and Junior 1200 Sedans in action. Daylesford Modified Sedan competition will see reigning Daylesford Junior champion Bailey Kakoschke competing with Ryan Daly, Ian…

This Saturday night racing returns to Alexandra Speedway with the Modified Sedan state series round the main event attracting over twenty-five entries to this point and including Alexandra members Brody Chrystie, Matt Nelson, Kasey Garlick and Damien Miller amongst them the host club member drivers are keen for a front of the pack showing on the track they grew up racing on with all three drivers’ members for over fifteen years. Some of the state’s best competitors that will be in the thick of the action include the Australian Champion Brock Atkins, Wade McCarthy from Mildura, Brad Wicks from Bendigo,…

Horsham Speedway Club held its first event of the season on Saturday night with the Sprintcars and Street Stocks heading into the Wimmera to do battle along with the Trucks, Production Sedans, and the Unlimited Sedans. The main attractions were the Sprintcars followed by the Street Stocks. In Sprintcar action Todd Moule a Victorian who spends a lot of time in the Northern Territory with work and racing set the fastest time of the time trials with a 13.488 whilst Charles Hunter from Bacchus Marsh way came in second as the time trials sorted who would be in which heat…

This Sunday morning from 11am the Drouin Speedway second event of the season will entertain motorsport fans with the annual Standard Saloon Eliminator Cup feature event where cars keep changing direction and cars keep getting eliminated at the end of each segment co-headlining with the Unlimited Sedan Lucky 7s series round, they will be joined by the Junior Standard Saloons, Ladies Standard Saloons and a ‘Remember When, Remember Them’ series round for the Division 2 Hot Rods, the first of three events in Gippsland this summer in the series. In the Eliminator Cup for Standard Saloons West Gippsland is well…

The Victorian Mini and Lightning Sprints Club held their first big feature of the season when together with the Wangaratta Speedway Club who hosted this weekend’s race meeting they were able to showcase Mini and Lightning Sprints in the ‘Skillys Tyre and Auto’ Highway Challenge. Current Australian champion AJ McTaggart from Sydney took victory in front of Harley Graham from Lismore and Jack Selmes, Danny Stone, and Heathcote racer Ally Moore. Also competing were Maureen Sell, Matt Mason, Vic McTaggart, Jason Alie, Jason Lynn, and Luke Graham. Three heat races sorted out the qualifying order for the big feature event…

The new Speedway season is here, and Nagambie Speedway hosted the Victorian Mini-Lightning Sprints season opener on Saturday with Lismore New South Wales based Queensland and Victoria club member Harley Graham picking up the victory after a great day of racing for all. On a new racetrack for the current club members, everybody was on an even playing field at the big Nagambie track. Each driver had three heats scheduled to qualify for the final. The action started in heat race number one with Sydney racer Danny Stone cracking his race car against the wall early in the race noting…

This Saturday night the Wangaratta City Raceway is set for a huge opening night of the season with the Sprintcars coming from all around Victoria to do battle in round one of the season after numerous disruptions down south to starting their season due to weather. The night will end with a Demolition Derby, which is sure to send fans home with smiles. The Sprintcars will also be joined by thirty plus Sports Sedan’s starting their state series along with a blue-ribbon feature event for the Mini-Lightning Sprints and Junior Sedans. Our Sprintcar line-up includes well known and popular competitors…

Nyora Raceway got its season underway on the weekend finally after a weather affected start for everybody including the popular South Gippsland entertainment venue. Drivers had travelled with numerous classes with competitors from Mildura amongst those that made the trip into town. For eight classes competing, qualifying races had all been completed when the rain began during the finals. Only a handful of finals had been completed and as a result most of the results on race night were declared on qualifying points.  Results are as follows: Two-time Victorian champion in Ladies Standard Saloon racing Nyora’s Trish Dike continues leading…

After weeks of miserable weather and a long absence of racing since May, the proud Horsham Speedway Drivers Club is set to host the first of many exciting events for the season this Saturday night starting with a visit from the All Star Sprintcars and the South Australian Street Stock Series. More than twenty Sprintcars are nominated to compete with a terrific line-up of talent from Charles Hunter, Mark Caruso, Scott Enderl, Michael Tancredi, Todd Moule, Jett Bell, David Donegan, and Corey Sandow amongst them. The Sprintcars always entertain and pull a crowd, race fans in the are encouraged to…

A terrific crowd headed to Bairnsdale Speedway on Saturday night to watch the opening of the race season with terrific events scheduled for Sprintcars, Wingless Sprints, Junior Standard Saloons in particular.