Author: Dean Thompson

This Saturday night South Gippsland will kick up a gear with the Nyora Raceway providing a Sprintcar and Christmas night for all. All of the local clubs’ local champions will also compete in their classes in a great way to enjoy a night out a weekend before Christmas. The Victorian Speedway council Sprintcars under the Victorian Sprintcar Association banner will compete with the likes of Bairnsdale’s Adam Greenwood, Alistair Bastian and Adam Greenwood doing battle against the Victorian champion Steven Horton.  The ‘Kings with Wings’ are always spectacular with passing, speed, and crashes, they are not to be missed. …

Saturday night at Wangaratta City Raceway the crowd was super pumped for a big night of Sprintcar action and local Sedan heroes, and they got both of those along with Mini and Lightning Sprint racing, Junior Sedan competition and a small but entertaining Demolition Derby. Sprintcar competitors came from Tasmania, New South Wales and right around Victoria and at the end of the night, it would be a first time Sprintcar win to Ashley Cook from the Victorian Southwest after he defeated Terry Rankin and Albury’s Grant Anderson. Four heat races in the Sprintcars seen wins to Rankin, Cook, Andrew…

Alexandra and District Speedway Club have started there 2022/2023 season on Saturday night with the visiting Modified Sedan series headlining the action whilst the local Sports Sedan and Victorian Speedway Council and Speedway Sedans Australia Junior categories also determined their first winners of the club point score season. The Modified Sedan’s provided competitors from Mildura, Ballarat, Horsham, and Wangaratta to name a few regional areas of the state, whilst locally Matt Nelson from Woori Yallock, Brody Chrystie from the Murrindindi shire, Kasey Garlick from the Eastern Suburbs and Damien Miller from Pakenham represented the Alexandra Club. Modified Sedan racing began…

Drouin Speedway have completed their second race meeting of the season on Sunday with the annual Eliminator Cup for Standard Saloons sharing top billing with the Lucky 7s series for Unlimited Sedans and the Remember When, Remember Them first series round of the year for Division 2 Hot Rods. Mark Miles from Catani won the Eliminator Cup whilst Peter Cox from the Northern Suburbs won the Unlimited Sedans and Bobby Devine the Division 2 Hot Rods. Other winners on the day included Colac’s Zac Barwise in Junior Standard Saloons, Trish Dike in Ladies Standard Saloons, and Danny Cox in Sports…

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…