Author: Dean Thompson

With the holiday season well and truly underway in the Wimmera and visitors coming into town to stay with family and friends and others set to come to town for an extended stay in the new year, the speedway community is also contributing to Horsham and surrounding towns economy with a two-day race weekend booked in and ready to go this weekend starting Friday. On Friday evening January 6th local racers that include Steven Hateley and Jeremy Beddison will strap into their Wingless Sprints for round one of the ‘Summer Slam’ series. Drivers with interest in winning the overall series,…

Bairnsdale Speedway will once again be in action this upcoming Boxing Day evening  with a great show for all that will including Sprintcars, Wingless Sprints, Standard Saloons and Ladies Standard Saloons providing the entertainment, whilst it has also been confirmed by club President Mark Both, that he has an agreement from Santa Claus to appear and in a major coup for Bairnsdale, Santa has asked if he can jump in a race car for a skid! With Santa Claus brining joy to our children and getting into a race car, there should be plenty of smiles to go around for…

Nyora Raceway have held their last event before Christmas on Saturday night and families and fans were entertained on track with the racing and with the Christmas shenanigans of the Grinch and Santa Claus whilst one lucky fan was given a bicycle from Nyora Raceway Inc. In racing the main events were the visiting Sprintcars and the Junior Sedan Promotional Association series round. The Sprintcars were fast, very fast and the eventual winner Shane Steenholdt scorched around the track in 13.5 seconds during the final. Steenholdt from Bairnsdale won the feature event that originally ran seventeen laps without stoppage from…

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…