June 2013 Edition 19

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MATTY REED in a 360 Sprintcar next season ?

Final arrangement are being discussed that may see Matty Reed in the Ken Huthins 360 Sprintcar team for 2013/4..Ken’s race team had great success in 2012/13 when Danny Smith (USA) and Matt Reed drove for the team. Matt who is the current Victorian 360 Champion and was very unlucky not to have won the gold cup at Hamilton re-cently. Ken is looking to again run a 2 car team with him driving the second car.

STOCK CARS for RTR.Rolling Thunder Raceway Promotions Inc. are developing their own class of stock car for competition at Rolling Thunder Raceway.

The cars are based on the 6 cylinder automatic Ford or Holden. Once about 10 cars have been com-pleted, race events will be arranged at RTR whereby competitors can compete in a range of events including rally cross through the centre infield of the track.Competitors can build their own car, purchase or hire a car for the day.

Specifications will be released soon so interested people can get to work and build their own car, Once they are built, they can be left on site at the raceway so they can be utilized on a regular basis without the need to tow the car to the track.

Brett Swanson (The Pirate) is over in the US to follow the Penn-sylvania Speed week and attend other selected events. The good news is that Brett will be taking a video camera, so expect to see some good footage on Rolling Thunder TV (You Tube) in the future and in the next edition of this magazine.

TWO SEATER SPRINTCAR RIDESFeel like a ride of your life, then a 2 seater Sprintcar ride is for you. Call Gary Bruce on 0459 987 363.

Paul Solomon has a new web site, see www.psr7.com for all the latest news on the #7 Sprintcar team.

Sprintcars return to Redline Race-way in 2014. Tentative dates include: 360 shows on Feb 1st and 15th, March 8th and an open show on April 12th.

Build it and they will come – and they have!The Mainline DynoLog Dynamometers All Star Series are proud of what they have achieved since the series kicked off in 2007-08. The series has completed many goals over this short period and continually increases in popularity, al-ways promoting itself in a positive man-ner.

“At the end of each season I record all our statics and when completed can see in black & white just how much we have achieved. Small steps each year make for big achievements for 360’s overall. It

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shows just how popular 360 racing has become since driv-ers have been given an opportunity to promote them-selves.” Series Promoter, Mandy Searle says.

Created history by being the first travelling 360 Series in Australia and are pleased to see other States following suit. 140 drivers have competed in the Series over the 46 rounds held to date, with 17 new competitors this past sea-son alone. 62 drivers competed last season in comparison to 28 back in 2007/08. Teams from every state in Australia have now run with the Series as well as drivers from the United States. The average car count this season was 22 which was an increase on the previous year. 12 different race tracks have held rounds with another 2 new venues for the oncoming season. 3 x $5000 to win All Star Challenges have been run & won. 3 x Tyson Perez Memorial events have also been run & won. 19 different drivers have won A Main events. With only 46 A Mains run this highlights how competitive the racing is.

2 events have been high-lighted by a 30 mtr Pro Video Big ScreenLive Audio at all events and re-sults published live on Twitter, Facebook, Sprintcar World and the Sprintcar All Star web site as they happen on race nights.“When we compare the popula-tion in Australia that we have to draw from as opposed to America we see a similar trend taking place to the popularity of 360’s there. What is the old saying used in the Field of Dreams movie –‘Build it and they will come’ – well I think that also applies with us. We have built it and they are coming!”

Kouda Signs are delighted to be able to con-gratulate Mark Lincoln for his vic-tory in the Australian AMCA Title at Brisbane on the 26th and 27th of April after limited time in a race seat this season.Lincoln a former national cham-pion in the division had been out of the seat for a while this season with business and family commitments to take care of before jumping back into driver just prior to the recent Victorian title. With a couple lead up events to that title and a couple events since Lincoln went to Archerfield with his race rust gone and the ‘Kouda Signs’ supported # 97 car a genuine chance for victory.

History will now show that Lincoln dominated the final setting the fastest one lap time of anybody in the division across the two nights of racing on lap eleven in the final. Lincoln led from lap two to the very last lap, number thirty to finish ahead of three Queenslanders and another Victo-rian in the top five.Prior to the final Lincoln had finished second in his first heat, sixth in his sec-ond, second in his third and then in the final round Lincoln once again picked up a second place finish qualifying him-self out of fifth position for the title race and moving up to third after Ryan Alex-ander couldn’t start the title race.

Heidi Lincoln one half of ‘Kouda Signs’ was over the moon for her Team Kouda driver Mark Lincoln her cousin. “We flew up from Melbourne to watch know-ing Mark was a very good chance to figure in the results. My partner Brett was crewing for him and come feature time you got a feel-ing it was going to be special as Mark was relaxed yet focused. We are so proud of him and of course Kouda

Signs is extremely pleased to have an Australian Champion displaying our business colours.”Kouda Signs had recently stickered up the Stewart Grant-Campbell owned race car with their business logo and it was perfect timing as Bris-bane got to see a well presented # 97 take the win.Mark Lincoln was very grateful to the team boss/car owner Stewart Grant-Campbell for supplying Mark with a very good race car and spares and Lin-coln cant thank him enough, however hopes that the Australia # 1 sticker gives Grant-Campbell as much joy as it does to him.If you would like to get signs written & stickered, get onto Brett & Heidi at Kouda Signs. Heidi on 0416 740 910 and Brett 0488 842 727

Alexandra & District Speedway Club put together a wonderful show on Saturday the 18th of May with eight different divisions on the program including the visiting 3 Li-tre Sedans & Wingless along with final rounds in the Sports Sedans & Stan-dard Saloon series & Will Lamb made it back to back ‘Mike Woodham Memori-als’ when he was able to out gun Daniel

Wilson & Mick Boyle in the dash to the line.In Wingless Sprints due to a rain out at Nyora Raceway for a meeting sched-uled for the next day, the association had been able to arrange racing for the Ladies who had made their way down for Wingless racing along with the As-sociation Wingless.

Dave McKay won the final in the Asso-ciation Wingless whilst Queenslander Kristin Brown won the Ladies Wingless final.

The ladies held their two heats and a final before the Association Wingless ran theirs. Brown was too good for Bi-anca Reeves, Kristy Ellis, Jodie Lewor-thy & Lisa Herdel in heat one whilst she won the second heat ahead of Ellis, Le-worthy, Reeves and Herdel.

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The feature race finished in exactly the same order.In the Association Wingless, Ray Klemm defeated Kevin Reeves & Lindsey Trotter in heat one before Dave McKay took a win in heat two from Gary Bowden & Trotter. The final was won by McKay from Trot-ter, Klemm, Bowden & Andrew Brown.3 Litre Sedan’s annual ‘Mick Woodham Memorial’ was an event everybody wanted to win. On his way to victory Lamb finished second to Scott Mallon in the first heat second to Wilson in the second heat and won the last. Along with Lamb, Wilson & Boyle, Lennie Clark finished fourth and Adam Monti was awarded fifth after being penalised two spots for a last lap challenge.

In Sports Sedans Matt Nelson out-gunned Ben Moon & Luke Fallon in the

third round of the ‘Fallons Bus Services Cup’ series & won the overall three round series ahead of Darren Forrest, Ash Schoonbeek, Ben Moon & Luke Fallon. Heat wins in the third round went the way of Moon, Rod Henskens, Nelson & Henskens again then Nelson & Wayne Nelson.For the ‘Pakenham 4 x 4 Recyclers Cup’ final round Chris Stewart made it a hat trick of feature race wins in the three round series when he led home Mick Chrystie & Warrick Howie.

In the series Stewart was overall win-ner from Chrystie, Darren Forrest, Dale Morrison/Kellie Garlick & Aaron Meakins. Third round heat race wins went the way of Nick Chrystie, Stewart, Stewart again & Chrystie.

In Junior Sedan racing the six heat wins were shared by Corey Lincoln, Wayne Furmston, Corey Lincoln again, Chevy Edwards, Edwards again and Cameron Pearson. In the final Lincoln who was racing his last ever Junior Se-dan event won from Edwards, Dean Burton, Caleb Lincoln & Pearson.The Ladies Sedans were again on the pro-gram. Megan Cheeseman was the best placed Standard Saloon racer whilst the Open Sedans who start behind the Standards was won by Amanda Bickham.

The overall top five on the night was Cheeseman, Tegan Bullard, Di Meakins, Kym Eames & Bickham.Open Sedan racing had three heats won by Matt Nelson before he also beat Darren Nel-

son in the final with Tim McPherson in third.*********************Stewart wins division 2 Hot Rods zone title at Drouin SpeedwayDrouin Speedway on Sunday May the 5th ended well for the ‘Stewart Racing’ team once gain this time with Daniel Stewart taking a win in the Victorian Speedway Council Gippsland Zone title for Division 2 Hot Rods on the same program the Vintage Sedans from ‘Ace of Spades’ Club and Mark Miles enter-tained.

In the Division 2 Hot Rods three heat races determined where the drivers would begin the feature race and the first heat was very entertaining with Ricky Mills and Stewart in a great battle catching up to a backmarker and both needing to decide who was going to pass on the pole line and who was going outside and as Mills would later say at presentation it was Stewart whom had the bigger ‘Cohuna’s’ and he went high and took the lead and the first heat win from Mill’s & Scotty Laidlaw.In heat two Mills manage to lock in a win ahead of Stewart and Laidlaw before Laidlaw took a win in the third heat ahead of Stewart and Mills with those three drivers securing the top three in all three heat races.

Stewart began the final at the front of the field and had a terrible start, it looked like he was testing his steer-ing as the green

flag came out and was caught behind. Again in the feature another move re-quiring Stewart to run high paid off as Stewart ripped past Mills to take the win in a fifteen lap final. Laidlaw once again was third with Jeff Smith and Ricky Low rounding out the top five.Stewart was kind in his words after the win at pres-entation.

“The Drouin Club have done well today. It was a great track with passing room up high which the crowd witnessed. I thank Shane (brother) and my support-ers and family. It was great to race with Ricky & Scotty today, it was clean and fast. I hope we as a Division come back here again soon.

”In Standard Saloons Pakenham’s Mark Miles seemed to have his car sorted out and despite a heat race over zealous move on Mitch Bowyer, Miles had a great finish to the day and took a win over Ben Randall who was having a rip-per stoush with Nar Nar Goon resident

Victor ‘The Inflictor’ Benson. In Vintage Sedan’s a demonstration group of racers in machines from the fantastic 50’s & 60’s with names to boot it would be the ‘Aggravator’ who would lead to the fin-ish line the ‘Gnome’ & ‘Burnout’. For those not knowing who these names are related to it was Peter Quaife, Bob Ma-loney & Billy O’Neill. A new edition Gipp-sland ‘hired gun’ Alan ‘The Monster’ McKinnon debuted in Col Chadwick’s ‘Herman’s Hearse’ and complete with coffin handles on the side of the race car, McKinnon had an absolute ball and finished strongly amongst the group.

In SSA Junior Sedans Donald Young from Langwarrin won all three heat races and the final with Shona Bent chasing in second place in all four races. Josh Stewart was much improved and finished the day in third place whilst Ro-chelle Hill & rookie of the day Zoe Young despite a little bingle in the feature race finished the final also. Zoe Young fin-ished all three heats and the final in her first days racing which was an out-standing result. Donald Young was very strong in winning both he and Shona Bent look ready for the big events still to come for the season.In Ladies Standard Saloon’s Melissa Tat-terson and Karen Halliday were the

strong performers of the day with Tatterson victorious in a shoot out feature for the two. Michael Suckling in Junior Standards further developed his race driving skills in readiness for next seasons potential VSC Juniors Gippsland Series & Russell Hill won the Open Sedan final ahead of Aaron Price and Michael Knight.

All Stars 2013-14 Race Schedule

The Mainline DynoLog Dynamometers All Star Series is very pleased to announce their proposed race schedule for the oncoming season with 2 new race tracks locking in Series rounds and 9 rounds confirmed to date.The series will kick off in Murray Bridge as has been tradition for the past few seasons and then heads off to Heartland Raceway, Moama and then Swan Hill Speedway, both of these venues are new for the All Stars. Gippsland’s Rosedale International Raceway is the next venue to be visited before Christmas. Nyora Speedbowl has again locked in their regu-lar Christmas date. Simpson have again taken 2 rounds this season and teams can use the January 4 date as a shootout for the Mainline DynoLog Dynamometers All Star Challenge $5K to win show 2 weeks later. Borderline Speedway is next on the calendar with the Tyson Perez Memorial. Blue Ribbon Raceway Horsham is the next stop for con-

firmed dates. The Series is waiting to confirm a date for Tim-mis Speedway Mildura.Dates are –November 9 – Murray Bridge Speedway, SANovember 16 – Heartland Raceway, Moama, NSWNovember 23 – Swan Hill Raceway, Swan Hill, VicDecember 7 – Rosedale International Raceway, VicDecember 27 – Nyora Speedbowl, VicJanuary 4 – Heytesbury Stockfeeds Simpson Speedway, Vic January 18 – All Star Challenge Heytesbury Stockfeeds Simpson Speedway, VicFebruary 8 – Tyson Perez Memorial . Borderline Speedway - Mount Gambier, SA February 22 – Blue Ribbon Raceway, Horsham, VicMarch 1 – TBCMarch 15 - TBC

“We are very excited to have 2 new venues to compete at for this oncoming season. Swan Hill Speedway approached us last season but unfor-tunately we could not find a suitable date for both of us but we have made one work for this season. Heartland Raceway has also taken on a Series round and we are certainly looking forward to going to the big wide open race track. At the moment we are waiting to hear back from Mildura and another venue con-firming the March rounds and of course the Final. Hopefully this will be done ASAP. Now how long to go -6 months but who’s counting? ” Searle says.

SDAV HOT RODSKavanagh in a Hurry

at RushworthThe thundering SDAV Rods hit the track at Rushworth Speedway on April 27th with the racers competing in three of the four heats each and it was Victorian Champion Jason Kavanagh who finished victorious ahead of Allan Luckett & Dean West in the feature event.The action began with West & Dylan Linehan off the front row of heat one and Phil Jenkins (# 3 Westside Radia-tors) made a great start to the race moving up to second as they cross the line on lap one. On lap two things went pear shaped for Linehan (# 28 Bronson Sheetmetal Fabrications) though as he rode a wheel on Jenkins car and broke his own tail shaft that

put his car infield. Jenkins was able to continue on however was about to strike trouble. West (# 4 Ace Timber & Hardware) led Kavanagh on the lap two restart with Jenkins in third. Kavanagh moved to the lead soon af-ter whilst Jenkins pulled out with dis-tributor failure. Kavanagh took the win from West, Shannon Meakins, Steve Robertson (# 69 Solar City Canvas Shepparton) & Glenn Lawless. With Luckett from pole and Kavanagh from sixth in the second heat, it was-n’t going to be an easy ride for Kavanagh. Luckett (# 16 Intech Motorsport Dyno) led Kali Hovey and West on lap one before Robertson spun on lap two. By lap three Kavanagh was chasing Luckett and on lap five he snatched the lead. Kavanagh went on to win from Luckett, West, Kali Hovey (# 22

Ribeau Interstate Transport) and Robertson. Russell Hovey the last start feature winner at Laang Speedway found himself black flagged by the Stewards when his neck brace came off! Jenkins and Meakins (# 84 Aarons Car Removals) began at the front of the pack in the third heat and it would be Meakins to lead at the first crossing of the start line. On lap turn Jenkins lost grip on the leader when he spun and was shown the rear of field signal. Meakins held the lead as he crossed the line on lap seven be-fore spinning in turn to himself and also being directed to the back of the pack.

Luckett then led to the finish taking a win over West, Kali Hovey, Meakins & Lawless (# 99 Wally’s Race Parts). At the restart after Meakins had spun you wouldn’t believe it, Russell Hovey got another black flag, this time for hitting the single file starting cone.

In the final heat to earn qualification points for the final. Robertson & Kavanagh (# 5 Racetrans & Develop-ments – Chassis & Components) began at the front and right from the green the # 5 car was gone. Luckett had a spin and a rear of field banishment on lap two and Kavanagh for nine laps led Meakins and Robertson before Luckett on lap ten got by Robert-son to take third at the chequers. Robertson was fourth then Jenkins, Kali Hovey, Lawless & Russell Hovey (# 25 Ribeau Interstate Transport). Lining up for the final with the top run-ners on the night at the front Kavanagh, Luckett, West & Meakins held the first four grid positions. When let out of the blocks, Kavanagh led Luckett & West. On lap two, Jenkins car came to a halt in turn four and the yellow lights were switched on. Jenkins didn’t finish the final still having mechanical issues. Kavanagh then continued to lead Luckett and West before Meakins also came to a halt this time in turn three on lap eight. Meakins was able to re-start and Kavanagh continued to lead

the remaining seven laps with Luckett & West in tow to the chequer flag. Kali Hovey finished fourth ahead of Robert-son and then Meakins, Russell Hovey and Lawless rounded out the field.Second placed driver Allan Luckett was pleased with his result. “I enjoyed this race meeting. Rushworth is a great place to come racing and we have a fan base here also which is good. We just couldn’t match Kav in the end however to finish ahead of West & Meakins is a good result for us. Bring on Redline!”

GP MIDGETS AT REDLINE.

Ash Booker came out victorious again in the Grand Prix Midgets this time at Red-line Raceway with Geoff Meyers giving him the hurry up all the way in a great tussle at the front of the field with Lisa Chalcraft closing out the top three plac-ings.

Redline Raceway last season was one of the clubs favourite race meetings and they were delighted to be able to come back this season and are looking to lock in two meetings at the venue again next season as they steadily increase their club membership and drivers with a view to travelling to more venues next season.

Nine racers made it to the venue with a couple others from New South Wales and Shepparton unable to make it. Booker and Mark Cecil who now races Compact Speedcars and was driving the John Bale owned # 25 sporting a Suzuki Katana 1130cc engine started on the front row. Cecil out gunned Booker at the start of the ten lap heat and led across the line on lap one. Chalcraft slotted into the third position whilst Chris Fowler (# 13 Bend & Ma-chine – Suzuki GSX 1100) had fourth ahead of Neil Johnson.Danny Stainer who was racing for the ‘Pitstop Mowers Team’ in the R1 Ya-maha powered number 5 car had a battery fail and no ignition and could-n’t get that fixed in between heats and was out for the night.

Geoff Meyers slowed due to fuel injec-tion issues whilst Johnson found his way ahead of Fowler on lap four.Cecil from Shepparton driving the for-mer Noel Freeman race car who was a national champion in the division led until lap ten started to run out of fuel and the car started to splutter and Booker took advantage and the win. Chalcraft (# 15 Oil Hydraulics Shepparton – Suzuki GSXR-W 1100)

finished third ahead of Johnson, Fowler, Mal-colm German, Meyers & Garry Cassidy.Heat two began with Johnson and Meyers at the head of the field. Johnson got the best start as Meyers slipped through the field letting Fowler and Booker into second and third to duel. Cecil spun on lap two just as Booker (# 50 R & P Stainer Grinding Services – R1 Yamaha) had passed Fowler giv-ing Fowler second spot back on the re-start.

On lap four Cecil and Cassidy collided coming off of turn two resulting in a broken left upright for Cecil putting him out of the meeting, Cassidy (# 9 Unsponsored – Suzuki GSX 1100) re-started. On the same lap German in the former Cecil owned race car took to the infield with mechanical break down.

Johnson (# 22 Unsponsored – Suzuki EXE 1100) continued on at the front without a challenge whilst Fowler and Booker crossed the line in a dead heat passing the lap scorers at the chequer flag with Meyers and then Chalcraft

next in line.Chalcraft and Cassidy began the final heat on the front row with Booker at the back in sixth place.

Chalcraft led Meyers in the # 47 Lights Plus Shepparton machine at the end of lap one and Johnson at the end of lap two and then Meyers again on lap three before Johnson slipped down into a contest with Fowler.On lap seven Johnson and Fowler in a fight for position came together when Fowler tried a move on the inside in turn one.

The cars connected and Johnson spun with the officials putting the # 22 car to the back of the field for the stop-page. It didn’t matter to much as on the restart Fowler couldn’t get any drive due to a broken CV joint after the contact with Johnson and the # 13 car limped around to finish.

On lap seven Chalcraft pulled infield with a flat tyre and waited to cross the line for points when the chequer was waved. Earlier Cassidy broke both front shocker mounts putting his car out for the final.

A ten lap final with six starters began with Booker at the top of the field, Johnson, Meyers, Fowler, Chalcraft & German (# 6 United Tools – GSX-R 1000).Booker quickly established a lead from Johnson and Meyers who had overcome his fuel issues from earlier in the night. Johnson spun on lap eight and on the restart got in front of Fowler before spinning on turn four on the final lap.

Booker took the win with Meyers bear-ing down on him quickly then Chalcraft, Fowler & German as the chequer flag waved. The Victorian GP Midget Club is sup-ported by:Super Balance Shepparton and DMT Sports Media

Luke Fallon Back To Back In Metro Tow 100 Lap Derby

It is hard enough to win a summer weekend feature race and in Victoria when the regular Speedway Sedan Aus-tralia & Victorian Speedway Council sea-sons are done 100 plus Sedans head to Alexandra Speedway and try to win the annual almost forty year old 100 Lap Derby and Luke Fallon a local legend pulled off the win for the second year in succession and the third time in four seasons when he won a fog delayed feature on Monday the 10th of June.

Fallon pipped Tony Moule at the death knell to take the win with current Aus-tralia # 4 Dirt Modified racer Daniel Scott third then Damien Miller & Steve Ellis finalising the top five positions.

Racing on Saturday night was fogged out after round four had finished and there was no chance round five heats were going to be run. A driver vote to run the final on Monday morning based on the first three rounds of heats which had a front, middle and rear start for all competitors seen the round four results scrapped.

The Alexandra & District Speedway Club

then decided that due to drivers leaving to go home Sunday night that anybody who wanted to buy their way into the final could for $50 that would go to-wards the fire & paramedic crew facili-ties at the venue and so 57 racers started the 100 lap final.

Round one heat races were won by Mick Chrystie, Robbie Gorman, Garry Monti, former Australia # 2 Street Stock racer Mick Clark, Daniel Scott, former Austra-lia # 2 Junior Sedan racer Corey Lincoln in his first ever open age race & Damien Miller.

Round two produced some more wins from some of the favourites of the event. Steve Lincoln set the fastest heat race time of the weekend in heat 2a with a 3.29.019 six lap time in an event when most laps take 35.5 seconds or more per lap. Garry won again, David Barrie, Lenny Bates, Darren Forrest, Kellie Atkins, Damien Millerand Matt Nelson.

What was to become the final round of points considered in the qualification for the Derby started with another win to Monti before Russell Hill had the biggest heat win of the weekend when he won by 17.551 seconds ahead of his nearest

rival. That’s around half a lap distance. Jamie Lock took a win then Paul Turnbull, Damien Miller to stay equal on points with Monti, Tony Moule, Atkins & Corey Lincoln.

This was the end of night one with two rounds to go on the Sunday before the 100 lap derby. The fourth round was run and the first of the fifth round be-fore fog settled in to end the nights rac-ing. To make it fair for drivers who couldn’t have their reversed grid start in the fifth round the fourth round was dis-carded and points were done on the ba-sis of the first night results.

For the record Lewis Clark, Daniel Stew-art, Mick Chrystie, Steve Lincoln, Corey Lincoln, Sonia Nelson, Russell Hill & Colin Lincoln won the heats that were not being counted from round four. By Steve, Colin & Corey Lincoln winning races history was made as Steve is Colin’s father and Corey’s grandfather giving three generations of a family a win in the round, all three started in the 100 Lap Derby also.

Bad luck for Monti who was equal top point scorer and pole position based on best lap time who then blew a head gasket in his fourth heat. He got an of-

fer to fix the car and headed back to Bendigo to try to get the job done how-ever didn’t return on Monday for the feature event.

Simon Jones & Russell Hill were two drivers in the top twenty qualifiers who elected not to compete on Monday.

Miller was left on pole position with Corey Lincoln alongside him. Moule and Turnbull were on row two with Chrystie & Atkins on row three then Billy Burton, Bates, Nathan Fawns & Chris Stewart completing the top starting ten.

Other notables starting the final below the top ten included event sponsor Dar-ren Forrest most recently a Late Model Sedan competitor, Steve & Colin Lin-coln, Des Birkin a many years ago South Australian Super Sedan cham-pion, Mick Clark, Tim McCubbin from the great Sprintcar family, whilst de-fending champion Fallon began around about 30th and Scott around 34th posi-tion.

The ‘Metro Tow 100 Lap Derby’ took one hour & twenty three minutes to run which included laps on caution slowing down the event official time. During the final Corey Lincoln cracked a new race

record one lap time since the use of transponders of 33.425 seconds for a lap. Almost a second better than any-time over the weekend.

Matt Nelson didn’t get to meet the green flag and pulled out of the race quickly whilst Steve Lincoln became the first race casualty early pulling out after a break down.

Miller led the field on lap one from Turnbull, Moule and Corey Lincoln who didn’t have the best of runs through the dog leg on lap one. Miller led to lap ten before Lincoln moved back up and took the lead on lap eleven through to 18 before Miller took the lead again and led Lincoln, Turnbull, Moule & Atkins at the twenty lap mark of the race.

It was around here that Turnbull spun at the entrance to the dog leg with the rear end of his car locking up and his race was done.

Moule made a move on lap twenty eight and assumed the lead lost it four laps later to Lincoln and took it back the very next circuit around when Lincoln succumbed to a flat tyre and had to pit whilst Moule went on swapping with Miller until lap 55 where Daniel Scott took the lead having stormed through the pack from 30 positions behind the lead cars.

On lap 60 Moule was back in the lead with Scott, Miller, Ellis, Fallon, Ahearn, Chris Stewart, Miles, McPherson & Chrystie the top ten at this point and Moule held the lead until lap 73 before Scott took it again until lap 77. It was great racing at the front of the pack as drivers in the lead group worked their way in and out and around lapped cars

and other groups in their own battles for position. From lap 78 Moule was back in the lead and very much looking like he was going to go on with it, ac-cept the defending champion had other ideas.

On lap 80 Moule led Scott, Miller, Fallon, Ellis, Ahearn, Miles, McPherson, Stewart & Robert Fair.

Fallon was creeping up gradually through the field and by lap 90 was in second and reeling in Moule. Having led from lap 78 on lap 99 Moule lost the lead to Fallon who went on to record the win by a margin of 1.453 seconds over Moule, Scott was 8 seconds fur-ther back then Damien Miller and Ellis

the only cars finishing on the lead lap. A lap behind and in sixth was Morris Ahearn with Chris Stewart, Tim McPher-son & Andrew Miles. Corey Lincoln managed to finish in tenth after having to head to the pits briefly and return to the track early in the race putting him-self a couple laps down.

Kellie Atkins was the first lady home then Brendan Miller, Robert Fair, An-drew Jordan, Darren Nelson, Mick Clark, Gary Stanley, Shane O’Brien,

SPRINTCAR BOLT KITSAVAILABLE SOON

Daniel Unternaher & Daniel Simpson making up the top twenty finishers.

Whilst Moule & Scott are both probably thinking what could have been, Chris ‘Big Bird’ Stewart, Tim ‘Timbo’ McPher-son & Andrew Miles are all stoked about their top ten fin-ishes in the big race. Stewart converted his race car from a Standard Saloon to Open spec car whilst McPherson has per-formed strongly at the end of the season especially since winning the Redline Raceway Open Sedan track champion-ship whilst Miles is showing that he is going to be a top of the field racer on a more fre-quent basis moving into next season.

Outside of the top twenty who would normally figure in the top 15 were Lenny Bates, Bill Burton, Darren Forrest, Mick Chrystie, Daniel Stewart, Robert Gorman, Colin Lincoln, Paul Turnbull & Dave Erickson.

Atkins, Miles & Cull Win At Alexandra

On the same weekend as the 100 Lap Derby at Alexandra the annual ‘Victorian Short Circuit Championship’ for Jun-ior Sedans and the Alexandra Cup & King of the Valley for Standard Saloons were also ran with Brock Atkins from Hamilton winning

the Victorian Short Circuit Championship across 5 heats and a final whilst Mark Miles won the first night Alexandra Cup after three heats and a final and David Cull won the King of the Valley on points after the Standard Saloons elected not to hang around until Monday to run the final.

In the Junior Sedans Atkins who began in sixth on the grid went on to win the first heat ahead of Chevy Edwards whom he battled with most of the weekend. Caleb Lincoln won the next heat with Atkins in the second round of heats

setting the fastest six lap heat overall time of 3:53.377 for the Juniors over the weekend and also set the fastest one lap time of 38.396 in the same race. Cameron Pearson had a win by the closest of margins in the next heat win-ning by .170 of a second ahead of Edwards.

Atkins, Jackson Lunt, Jesse McKinnell, Atkins & Caleb Lin-coln took out wins in the final four heats.

With Atkins a deserving pole position qualifier he led Lin-coln & Jackson Lunt away to begin the twenty lap final until Lincoln spun on lap two and dropped back in the field. Try-ing to make the distance back to the leader Lincoln then clipped the wall hard on lap four and drifted infield to be attended by the medics with shoulder and arm pains. His race was done.

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Reed epitomises speed Collins captures AMCA Nationals Victorian Championship at Rolling Thunder Raceway

Jamie Collins is the newly crowned Vic-torian AMCA Nationals Champion and “Mr Speed” Matthew Reed is officially the fastest man ever to lap Rolling Thunder Raceway after an action packed night of racing at the Bacchus Marsh Speedbowl on March 23rd.The State championship for the AMCA Nationals was the headline event and it was a stellar field of local and interstate competitors, with the visiting Queen-slanders quickly adapting to the big track and showing some great speed, however mechanical and other issues were to se-verely hamper their assaults.

Veteran Kevin Peachey was in the form of his AMCA life and put his #51 AMCA on pole for the all-important feature with Russ Hardy alongside. Jamie Collins, Dean Ballard, Grant Cullinger and Mick Jackson would start next ahead of fa-vourite Tim Reidy and defending cham-pion Darren McCarthy.At the drop of the green Hardy made a good start but when Grant Cullinger spun his advantage was negated. On the com-

plete restart

Peachey gained the ascendancy and led the first 3 laps before Collins hit the lead and would never again be headed as he opened up a sizeable led as the race ran on.A couple of cautions closed things up but on each occasion Collins pulled away and by the time Jackson worked through to second place there was not enough laps left to run down the leader who took the win by less than two seconds with Peachey crossing the line in third ahead of Matt Hardy, Frank Thierry, Steve Lodwick, McCarthy, Cullinger,

Bill Lodwick and Dar-ran O’Reilly. Post-race scrutineering however found a technical in-fringement on the car of Peachey who was

excluded from the results elevating Hardy onto the podium.

In the Sprintcars it was all Reed as he dominated setting a new lap record along the way, on a lap that he admitted scared him.

With a motor loaned to him by debu-tant Tony Edwards, Reed was simply on fire winning from American Geoff Ensign with Shane Heathcote third and scoring the Dromana Mowers $250 bo-nus for being the first 360ci car home.

Peter Milnes put on a great drive on debut at Rolling Thunder Raceway driv-ing from the back of the field to come home fourth ahead of Dennis Jones, Michael Cunningham, Paul Solomon, Michael Tancredi, debutant Jake Smith, Luke Nash, Ken Hutchins, Kane Haugh and Scott Irons.

Reeds’ scintillating lap was a time of 13.017 second at an average speed of 165.937 seconds – astonishing.“I’ve run some fast race tracks in America but that was scary.” said Reed who didn’t let his fear slow him down any. “That was the fastest I’ve ever gone in a Sprintcar.”Sean Lister was the quickest of the Su-per Sedans and Stuart Robinson domi-nated the Open Independent Sedans.

A fitting tribute was also acknowledged for the two crewmen killed at Marys-ville raceway last weekend (friends of visiting American racer Geoff Ensign) and for the recent passing of influential Victorian Dennis Cockerill.

A Sunday meeting closed out the sea-son at Redline Raceway with some fun and frivolity thrown in amongst some racing and a crazy thought process of letting crew members race cars and the big winners on the day were Stuart Robinson in Street Stocks, Leigh Good-ing in Standards Saloons, Leigh Bourke in Open Sedan’s, Kye Walters in Junior Sedans & Kym Cotterill in Formula V8’s.The Street Stocks had thirty entries for the final show of the season. This meant two rounds of three heats were run with Darren Giacometti, Stuart Robinson and his brother James win-

ning the first round heats and then Des Birkin, Stuart Robin-son again & Hayden Organ-Davidson winning the second round heats. Stuart Robinson was the top qualifier and he began on pole with Giacometti alongside him and James Robinson & Organ-Davidson, Birkin, Troy Hose, Karen Ferguson & Andrew Burgoyne in the next three rows. Surprisingly Brooke Ferguson was way back in eighteenth to start after a fea-ture race win at the venue two meet-ings prior. Stuart Robinson was sensa-tional and was never headed as he and Giacometti made their way through the back markers and away from any other challengers. Robinson the winner from Damian Mur-ley, Giacometti, Karen Ferguson & Hose.

In Junior Sedans the three protago-nists from the Redline Track Champion-ship day of Michael Skene, Kye Walters & Brock Atkins were at it again. Skene won the first heat then Walters won the second. Come final time the

Racing And Fun At Redline Raceway

‘Hotondo Homes’ team cars of Walters and Atkins both held the lead at time before Walters won from Atkins, Skene, Anthony Young, Jake Warren & Jack Ramsdale.

Standard Saloon Victorian Champion made things interesting by electing to start both heats at the rear of the field and then starting rear in the feature despite qualifying on pole. Whittle from last to first in the first heat beat Sara Benson & Matthew Domburg both of whom are no mugs with Victo-rian # 2 ranked driver Leigh Gooding in fourth being another driver Whittle had to out gun.

In the second heat he beat Gooding & Domburg before having a great ding dong battle in the feature race after catching Gooding and not being able to get on past. Gooding took the win from Whittle, Benson, Joel Carmichael from Swan Hill and Domburg.

Open Sedans mixed and ran together with the Division 2 Hot Rods to create a field of twelve for heat one and after a couple of accidents and spins at the front end of the field made things a lit-tle easier for Andrew Galley in a Divi-sion 2 Hot Rod to come through for a

win over Nathan Fawns, Joshua Brown, Leigh Bourke and Frank Dickson. Brown won the second heat over Bourke, Fawns, Simon Jones & Jason Seymour

in another race with a crash and with Galley having mechanical drama. Bourke then marched on to win the fea-ture ahead of Brown in a tremendous battle with Brown in the lead for almost all of the race before the Cortina of Bourke worked him over. Fawns was third and Brodie Montague fourth in his first ever senior event & Richard Baker.

Formula V8 Sedans continued on their recent great battles with South Australian Kym Cotterill winning the first heat over Kieran Brennan. Danny Amato, Mick Purdie & Steve Forte and

then Danny Amato won the second heat from Cotterill, Purdie, Brennan & Russ Matthews. Cotterill then secured a great win in the final in a great race with Amato, Purdie, Matthews & Bren-nan.Other divisions on the day included the Wingless Sprints with Mick Parry win-ning over Craig Plater, Corey Pretlove. Leigh Mugavin & Kelvin Toogood in the final after Pretlove & Parry won the heats whilst in Formula 500’s heats were won by Matt Symons & Josh Fort

before Kurt Dunham blew the field away in the final to win over Symons, T.J Beasy, Ben Morrison & Fort.In Compact Speedcars Ian Jones won ahead of Johnny Kyriacou & New Zealander Jarod Taylor & in ASCF Sedan’s Sean Lister in a Super Sedan out blasted Rodney Burr in a Modified, Kellie Atkins & Rhett Daly in the final.

Super Modifieds with Gary Hamblin winning ahead of Mike Hallron & Graeme Pitcher. Crazy as it might sound thn car owners handed their cars over to crew or mates or wives to run in the mechan-ics race’s at the end and the response from ASCF Sedan’s was so much we had to run two races to split the field. Whilst nobody cared who won and the flag was waved when the flagman felt like it the races didn’t go without inci-dent after Corey Gantley earnt himself bourbon for the next three months after Naomi Purdie crunched the wall and knocked the front end around on Gantley’s race car.

A VSC Sedan mechanics race also oc-curred to round out the day. The season is now over for Redline with racing re-turning in November for next season. Follow developments for next season on the Redline official website.

Redline wishes to thank its valuable sup-porters including: Power FM, IPTA Fibre-

glass, UBC Web Design, Erna Overall Quality Used Cars, ABN Electrical, P & M Earthworks, CCR Racing, Steve Forte Metal Fabrications, Pat Ash & Civil, Bourke Mechanical Spares, Ballarat’s Mega Meats

Written by DMT Media’s Dean Thompson on behalf of Belmont Speedway Drivers Club

The running of the Gold Cup for 360 Sprintcars at Hamilton’s Western Speed-way was a mix of both good and not so good for the Gisborne based team of brothers Paul and Chris Solomon and their pair of FMG-Fair Dinkum Sheds/In action Photo’s Eagles.

While elder brother Paul grabbed a po-dium finish younger brother Chris had a gift win snatched away by a freak event within sight of the chequered flag.

Both drivers struggled in the heats as the team had difficulty in "loosening" the cars up enough so they could take advantage of the ultra fast track condi-tions. The track in fact was so fast that the drivers were setting times faster than when the lighter, higher horse-power 410 cubic inch cars ran here ear-lier in the season.

After the heats, the V83 of Chris quali-fied into the dash and ended with a 4th

place starting position in the Main event. Meanwhile Paul (V7) had quali-fied into 8th starting position.

Throughout the final, Chris was holding

down 3rd place although he did manage to take second place away from Domain Ramsay for a brief period out of turn two but was to give it back down the back straight.

On the very last lap in the turn final pair of corners, the V20 of Ramsay came to-gether with race leader, Matt Reed who'd been baulked by a lapped car with both cars crashing out. Chris continued over the finishing line and stopped on the entrance to turn one.

Unfortunately, there was a build-up of fuel in the left side header pipes which was belching flames onto the left rear tyre. Despite the tyre smoke, Chris rev-ving the engine, the crowd yelling and Chris waving his arms, I’m not sure what else he could have been done to get attention to his predicament.After what seemed like several minutes, the left hand tyre finally burst, Chris shut his engine down and dejectedly ex-ited the car. This ended Chris’s run to the flag and a potential victory.

Fellow competitor Ken Hutchins who had pulled in during the final and was al-

ready on the infield, managed to get a fire extinguisher from somewhere and put the fire out. Thanks Ken!

With Reed, Ramsay and Chris now out of the event, Paul (V7) started out of position four for the two lap scramble to the chequered flag.

On the restart Paul immediately charged into turn one and powered under Eddie Lumbar to take up third spot which he held to the finish behind winner Daniel Pestka and defending Gold Cup titlist Darren Hickman.

While the team was excited by the late season return to form of former All Star Sprintcar series champion Paul, they

- Formula Motorsports -On the pace in the chase for the gold cup.

were equally frustrated by the bi-zarre series of events that firstly held the Gold Cup out to Chris but then snatched it away before he could get both hands on the tro-phy.

Gisborne District Tyres

Redline Raceway held its annual track championship day on May the 11th with nine divisions in action and around 120 competitors that hit the track in front of a massive crowd that was not disappointed to see non stop action from start to finish across sedan and open wheel divisions.

The club classes of Street Stocks, Standard Saloons, Formula V8’s, Open Sedans & SSA Juniors were joined by regular visitors to the venue Wingless Sprints, AMCA, Modified Sedans & SDAV Hot Rods in racing for the prize of a track champion sticker to adorn their race car proudly for the next twelve months.

Beginning with the Junior Sedan divi-sion visiting drivers Michael Skene, Rusty Hickman, Brock Atkins & Luke Storer all joined club member Kye Wal-ters in the top five through both heats and the final. Skene won the first heat and finished second in the next to qualify pole for the fifteen lap final. Rusty Hickman from Bendigo qualified outside of him whilst Walters & Atkins were right behind. Skene went on to win the championship ahead of Atkins, Walters, Hickman & Storer with rookie racer & club member Anthony Young finishing in sixth place at his first event at the venue.A good field of

Open Sedans were in the mix for the championship with club member Leigh Bourke taking out a win in the first heat race ahead of Tim McPherson & Allan Farmer whilst McPherson claimed pole position for the final when he went on to win heat two ahead of Farmer & Peter Angus. McPherson went on to record his first feature win in Speed-way with a win over Bourke, Scott Angus, Greg Parks & Matt

Handley-Parsons in the final.

The Wingless Sprints not only were racing for the track championship they were as an association racing for the season aggregate with Ballarat locals James Wren & Sam Wren fighting it out at the top of the table. Sam began the battle well by winning the first heat of the day with James finishing behind in back in fourth spot allowing one to catch up a few points on the other. Pe-ter Green was second, Troy Small third and Andrew Chivell in fifth. Sprintcar regular Dave McKay won the second heat ahead of Daniel Beard, Travis Bergmeier, Craig Plater & guest driver Super Rod Top Gun Dale Walsh.Simon

Nine Track Champions Crowned At Redline Raceway

Smith continued a hot streak of heat race wins taking out the third from Beard, Layton Orchard, Plater & Walsh with James Wren taking out the win in the last heat with Small, Sam Wren, Green & Tim Ludeman completing the top five.A great battle in the final between the two Wrens as they reached traffic and squeezed their way through. Sam even-tually took the win ahead of James to become Redline Raceway track cham-pion however on the day was not enough to snatch the Victorian Wingless Sprint association aggregate.

Standard Saloon racing was an oppor-tunity for the driver of the flying Sigma, Tim Hutchinson’s chance for a hat trick of feature wins however Victorian cham-pion Scott Whittle had other plans as he won both heats in front of Matt Dom-burg from Portland & Jay Dickson and clinched the feature race pole position. In the final it was more of the same ac-cept for Dickson who succumbed to a busted front end and parked his car in-field allowing Hutchinson to snatch third place behind Whittle & Domburg. Mi-chelle Sinclair & Dave Chivers made up the final top five.

The Amca field included three of Aus-tralia’s big guns with the national cham-

pion Mark Lincoln in the field. Tasma-nian & Victorian champion Jamie Collins & Northern Territory Champion Tim Reidy also. All three took a heat win each with Paul Sullivan winning won also. Lincoln beat Reidy, Darren Nelson, Bruce Tait & Rodney Bassett from Tas-mania in heat one. Sullivan held off Collins & Ashlee Harris also Mick Jackson & Darren O’Reilly in the second heat with Reidy ahead of Bassett, Darren Hossack, Lincoln & Tait in the third. Rounding out heat results Collins won the last ahead of Grant Cullinger, Sulli-van, Bill Lodwick & Jackson.Reidy was quick out of the blocks at the start with Collins and Lincoln in tow.

The top five starters ripped through the final with Reidy very dominant on his way to a win ahead of Lincoln, Collins, Sullivan & Bassett.

Local division the Formula V8’s a big engined, big wheeled sedan division was won by Ballarat’s Anthony Wilson after both front row starters Kym Cotterill & Danny Amato earnt the wrath of officials for jumping the start in the final and were sent rear of field. Earlier in heats Cotterill a South Australian won the first heat ahead of Amato & Russ Matthews before Wilson won the second heat with Amato again second ahead of Kieran

Brennan. After the penalties at the start of the final Wilson secured a win over Cotterill who was bearing down on the leader at the very end of the race and in a race five laps longer may have chal-lenged for the win. Third behind those two was Amato then Brennan & Wally Hucker.

In Modified Sedans Greg Atkins from Hamilton bagged the first heat with a close hard fought battle between he and Rodney Burr. Rusty Felsovary was next ahead of Ross Madden & Brenton Mills. In the second heat race Brenton Mills was sensational in his older model race car that is carburetted whilst the others behind him were fuel injected. Felsovary was second then Atkins, Burr & Madden. In the final Atkins, Mills & Felsovary all lead at one point in a awesome battle at

the front. Felsovary got the upper hand towards the end of the race and won ahead of Atkins, Madden, Mills & Lucas Conder.

The SDAV Hot Rod’s are always popular at Redline as their engine sound is ampli-fied by natural surrounds. Allen Luckett took a win in heat one ahead of Shannon Meakins and Kali Hovey whilst Russell Hovey won the second heat ahead of his daughter Kali & Meakins in third. For the

final Russell Hovey had a great start. Luckett pulled infield and out of the race soon after. Meakins chased Hovey hard and had nothing for him whilst Kali Hovey, Glenn Lawless & Dylan Linehan made up

the top five with Russell Hovey a popular second time winner this season.

As usual a large field of Street Stocks were on hand for the track championship including last start feature winner Brooke Ferguson, Brad McClure, King of the Mount winner Jason Degoldi and one of Redline’s new cult hero’s Andrew ‘The Burger King’ Burgoyne with the catchy

slogan ‘That’s how I Roll’ who at the last race meeting all but turned his race car into metal scrap af-ter a massive roll-over and had it all put back together

again just two weeks later to make the event. Six heats were programmed with each driver doing

two of them. Les Fergu-son won the first heat, Aaron White the second and Darren Giacometti the third in the first round with McClure who was leading being defect flagged out of his heat

with smoke pouring out from the car. In

the

second round Troy Polley was a popular winner of the first heat of the round whilst Giacometti doubled up with an-other win and Ballarat’s Stuart Robinson also a winner in the last heat of the round. Giacometti from the prime front row position knew that McClure was go-ing to be like a steam train coming from the back of the field. With Giacometti, Polley, Robinson & Les Ferguson up front McClure picked off runners on the high side at a red hot pace. Starting from way

way back in seventeenth or so McClure caught up to Giacometti and then the real battle began. Giacometti is a really strong performer

and McClure just couldn’t get past and the local won over McClure, Polley, Rob-inson & Les Ferguson.Redline wishes to thank its valuable sup-

REDLINE ACTION

The Victorian AMCA Nationals squad closed out their 2012/2013 season with the annual Redline track championship recently and it was Tim “the dominator” Reidy who recorded his third win to re-main undefeated for the past four years as last years’ event was washed out.A great field of 17 competitors were in action including regular mainland visitor, Tasmanian Rodney Bassett and newly re-crowned Australian Champion Mark Lin-coln.Lincoln in the Stewart Grant-Campbell owned Australia #1 continued where he had left off from his last outing and took a comfortable win in the opening heat from Reidy who had made an outside pass on veteran Bruce Tait to take sec-ond spot with Darren Nelson making a last lap pass on Tait for third. When Darren Hossack’s steering broke coming out of turn four mid race the cautions flew for the only time.

Heat 2 was a different affair with Paul Sullivan jumping to the lead only to

have the yellows come on after the first lap with Darren O'Reilly spinning in turn 2, Peter Hickford tried to avoid O’Reilly and was collected by Ashlee Harris and Mick Jackson. Out of the 4 cars involved Hickford was the only car not able to re-start and was out for the remainder of the evening. Once the race was re-started Sullivan jumped to the lead once more closely followed by Victorian Champion Jamie Collins with Ashlee Har-ris home in third.

Reidy showed his hand and his class with a comfortable win in the third heat with Bassett coming home in second and Hossack who had a hard task of keeping Lincoln at bay finishing in third. Nelson who had been running second brought the yellow lights on after spinning on his own in turn 2.

The fourth and final heat saw Collins win easily from Cullinger and Sulli-van who had started off the back row.

With both Collins and Reidy tied on points it was Collins the toss of a coin that granted Collins the pole from his season long arch rival Reidy. Sullivan and Lincoln filled the second row with Bassett and Jackson on the third row ahead of the rest of the field.With both Collins and Reidy a little eager to get the jump on each other, they had brought the field around a little bit quicker than normal but still in forma-tion so they were let go to start one the quickest and hardest fought races seen on the night.Collins got the initial jump on Reidy with the later going a little too high in turn 2 and allowing Lincoln to slot in between himself and Collins. The top trio then went three wide coming through turn 3-4 with Reidy’s bravado being rewarded

REIDY - REDLINE CHAMPION

as he eventually got the advan-tage over Collins and Lincoln and from there started to pull away from the field.Reidy then maintained his hard fought lead to take an easy win from Lincoln who was still trying to catch him but ran out of laps. Collins who looked like he would have challenged for the lead earlier on drifted back to finish in third with Sullivan and Bassett rounding out the top 5.

As this is the last meeting of the season AMCA Nationals Victoria would like to thank all the drivers, crew, families and sponsors for their support during the 2012 -2013 season and look forward to the next. Keep up to date with AMCA Na-tionals Victoria at www.amcanationals.net or on facebook at AMCA Nationals Victo-ria

COLLINS BAGS BARRY REIDY MEMORIAL

Geelong gas man Jamie Collins (20th

April) continued his brilliant season form by taking his fourth feature win of the season and securing the prestigious Barry Reidy Memorial along the way at Nyora Raceway on a cold but racy night.

Collins was in kill mode from the get go but Steve Lodwick was also determined to make it difficult for Collins by win-ning the opening heat from Collins, Chris Bohdal, Bruce Tait, Grant Cullin-ger and Ashlee Harris. Darran O’Reilly was having a real go at it early and was the raciest he’s been for some time un-til being black flagged onto the infield when he twice spun while attempting inside passes.

Veteran Tait was looking racy also as he led the second heat for a number of laps but each time he teased the follow-ing pack with a mid track entry line into the corners. Eventually Cullinger was able to make a move up the inside and into the lead with Collins also slipping under on the next lap. Then as Cullinger and Collins battled at the front Cullinger

spun away the lead dropping back to fourth behind Collins, Lodwick and Tait. Finishing behind him was O’Reilly and Harris.Lodwick and Collins shared the front row for the final and with Collins having won the opening stanza of the two part memorial event back at Avalon before Christmas, he was in the box seat for the overall victory. Not content to just take the overall result, Collins also wanted the round victory as well as he launched off the line and led Lodwick into turn one and was never headed.

Lodwick tried to maintain the pressure but as the race drew on he slipped off the back of Collins and had to settle for the runner up position ahead of Cullin-ger with Tait, Harris and O’Reilly next.

By virtue of his win Collins now leads the feature race win challenge which he’d previously shared with fellow young gun and rival Tim Reidy.

ASCS 305 SPRINTCARS IN AUSTRALIA

It’s here. The # 1 Sprintcar division for the budget racer.

America’s biggest Sprintcar division the 305’s is about to take off in Victoria in the new 2013/14 season with interest from right around Australia from Tasma-nia to the West from people wanting to get onboard.

Interest has been running high since the VSC Sprintcar face book page was re-named the Australian ASCS 305 page after former competitors in the VSC Sprintcar category’s concerns about in-creasing running costs to be competitive were unable to be resolved.

Over eighteen months ago the talk started about 305 division in the USA and some thought was put towards the possibilities were soon brought to light

Discussions continued between car own-ers and drivers and with it holding dis-cussions with the ASCS USA and various entities in Australia in order to get the division off the ground & Nyora Raceway

has supported it every step of the way along with new tracks now coming on board.

ASCS305 then found a governing body willing to get the concept off the ground when discussions with the Victorian Speedway Council and subsequent ap-proval by the technical committee agreed with the rules from the USA in relation to the car.

Agreement between the entities also al-lows for the ASCS 305 Sprintcars to run to USA Sprintcar race rules accept for a couple minor changes that suit Austra-lian conditions and ASCS 305 Australia will manage the division whilst drivers will use VSC to register and be licensed.

22 drivers have already reserved their race numbers including drivers from the Wingless Sprint division. As far as Wingless Sprints are concerned the great thing here is that the drivers can keep their existing Wingless gear and just change engines through the season when they choose one event over an-other and the Wingless now have an-other option when it comes to getting

that second hand Sprintcar gear for a bargain price such as tyres & chassis.

Mark Fitzpatrick, Chris Skilton, Daniel Meredith, Michael Graham, Graeme Da-vies, Darren Painter, Warrick Taylor & Kellie Banks all of the VSC Sprintcars have committed to the 305 division whilst Chris Rodda & Josh Fort are from Formula 500s.

Current SRA Sprintcar identity Adrian Parr from Parr Motorsports has locked in the # 77 and others to get onboard at the time of writing in Ross Carrigy & Connor McLeod.Venues are already in discussion for race dates for next season after seeing so many drivers have already secured their numbers and with more to get involved between now and the start of the sea-son.

Nyora Raceway will be the home track venue whilst Rushworth is onboard along with Drouin Speedway once they complete the widening of their venue in the off season which should see it made 1.5 to 2 metres wider.

Other talks are in progress with other venues.Darren shared a little more on the divisions self promotion. “We have built into our rules that drivers will chip into the promo-tional fund. We will use this for advertising, promoting our events and having media and possibly commentary that makes us a little more appealing to sponsors as we give present our-selves professionally.”

There is expected to be at mini-mum of 12 cars hitting the track before Christmas and as the in-terest continues to balloon most possibly more.

Tracks wishing to get the 305’s at their venue can contact the boys via the details on www.ascs305.com.au where you will also find a rule book downloadable.

Other states wishing to make sure the division goes national can get in contact with Darren, Graeme or Warrick and get the ball rolling.

ASCS 305s Australia would like to thank the following for their support:

Parr motorsports, Taylor’d Fabri-cations Weld Flex. For your en-gines, the Brodix 305 agents in Australia are: Fabre, Queensland speedway spares and VPW

Written by Dean Thompson. DMT Sports Media for ASCS 305s Australia

Geelong’s Jamie Collins had the field covered last night at Rolling Thunder Raceway in a return to form that saw him capture his first Victorian AMCA Na-tionals championship to go with the Tasmanian title won earlier this season.

Collins took the lead of the 25 lap event after just three laps and used second placed Kevin Peachey as the cork in the bottle who was busy repelling those be-hind him which allowed Collins to scoot away for the win. Former state title holder Mick “action” Jackson eventually grabbed second late in the running with Queenslander Matt Hardy being elevated to third after Peachey, who’d crossed the line in third was disqualified for a non-performance enhancing technical infringement.

25 AMCA’s including 6 interstaters found their way to the big Bacchus Marsh Speedbowl and it was the Queensland quartet that quickly adapted to the high speed circuit.

Paul Sullivan, who’d been quickest in hot laps led the opening heat until his car started smoking and slowed allowing Dean Ballard, Russ Hardy, Tim Reidy, Peachey and defending champion Dar-ren McCarthy to pass him over the clso-ing two laps. Reidy had been lucky to even start after deciding to change diff ratios after hot laps. Fortunately the presence of the two seater sprintcar on the track allowed him some extra time and he just made it out the gate in time to take the start.

Lee McKinnell, the Young son of four time National Champion Shane was quick on his way to the second heat win by a Queenslander in heat 1B. He jumped from tenth to the lead after just two laps while Collins grabbed second

ahead of Darren Nelson, Matt Hardy and Frank Thierry. Former National cham-pion Mark Lincoln was also unlucky after working his way forward and setting the fastest lap only to suffer a flat tyre and retire from the race.

Reidy took the win in heat 2A and again luck was on his side as he broke two rockers with just two laps to go but was able to hang on just ahead of McCarthy, Peachey, Russ Hardy and Ballard.

The last of the reverse grid heats was won by Lincoln from Grant Cullinger, Jackson, Steve Lodwick and Lee McKin-nell who also slowed with a slight prob-lem.

Heat 3A saw the high points guys at the back of the grid and Peachey took the win from the second last row. Reidy and McKinnell appeared to make contact and Reidy hit the wall and McKinnell also re-tired to the infield. Tasmanian Rod Bassett took second

Jamie Collins is victorious in Victorian AMCA Championship.

place ahead of Cullinger, Matt Hardy and Bill Lodwick.

The final heat saw Collins start from the second row and he took complete advantage to take the win from Thierry, Jackson, Russ Hardy and Ballard.

With all the points calculated it was Peachey on pole from Russ Hardy, Collins, Ballard, Grant Cullinger, Jack-son, Reidy, McCarthy, Matt Hardy, Thierry, McKinnell, Nel-son, Bassett, Lincoln, Steve Lod-wick, Alan Cullinger, Bill Lodwick, Leanne Turner, Darran O’Reilly, Sharon Tindall, Chris Bohdal and Tristan James.

On the first attempted start Grant Cullinger spun in turn two as Russ Hardy had taken the lead. When a complete restart was called Peachey made amends and led the field away with Collins grabbing second with Russ Hardy third.

On lap four Collins made his win-ning move and took the lead with Peachey now second. On lap five Reidy tried to follow Matt Hardy through on the inside of Peachey and made contact instantly cut-ting a tyre and ending his race

with a show of frustration on the in-field. Joining him already was Lincoln (did not start), Turner and Nelson (who’d clashed under the caution) and Russ Hardy.

Peachey was reinstated back into sec-ond for the restart with Matt Hardy and Jackson next. On lap 5 Bohdal retired and then on lap 14 James hit the turn four wall hard ending his night. McKin-

nell also added to the litter on the in-field.

Three laps into the restart and Steve Lodwick spun at the same time as Alan Cullinger pulled out.

The quiet achiever Mick Jackson was now turning up the heat and grabbed third on lap 19 and finally passed Peachey for second on lap 20.

Over the closing five laps Jackson tried to close the gap but Collins had enough of a gap that Jackson couldn’t do anything about it. Bassett and Bal-lard had both retired by the time the white flag came out and Collins went on to take the win and performed a Polish victory lap with Jackson grab-bing second ahead of Peachey who was later excluded which pushed the Matt Hardy onto the final step of the podium. Thierry, Steve Lodwick, McCarthy, Grant Cullinger, Bill Lod-wick and O’Reilly completed the fin-ishers.

All three drivers had many people to thank for helping get them to the po-dium while young Matt Hardy thor-oughly enjoyed his first trip to the big Southern speedway.

Cont’d from page 16.

Atkins led on lap ten from Edwards, Jack bell, Pearson & Jesse McKinnell and with five laps to go was still leading the others accept for Dean Burton tak-ing fifth from McKinnell.

In a great twenty lap race where the win margin was only 1.930 seconds At-kins beat Edwards, jack Bell, Pearson, Dean Burton, Jesse McKinnell, Jack Van Breman, Clint Furmston, Megan McKin-nell & Colby Lunt the complete top ten.

Shona Bent was eleventh with Ricky McCubbin, Jamie Burton & Todd Atkins a lap down finishing the race along with Jack Ramsdale another further lap down.

In the Saturday night Alexandra Cup for Standard Saloons 30+ cars greeted the first round of heats. Gavin Allman, Cull, & Shane Stewart were winners in round one as they got first serve on the race track. Leigh Gooding, Rod Meakins & Nick Chrystie then won the three heats in the second round with Chrystie set-ting the fastest heat race time of 3:52.346 for six laps for the night in

Standard Saloons when he beat former two times Victorian Champion Cull by almost 6 seconds.

In the final round of heats Gooding again had a win so did Gordon Russell & Mark Miles with Matt Nelson setting the one lap fastest time of the night for the division of 37.973 seconds on a lap finishing third behind Gooding in his win.

The twenty lap final was a cracker at the front between Cull, Miles & Shane Stewart however the fog was becoming thicker and thicker and increasingly dif-ficult for the stewards or drivers to see anything. Cull on lap 14 became stuck in the dog leg with stewards not being able to see him or see what happened to him.

With Miles and Stewart side by side from there on trying to assume control of the race it was finally realised we couldn’t see Cull who we thought was still leading or the other races as they hit the far side of the dog leg and the race was declared with Miles in the lead at the time on lap 18 as the winner over Stewart, Aaron Meakins in third

having started twelfth, Russell, Chrys-tie, Rob Tatterson, Mick Lovell, Brad Morgan, Rod Meakins & Mitch Bowyer completing the top ten finishers.

The second night ‘King of the Valley’ didn’t fair much better as far as the fog goes with the heats being run just be-fore the night’s racing was ended with fog deeming it unsafe to continue. Standard Saloon drivers elected to de-clare the result on heat results instead of running a feature on Monday.

David Cull took the win from Leigh Gooding, Shane Stewart, Jason Leonard & Polly Perkins. +++++++++++++++++

The Victorian Grand Prix Midget Racing Association held its AGM & presentation night recently in Geelong to bring an end to the 2012/2013 season and the com-mittee continued to make positive steps forward as they head into the 13/14 season whilst Ash Booker, his car owner Mark Shiells and Chris Fowler took out some of the big awards on the night.

At the earlier committee meeting John Fowler remained as President, Jim Phil-lips as Vice, Leanne Chalcraft as secre-tary & Ash Booker was elected into the Treasurers position for the new season.Ways to attract sponsorship was raised and idea’s passed, decisions on what rules they would recommend and sup-port going forward to the national GP Midget body were agreed too and ways to continue growth in the association in active cars numbers was high on the agenda.

In regards to new drivers the great news is that Scott Laird has brought a car from Shawn Ward whilst Paul Perry who had a car out late in the season with a guest driver in the car will be ready to

go next season with him-self behind the wheel also.

Kicking off the presenta-tion side of the day a best presented car award was awarded to Geoff Meyers who always turns up to a venue with a race car spotless and ready to go.

Neil Johnson won the most improved driver award and the novelty ‘Warnie’ award for spin-ning and taking out an entire field at a race at Wangaratta during the season. Sadly for per-sonal reasons Neil has sold his race car to fellow competitor Garry Cassidy which on a positive keeps the car in Victoria.

Other laughs included Glenn Cunningham the Go Pro Man in the club

The Rod Quarrell Best Clubman recipient

Chris Fowler

CELEBRATIONS AT VICTORIAN GRAND PRIX MIDGET PRESENTATION NIGHT

earning a ‘Shutterbug’ award for his enthusiasm with the cams and creating footage and Lisa Chalcraft getting the ‘Firebug’ award which was a fireman’s helmet for her effort of jumping out of her race car quickly when it caught fire during the season.

The prestigious Rod Quarrell Best Clubman award was presented by Dennis Myers with a great speech in what this award means and how it came about in the presence of the great mans family. The award this year was given to Chris Fowler who amongst other things has built and maintained the clubs new website this season, put together the presentation for presenta-tion night and other bits and pieces during the season.

The Quarrell family was involved with Rod’s wife Linda and children Anthony & Jo at the presentation and the kids presenting the awards.

Leanne Chalcraft was presented with the Presidents award by John Fowler with Leanne a tireless worker for the club as any secretary often is and whom without her help the club can do

without.

Certificate of apprecia-tions were awarded to Jim Phillips, Ken Chal-craft, Renae Booker, Katie Dixon, Dean Thompson & John Fowler whilst verbal recognition was given to Caiwen de Bruin who had taken many of the photos used in the presentation and used in media releases to promote the division during the season.

A great award that the club gave out that is rarely seen at other associations is the ‘Supporter Award’ & Dorris Cunningham or ‘Nanna’ to most in the club was surprised and honoured to receive who recognition.

Ash Booker Rod Quarrell Memorial perpetual

Trophy

Life Membership is not given away, it is earnt and for many reasons a worthy recipient this year was car owner Mark Shiells. Mark as a busi-ness owner has chipped in his share of cash to support the club over the years, he has put cars on track (this year two), in-troduced new drivers to the division in the vicinity of six and is always there to lend a hand to any-body else on race night that needs it to ensure maximum available cars are on the track.

A gracious Shiells told all in attendance that he is proud to be involved in a great club and to have so many friends and will continue to do his bit to grow the division.

The top six in this years masters series were rec-ognised with their tro-phies with sixth Garry Cassidy, fifth Chris Fowler, fourth Lisa Chal-

craft, third Neil Johnson, second Geoff Meyers & first Ashley Booker who also on the night collected the perpetual tro-phy for his Victorian title win during the season.

Booker was most gracious to his team and supporters on taking the perpetual trophy hardware. “Without Mark for the provision of such great race equipment, Pitstop Movers, Stainer Grinding & my personal sponsor I-Saw none of this would be possible. It is great to be in-volved at a time when a lot of great and passionate people are trying to push the division forward and I have no doubts the new season will be tougher. Well done to anybody who earned rec-ognition tonight, you deserve and thank you.”

In a moving gesture Ash Booker de-clined to take the perpetual trophy for that he would have been entitled to for winning the renamed Rod Quarrell Me-morial/Victorian title and insisted that the Quarrell family be the first people to take it home.

Life Membership recipient.Mark Shiells

Moving onto the calendar for the new season it reads as follows:October 19th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND ONE – Wanga-ratta SpeedwayNovember 9th – JASON GLYNN MEMORIAL/MASTERS SE-RIES ROUND TWO – Avalon RacewayNovember 27th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND THREE – Al-exandra SpeedwayDecember 7th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND FOUR – Red-line Raceway, BallaratJanuary 11th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND FIVE – Blue Ribbon Raceway, HorshamFebruary 1st – MASTERS SERIES ROUND SIX – Wanga-ratta SpeedwayMarch 1st – VICTORIAN TITLE – Alexandra SpeedwayMarch 22nd – MASTERS SERIES ROUND SEVEN – Redline Raceway, BallaratMarch 29th – VIC TITLE RAIN DAY – Alexandra SpeedwayApril 5th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND EIGHT – Rushworth SpeedwayMay 4th – MASTERS SERIES ROUND NINE – Drouin SpeedwayMay 10th NSW v VIC INTERSTATE CHALLENGE – Wanga-ratta SpeedwayMay 24th – MASTERS SERIES FINAL ROUND – Rushworth Speedway

The Victorian Grand Prix Midgets Racing Association thank: Super Balance Shepparton, DMT Sports Media

Written by Dean Thompson DMT Sports Media for the VGMRA

Ash Booker Masters Series Championship