MCCLURE & LOGUE TAKE BIG WINS ON THE MOUNT

MCCLURE & LOGUE TAKE BIG WINS ON THE MOUNT

Speedway racing at Ballarat & Moorabool Shire’s home of motorsport ‘Redline Raceway’ dished out 

a great night of thrills and spills with some of those spills sending drivers to hospital & others 

sending drivers out of racers with Brad McClure taking the big Street Stock win & Peter Logue the 

Wingless Sprint victory.

Thankfully those that were sent to the hospital bruised and battered are being cared for by great 

medical teams and the competitors are in great spirits & will all get to fight another day. 

Street Stocks were in town competing for the locally supported “Duo Mobile’ Eliminator Cup and the 

Victorian Champion Brad McClure came out on top with a sensational win over the Australian 

Champion Anthony Beare whilst an outstanding drive from Warrnambool youngster Steven Watts 

seen him transfer from the non-qualifiers race into the main race and push through from the back to 

finish in third, a champion in the making.

Fifteen heat races were held with each competitor having three chances to earn their qualifying 

points. Chris Stewart, McClure, Beare, Brooke Ferguson a Ballarat local, Mick Dann, Darren 

Giacometti, Beare again, Jason Degoldi from Sebastopol, Morris Ahearn, Dann again, McClure a 

second time, Steven Gartner, Dale Blomeley,  Jacob Vuillermin & the event sponsor Jack Bishop.

In heat racing Matt Nelson a serious threat on victory prior to the event rolled in his first heat race 

before finishing one lap and his car was wrecked and seen no further part. In round two Peter 

Crutchley’s run came to a halt with a crunch & he was sent to hospital, South Australian Rhys 

Heinrich was leading the Australian champion Beare before bursting a tyre in his first heat and 

everything could have been very much different for him whilst Rocky Grima was ordered to put his 

car on the trailer for being a naughty lad by one of the stewards.

Six drivers transferred from the last chance qualifier including David Donegan, Watts, Darren Forrest, 

Throckmorton, Dave Pollard & Heinrich to join the back of the feature event whilst McClure won a 

pole shuffle shoot out defeating Beare with Jason Degoldi unfortunately ending up being smashed 

against the concrete in the shootout & missing the main event.

Twenty one cars began the main race with a ten lap first section of racing ending with Beare leading 

McClure, Ahearn, Dann & Jamie Lock whilst Watts sensationally had moved up to eleventh spot for 

the start of the second segment.

McClure finished out on top on the second segment of ten laps with Beare, Ahearn, Dann & Gartner 

in the top five whilst outside the top eight Giacometti was amongst those eliminated. Watts was the 

last man in the final eight finishing eighth in the second segment.

For the final fifteen lap segment Beare got the best of the start and led McClure. Amongst 

happenings Ahearn got penalised by stewards for contact with Dann which sent Dann spinning, the 

driver & stewards of course have different views on the contact. 

A few laps from the end of the Eliminator Cup, McClure seized the lead back from Beare, Watts 

moved up into third with Ahearn working his way back to fourth spot and David Barrie driving 

sensationally well in the final group. The finish line came and McClure had defeated Beare, Watts, 

Ahearn, Barrie, Gartner, Lock & Dann.

McClure was delighted to get back on the winners list. “This has been a long time coming with the 

things that have gone wrong this season so far. It is a relief to be back on the top dais here at 

Redline, thank you to everybody for their support & well done to the Redline team who just keep on 

putting up great races for us to come and compete at.”

The Wingless Sprint racing didn’t escape carnage either with Georgia McLeod unfortunately amongst 

those that were sent to hospital during the night whilst her rollover was gentle compared to the 

massive seven times over Kevin Schembri roll into and through turn one.

Mark Balcombe, Wayne Logue, Layton Orchard, Luke Weel, David Cook & Daniel Storer won six heat 

race events with three being cancelled after consultation between the Wingless President & the 

Redline venue in the interests of time due to the ambulance requirements during the night then the 

Victorian champion & Ballarat local James Wren won the last chance qualifier to make the main 

race.

The feature event seen a sensational battle between Wayne Logue & Cook for much of the race 

before late in the proceedings Wayne’s father Peter and Travis Millar put themselves in the picture. 

Peter got past Cook then soon after he passed Wayne for the lead, Millar moved forward and past 

the same competitors and at the very last lap passed Peter Logue under protest for his pass on 

Wayne Logue which involved connection & in the stewards opinion impediment on Logue. 

Peter Logue crossed the line second on track however gained the chequered flag & the win in the 

‘Alfies Excavations & Plant Hire’ Super Series to defeat Wayne Logue, Cook, Rhys Baxter & Sam 

Wren.’ 

In Mini Sprint action Kevin Bomford defeated David May, Jason Lynn, Owen Bulman & Luke Hickson 

whilst the V8 Thunder Sedans didn’t get a final due to time constraints.

Redline Raceway returns to action on February the sixth for the annual Chivers Memorial for 

Standard Saloons which should attract thirty competitors from around Victoria & Amca Nationals.

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Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Belmont Speedway Drivers Club t/a Redline Raceway

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