GRIMSON WINS THE WAHGUNYAH TRUE BLUE 1000

GRIMSON WINS THE WAHGUNYAH TRUE BLUE 1000

Late Model Racing Victoria headed to Wahgunyah Speedway on the Victorian side of the Murray 

River near Corowa for its latest race meeting; with visiting racers Darryl Grimson & Nathan Disney 

putting in an outstanding display of racing at the front of the pack; running nose to tail much of the 

feature race taking first and second ahead of LMRV’s own Cameron Pearson.

Each driver competed in three heats of the six that were held before the starting positions for the 

final were settled. The ‘Newcastle Nightmare’ Nathan Disney kicking off the night with victory in the 

first heat ahead of Cameron Pearson (# 10 Progressive Traffic Control – 430 Chev), Graham Forte, 

Scott McPherson, Chevy Edwards & New Zealander Kristin Vermuelen. 

Mick Hetherington began well when he was able to take a win ahead of Grimson in heat two with 

Canberra youngster Liam Heaton third, then Wayne Belk (# 32 Clearview Rear Windows - 420 

Mopar), Justin Pearson & Barry Kelleher rounding out the field. Brendan Hucker; who competed in 

hot laps & Brock Edwards; who only managed to roll his car off the trailer, were both in the pits 

trying to correct what they thought were fuel pressure issues.

Having travelled back from Perth after competing in the national title the week before with a brand 

new engine in his machine, Justin Pearson managed to win a ripping race over Disney, Grimson, 

Kelleher, Heaton & Hetherington (# 40 Aus D’Tail – 410 Chev) in the third heat, this made up for the 

disappointment of finishing almost last in the first heat for Pearson.

McPherson has been a yard stick in competition with the Victorian’s this season & he beat five 

locally based race cars in heat four with Edwards second, then Forte (# 7f Forte Engineering – 413 

Chev) , Cameron Pearson, Vermuelen & Belk.

Edwards (# Ax21 Lake Eildon Houseboat Sales – 430 Chev) then took things up a notch in his final 

heat when he led home Grimson, Belk, Cameron Pearson, Hetherington & Vermuelen (# 9 McGrath 

Foundation) who was struggling with her 366 Mopar on a massive 610 metre track. 

Heaton missed his final heat with a busted oil seal in the gear box and the team was hard at it 

getting that sorted out to be able to start the feature whilst Disney went out and made it two heat 

wins for he him and his team leading McPherson, Justin Pearson (# 25 Healesville Directional Drilling 

– 430 Chev), Forte & the “Flying Pom’ Barry Kelleher (#65 ‘Jack Hillerman’ Smash Repairs – 454 Chev) 

to the finish.

The True Blue 1000; with a grand up for the winner, was full of action with McPherson & Disney off 

the front row and McPherson getting the best of it with Disney (# 11 Adamstown Car Doctors – 426 

Cube Chev) on his hammer. 

Early in the race McPherson (# 7 Better Trailers Canberra – 410 Mopar) & Disney were right on each 

other & something had to give. Unfortunately for McPherson; that meant a flat left rear tyre put him 

out of the event.

During the race Heaton, who had charged from the rear of the field, & Forte touched and brought 

down the cautions at the top end of the track. At further points of the race Edwards and Justin 

Pearson both spun.  Edwards, who had been running in 3rd, spun on lap 8 with a slowly deflating 

right front, while Pearson spun on lap 14. Edwards was spurred on after going back to the rear to 

make a march forward to get up to 5th before his right rear also started to deflate. Pearson 

completed a further 3 laps before retiring to the infield.

Disney led Grimson (# 12 Grim Race Cars – 430 Chev) and at times led by six or seven car lengths, 

however Grimson stuck to his guns and after applying pressure on Disney for a significant part of the 

race, Grimson moved under Disney at turn four and into the lead and away he went to take the cash 

in the True Blue 1000 with Disney, Cameron Pearson, Hetherington, Belk, Edwards, Heaton (# 89 

Masterlift Material Handling – 434 Chev) & Vermuelen the finishers.

After the race from the infield Grimson was delighted with the win. 

“We have had a great time regardless of winning or not, that was just to top it off. The LMRV team 

have been sensational the host club were brilliant & I really enjoyed the track, it’s a challenge & fast, 

we will be back for sure.”

The Victorian point score now heads to Swan Hill on February the 6th for the next event.

LMRV is proudly supported by

Belkblast

Healesville Directional Drilling

Lake Eildon Houseboat Sales

Australian Racing Products

Huckers Car & Truck Hire

Horne Enterprises Pty Ltd

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Late Model Racing Victoria Inc.

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