BIG BAD V8 ENGINES DELIGHT THE CROWD AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY

BIG BAD V8 ENGINES DELIGHT THE CROWD AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY

Wangaratta City Speedway had a great crowd on Saturday night & they sat down to enjoy what 

arguably many believe are the two most important divisions in Speedway, Sprintcars & Late Models 

with Shane Steenholdt & Ben Nicastri coming out on top on February the 20th.

Sprintcars & Late Models were supported by all the club local divisions and drivers along with the 

visiting Grand Prix Midgets competing in a state series round with winners being Chris Fitzgerald in 

Standard Saloons, Belinda Chalcraft in Ladies, Daniel Powell in Junior Sedans, Liam Powell in Sports 

Sedans & Travis Florimell in Grand Prix Midgets.

A twenty five lap Late Model Sedan final known as the ‘Ryan’s Refrigerated Transport’ Battle of the 

Border night one was won start to finish by Nicastri who travelled down from Goulburn to compete. 

He was chased hard by Chevy Edwards and Cameron Pearson who at times had a close battle going 

on between themselves followed by Brock Edwards in fourth the brother of Chevy & Justin Pearson 

the father of Cameron in fifth.

Heat racing proved to be intense with Graham Forte winning in the first round along with Nicastri, 

then Nicastri & Chevy Edwards in the second round won the races with Mick Hetherington deemed 

the cause of a crash that took himself and Forte out of action in this round. Scott McPherson & 

Chevy Edwards once more won the last round heats.

Sprintcars ran a twenty lap feature race with all the competitors from Gippsland for this meeting. 

Shane Steenholdt came out trumps with Bobby Daly the next best ahead of Adam Greenwood, Dave 

Dennison & Mark Laity.

Greenwood began the night well in heat racing with a win before a miss started to plague his cars 

performance with the crew busily trying to work out what the issue was. Daly picked up a win in the 

second heat  with Dave Dennison proving how close the division is being the third winner from three 

heats in the last heat race.

Results in the other racing were Liam Powell of Beechworth in Sports Sedans defeating his brother 

Jimmy with Daryl Joosten third then Fleur Heiner & Georgette Meunier, Chris Fitzgerald too strong 

for Liam Powell, Trevor Goldsworthy, Daniel Joosten & Luke Dinsdale in Standard Saloons and 

Florimell ahead of Lisa Chalcraft, Chris Fowler, Sean Denning & David Bacon in the Grand Prix 

Midgets.

Wangaratta City Speedway will fire up again on March the 19th with two huge events leading the 

program, the Victorian Sports Sedan title & the Super Axe for Standard Saloons expecting to draw 

ninety cars between those two divisions alone.

Wangaratta Speedway Club Supporters for 15/16:

SuperAxe Woodsplitters

One Mile Motors

Crosher Constructions

Wangaratta Auto Care

Wangaratta Radiators

North East Fasteners

A Grade Removals & Storage

Enzed Wangaratta

McDonalds Wangaratta

Alpine Truss

Gardenview Lodge Motel

IGA Wangaratta

APCO

Thommo's Cash for Scrap

Solimo Towing

Ussher Plumbing

Patton Automotive

Precast Concrete

Ryan’s Refrigerated Transport

Wangaratta Tourist & Caravan Park

Meyland Trophies

Rural City of Wangaratta

Wangaratta Club

Grimshaw Signs

Conway Printers Jindera

Wangaratta Bearings

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Wangaratta Speedway Club

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