QUEEN FERGUSON CROWNED, GARTNER & WALSH FUTURE SPEEDWAY KINGS

QUEEN FERGUSON CROWNED, GARTNER & WALSH FUTURE SPEEDWAY KINGS 

Redline Raceway on Mount Buninyong closed off its season on May 14th with 

the Street Stock Queen of the Mount for the Ladies leading the program 

along with the Junior Sedan state series & Ballarat lady Brooke Ferguson 

impressively won all three heat races she competed in before winning the 

final & securing her crown, the Junior Sedans were impressive all night 

before Brad Gartner & Blake Walsh took wins in the A & B Grades.

The night of racing included crashes, huge passes, dead heat finishes and 

rollovers yet with all that happening around them, Ferguson, West 

Australian Donna Vanzetti, Megan Forrest, Karen Ferguson & Kelly 

McDermott zipped in & out, around & in-between their fellow competitors to 

claim the top five spots in the feature race . 

Local competitor Priscilla Grech was a rollover, others were involved in 

hard fought battles with paint & panels swapped such as Rachel Robinson & 

Hannah Grima & Drama & incidents affected strong runners such as Fiona 

Verhoeven & Rhiannon Burleigh. Heat wins earlier went to Brooke Ferguson, 

McDermott, Forrest & Ferguson for her second & last round wins to Ferguson 

& Vanzetti.

Ferguson thoroughly deserved to win after her dominance in qualifying & she 

was both delighted & grateful in her winners’ speech. "Thank you to Redline 

for making this event happen, to my parents & sponsors who help me so very 

much, thank you to Jason & Khloe for the use of their race car so that mum 

could race our car. Well done to all the girls, I enjoyed the competition 

very much, it feels great to win the inaugural Street Stock Queen of the 

Mount."

Ferguson won $600 worth of engine parts from Proflow Geelong, Vanzetti won 

some relaxation time in Ballarat courtesy of the Ballarat Day Spa & Mercure 

Ballarat, Forrest won time in Studio 516 for hair, nails and beauty 

treatment whilst fourth and fifth picked up fuel vouchers from Hennessy 

Transport.

Junior Sedan competitors were separated in A & B Grade fields with 

Piston Cup trophies & sashes for the top three in each group. Brad 

Gartner & Harry Ross won heats in round one. Angus Hollis & Ross dead 

heated in round two whilst Todd Atkins took a win & in the third round 

Atkins the Australian champion & Jackson Lunt were winners.

In the final things went belly up for Jackson Lunt who clipped the windrow 

& ended up flipping over in a roll without the roof of the car touch the 

dirt at all as the landed on its wheels.

South Australian Brad Gartner would go on to win from Ross, Angus Hollis, 

Atkins & Donald Young. 

The B Grade Junior Sedan field was large enough for there to be five heats 

with each competitor entered in three of them. Blake Walsh won the first 

with Brock Pengilly the next two. Jackson Van Ginnekin & Walsh then also 

had a dead heat result for the win before Pengilly became the only driver 

to win all three heats they competed in. 

Before the final started, Pengilly was unable to compete with their car on 

the race trailer & in the final Ballarat racer Darcy Wilson was a rollover 

victim in turn four. Walsh & Van Ginnekin had a race long battle as did 

Katelyn Worthy & Darcy Giblin for third & fourth positions. Walsh got the 

better of Van Ginnekin for the win, Worthy then Giblin & Ryan were the top 

five. 

Open Unlimited Sedans racing finished with visiting driver Scott Ellis in 

his 253ci 300hp powered chassis car defeat Sean Lister in his 366ci 800hp 

chassis car with Nathan Fawns third, Des Birkin & Corey Knox completing the 

top five. 

Standard Saloon racing finished with a tough hard thought battle between 

the top four cars & Greg Hutchins took the win for Hayden Clifford, Tim 

Hutchinson, Dave Chivers from Ballarat & Samantha Dunn.

The Speedway racing season is now over until November, in the meantime 

anybody keen to get involved with the club should find their social media 

pages and talk to the President.

Belmont Speedway Drivers Club thanks the following supporters:

Ipta Fibreglass

Spencer Race Engines

Trax Racewear

Dean Miller Photography

Bryant’s Sales & Service

Trials Experience 

Smartline Garages & Sheds

I C Weeds & Gardening Geelong

Automotive Suspension

Just Tippers

Australian Racing Products

Whitehorse Truck Centre

SS Wood Transport

United Forklift & Access Solutions

Inaction Photos

AV1 Electrical

Lister Automotive

Revolution Racegear

SPW Engineering

Geelong Carburettors

Allsport Trophies

Steve Forte Metal Fabrications

S.D Canvas

Johnny Dyno Engines

Metowu

Motorsport Hauler

Pedder’s Suspension

Midnight Towing

Norman Street Automotive

Duo Mobile

Burson Autoparts

BMS Automotive

UBC Web Design

Bulleen Towing

WBW Metal Fabrications

Dann’s Auto Wrecking

Jeff’s Auto Detailing

Modern Stainless Fabrications

Autoparts Professionals

Leejay Trailers

IG & JL Greville

FMP Group

Atkins Autoworks

True Design Homes

Cylinder Head Shed

Ballarat Fencing

Natrad Ballarat

Total Fleet Imaging

Power FM

Written  by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Belmont Speedway Drivers Club t/a Redline Raceway

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