Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series Next Stop Avalon Raceway

Media Release                                                8/11/2016

Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series Next Stop Avalon Raceway

By Ian Vale

Avalon Raceway will present round three of the Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series this Saturday night the twelve of November with a very strong field of nominations that includes some of the country’s finest drivers nominated, this round of the Series also doubles as the Fireball Derby giving that bit more incentive to try and take home some of the extra prize money added to the event.

Round one winner David Murcott is back again but he will have some stiff competition from the likes of current Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series Champion Brett Milburn along John Vogels, Corey McCullagh and the New South Wales charger Ian Loudoun.

Round one of the Series at Heartland Raceway was tough night for Brett Milburn who had to come thru the B Main to make the A Main and then finish with a strong fourth place, if Brett carries that form and speed into this round he will be hard to beat.

Another driver that was outstanding at Heartland was South Australia’s Glen Sutherland. Early race leader Domain Ramsay blew a trye to put him out of the race leaving the very fast Glen Sutherland in the lead, with only a few laps to go a small mistake by Sutherland handed the lead to David Murcott, but he could not close to gap down over the final laps.

Thirty six nomination have been received so for this event with many of those drivers past Eureka Garages & Shed Series round winners, Tasmania’s Shaun Dobson, Victoria’s Tim Rankin, Tim Van Ginneken, Corey McCullagh and John Vogels.

All the above drivers will be challenged by a strong contingent of the newer drivers that are on the pace, Jye Okeeffe, Jake Smith, Brad Warren and last season most improved driver Brayden Parr who picked up his first feature win last week in the 360 Allstar event at Mildura.

Other Eureka Series regulars in the field are Dennis Jones, James Gardiner, Adam King, Jordyn Charge, Charles Hunter, David McKay, Eddie Lumbar and David Aldersley.

And for the female fans there are lady drivers, Rhiannon Burleigh and Jessica Moulden. Jessica had a brief stint a few years back in the sprintcar ranks before stepping into the Formula 500’s with great success and more recently in the speedcars, now back into the sprintcar it will take a few shows for her to get back into the rhythm.

On track action at Avalon Raceway Lara will commence at approximately 6pm with engine starts and hot laps for the sprintcars before getting down to the serious racing shortly afterwards with thirty plus F500 on the program as well.

The Sprintcars driver will contest two heat races each before the last chance C and B Mains followed by the popular top six shootout and then the all important Eureka Garages & Sheds A Main that also doubles as the Fireball Derby.

Eureka Garages and Sheds Series – KTM Top 10:

1^st – David Murcott - 383
2^nd – Glen Sutherland - 381
3^rd – Tim Van Ginneken - 345
4^th – Brad Warren - 331

5^th – Brett Milburn - 315

6^th – Brenten Farrer - 312

7^th – Jye Okeeffe - 306
8^th – Jordyn Charge - 302
9^th – Corey McCullagh –300
10^th – Jacob Smith – 295

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(End of Series random draw between 11^th & 20^th place)

11^th – Domain Ramsay - 294

12^th – Sam Wren - 280

13^th – Adam King - 255

14^th – Grant Anderson - 246

15^th – Dennis Jones - 236

16^th – Ashley Scott – 221

17^th – Rusty Hickman - 206

18^th – Matthew Reed - 197

19^th – Tim Hutchins - 193

20^th – Brayden Parr - 188

The Sprintcar Racing Association of Victoria thank the following Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series and season sponsors:

EUREKA GARAGES & SHEDS, KTM AUSTRALIA, WESTERN NISSAN, MD MOTORSPORT, HOOSIER TIRE AUSTRALIA, CAMDEN SINGAGE & BUILDING SERVICES, PARR MOTORSPORTS, STEELPIPES AUSTALIA, LUMBAR’S TRANSPORT, AVALON RACEWAY, D&F RACING PRODUCTS, ELIMINATOR RACE WINGS, COREY GIBSON PHOTOGRAPHY, MAXAM PRINTING, SPRINTCARWORLD.

Eureka Garages & Sheds                       www.eurekagarages.com.au

KTM Australia                                        www.ktm.com

Western Nissan                                      www.westernnissan.com.au

Hoosier Tires Australia                          www.mdmotorsport.com.au

Camden Signage & Building Services   www.camdenneon.com.au

Steelpipes Pty Ltd                                 www.steelpipes.com.au

Lumbars Transport                                 www.lumbars.com.au

Eliminator Race Wings                           www.crossmotorsport.com

Parr Motorsports                                   www.parrmotorsport.com

Avalon Raceway                                    Avalon Raceway Lara (New Web Site TBA)

Corey Gibson Photography                   www.gibsonphotography.com.au

Sprintcarworld                                       www.sprintcarworld.com.au

Maxam Printing                                     www.maxamprinting.com.au

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