ANOTHER VICTORIAN TITLE TO BE DECIDED AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY THIS SATURDAY

Wangaratta Speedway serves up the third of its Victorian title showdowns this 

Saturday night when the Goulburn Ovens Sedan Association has its annual 

premium event bringing its drivers mostly from New South Wales across the 

border and down the road to determine on track who will become Victorian 

champion, another major event on the same program is the final round for the 

prestigious Sports Sedan Darren Levy Memorial with both Craig Cottier & 

Aaron Bunton at the top of the points table vying for the win.

Drivers competing in the Victorian title for the Goulburn Ovens Sedan 

Association include Clint Henderson who won both the last two race meetings, 

Ross Maclean who won early this season, Trevor Mills who picked up a couple 

wins after Christmas & Thomas Bowers who won at Wangaratta on the only 

visit to the track so far this season. 

Chelsea Cornelius flying in from Brisbane, Ross Richardson with a long drive 

from Cobar, Nathan Shortis & Dave Walton are other drivers who could feature 

in the top three whilst anything can happen and we might just see a ‘Bradbury’ 

moment on title night.

Albury racer Craig Cottier would dearly love to win the Darren Levy Memorial 

given the event honours a family member, however his 350ci Commodore has 

had difficulty keeping up with Aaron Bunton from Nagambie and his Modified 

250 Crossflow powered Falcon. 

Both drivers will be going hammer and tong to come out on top of this series 

with heat race finishes as vital as the final race itself with points up for grabs 

on every race. The Powell brothers & Rhys Collins last season’s dominant 

Sports Sedan driver will all make things interesting as they look for their own 

win on the night to take a round win.

Supporting divisions include the Ladies Open Sedans, Junior Sedans, Vintage 

Humpy Holden’s & Standard Saloons. 

Gates to enter will swing open at 1pm for fans with racing from 4pm & 

enquiries can be made to 0427 308 976. The venue operates with a licensed 

bar & as such BYO is strictly forbidden.

Entry for the event will cost fans the following: Adults $20, accept for club 

members and aged/disabled who pay $15 & $10 for teenagers and young 

adults between 12 & 18 whilst under the age of 12 will be free entry.

GOULBURN OVENS SEDAN ASSOCIATION VICTORIAN TITLE

Stuart Balins  - Corowa 22

Tom Barnard – Corowa 69

Thomas Bowers – Corowa 82

Mick Bunt – Corowa 84

Scott Callander – Corowa 24

Chelsea Cornelius – Corowa 76

Mick Quinn – Corowa 17

Clint Henderson – Corowa 21

Ross Maclean – Corowa 7

Trevor Mills - Corowa 10

Mark Pollard – Corowa 18

Ross Richardson – Corowa 35

Nathan Shortis – Corowa 83

Dave Walton – Corowa 43

VSC SPORT SEDANS FINAL ROUND OF DARREN LEVY MEMORIAL SERIES 

Craig Cottier  - Wang 34

Fleur Heiner - Mt Beauty 61

Alyce Iaria – Mt Beauty 10

Liam Powell - Wang 45

James Powell – Wang 44

Greg Parks – Alexandra 47

Steve McDonald – Wang 64 

Adam Lovell - Corowa 29

John Patton - Wang 19

Aaron Bunton – GV 87

Brodie Montague – Mt Beauty 27

Rhys Collins - Wang 27 

VSC LADIES OPEN SEDANS 

Fleur Heiner - Mt Beauty 61

Alyce Iaria – Mt Beauty 10

Simone Hodgetts – Mt Beauty 64

Shelby Collins – Mt Beauty 27

Karen McCaskill – Bairnsdale 15 

VSC JUNIOR SEDANS 

Daniel Powell – Wang 45

Jake Cottier - Wang 11

Janie Patton - Wang 6

Susie Bear – Corowa 19 

VSC Standard Saloons

Trev Goldsworthy – Wang 35

Daniel/Leo Joosten - Corowa 46

Luke Dinsdale / Josh Delarue – Wang 5

Andrew Robl – Wang 21

Jack Milthorpe – Corowa 24

Stuart Densem – Wang 66

Chris Fitzgerald – Corowa 14 

VINTAGE HUMPY HOLDENS 

Richard Damm - # 6

Col Saville- # 99

Kate Bunt - # 3

Robbie Harvison - # 4

John White - # 5

Peter Cornelius - # 34

Ray Lavender - # 84

Paul Barklem - # 58

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

MILLER & RANDALL WIN BIG AT WANGARATTA 

Wangaratta City Speedway played host to a very strong field of Sports Sedans & a talented field of 

Standard Saloons for this season's running of the Sports Sedan Victorian title & 2016 SuperAxe 1000 

respectively with Damien Miller & Ben Randall picking up the big wins in front of a spirited crowd on 

March the 19th.

With the Sports Sedans attracting thirty race cars the qualifying was tough as drivers worked hard to 

qualify as close to a front row start in the thirty lap final as possible with twenty three starters 

ensuring traffic was likely to play a factor & Andrew Jordan from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs 

proved to be the top driver through three heat races each from Brendan Miller & eventual winner 

his brother Damien with Matthew Ridd all from the Alexandra Speedway club making up the top 

four starters.

Amongst drivers who did not finish the gruelling race were Wangaratta members Jimmy Powell & 

Rhys Collins with state ranked top drivers Luke Fallon, Daniel Unternahrer & Brendan Miller all failing 

to finish also. 

Jordan looked very looked like a winner when he headed Damien Miller and it became a story of 

what might have been when a caution light came on and set the field off for a green, white chequer 

finish with Miller getting by Jordan, Jordan returning fire before running wide & allowing Miller to 

take the lead back & win the race becoming Victorian champion with Nagambie's Aaron Bunton 

finishing third ahead of Trevor Mills & Matt Ridd.

Heat wins in the Sports Sedans went to Bunton, Jordan, Ridd, Fallon, Martin Heiner, Damien Miller, 

Brendan Miller, Mills & Dale Smith giving an extraordinary nine winners from nine heats showing 

just how close the field actually was for the evening. 

Miller was understandably pumped with his championship victory. "That was an awesome race by & 

with Jordan, bad luck & well done to him & the other podium placers. This is going to be an event we 

will talk about for weeks, thank you to everybody who helps out our teams racing from family to 

crew. It's time now to party long into the night."

The Standard Saloon SuperAxe 1000 blue ribbon feature began with Randall & last year’s winner 

Nick Chrystie at the front of the field with Daryl Joosten & Cameron Dike behind them. Randall from 

Churchill in Gippsland had earlier made the decision to go home after technical issues played havoc 

with his mindset however was talked into staying & racing & that decision paid off big time when the 

talented driver went on to win the feature event from his good friend Dike, Russell Hill, Aaron Price 

& Chrystie. 

For the Standard Saloons Andrew Robl from Killawarra won a heat however due to breakdown took 

no further part in the event whilst Joosten, Dike, Randall, Chrystie & Randall once more were the 

other winners.

Jason Crawford went on to win the Grand Prix Midget final from Mooroopna's Lisa Chalcraft, Chris 

Fowler, Sean Denning & David Bacon & visiting Division 2 Hot Rods were win by Scott Laidlaw from 

Broderick Stray & Gary Uprichard & in Junior Sedans Daniel Powell from Beechworth was too strong 

for Jake Cottier & Janie Patton. 

In April Wangaratta Speedway returns with their third Victorian title of the season this time for the 

Goulburn Ovens Sedan Association doing battle for the number one plate. 

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

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

SPRINTCARS & LATE MODEL SEDANS SUPER SHOW AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY

The annual Sprintcar & Late Model Sedan Wangaratta Speedway Super Show is back again after last 

year’s success & with some extra cash up for grabs the Late Model Sedans have sixteen of their 

beasts set to do battle whilst Sprintcars have almost a dozen cars set to fly around Wangaratta City 

Speedway.

The Late Model Sedans will be a Victoria v New South Wales v Canberra super fight with Cameron 

Pearson already a winner twice this season leading the Victorians the likes of Scott Macpherson from 

Canberra, Ben Nicastri from Goulburn way & Bruce Mackenzie from Sydney in the “Ryan’s 

Refrigerated Transport Battle of the Border’.

Locally the division is yet to establish our own competitor however there is plenty to cheer for from 

either side of the Murray River with the Mexicans v the Cockroaches always starting plenty of 

banter.

In Sprintcars Wangaratta was set to have a local racer Jesse Nicholas compete, however he melted 

some engine pistons in a shake down at the track two weeks ago and isn’t yet repaired, Shane 

Steenholdt, Bobby Daly & Andrew Hughes are three drivers to keep an eye on this Saturday night.

Grand Prix Midgets have another series event and freshly crowned Australian Champion Paul Perry 

will try to keep himself ahead of the great Dennis Myers from Shepparton, Jason Crawford, Lisa 

Chalcraft Australia # 3 from Mooroopna & Louis Rodriguez.

The local heroes in Sedans will also shine with the Sports Sedan’s last chance for laps before the 

Victorian title in March at Wangaratta. Wodonga’s Georgette Meunier is coming off a win last 

Saturday night at Wahgunyah & Wangaratta’s Shane Box steps back behind the wheel to have a 

steer whilst the Ladies division, Junior Sedans & Standard Saloons round out the program.

Gates to enter will swing open at 1pm for fans with racing from 4pm & enquiries can be made to 

0427 308 976. The venue operates with a licensed bar & as such BYO is strictly forbidden.

Entry for the event will cost fans the following: Adults $20, accept for club members and 

aged/disabled who pay $15 & $10 for teenagers and young adults between 12 & 18 whilst under the 

age of 12 will be free entry.

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

Ryans Refrigerated Transport

Wangaratta Tourist & Caravan Park

Meyland Trophies

Rural City of Wangaratta

Wangaratta Club

Grimshaw Signs

Conway Printers Jindera

Wangaratta Bearings

VIC SPORTS SEDANS 

Georgette Meunier CR 82

Adam Lovell CR 29

Tom Bowers CR 83

Daryl Joosten CR 46

Liam Powell Wang 45

James Powell Wang 44

Matt Chiminello AX 94

Daniel Gooden Wang 88

Luke Keen Wang 64

Shane Box Wang 19

VSC JUNIOR SEDANS 

Daniel Powell Wang 45

Jake Cottier Wang 11

Janie Patton Wang 6

VSC STANDARD SALOONS 

Trev Goldsworthy Wang 35

Daniel & Leo Joosten CR 46

Chris Fitzgerald CR 14

Liam Powell Wang 45

Josh Delarue & Luke Dinsdale Wang 5

Gary Evans Wang 62

VSC LADIES OPEN SEDANS

Belinda Chalcraft GV 15

Alyce Iaria CR 68

Fleur Heiner MT 61

GRAND PRIX MIDGETS

Paul Perry A1

Dennis Myers 11

Chris Fowler 13

Lisa Chalcraft 15

David Bacon 36

Hayden Bacon 37

Louis Rodriguez 46

Jason Crawford 50

Travis Florimell 81

VSC SPRINTCARS

Shane Steenholdt 5

Dave Dennison 15

Andrew Hughes 22

Adam Greenwood 35

Rod Dennison 51

Mark Laity 53

Bobby Daly 88

James Ryde 99

LATE MODEL SEDANS – BATTLE ON THE BORDER

Graham Forte 7f

Kristin Vermuelen 9

Cameron Pearson 10

Dan Timberlake 11

Brock Edwards 12

Chevy Edwards AX 21

Justin Pearson 25

Wayne Belk 32

Mick Hetherington 40

Tim McPherson AX 97

Scott McPherson ACT 7

Todd Bayley N 19

Wade Carter N 24

Bruce Mackenzie N 66

Liam Heaton N 89

Ben Nicastri N 99

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Wangaratta City Speedway

EVERY THAT COULD HAPPEN DID AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY SATURDAY NIGHT

The big Rural City of Wangaratta supported Junior Standard Saloon state title on Saturday night the 

6th of February has been run & won whilst positions remain un-official until some investigation in 

regards to final positions & technical matters are addressed, as it stands Bairnsdale driver Matt 

Bowers is the new Victorian champ with Michael Hardy & Jack Wharton both from Gippsland also 

finishing on the podium.

Twenty one Juniors arrived to compete and twenty started the final with local Wangaratta driver 

Rick McAuliffe the only unfortunate competitor to miss the start of the final due to clutch failure. 

Heat racing was dominated by 13 year old lass Ally Morrison winning two of her three heats to 

qualify as the top driver for the Victorian title race. Bowers, Bailey Perkins, Hardy & Rutherglen’s 

Jack Milthorpe all won heats before Morrison led the start in the title race from Hardy, Bowers, 

Milthorpe, Charli Parsons & Perkins.

In the heats Coby Elliott ripped his car apart on the back straight wall as did Holly Strickland & AJ 

Lawrence, the concrete wall causing plenty of headaches for crew members who were put to work 

to fix cars.

The title race started with false starts, Gemma Laidlaw being crashed out of the race before an 

official lap had been counted and Morrison leading Hardy, Bowers & Millthorpe on a chase in and 

out, over and under slower drivers before Morrisons car came unstuck up against the concrete & out 

of the race with the cause possibly one of the incidents under conjecture being investigated post-

race after conversations between parents and officials.

Milthorpe was penalised at this point of the race and at the re-start lined up from the back however 

on the lead lap. 

Further into the race as Bowers and Hardy motored on at the front way ahead of others, another 

crash this time involving Elliott & Daniel Powell brought the race to a halt and once again penalty 

went to Milthorpe who was again sent to the rear of the field & once again post-race there could be 

some conjecture as to what happened here as the drivers had a different story than officials. 

At the restart it looked like a couple cars were out of position & at the end of the race this maybe 

another situation being looked at whilst Milthorpe stormed his way through the field again as a 

result of his second penalty.

Bowers maintained authority out front & he went on to cross the line and pass on track inspection in 

relation to his differential being legal with Hardy second, Wharton declared third, Milthorpe & 

Courtney Meakins the first five to finish with post-race engine inspections pending & the 

investigations pending.

The Sports Sedans were competing in the second of three round in the Darren Levy Memorial Series 

with Nagambie driver Aaron Bunton a very strong winner ahead of Andrew Jordan, Liam Powell who 

won two heat races earlier to qualify, Craig Cottier & Daniel Unternahrer whilst Wangaratta based 

driver Martin Heiner took a big heavy dump upside in his Commodore.

In other racing the Goulburn Ovens Sedan final was won by Wodonga driver Thomas Bowers ahead 

of Ross Maclean & Brendan Tracey from Albury returning to form from a few seasons ago with Mark 

Gordon & David Walton rounding out the top five. Clint Henderson tore his beautiful VT Commodore 

to shreds along the back wall when he found the concrete during heat racing.

In Standard Saloon racing Trevor Evans from Yarrawonga competing in his brother’s car took the win 

ahead of Wangaratta locals Chris Fitzgerald & Andrew Robl with Trevor Goldsworthy & Daniel 

Joosten completing the top five positions whilst earlier visiting driver Leigh Gooding had a big crash 

into the turn three wall. 

Compact Speedcar racing was won by Dave May in his first ever meeting with the division. May is an 

experienced campaigner in many forms of Speedway & took to this form of the sport instantly 

winning two of the three heats then going on to win the feature race from two Shepparton 

speedsters Geoff Meyers & Mark Cecil then Rodney Howie & Brad Lowe.

Karen Macaskill won two of the three Ladies races to be the best performed on the night ahead of 

Fleur Heiner and Tegan Bullard before her car engine exploded!

The Wangaratta Speedway Club would like to thank the spectators for their patience during what 

was a long title race due to situations out of the Club’s control. 

Crashes and incidents can happen, the Junior title is a state governing body controlled event & race 

incidents that occurred that set the night back in time, the delay in restarting & whilst the decisions 

themselves were made, this was were out of our control. 

The late finish to the night is no longer a regular occurrence at Wangaratta & the club hope you 

return February 20th for the Late Model Sedans & the Sprintcars.

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

Ryans Refrigerated Transport

Wangaratta Tourist & Caravan Park

Meiland 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 Inc

IN SCORCHING WEATHER HESELTINE, COTTIER, MILTHORPE, MEYERS ON FIRE AT SPEEDWAY

Wangaratta Speedway got under way for the post Christmas season in scorching 34 degree heat on 

Saturday the 9th of January with a big program of feature events to entertain the dirt track faithful & 

local drivers feature amongst the big wins with Lavington NSW based driver Craig Cottier taking an 

important ‘Darren Levy Memorial’ Sports Sedan victory & Corowa youngster Jack Milthorpe the 

same in ‘North East Rising Star Challenge’ Junior Sedans.

Visiting divisions were the main act with the V8 powered AMCA class being won by Dean Heseltine & 

Shepparton’s Geoff Meyers winning the Compact Speedcar ‘Cardwell Cup’ whilst Standard Saloons 

victory went to Liam Powell, Gary Kakoschke in Marsh Modified Sedans & Ladies Sedans to Kayla 

Knox.

Amca Nationals are popular right across Australia & twenty of Victoria’s hard chargers lined up for 

the latest Country Cup round where Dean Heseltine would take victory ahead of ahead of a great 

challenge by Bill Lodwick & Northern Territory champion Jamie Collins. 

A number of race incidents including unavoidable contact between the race winner and the leader at 

the time Zeke Edwards who both had nowhere to deviate too coming out of turn two with a spun 

backmarker sitting on track in front of them & a roll over to Sharon Tindal stopped & started the 

feature event before the race reached an end with Grant Cullinger finishing fourth & Darren 

McCarthy in fifth.

Six heat race victories went to Heseltine, Matt Mills, Allan Cullinger, Zeke Edwards, Heseltine again & 

Collins with plenty of heat race spins, enquiry flags & tantrums to keep the steward busy.

Round one of the Darren Levy Memorial series began very well for Craig Cottier a cousin of the late 

Darren Levy taking a satisfying win over Nagambie’s Aaron Bunton, Jimmy Powell, Daniel 

Unternahrer & Georgette Meunier in the Sports Sedans. Cottier was the red hot favourite going into 

the event & secured a front row race start after a win & two seconds in heat racing before heading 

off ahead of Corey Knox and the field early in the race never to be headed.

The feature was punctuated by a huge crash with Troy Frost spinning & the car back into traffic 

wiping out Tom Barnard & Adam Lovell whilst Russell Smith was able to continue. Cory Knox, 

Bunton, Thomas Bowers, Cottier, Bunton & Daniel Unternahrer won heat races heading into the 

feature event.

Junior drivers from the North East of Victoria and as far away as Portland & Young in NSW arrived to 

do battle at Wangaratta in the first round of a two round mini-series to crown a North East Rising 

Star winner. 

Milthorpe from border town Corowa was too good in two of the three heats for all challengers 

before he blitzed in the feature to defeat Daniel Powell, Coby Elliott, Rick McAuliffe & Jake Cottier in 

the round supported by Patton Automotive Wangaratta, Chris Kelly Signs Wodonga & Highline 

Racewear & Apparel.

Meyers in the Compact Speedcars wanted to make up for bad luck that ended his run at the recent 

Victorian title held at Rushworth Speedway to take a win in the Cardwell Cup & he did so with a 

great commanding win over Will Van Der Ark, Keith Astrella, Butch Hutchinson & Gavin Gay.

The most exciting race of the night was the Standard Saloon final where Gary Evans led before 

Beechworth racer Liam Powell picked off with one lap to go & head of to victory with Evans, Josh 

Delarue, Daniel Joosten & Jack Bear rounding out the top five & Kakoschke was too strong for 

challengers in his Marsh Modified Sedan division when he beat Stewart Knight, Timothy Knight, 

Justin Bradley & Greg Knight who suffered mechanical gremlins whilst challenging for a win & 

limping to the line in fifth.

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

Parish Autos

Ussher Plumbing

Patton Automotive

Mundies Automotive

Precast Concrete

Ryans Refrigerated Transport

Wangaratta Tourist & Caravan Park

Ray Wason Motorcyles

Meiland Trophies

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Wangaratta Speedway Club

SMASHING GOOD TIME THIS SATURDAY AT WANGARATTA SPEEDWAY

Wangaratta City Speedway is back this Saturday night & what another great show fans can expect 

with the headline event being an end of night, Demolition Derby!

The Compact Speedcars & Grand Prix Midgets will be the visiting divisions with all important 

aggregate and series points up for grabs respectively. The Grand Prix Midgets field is quite a 

sensational line up with six drivers all capable of winning and a rookie still developing. Expect Gary 

Jacobson, Chris Fowler, Lisa Chalcraft, Louis Rodriguez, Jason Crawford & Trevor Perry to put on a 

competitive show with a winner hard to pick.

The Compact Speedcar field has a Victorian title in two weeks’ time at Rushworth, they come to 

Wangaratta for club points and drivers form the North East & Ovens area will be in the thick of the 

action with Mark Cecil, Rodriguez who is driving in two divisions for the night, Gavin Gay from 

Canberra, Justin Paull & Geoff Meyers amongst the competitors most likely to feature as a winner.

Whilst local divisions always figure at a Wangaratta race meeting, the Junior Sedan division stands 

out at this meeting with a couple drivers from other clubs keen to get laps on the track that will host 

their Victorian title for Standard Saloon Juniors after Christmas.

 

Coby Elliot comes from Young in NSW to compete & Courtney Meakins up from Kilmore both in 

Standard Saloon race cars & they will be quite strong whilst Daniel Powell & Jake Cottier are likely to 

be strong also.

Racing will begin at the regular 4pm,Gates to the public open from 2pm with prices $20 per adult 

accept for club members & aged/disabled pensioners who pay $15 & anybody under the age of 18 is 

free

For anybody wishing to make enquiries you can call 0427 308 976

GRAND PRIX MIDGETS

V5 Garry Jacobson

V13 Chris Fowler

V15 Lisa Chalcraft

V37 Hayden Bacon

V47 Louis Rodriguez

V50 Jason Crawford

V55 Trevor Perry

COMPACT SPEEDCARS

#2 Butch Hutchinson

#7 Mark Cecil

#11 Louis Rodriguez

#12 Justin Paull

#ACT15 Gavin Gay

#26 Jamie Paull

#27 Keith Astrella

#32 Chris Curren

#47 Geoff Meyers

#57 Rodney Howie

Tania Paull

VIC SPORTS SEDANS

Wang46 Troy Frost

MT 21 Bob Gentleman

Wang44 James Powell

Wang45 Liam Powell

CR29 Adam Lovell

CR82 Georgette Meunier

CR46 Darryl Joosten

MT10 Martin Heiner

Wang34 Craig Cottier

MT 38 Marcus Griffith

STANDARD SALOONS

Wang38 Trevor Goldworthy

Wang5 Luke Dinsdale/ Josh Delarue

BGO5 Sean Connolly

SH85 Aaron Marshall

CR46 Daniel & Leo Joosten

MT84 Jason Keenan

VSC JUNIOR SEDANS

Ax15 Coby Elliot

Ax85 Courtney Meakins

Wang38 Amy Goldsworthy

Wang6 Janie Patton

Wang45 Daniel Powell

Wang11 Jake Cottier

OPEN LADIES SEDANS

CR82 Georgette Meunier

MTt10 Alyce Iaria

GV15 Belinda Chalcraft

MT61 Fluer Heiner

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

Parish Autos

Ussher Plumbing

Patton Automotive

Mundies Automotive

Precast Concrete

Ryans Refrigerated Transport

Wangaratta Tourist & Caravan Park

Ray Wason Motorcyles

Meiland Trophies

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Wangaratta Speedway Club