2017/18 World Series Sprintcars

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Image Gallery from the 2017 Gold Cup held at 

Avalon Raceway, December 26th 2017.

 

 

                                                       

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

 

 

Western Nissan

(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

AT AVALON STORER WINS A SECOND ALFIES EXCAVATIONS ROUND FOR SEASON

Portland racer Daniel Storer became the first driver for the season to win two rounds in the ‘Alfies 

Excavations & Plant Hire’ Super Series for Wingless Sprints when he was too good for David Cook & 

Peter Logue this past Saturday night February the 13th at Avalon Raceway, as a result strengthening 

his lead at the head of the points table. 

For the only time in the season for Wingless the night began with a time trial session & over three 

groups with a fast time of 15.938 from David Cook in session three putting him at the top of the 

times sheet from Peter Logue who ran a 15.956 in the second session. Interestingly the eventual 

event winner was a huge .8 of a second behind the Cook time.

With points for the time trails banked drivers got into two heat races each.

Luke Storer and his brother Daniel began on the front row of heat one & Daniel got the lead right 

from lap one going on to defeat Luke, Travis Millar, Mark Balcombe & Scott Drew.

Following on from a brother & brother top two was a father and son top two when Peter Logue 

defeat son Wayne in the second heat with Darcy McGlade, Jason Langdon & Victorian champion 

James Wren completing the top five when Logue Snr lead from start to finish.

Our top time trialist Cook then came out ahead of Andy Hibbert, Sam Wren, Rhys Baxter & David 

Alford in the third heat when he led start to finish.

The first green to chequer heat race was run in the fourth with Glenn Watts taking a win ahead of 

Millar, Daniel Storer, Drew & Marcus Green in a finish with only .482 of a second separating the lead 

two cars. Luke Cole had led the first eight laps before trailing in towards the back of the field

Heat five also went the distance without stoppage and Mark Balcombe picked up the big qualifying 

points defeating Layton Orchard, Ebony Hobson, Baxter & Leigh Balcombe with a margin of just over 

a second back to second place. 

In the final heat race a fastest ten lap time of the night was set by James Wren in his win over 

Michael Skene, Jay Nicolaisen, Alford & Sam Wren. The time of 2 minutes 32.758 seconds with a 

three second gap back to second after Wren crossed the finish line. Wren had started fifth before 

taking the lead on lap two.

A shortened last chance qualifier moved a few drivers into the main race including Jason Langdon, 

Skene, Jay Nicolaisen & Leigh Balcombe.

As the green let the field go for the twenty lap feature event Daniel Storer got the jump on Cook 

with Peter Logue, Millar, Mark Balcombe, Sam Wren, James Wren & Wayne Logue in chase four laps 

later the leaders remained the same whilst James Wren moved from seventh to fourth. 

For the next fourteen laps everything moved along in the same order until on lap nineteen where 

Millar pulled out with mechanical issues and then again on lap twenty Wren rode a wheel and 

flipped over causing a red light stoppage.  

Official results with Daniel Storer crossing the line in first were sorted out as being Cook in second 

then Peter Logue, Mark Balcombe, Swan Wren, Wayne Logue, Baxter & Hibbert.

Afterwards Storer was pleased to increase his lead in the series. “With all the top drivers supporting 

the series through to the end it was a great effort by my team. We have two cars on the go each 

round & both cars run strong. Thank you to the series supporters from Alfies and to all the 

volunteers who make sure we have a show each week to go to.”

The Super Series is supported by the team at Alfies Excavations & Plant Hire.

Written by

Dean Thompson

DMT Sports Media

For Victorian Wingless Sprints Club