It will be the first time the speedway has been in action after COVID-19 protocols ended the 2020-21 season ahead of schedule, and race drivers had been entering up to Sunday night with about 70 entrants locked in for Saturday night’s racing.
The speedway has scheduled Sports Sedans, Standard Saloons, Street Stocks, National Junior Sedans, Victorian Junior Sedans and Victorian 1200 Juniors as the competing classes.
With the national title for Speedway Sedan Australia Juniors at Alexandra this season, a great field made up of Alexandra club members and some visiting cars from Gippsland will provide terrific racing as drivers build up their confidence and further develop their skills before the best junior racers from across Australia arrive to compete for the honour of being national champion.
In Horsham on Saturday night, December 4, Bree Simpson from Woori Yallock won the Top Star category feature event, and she is one step ahead of the likes of Dylan Barrow, Linken Paterson from Healesville, Jayden Bryant, Jack Randall, James Oliver and Rhys Meakins in a 19-car field. The developing New Star category of racers will have Jasmine Bryant, who secured a podium spot at Horsham on the weekend also.
The Standard Saloons have attracted a competitive field with Kacey Ingram second at Nyora this past Saturday night in the line-up against Matt Davis who finished fourth in the same race, competitive Mansfield-raised woman Jaimi Barber, and Garry Evans who travelled to Moama in NSW and finished on the podium at that venue. Evans is a track record holder at Alexandra and will be tough to beat.
Victorian Speedway Council Junior Sedans have Wandin’s Dylan Barrow competing in this class, who will likely to be tough to defeat, along with Rhys Meakins, Damon Ingram, River Paterson and Jayden Bryant who are just some of the drivers to watch.
Sports Sedans have their Victorian title at the Alexandra club this season and the current Victorian champion Lee Beach is one of this week’s nominations. Against very strong competition from Damien Miller, Brendan Miller, Healesville racer Steve Kershaw, Luke Fallon and Josh Service, it is very hard to pick the likely winner.
Rounding out all the classes on the program is the 1200cc Junior Sedans. Arthur Hutchinson has been the form driver of the class, but giving Hutchinson a challenge will be Braiden Webster, Sam Cherry from Coldstream, Riley Taylor, Jack Kershaw and Alexandra student Will Fallon among others.
The Speedway is at the end of Gordon St, Alexandra, and action this Saturday night starts from 4pm. Gates are open to the public from noon at a cost of $50 for a family of two adults and three children aged 10 to 16; $20 per adult; $10 for children aged 10 to 16 and aged and disabled pensioners. Children under 10 years of age enter for free.
For more information contact 0438 700 124.
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