Saturday nights racing at Alexandra Speedway had a major event focus on Junior Sedan racing and on a record breaking night Kasey Garlick from Melbourne’s Eastern Suburbs along with Linken Paterson from Healesville and Lachlan Fitzpatrick from Echuca won the three major event Junior Sedan races whilst another local area racer and former Alexandra Junior racer Cameron Pearson won the invited Late Model Sedans feature event.

Around forty Junior race drivers competed across the Junior Sedan Promotional Association features for Top Stars and New Stars along with the Victorian Speedway Council Junior Sedan East to North Double Crown event. All three feature events were terrific after fifteen qualifying events determined who would start where in the feature events.

In Top Star action Todd Moule, Ben Micallef, Mitch Glynn, Moule a second time along with Garlick and Micallef a second time won the six qualifying events leading up to a fifteen lap final where Garlick was unstoppable in her Daihatsu Charade taking victory after assuming control early and staving off challenges from Moule especially throughout the race distance. Garlick won from Moule Glynn, Brad Gartner who set a new track one lap record before Moule snatched that from him late in the race, Ben Micallef finished in fifth place.

Linken Paterson has been the local star of New Star Junior Sedan racing this season and once again that was the case on Saturday where proceedings started with a heat win to himself in round one along with Jayden Bryant. Paterson again won in round two with Lachlan Bull from Swan Hill and in the final qualifying round Bull and Paterson again took wins.

Paterson went on to clean sweep the nights racing in the final with a victory ahead of Bull, Dillon Taylor, Seth Sloane and Tenayah Barton.

Looking to revenge a couple of runner up placings recently to fierce on track competitor and off track buddy, Lachlan Fitzpatrick took wins ahead of Tristan McGraw in all three VSC Junior Sedan qualifiers before going on to win the first round in the two round East to North Double Crown event with the second round in two weeks time at Swan Hill. McGraw finished second right through the evening securing the spot in the feature event with Daniel Smith, Bradin Claridge and Nick Cherry rounding out the top five.

Alexandra & Yea Pre Mix Rumble Late Model Sedan action was heavily focussed on whether or not we would see a new outright track record around the venue. Cameron Pearson qualified fastest then won the first heat with Chevy Edwards winning the second heat in his brother’s race car after his suffered issues earlier. Pearson got close to a new track record a couple of times, despite not succeeding with that goal he went on to win the feature event from Edwards, Kristin Vermeulen from New Zealand, Shane Belk and James Cornfoot.

In other feature results Leigh Bourke visiting from Geelong took an end of the race feature race win in the Sports Sedans getting the better of Andrew Jordan who almost got the win. Bourke in a thirty plus year old Cortina, powered past Jordan to take the chequered flag with Luke Fallon, Steve Akil and Steve Kershaw rounding out the top five places.

Unlimited Sedan’s set new full course speedway records for their class across one lap, six lap and eight lap distances in the Fineblade Concreting Mini Marathon and Darren Nelson now holds all three of those records on his way to winning the final ahead of Scott Ellis from Coldstream, Lennie Bonicci, Daniel Unternahrer and Peter Cox.

Standard Saloon results were awarded on points, Aaron Meakins consistency seen him win ahead of Gary Evans and Terry Bullard.

 

New Track records include:

SSA Junior Sedans
1 Lap – Todd Moule 22.523
8 Laps – Ben Micallef 3.05.810
15 Laps – Kasey Garlick 5.43.846

 

Sports Sedans
15 Laps – Leigh Bourke 5.30.871

 

Standard Saloons
6 Laps – Gary Evans 2.21.654

 

VSC Junior Sedans
1 Lap – Lachlan Fitzpatrick – 20.947
8 Laps – Lachlan Fitzpatrick – 2.59.184
15 Laps – Lachlan Fitzpatrick – 5.29.894

 

Unlimited Sedans
1 Lap – Darren Nelson – 19.030
6 Laps – Darren Nelson – 1.56.997
8 Laps – Darren Nelson – 2.44.725

 

Alexandra Speedway Club is very thankful for the support provided by all these businesses:
Alexandra Quality Meats – Alexandra & Yea Pre Mix – Auscon Projects – Beach Earthmoving – Bendigo Bank Ringwood East – Blackburn Trailers – Campton’s Graphics – Capital Waste – Donnaz Underground – Eastern Suburbs Locksmiths – Exhaust Fix Lilydale – Fallon’s Bus Services – Foodworks Alexandra – GYB Civil – Healesville Directional Drilling – Highline Racewear – Lincoln’s Earthmoving – LS Quarry – Onsite Medical Response – Outer Eastern Steel – Quality Fire Protection – Raslarr Engineering – Revegetation Victoria – Smooth Suspension – S & N Builders – Town & Country Tennis Courts – Tyrepower Alexandra – Vern and Jackie Parker DVD’s and Photos – Waverley Exhaust & Brake Centre

 

Written by
Dean Thompson
DMT Sports Media

For Alexandra and District Speedway Club