news: Huge Horsham Speedway season begins at Blue Ribbon Raceway this Saturday

All roads lead to Blue Ribbon Raceway for opening night this weekend. Sprintcars and Modified Sedans are set to headline the action at Blue Ribbon Raceway this Saturday night as the local Horsham Motor Sports Club gets their season underway. Supporting the big events will be all the local heroes in the exciting Production Sedans and the crowd pleasing V8 Trucks with racing from 5:00pm.

Twenty-one Sprintcars have nominated for the ‘Mainline Dynolog Dynamometers’ All Star Sprintcars. South Australian driver and Australian champion Mark Caruso is the biggest of names on the entry list that includes the likes of Christopher Solomon, David Donegan, Paul Solomon, Rusty Hickman, Stacey Galliford, Phil Lock, Todd Moule, Steven Loader, and Zac Farrar all fan favourites and/or race favourites within the sport.

The Sprintcar action is sure to be hard thought and down to the wire when it comes to the big feature race result with a clean season start the objective for those men and women in their magnificent flying machines. Make sure you head out to Kalkee to see all the action of the premier class of Speedway.

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In the ‘Tritech Lubricant’ supported Modified Sedan action Geelong’s Kye Walters leads the Victorian Modified Promotional Association state series after three rounds with Wangaratta member Shane Roycroft close behind in second place by just two points. Those two will lead the likes of Bendigo’s Lachlan Fitzpatrick, and local series hope Horsham’s Daniel Simpson into Blue Ribbon Raceway this weekend. Simpson at his home track and will be joined by other local drivers including Graham Gerlach, Steve Ellis and Horsham raised Matt Gerlach, all will be determined to send local fans home happy with a win more than anybody else in the field. Matt Gerlach is one to watch in the feature along with Simpson.

Horsham Motor Sports Club are grateful for the support of long-time club supporters and Modified Sedan associated supporter Horsham Auto Wreckers, who have helped contribute to ensuring this event is a success for the host club.

Productions and V8 Trucks compete for their Horsham Motor Sports club class points towards their end of series club championships with the likes of Production Sedan Horsham competitors Peter Dowling, Dean Hughes and Katelyn Eltze in the line-up competing against the father and son Portland racers John and Zak Calderwood, whilst in the V8 Trucks Luke James, Fletcher Mills, Jaryd Carman, Tim Nathan Bird, and Wes Bell, are just some of the competition set to flash around.

The event starts at 5:00pm and the gates to the public open at 4pm whilst the pit gate to entrants opens 11am. No BYO as we have a licenced bar on site. All the action is at 1650 Blue Ribbon Road, Kalkee

Admission prices are Adults $25, Pensioners $20, Students aged 12 to 16 $15 kids under 12 years of age are free. A family ticket of two adults, and two children above the age of 12 to 16 is $60. Members with proof of membership receive a $5 discount on their entrance fee. Eftpos is available.

Horsham Speedway Club would like to acknowledge the following club supporters;
Ace Radio Network
Burson Auto Parts Horsham
Bondy’s Contractors
Bigham Truck Repairs
Carman’s Towing and Windscreens
Crop Opti
Dooen Hotel
Horsham Auto Wreckers
Horsham Injector Service
Horsham Auto Wreckers
Johnsons Merchandise
Mick Harrison Signs
Millers
Petrogas Horsham
Simpson Fire Motorsport Safety
Westonvic Waste
Wilken Group
Wimmera Bakery Dimboola
Wimmera Bearings
Wimmera Mail Times
Wimmera Security Service

NOMINATIONS
MAINLINE DYNOLOG DYNAMOMETERS ALL STAR SPRINTCARS SERIES
Mark Caruso – Australia 1/ South Australia
Boyd Harris – VA 2
Phil Lock – Victoria 4
Paul Solomon – Victoria 7
Jamie Hennessy – VA 9
Steve Loader – Victoria 10
Chris Solomon – Victoria 11
Brendan Quinn – South Australia 14
Zac Farrer – Darwin 21
Jarreth Argus – NS 22
Todd Moule – Darwin 26
Rusty Hickman – Victoria 40
Stacey Galliford – New South Wales 46
Jeremy Kupsch – Victoria 47
Kane Newcombe – Victoria 65
Jake Smith – Victoria 72
David Donegan – VA 75
Dan Scott – VA 91
Ryan Davis – Victoria 95
Brendan Guerin – South Australia 96
Ben Morris – South Australia 3

TRITECH LUBRICANT VICTORIAN MODIFIED PROMOTIONAL ASSOCIATION SERIES ROUND
Jamie Paull – Nyora 4
Mark Deckert – Horsham 4
Darcy Wilson – Ballarat 5
Graham Gerlach – Horsham 6
Lucas Conder – Ballarat 9
Lachlan Fitzpatrick – Bendigo 11
Matt Gerlach – Avalon 14
Chris Fitzgerald – Wangaratta 14
Calvin Watts – Redline 21
Daniel Simpson – Horsham 33
Tristan McGraw – Corowa 38
Kye Walters – Redline 46
Nathan Shortis – Wangaratta 55
Steve Ellis – Horsham 74
Shane Roycroft – Wangaratta 82
Rob Uren – Murray Bridge 94
Rachel Pratt – Goulburn Valley 94
Jack Houlahan – Heartland 96

SSV PRODUCTION SEDANS
Katelyn Eltze – Horsham 5
Dean Hughes – Horsham 10
Peter Dowling – Horsham 11
John Calderwood – Portland 13
Zak Calderwood – Portland 14
Haydn Riley – Hamilton 50
Heath Riley – Hamilton 72
Belinda Taylor – Ballarat 80
Toby Littlehales – Mildura 95