Edition 26 by Brett Swanson

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Cover – Main. This years Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Warrnambools Premier Speedway was a break out event for young guns Scott Bogucki (#27 Main pic) and Marcus Dumesny (with flag) after they shared the two preliminary night wins and then had strong runs in the main event. Photos by Pirate Media Group. The Australian Dirt Modified Title returned to Sydney’s Valvoline Raceway after some years and Zak Blanch N2 was one of a large 44 car field to contest the event. Lone Wolf Photo.

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Former Aussie V8 Dirt Mod Champ David Clark Photo Lone Wolf.

k Q5 started from pole and threw down a strong challenge before eventually finishing fourth.

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Editorial Welcome to edition 26. Who would ever have thought that our speedway season would be cut short in such a widespread and wholesale fashion just as things were building to a finale crescendo? There was still some Aussie Titles yet to be run (AMCA, Modified Production Sedans, Street Stocks, Production sedans) with the biggest setback being the titles set for decision in Tasmania where the expense of competing is by far a bigger commitment than those on the mainland that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require travel by ship. In fact many competitors had already made their way to the apple isle only to be forced into a tourist holiday they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t planned for or even wanted. While this season has been a historic one due to the curtailing of the season due to the dreaded Covid 19, it was also historic for many other good reasons. Kevin Britten became the first 5 time (consecutive) National V8 Dirt Modified Champion in a return of the division to Parramatta Raceway. For the first time ever the current Chilli Bowl Champion, Kyle Larson, contested the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic. Brett Milburn won his first Australian 360 Sprintcar championship to go with his Australian Wingless Sprint Championship and his Victorian V8

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Dirt Modified, Mini-Sprint and 360 Sprintcar Championships making him undoubtedly one of our most versatile racers.

Jamie Veal won his first Australian Sprintcar Championship then made himself look stupid with a ridiculous and dangerous tantrum at Murray Bridge. And what’s more Veal’s Milburn also won his third Eureka anger was projected towards an Garages and Sheds Series in the opponent who’d had nothing to do 25th running of this hugely success- with the incident that had occurred. ful Victorian based Sprintcar Series. In fact all sources tell us that Veal’s issue was totally self-inflicted. Brock Hallett broke through for his first Sprintcar feature win, and what Wearing the coveted Number 1 is a a win it was – a come from behind hard won privilege and nearly all of win against the countries best and the previous winners have worn it a couple of Americans in the openwith pride, honour and dignity. Just ing round of Speedweek at Murray look at outgoing champ Andrew Bridge. Scheuerle. He had nothing to gain for his sponsor by contesting the Speaking of first “open” Sprintcar Classic but did so because as the features, young Victorian Jordyn Aussie champ he felt that he owed it Charge scored a pair of back to to the fans to see the Aus 1 in acback wins in the Eureka Champion- tion. Did he carry on when he upship and then scored a close runner ended and finished early at both the up in the national 360 title. Classic and in his Tasmanian Title defence – absolutely not. Well Done Another young gun to have sucAndrew and the team. cess at the awesome Heytesbury Stockfeeds Simpson Speedway Kye Blight dominated Late Models was Tasmanian Jock Goodyer who on the West Coast post-Christmas scored the Aussie formula 500 title. smashing the USA invasion tour and Goodyer was fairly dominant beatthen scoring his first Australian Late ing multiple champ Liam Williams to Model Championship which due to the flag. a ridiculous agreement at Kwinana was run over two nights, WednesDarren Kane won his fourth Aussie day and the following Saturday. For Super Sedan Title some 15 years the travellers this really tests their after winning his first (03/04). commitment to the title with an extra-large accommodation and food bill.

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Speaking of the Late Model title, bush fires around the country had a huge effect with many east coast teams being caught up when the national highway was blocked for days and the trucks couldn’t get through. Now if the title had been on the normal Friday and Saturday east coast style program instead of spread out across the week, those unfortunate teams would have made it and augmented an already good field.

leaseholders of Parramatta will, we believe, get first option on the new As big as all this is, possibly the bigvenue but should they pass on that gest story was the announced forced option then who knows who may or closure of the hallowed Valvoline Raceway, or Parramatta City Raceway may not get the nod. Rumours abound that Archerfield promoter John Kelly is as many still call it – The Speedway keen to get a chance to run the new by the Freeway. venue while other sources have suggested that if Made Too Goo (Barry Despite a huge public outcry and and Felicity Waldren) don’t exercise some support from some National media outlets it’s a done deal. Season their option then the Government will insist that it is run by a club style/not 2020/21 will sadly be the last. for profit/limited by guarantee enterprise only that is not aligned to any The NSW Government, who are the ones responsible for the closure, have one class of racing. promised a replacement venue will be built in time for the start of the 2021/22 Californian Carson Macedo and his season as an augmentation to the Mo- Australian car owners Sean and Felicity Dyson have had a pretty good and torsport precinct at Eastern Creek. very high profile brief season. MacIs this the ideal location for a replace- edo was one of the stars of the USC speedweek with a win in both Sprintment – possibly, possibly not! cars and Speedcars on the same night, a feat only performed a couple Made Too Go Pty Ltd, the current 6

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of times before. The team then expanded with the addition of Kyle Larson but neither driver had much luck in the Grand Annual Classic or the lead-up events despite their prodigious talent and well backed team. Macedo then returned from the USA in late February with one mission in mind, to win the Australian Speedcar Championship which he did despite the best efforts of Kiwi Michael Pickens and other international and national

stars. The USC Speedweek however, despite a solid field that also included

Americans Aaron Reutzel and McKenna Hasse and at times Cory Eliason was pretty much the domain of fellow Californian Brad Sweet. Sweet was almost unbeatable on the back of his first World of Outlaws Championship. Unfortunately, neither Reutzel, Sweet or Donny Shatz who was racing at Archerfield, made it to the Grand Annual Classic but the event was bolstered by the addition of former winner Tim Kaeding and compatriots Tim Shaffer, Hasse, Buddy Kofoid, Shane Stewart and Kaleb Henry. Speaking of Henry, he was the surprise winner of the All-Stars annual Front Row Challenge at Simpson Speedway where an overnight dash

from the rained out Parramatta event reaped the team a $10,000 reward. Henry held off Kaeding narrowly and Shaffer (3rd) as well as Stewart back

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in fifth. This latter trio of Americans however, left the tack without going to scale and were classified in the last three positions despite the rule book saying they should be disqualified. Matthew Reed and Jordyn Charge were therefore elevated onto the podium. And sadly we recognise and honour the passing of a few more of our speedway family with the deaths of Gary “Chippa” Chippindall, Brian “Scruff” Donaldson, Noel Bradford and Barry Pincbeck.

Sally tried her hand at Sprintcars before marrying fellow racer and later 360 Australilan Sprintcar Champion Allan Barlee and Tracey (Ingram) is still racing sedans around her Gippsland home base as well as raising a tribe of future racers. The Densley family were also closely involved with the Chippindall’s as Greg Densley was a racer and long time crew chief for Garry before his own kids Adrian and Lauren both had their own careers. Both families are devastated by the loss of Garry after a battle with cancer finally claimed the Armed Forces and Speedway Veteran. I personally will miss his cheeky grin and humour and undoubted skill behind the wheel.

Chippa’ was one of Victoria’s most versatile racers, being successful in everything from Sedans to Sprintcars Over on the West Coast, Scruff was a on the dirt and also a winner on the daunting Calder Park Thunderdome in larger than life figure and a very enigmatic one at that. the ultra-competitive HQ division. Garry also spawned a huge speedway Scruff enjoyed an extremely close friendship with Ohio legend Jack family with both of his daughters rac8

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Hewitt and deep friendships with many of Australia’s best while staying largely out of the limelight. Scruff supplied first rate equipment for the American Ace across sedans and Sprintcars and his team was always at the forefront in terms of appearance and professionalism. When everyone else had a trailer, Scruff had a truck. When they got trucks, scruff stepped it up again with his well-remembered American styled truck and trailer combination with the spare Sprintcar chassis and wings sitting on top. One of Scruff’s greatest times was when he was in the garage alongside Hewitt when the dirt track legend made his Indianapolis 500 debut. Scruff proudly related the fact that “the line of fans outside Hewitt’s garage waiting for autographs was longer and deeper than any of the other drivers’ garages, and Jack stayed there late into the evening until everyone had been accommodated.” It was typical of Scruff to revel in the success of his great mate while sitting anonymously in the background. His work and play took him to the US nearly 100 times over the years and he raced in New Zealand as well as the USA. Scruff was also a huge Richmond Tigers AFL fan and flew continually all-

around Australia, except Queensland, to watch his beloved Tigers play. It might even be possible to say that his love of Richmond was deeper than his love of speedway, or at least they were on an even keel. Number one in his life however, ahead of speedway and football was his wife Rosa Maria. Scruff is another of the great Speedway family that I personally will miss. I loved the sadly infrequent chats we’d have when the team or just Scruff were on the East coast.

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Scruff, like Chippa, fought their illnesses bravely to the end, but that chequered flag finally flew on their too brief lives. March also saw the passing of Sprintcar legend “the Big Fella” Noel Bradford. The Bradford name is one of the biggest in West Australian Sprintcar and Speedway racing with Noel kicking things off and scoring a National Championship only to be followed by his late son Ian “Bonza” Bradford and more recently his Grandson – the lead-foot Shaun Bradford who proudly carries his Pa’s famous #57. To all the families and friends of these legends, myself and Highline Magazine extend our deepest condolences and also to the many family members of other recently departed speedway brethren such as 60’s and

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70’s legend Barry Pinchbeck. Rest In Peace all

And finally, what a joke the Kyle Larson “N” situation is. Really! The word wasn’t used as an offensive slur against anyone, yet the reaction form sponsors and Chip Ganassi has been well over the top in my opinion. At the end of the day Kyle will find another ride in Nap-car and in the meantime he will be doing more dirt track racing whenever it resumes after Covid 19. Nap-cars loss is Speedways gain. Cheers.

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Speedway History

HIGHLINE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BEFORE THEY CUT THE COOKIE

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Bill Wigzell in the famous Suddenly #88 V8 dices with equally famous Zeke Agars 6 cylinder Holden #3.

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s hard as it might be for some modern day followers of Sprintcar racing to believe there was a time when cars looked remarkably different to one another. Nowadays apart from a new

appealing to the speedway public when cars were distinctly different and you knew it was your favourite driver behind the wheel and not just an escaped gorilla from the local circus. In the era before

paint job, or more likely a wrap, most cars are pretty much identical. Some people call this the Cookie Cutter phenomenon. And because of the wing on top and the reasonably high sided cockpits that most cars have, you’re also hard pressed to know if it is actually the driver listed in the program or someone entirely different.

the corporate Sprintcar took the stage there were literally hundreds of different shapes, sizes and configurations. Many of them built in the back yard, but equally many lovingly crafted with the most sophisticated technology and equipment available.

But folks it wasn’t always this way. And dare I say it was much better, far more 14

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The result was often a twenty car Feature where every car was different and it wasn’t just the paint job. In every State of Australia a range of styles had devel-

oped. Those lucky enough to see interstate visitors were able to witness what is arguably the most famous Hot Rod-Super Modified-Sprintcar that Australian has ever produced, the Kevin Fischer built, Bill Wigzell purple #88 that was nicknamed “Suddenly”. The South Australian based car not only looked good, it sounded terrific and with the ‘Wizard’ Wigzell behind the

build in the 1960’s. One of the best looking cars in those times was the beautiful black #3 of Keith ‘The Count’ Blickarski out of Queensland. Blickarski’s creation was not only a stand out on the track, it was also a feature winner at home and interstate. When Warner’s Orange Corvette #26 first emerged from the pits on a Sunday afternoon at Westmead in 1964 the

enormous crowd fell silent. It was like no other car they had ever seen. It was fast and noisy and Warner could certainly drive it. When a little later he put a wing Along with Fischer’s “Suddenly’ we must on top the crowd went ballistic. Car owners and drivers were already starting to also reckon with Bill Warner and his game changing importation of his equally build some very neat, tidy and fast cars, but Big Bill and his famous Mooneyes famous CAE Super Modified from San sponsored car took it to another level. Diego in the United States. Australian You could say he set the scene alight. drivers were already starting to design It didn’t happen overnight but within a some fantastic cars to complement the season, two at the most, the backyard popularity the division was starting to wheel it won Australian Championships. The car could not be mistaken for any other on or off the track.

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special had disappeared. The car might still be built at home, but now there were standards to meet both in engineering and appearance. The cars were no longer ugly ducklings, they were soon the best looking things on the track. Spectators at Claremont, Rowley Park, Brooklyn, Liverpool, Brisbane and a growing number of regional tracks were treated to Super Modified racing at its best. The likes of Alf Barbagallo and Ray Geneve in Western Australia, Bill Wigzell and Zeke Agars in South Australia, Graeme McCubbin and Ray Lacey in Victoria, Bill Warner and Dick Briton in New South Wales and Keith Blickarski and Peter Dykes in Queensland were turning on racing in great looking cars that was starting to rival the mighty speedcars. US Super Modified giants like Marshall Sargent and Larry Burton were imported to do battle with the local heroes. 16

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What needs to be remembered at this point is that Sprintcar racing did not exist in Australia. What we had was Super Modified racing. True Sprintcar racing at the time, as it existed in the USA, was in cageless cars that from an Australian perspective looked like a supersized speedcar. The other salient point is that Sprintcars did not have wings. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until Sprintcars and Super Modifieds raced together in the US that the wisdom of utilising roll cages and wings became universal. Even then some sanctioning bodies for Sprintcars continued to race, as they do to this day, without wings. Anyone who had the great privilege to watch the early years of the Australian Hot Rod and then Super Modified Championships saw an exotic collection of vehicles. Some with wings, some without, some with tail tanks, some without, some

with fully enclosed bodies, some without. Equally the motors that powered these creations came from a incredible range of sources, but that is another story. One of the most documented and often told stories of Australian Speedway is how California’s Johnny Anderson brought the first sprintcar to Australia. It was to stay here and push us on the inevitable road to winged sprintcar racing which has now dominated the sport for around forty years. Some say it was the greatest thing ever... Judge for yourself because I believe the photos on these pages will show you that from the mid 1960’s to the late 1970’s we had without question the most diverse and interesting cars ever seen in the world Super Modified and Sprintcar racing.

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Steven Lines in the Brian Hall WA3 was a surprise winner of the USC round at Warrnambool recently. What’s so surprising about Lines winning, right? The reason it was surprising was that James McFadden in the Monte WA17 was lead o

Newcastle’s Nathan Disney headed south for the Victorian Late Model Champ 18leads New Zealand’s Gas Girl Kristen Vermuelen. Photo Rock Solid Productio HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ding all feature long until inexplicable spinning out of the lead a short distance from the chequered flag handing the win to Lines. Lines luck however, deserted him at the same venue a couple of weeks later in the Victorian Champi-

pionship at the historic Redline Raceway and had a solid run to fourth. Here he ons/Shane Sharrock.

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Warrnambool’s own “Gas Girl” Fiona Verhoeven shows nice form in the afterno 20huge success and the two clubs have already locked in next years state Title fo HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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oon sunshine at the Victorian Late Model Championship. The event was a or April 2021. Photo Rock Solid Productions/Shane Sharrock.

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Steven Lines in the Brian Hall WA3 was a surprise winner of the USC round at Warrnambool recently. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so surprising about Lines winning, right? The reason it was surprising was that James McFadden in the Monte WA17 was lead o

Stepping up from a 1200cc Junior Sedan to a big banger Late Model can be tu 22Moule secured a top ten finish against a large field that included American Joe HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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uff as young Todd Moule shows on the brink of a spin at the Victorian LM Title. e Lusk. Photo Rock Solid Productions/Shane Sharrock.

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What a year NSW’s Lachlan Olney has had! Securing the win in the Victorian S 24Championships. Olney defeated compatriot Todd Bayley and Victorian Brendan HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ing all feature long until inexplicable spinning out of the lead a short distance from the chequered flag handing the win to Lines. Lines luck however, deserted him at the same venue a couple of weeks later in the Victorian Champi-

State Title gave him a third title to go with his NSW and South Australian n Hucker. Photo Rock Solid Productions/Shane Sharrock.

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Highline’s own Lone Wolf Photography/Brett Williams gets some incredible sho Raceway and here is just another brilliant image of Cameron Pearson’s Late M 26in the evening. HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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James McFaddens great season continued with victory in the Krikke Boys event 28 HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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t at Bunbury in the Bunbury based Monte superfast WA17 Wayne Martin photo.

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Wily veteran Brooke Tatnell spent his second summer behind the wheel of the nell was quick to admit that his only win at the picturesque Borderline Speedwa 30crashed out by lapped cars, but then again Tatnell has also been in that positio HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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beautiful Scott Motorsport V55 on the World Series Sprintcars trail (WSS). Tatay in Mt Gambier was a bit fortuitous when runaway leader Jock Goodyer was on himself on occasion. Photo Snapperific/Steve Walters.

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Luke Dillon is possibly the most successful Sprintcar racer in the history of Mur 32round two of WSS at his now “Home” track. Photo by Stephen Pickering/Picko HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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rray Bridge Speedway and is again interviewed in Victory lane having won oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Photos.

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Young West Australian Kye Blight has totally dominated the world of Late Mode Challenge and culminating in his first National Title. Blight’s form is a just rewa 34of his family and patron Paul Stubber – the outgoing National Champion. Richa HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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el racing on the West Coast smashing all opposition in the annual USA v AUS ard for his efforts spent working and learning in the USA and the great support ard Hathaway Photo.

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The Australian V8 Dirt Modified Title returned to Sydney after many years awa 36captured N28 Trent Schofield with a flame out as he rides the cushion. Lone W HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ay and our man Lone Wolf captured some stunning images â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as usual. Here he Wolf Photo.

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Victoria’s Stephen “Hurricane” Hopkins, looks like he’s caught up in his own hu 38captured by Lone Wolf/Brett Williams at the Aussie V8 Dirt Mod Title. Lone Wo HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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urricane as he rides out this wild flip â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just one shot in a stunning sequence olf Photo.

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Plenty going on in this Lone Wolf image from a preliminary night feature with S 40Zeke Edwards (21), Andrew Pezzutti (25) and others spread out as part of a sn HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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Scott Cannon (79), Todd Hobson (84), Michael Ardley (59), David Clarke (5), narling start to the race. Lone Wolf Photo.

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Queenslands Kevin Britten is caught on his way to V8 Dirt Modified – his fifth s 42elder brother Peter, who is now US based, the boys have an astonishing 8 title HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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straight national crown â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a feat never performed before. Between he and his es. Lone Wolf Photo.

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Sometimes sedan action is the best speedway action as evidenced in these cl matta Speedway. Mod Prods’ as they are known are one of the most evenly co 44liant. Lone Wolf Photo HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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Marcus Dumesny had a break out year in Sprintcars winning at home at Parram at the South West Conveyancing Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic and then a to 48racer on a slick “home” track. Lone Wolf Photo. HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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Sadly the Covid 19 outbreak killed off the annual late season NZ v Aust Speed 50as seen in this Lone Wolf Shot featuring Harley Smee (57). Lone Wolf Photo. HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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Australia’s fastest estate agent, Ed Borg cranks his Late Model hard into turn 1

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The “Sassy Lassy” McKenna Hasse made her 410 Sprintcar debut down unde terms with the greater horse-powered machine. She was none the less very po 54Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic debut after a hand full of shows at Valvoline Ra HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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er with the new #55 team and it would be fair to say she struggled to come to opular with the fans and will be better for the experience having also made her aceway. Lone Wolf Photo.

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Andrew Scheuerle’s great southern sojourn to contest the Grand Annual Class down at both events as seen here in Tasmania. Still, Scheuerle carried the num 56benefit at all to be gained by his Queensland car owner and sponsors. Richard HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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sic and defend his National Title didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn out quite as planned going upside mber proudly and committed to the away races as a champion does despite no d Hathaway Photo.

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Stephen Pickering is one of the most pleasant, humble and unassuming peopl 58to’s! This shot of Harley Smee waiting in the Warrnambool pits at the national t HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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le you could ever met in a racing pit but boy does he take some beautiful photitle is just one example of Pickoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect pictures.

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Picko’s on track action, when he chooses to take them, is equally as good as h real cosmopolitan shot with eventual winner American Carson Macedo on the 60former Title winner Kaidon Brown on the inside. Inset – Macedo victorious atop HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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his “artistic” creations. This shot from the Australian Championship final is a outside of his biggest challenger New Zealand’s Michael Pickens with Young p the Dyson Motorsport #99.

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While our man Picko is a devoted Speedcar fanatic, he also enjoys most other ian Brock Hallett scored his biggest, and only Sprintcar feature win in the Open 62now calls Portland, Victoria home, came from behind and passed all the establ HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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r forms of speedway competition and was there when fellow South Australning round of World Series at Murray Bridge Speedway. The young racer, who lished stars on his way to the cherished victory lane.

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After taking the biggest win of his career in a Classic preliminary event but hurt 66searched for a replacement engine and are about to remove the damaged unit HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ting the teams sole engine in the process, the new Porkers Transport team t to replace it with another recently sourced unit. Image: Pirate Media

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The oh no! moment that killed former champion Corey McCullaghs hopes of w laghs car was light on the scales. As per the rules the car was turned around a Aungers face is telling as he contemplates the impact before announcing it to t 68recover points wise from the loss. Image: Pirate Media HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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winning his second Grand Annual Classic. After running well in a heat McCuland re-weighed from the other direction but was still light. The look on Wade the crowd. McCullagh was disqualified from the heat and was never able to /HIGHLINE-MAGAZINE

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Like Scott Bogucki, Marcus Dumesny had a great Classic event with a stunnin ing himself as a real contender to replace mighty Max Dumesny as a hero in th 70 HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ng preliminary win and then a top five finish in the main event thereby announche eyes of the parochial Warrnambool crowd. Image: Pirate Media

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South Aussie Keke Falland always present a nicely turned out machine but in t 72okay but the car was heavily damaged and his Grand Annual Classic campaign HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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this shot heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing his best to mess up a once pretty car. Thankfully Keke was n was over Image: Pirate Media

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Classic carnage: I guess it’s one of the things that attracts some people to our Jarred (27), Steve Bissett (Tas2), Matt O’Shannassy (82) and Brendan Guerin 74 HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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sport, and in this shot thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot going on between Mark Carlin (12), Ross (96) sneeking past at the back Image: Pirate Media

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One of the great travellers and triers Chris McInerney sits forlornly with a broke 76on the track) Image: Pirate Media HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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nship at the same venue when he was taken out of the event in someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wreck.

Winning $10,000 a week before in the AllStars 360 Front Row Challenge at Sim early exit from a heat at the Grand Annual Classic. Henry was spectacular both 78Macedo in the pits later-on Image: Pirate Media HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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mpson speedway didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help Californian Kaleb Henry feel any better about this h in and out of the car having a contretemps with fellow Californian Carson /HIGHLINE-MAGAZINE

Brendan Quinn gets himself into trouble at Avalon Raceway’s Presidents Cup

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but worse was yet to come (overleaf). Image: Pirate Media

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nship at the same venue when he was taken out of the event in someone else’s wreck.

Young Tasmanian Tate Frost appears to have some speed and may develop in 82Brendan Quinn wasn’t one of his best as he stayed on the throttle too long cau HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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nto a leading contender once he smooths the raw edges off. This incident with using more damage than might have occurred otherwise Image: Pirate Media

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A bit of infield art with the tail tank of Jessie Attards N53. Jessie and his family 84Becker, and both his parents Kym Becker and Peter Attard, having contested t HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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have a long legacy with the Grand Annual Classic with his Grand-dad Terry the time honoured event over many decades Image: Pirate Media

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nship at the same venue when he was taken out of the event in someone else’s wreck.

This shot of Californian Carson Macedo at Avalon’s Presidents Cup was indica Macedo’s World of Outlaws car owner and recently crowned Chilli Bowl Cham 86unlucky with numerous roll-overs and engine issues between - sadly Image: P HIGHLINE MAGAZINE

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ative of the Dyson Motorsport teams week with the teams high profile pairing of mpion Kyle Larson and Macedo himself. Both drivers were fast but desperately Pirate Media

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