Rusty Hickman in the V40 J&J had been outstanding in the opening rounds of the Eureka Series photo by Corey Gibson Photography
Eureka Series off to Premier Speedway for $5000 to Win
Author : Ian Vale
The Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series round three that has $5000 on the line for the winner heads to Premier Speedway this Saturday night with a strong field of nominations that includes many of the country’s finest sprintcar drivers.
What a cracker of a field, while current Eureka Series Champion Brett Milburn is one of the many drivers nominated there is also four other drivers nominated that have been Eureka Garages & Sheds Series Champions, Jamie Veal, Shaun Dobson, Darren Mollenoyux and Mike Van Bremen, then add in two more drivers that have had great success at the Premier Speedway venue, James McFadden and Darwin’s Ben Atkinson and you’ve nearly got a hamburger with the lot!
Now if that isn’t a list of top drivers that any venue operator would like to have on any given night lets add some other drivers that are no strangers to podium placing’s Grant Anderson, Tim Rankin, Chad Ely, Tim Hutchins, Glen Sutherland, Tim Van Ginneken plus some of the new generation drivers that have show already they are stars of the future, Brayden Parr, Jordyn Charge and Rusty Hickman who is on fire at the moment.
The format for this round of the Eureka Garages and Sheds is the heat group time format, drivers are seeded into the time trial groups and then time trial for their starting position in their first heats against the drivers in their group only where the fastest driver will start from pole second fastest from P2 and so on. The second round of heats will be an inversion of the first round and swap heats. The points from these events will form the Top six driver shootout for pole position in the Eureka Garages & Sheds A Main while the other drivers will line up in the A, B and C Main as per there qualifying points.
While some of the drivers nominated will not be able to contest all the rounds of the Series due other commitments that will see six of the drivers nominated on the WSS trail this season this round of the Series will see all the top ten drivers in the Series points in action. Along with most of the drivers from eleventh thru to twentieth place in the points standings.
With many of the regular series drivers throwing their hat into the ring there is a few rookie drivers from the Warrnambool area in the field too, Carly Walsh, Chris Heard, Rhys Baxter and from down Gippsland way is Bobby Daly.
A full list of the drivers nominated can be seen the SRA web site www.sravic.com
With over forty five plus nominations received at the time of writing this round of the Series thanks to all the Series sponsors (see below) and Premier Speedway is going to be a huge night of Sprintcar action and it will all happen under the new track lighting hat has been install over the off season.
The month of November, what a big month of Sprintcar action for the SRA, Eureka Series R3 Premier Speedway $5000 to win on Saturday the 4th, the following week the 11th it’s off to Avalon Raceway for the $10,000 to win Sprintcar Jackpot Invitational race. Back to Premier Speedway on the 18th for the SRA Open Sprintcar Title presented by Go Traffic that pays another $5000 to win then to round out the month the Eureka Garages & Sheds Sprintcar Series heats to the home of the Kings Challenge, Borderline Speedway for round four of the Eureka Series.
The Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series round three - Premier Speedway Saturday night the 4th of November. For more information go to the Premier Speedway web site. www.premierspeedway.com.au
On track action is scheduled for 5pm for the sprintcar engine starts and hot laps with qualifying shortly afterwards.
Eureka Garages and Sheds Series – KTM Top 10: 1st – Tim Hutchins - 736 2nd – Brett Milburn – 729 3rd – Rusty Hickman - 718 4th – Jamie Veal - 647 5th – Jacob Smith – 623 6th – Glen Sutherland - 601 7th – Jye Okeeffe - 593 8th – Charles Hunter - 571 9th – Jordyn Charge - 505 10th – Domain Ramsay - 493
Western Nissan (End of Series random draw between 11th & 20th place) 11th – Scott Reilly - 457 12th – Jamie Heyen - 431 13th – David Murcott - 430 14th – Andrew Hughes - 385 15th – Sam Wren - 378 16th – Shaun Dobson - 376 17th – Matthew Dumesny - 364 18th – Terry Kelly - 344 19th –Aldo De Paoli - 341 20th – Brayden Parr - 336
For a full list of all the 2017-2018 SRA of Vic Race dates go to www.sravic.com
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, INDY RACE PARTS, 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 www.avalonraceway.com.au Corey Gibson Photography www.gibsonphotography.com.au Sprintcarworld www.sprintcarworld.com.au Maxam Printing www.maxamprinting.com.au
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