BUNBURY SPEEDWAY 2020
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY SPRINTCAR SPEEDWEEK USA v WA 1st January 2020U S A Wins Round 3American driver Shane Stewart has taken out round three of the USA verses WA Sprintcar Speedweek series, Stewart actually crossed the line in second spot in the thirty lap feature ahead of Mitchell Wormall and behind Jason Kendrick, However Kendrick was relegated two spots for using the infield to pass a lapped car.
Quick time on the night went to USA racer Harli White with a time of 13.867, second quickest was Shane Stewart with a 13.983.
Mitch Wormall who had won the previous round at the Perth Motorplex started his feature out of position seven prior to finishing second.
Callum Williamson impressed in the feature starting out of position eleven and finishing forth.
Bunbury's Tod Davis virtually a part time racer within the 410 ranks was very racey through the heats and finished the feature in 7th after starting 8th.
Jason Kendrick lined up with Harli White for the feature and got the jump to lead White and Stewart, It was not long before there was a caution on the raceway after Mathew Cross spun, taking out another two cars in Brody Minchin and the fast time girl Harli White.
Kendrick drove a faultless race apart from the passing a lapped car incident, after the relegation the official results were.
1st Shane Stewart, 2nd Mitch Wormall, 3rd Jason Kendrick, 4th Callum Williamson, 5th Bud Keading, 6th Andrew Priolo, 7th Todd Davis, 8th Kris Coyle, 9th Daniel Hartigan, 10th Trevor Jolly, 11th Cameron Mckenzie.
The forth and final round of the series was held on the 4th of January 2020 at Albany Speedway.
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Peter Roebuck Pictorial feature
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY WEST AUSTRALIAN WINGLESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1st January 2020
Payet claims number fiveWest Australian Tom Payet driving for Gary Walsh has taken out his 5th West Australian Wingless Championship in six years.
The heats were all hotly contested, with varied winners, Heat 1 Brendon Wedge, Heat 2 Matt Ivanow, Heat 3 Ash Hounsfield, Heat 4 Daniel Keen, The top 8 dash was taken out by Ash Hounsfield, 2nd Matt Ivanow and third Dean Gittos.
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Peter Roebuck Pictorial feature
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY SOUTH WEST CHAMPIONSHIP Round 2 8th February 2020Bunbury City Speedway has hosted round 2 of the Ivix Industries South West Sedan Car Championship at Bunbury on Saturday night, this follows on from round one that was contested at Manjimup Speedway back in December of 2019.
The night was action packed with all divisions putting on a fantastic show, The pits were packed with Juniors, Street Stock and Production Sedans, the all sedan feature was supported by the Legend Cars.
Bunbury's Mathew Thomson took out the Junior feature to take a two point lead in the overall series, in front of Jonty Barnsby and the ever improving Erin Frazer.
The Production Sedans was a clean sweep for Barry Rose in the Sigma dominating the win list, This place Rose as the overall series leader, taking the lead after round one off Kyle Sayer who struggled on the slick track surface.
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Mick Hamon from Bunbury put on a fine display of racing to win the night and take the overall lead of the series off Clint Hadley from Margaret River, From here the series moves on to Collie Speedway for round 3.
BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY Junior Sedan's 8th February 2020
Teash Hamon Photography Pictorial feature
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY Street Stock's 8th February 2020
Teash Hamon Photography Pictorial feature
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY Production Sedan's 8th February 2020
Teash Hamon Photography Pictorial feature
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY WORLD SERIES SPRINTCARS 15th February 2020Bunbury City Speedway has hosted the 12th round of the 2019 2020 World Series Sprintcar competition.
The home town team of Krikke Motorsport with Kerry Madsen on board, fresh from the win the night before at Esperance Speedway
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Bunbury City Speedway Looses Five Star Rating
This was the accident that led to Bunbury Speedway loosing it 5 star track grading with Speedway Australia, The decission to act was not in the interest of safety as the following sprintcar race meeting was allowed to run without replacing the concrete fence or the steel uprights and cables, the only repair required was to repair the mesh debris screen.
The Priolo car left the track at the end of the main straight heading into turn one, sprintcar do torn in at over 100mph at this point and as you can see apart from the damaged mesh the catch fence worked to perfection and the driver was unhurt.
The catch fence at Bunbury Speedway was years ahead of its time when it was built during the 1980's, It is designed to absorb the impact of the cars, cusion the impact and return the car to the racetrack with its suspension type construction, reducing the risk factor to the drivers.
The end result of this down grading is, Bunbury Speedway can no longer run any open wheel cars until the concrete fence, the steel uprights, the cables and the debris mesh has all been replaced, The cost of the masive project is around $1.5 million dollars, plus many volunteer hours from the club members.
The new replacement fence that work will start on next year, subject to the success of a government grant that been applied for. The replacement catch fence is not a suspension type but ridged and un-forgiving, time will only tell as to weather injuries increase to driver that manage to find themselves crashing into catch fence at high speed, remembering as time passes, cars improve, speeds increase and crashes are harder.
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY KRIKKE BOYS SHOOTOUT 29th February 2020 |
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY WEST AUSTRALIAN LEGEND CAR TITLE 14th March 2020It was a night of all sedan car racing at Bunbury Speedway on Saturday night, The Legend cars were up front and centre with the running of there 2019 2020 State Title, thirteen drivers nominated for the event, which included 3 from New South Wales in, Cameron Jewell in the 31N car, Shane Anderson in 62N and Darren Fenner in the 93N machine.
The Bunbury Car Club was as always was up against something, This meeting it was the looming thunder storms that were approaching and the Corona Viris that was effecting public gatherings Australia wide.
The Legend cars treated to spectatorts to some fantastic laps of racing through the heats, but were like every division robbed of there feature race because of the rain.
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Because of this situation the winner of the West Australian Legend Car Championship was awarded on heat points over the night
Alister McKenna Photo feature
2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY TEST & TUNE 27th June 2020
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2020 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY TEST & TUNE 19th September 2020
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Both Test and Tunes cancelled due to rain
2020 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY WEST AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION SEDAN CHAMPIONSHIP 3rd & 4th October 2020night oneRed Lion Brigade Stands StrongIn chilling conditions on Saturday night its the red lion drivers that stand tall after night one of the Make Smoking History Speedway Sedans Australia Production State Title, The first nine point scorers after night one are all in Holden Commodores.
With track conditions outstanding across the evening it was Kyle Sayer and Kye Blight undefeated after night one, both drivers will have a tail of two cities coming out for their final heat race today, Sayer is in a more favorable position top come out on top "some say" as he starts in a stronger position than Blight.
Heat winners for night one were, Heat 1 Rod Musarra, Heat 2 Ashley Baker, Heat 3 Kye Blight, Heat 4 Kyle Sayer, Heat 5 Peter Katona junior, Heat 6 Mick Hamon, Heat 7 Branden Frazer, Heat 8 Jake Blight, Heat 9 Kye Blight, Heat 10 Kyle Sayer, Heat 11 Rod Musarra, Heat 12 Drew Ogle, Heat 13 Peter Huntjens, Heat 14 Benny Curtin, Heat 15 Rickie Nuccini, Heat 16 Kyle Sayer, Heat 17 Mick Hamon, Heat 18 Kye Blight.
Point Scores after night one
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Legend CarsThe Bunbury Speedway based Legend Car played a suporting role to the Production Sedans on the first night of the West Australian title.
As always these miniture Hot Rods put on a great show with Clive Stuart taking the win ahead of Steve Gould and Barry Hunter
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2020 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY WEST AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION SEDAN CHAMPIONSHIP 3rd & 4th October 2020night 2Hamon Wins Dramatic TitleBunbury's Mich Hamon has claimed victory in an action packed 2020 Speedway Sedans Australia West Australian Production Sedan championship at the Make Smoking History Bunbury Speedway.
Hamon was locked in a fierce battle with Kyle Sayer in the final laps before Sayer unfortunately came to grief within sight of the finish.
Just four of the original twenty two starters completed the gruelling forty lap A Main before a big Sunday night crowd.
The heat winners on night two were, Heat 19 Jack McAuley, Heat 20 Rod Musarra, Heat 21 Kyle Sayer, Heat 22 Rachel Spalding, Heat 23 Jake Blight and Heat 24 Hayden Norman.
Barry Rose took out the first of the B Mains while Richard Nelson won the other.
Feature Results
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Ron Bellfield the Albany flyers. Photo: Peter Roebuck |
Peter Roebuck pictorial feature
Jamie Graham from the Collie RDA. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Rocket Rod Musarra 2nd most experienced driver in field behind Richard Nelson. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Richard Nelson past Champion and the old fox of the division. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Branden Frazer Modified champion with his farther Peter Frazer swinging spanners. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Jack McAuley a next generation driver from the Karratha Speedway family. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Aydan Trewern from the Albany Speedway club at home in all forms of sedan car racing. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Barry Rose the leader by far of the Sigma pack with his mate Nino lurking in the background, not a great night for the team. Photo: Peter Roebuck
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Kyle Sayer from Busselton the people's choice favorite. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Jayke Malcolm always prepared to mix it with the best the division had to offer. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Drew Ogle past champion and a Manjimup young gun with farther Mick in his corner. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Beau Riley from the Collie RDA and a previous Victorian champion. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Jake Blight one of the 3rd generation racers in the Blight family from Katanning. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Peter Huntjens was awarded best presented but was eliminated from the results. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
Kye Blight more at home in a Late Model now days but never too proud to jump into a production sedan for a skid. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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