DIRT LATE MODEL
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1996 - LATE MODEL SEDANS THE INCEPTION WA
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Prior to Late Model Sedans starting in West Australia Allan Nylander built 2 cars and hit the promotion trail, He took these cars to country tracks and offered drives to many of the locals, It was an uphill battle for the new car concept as the Australian Saloon Car Federation wanted nothing to do with this concept, Allan however never gave up and pushed on, Although the Australian body did not support late models many West Australian officials and administrators opted to support the new division as well as Super Sedans, A small group of tracks and promoters saw the merits in this concept and programmed the Late Models on a regular basis.
During there debut season the Late Models only competed at WA country tracks (The first ever Australian Late Model feature was held at Geraldton Speedway)
During the second season deals were being done with the larger venues such as Claremont and Bunbury, USA driver Ray Godsey was brought to Perth several meetings.
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Initially the cars were based on the previous Grand National, Converted Australian built Super Sedan but left hand drive and steel small block engines, were givern a phase out period of about three years, Unlike the true USA version of the car the Australian car ran a
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32 inch right rear tyre as opposed to the 29 inch. The drivers mainly came from the very strong Super Sedan divison, Names such as Alan Nylander, John Cardy, Ben and Brad Ludlow, Rob McGregor,
The West Australian Championship was not introduced until the second year, this was won by Alan Nylander, By the third year the cars specifications had been brought into line
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With the American Book and many more drivers were jumping into late models, Ivor Ludwick and Brad Blake had made the swap, Blake driving for Alan Nylander with a lot of success, John Cardy stepped out of his seat to allow a young Amcar driver in Jay Cardy to take over the driving.
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2013 - LATE MODEL RACING AUSTRALIA IN REVIEW
Since the LRMA officially began back in 1997 the late model division has continued to grow throughout West Australia and has now become one of the biggest and fastest sedan divisions, The Late Model division has now expanded across Australia gaining more and competitors each year, In 2010 the Australian Late Model Championship was held in Victoria, it was the first time the title had been held out of West Australia, Associations are now set up in other states such as Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia who also control Victoria.
In 2011 a new National body was formed made up from deligates from each state the encourage all states to work together to ensure the continuation of growth.
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WEST AUSTRALIA CHAMPIONSHIP
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1997 > 1998 |
Seasons tracks series |
1st Alan Nylander2nd John Cardy3rd Ben Ludlow |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
1998 > 1999 |
Seasons Tracks Series |
1st Brad Blake2nd Derrol Crane3rd John Cardy |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
1999 > 2000 |
Seasons tracks series |
1st Brad Blake2nd Derrol Crane3rd Ben Ludlow |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2000 > 2001 |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Ryan Halliday2nd Ben Ludlow3rd John Cardy |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2001 > 2002 |
Multi track series |
1st Brad Blake2nd Ivor Ladwig3rd Craig Vosbergen |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2002 > 200325th January 2003? |
Bunbury SpeedwayBunbury WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Ben Ludlow3rd John Cardy |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2003 > 2004 |
Bunbury SpeedwayBunbury WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Craig Vosbergen3rd Kevin Bell |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2004 > 2005 |
Avon Valley SpeedwayNortham WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Chase Karpenko3rd Michael Hebditch |
West AustraliaNorthern TerritoryACT |
2005 > 2006 |
Manjimup SpeedwayManjimup WA |
1st Chase Karpenko2nd Jason Oldfield3rd Ryan Haliday |
Northern TerritoryWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2006 > 2007 |
Geraldton SpeedwayGeraldton WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Chase Karpenko3rd Jason Oldfield |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2007 > 2008 |
Avon Valley SpeedwayNortham WA |
1st Scott McPerson2nd Nathan Disney3rd Darryl Grimson |
ACTNew South WalesNew South Wales |
2008 > 20093rd January 2009? |
Redline SpeedwayManjimup WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Jay Cardy3rd Ryan Haliday |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2009 > 2010 |
Manjimup SpeedwayManjimup WA |
1st Brad Blake2nd Craig Vosbergen3rd Jay Cardy |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2010 > 2011 |
Collie SpeedwayCollie WA |
1st Craig Vosbergen2nd Ryan Haliday3rd Jason Moyle |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2011 > 2012 |
Kalgoorlie SpeedwayKalgoorlie WA |
1st Warren Oldfield2nd Brad Ludlow3rd Brad Blake |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2012 > 2013 |
Collie SpeedwayCollie WA |
1st Craig Vosbergen2nd Warren Oldfield3rd Matt Goodlad |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2013 > 2014 |
Bunbury SpeedwayBunbury WA |
1st Marc Giancola2nd Jay Cardy3rd Brad Blake |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2014 > 201521st February 2015? |
Collie SpeedwayCollie WA |
1st Jamie Oldfield2nd Matt Goodlad3rd Brad Blake |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2015 > 2016? |
Attwell Park SpeedwayAlbany WA |
1st Kodee Brown2nd Paul Stubber3rd Ben Nicastri |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaNew South Wales |
2016 > 201728th January 201730 laps |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Jamie Oldfield2nd Warren Oldfield3rd Michael Holmes |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2017 > 2018?? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Paul Stubber2nd Warren Oldfield3rd Ryan Halliday |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2018 > 2019?? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Brent Vosbergen2nd Marc Giancola3rd Warren Oldfield |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2019 > 2020?? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Kye Blight2nd Warren Oldfield3rd Ryan Halliday |
West AustraliaWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2020 > 2021?? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
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2021 > 2022?? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st Brent Vosbergen2nd Brad Blake3rd Joe Chalmers |
West AustralianWest AustraliaWest Australia |
2022 > 202310th & 11th March 2023? |
Perth MotorplexPerth WA |
1st ?2nd ?3rd ? |
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