Tearing up the track: Rushworth Speedway will once again be bustling on Saturday night.
Rushworth Speedway will provide plenty of action this Saturday night when it kicks off its season that has been held back while the club did some work at the facility and prepared for another year of racing.
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For the first show of the season, Goulburn Valley Auto Club has invited the Daylesford Speedway Club to compete and a couple of classes have taken up that opportunity.
Along with the Daylesford classes, the Goulburn Valley club classes that now includes the Sports Sedans and Junior 1200 Sedans are on the program.
Goulburn Valley has several representatives in the new Victorian Speedway Council club class, the 1200cc Junior Sedans.
Libby Ahearn and Connor and Tyler Claridge are set to represent Rushworth against a strong field coming from all parts of Victoria.
Arthur Hutchinson, Riley Taylor, Bryce Leek, Billy McBride and Toby Cook are just some of the visiting youngsters to watch.
Sports Sedans will also compete and with big events at two other tracks, there is a small local contingent of drivers competing.
Marc Hanson, Corey Knox, Troy Britton and Garry Gapes are some of the drivers in the line-up to keep an eye on.
Two Daylesford classes are making the trip to Rushworth, with many of the members from the western suburbs of Melbourne and the Ballarat area.
The Street Stocks and A Modifieds are coming and in the Street Stock line-up last season’s club champion Des Robinson and Glen McCoubrie will look to continue their battles of the past few seasons.
Michael Smith is another driver to watch in the Stockies.
Daylesford A Modified Sedans race right hand down as do the Street Stocks.
Seventeen Modifieds have nominated to compete including Jayden Humphreys, Dale Kakoschke, Ryan Daly, Ian Bartlett, Nash Harris, and Ricky-Lee Basten, who are just a handful of competitors that should provide some interest for fans.
Humphreys in his Cortina is popular and the return of Nash Harris to the wheel after spending time recently on the bitumen circuits along with Dale Kakoschke getting back behind the wheel provides extra interest.
The home track classes include the Open Saloons, Production Sedans and Juniors.
In Open Saloons competition Bevan Hutchins with the number one plate on his roof is keen to start the season with a win.
He will be up against the likes of Keith Simmonds, Scott Smith, Matthew Smith and Mark Bergman among others vying for first place.
Colin Ahearn will be competing in the Production Sedans and in doing so he is part of three generations of his family on track this Saturday.
Colin will race his son Jason in Production Sedans, while his granddaughter Libby Ahearn races in the Junior 1200s.
Production Sedan action will include Geoff Lee returning to the wheel, Shane Hutchins, Warren Alexander and Jack Houlahan with Kelly Lamb another racer to watch.
Come on down: Locals are encouraged to get down to the speedway and get among the action.
Rounding out the classes is the Goulburn Valley club’s own Junior Sedans.
Keiden Britton is an experienced racer in the line-up as is Caleb Simmonds.
It will be interesting to see how the likes of Leah Simmonds, Zach Hampton, Tia Anderson, Carley Smith and Mia Lamb go.
Many of them are rookie race drivers without a race under their belt.
All the action begins at 4pm on and inquiries can be made to 0491 680 977.
Spectator admission costs are: Adults $20, aged pensioners $15, kids 12 to 16 $10, while children under 12 are free. A family ticket of two adults and two children aged 12 to 16 is $50.
