Winged Warriors of the speedway

The 2024-25 Australian speedway season is well and truly underway, and it is the winged warriors of Sprintcars that will highlight the season.

What we will get this year are all the stars at the big events like the Sprintcar Speedweek that runs through South Australia and Victoria over the new year’s break, plus a similar event at the same time in Perth which will divide the fields, the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Warrnambool – which is described as the Bathurst of Sprintcars, and is the largest Sprintcar race in the world by the number of competitors – and the Australian Championships this year at Murray Bridge. 

There are hundreds of racers picking the eyes out of the myriad of events, criss-crossing the country chasing the biggest purse and eyeing off the best tracks. 

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“We want to race at the good tracks obviously and we want to race at the big paying events, the crown jewels if you want to call it, but enough that we sort of keep our schedule pretty flexible so we’re not locked in to run anywhere and we can just pick and choose,” says Brock Hallett, the winner of the Classic in 2023.

“We’re still up in the air about what we’re doing in Christmas time. it depends on weather. It’ll either be Speedweek or racing at Sydney.

“We enjoy going to Sydney and it’s pretty relaxed, and I think we’ll be doing that, but we haven’t fully committed yet.

“Speedweek probably doesn’t have as much hype as what it used to when it was the World Series. It’s definitely lost a fair bit of its zing, but it’s starting to come back.

“Hopefully, going forward, it can build into, maybe not a national series, but at least the East Coast series.”

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