Kingshott crowned in Perth
Dayne Kingshott is on the throne after he fired the opening shot in the WA Sprintcar Speedweek in the return of the 2024-25 Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series to Perth Motorplex.
Reigning Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series champion Kingshott took his third win of the season in the Krikke Motorsport W2 in round six.
The Boxing Day Bonanza saw Callum Williamson and American Brock Zearfoss also show speed as they completed the podium.
But they were a distant 2s off the pace of Kingshott, who dominated the race, leading from Lap 6 onwards.
Kingshott started the show in the best possible fashion, being quickest in the fourth qualifying group out on the track – and it happened to be the quickest overall of the 36 cars – winning the Victory 1 Performance Quick Time award.
He started and finished fourth in his heat race and took a second in the A Dash to set up the P3 start for the 30-lap final.
Williamson started from pole and controlled the field before the #2 flew by on Lap 6 when they caught lapped traffic.
As the race neared the halfway mark, the caution lights came on after an incident in a similar spot that saw Kerry Madsen and American Cory Eliason head to the work area, where unfortunately they were unable to carry out repairs in time. Chircop was able to resume from the rear of the field.
Kingshott and Zearfoss, who started from p8, led the field away in the double-file restart from Williamson and Taylor Milling.
Williamson re-established himself back in second which he held to the checkers.
Zearfoss held on for third despite a late challenge from round 5 winner James McFadden, with the margin being just 0.018 of a second as Zearfoss drove the USA95 into the fence at the finish line, knocking out the car’s rear-end.
McFadden’s fourth was a big effort, moving up nine spots after starting from p13 and winning the Midpack dash after starting from p4.
Milling was fifth after starting from p6 and getting up to third early on, in his best night of the season.
South Aussie Matt Egel claimed the Kincrome Hard Charger award after starting 22nd and finishing seventh.
Tasmanian Jock Goodyer moved up four spots to be eighth, ahead of American Gio Scelzi.
Now attention turns to the main event, the maiden High Limit International where the likes of Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet are coming to town.
Three races will be held on consecutive nights from Saturday to Monday with the feature race on the Monday night paying $100,000 to win.
Image: Richard Hathaway Photography
WA Sprintcar Speedweek race 1 Feature results
1st Dayne Kingshott, 2nd Callum Williamson, 3rd Brock Zearfoss, 4th James McFadden, 5th Taylor Milling, 6th Luke Oldfield, 7th Matt Egel, 8th Jock Goodyer, 9th Gio Scelzi, 10th Justin Whittall, 11th Andrew Priolo, 12th Ryan Newton, 13th Jason Pryde, 14th Kaiden Manders, 15th AJ Nash, 16th James Inglis, 17th Michael Keen, 18th Brad Maiolo, 19th Jason Kendrick, 20th Cameron McKenzie, 21st Jaydee Dack, 22nd Matt Juhl, 23rd Ryan Lancaster, 24th Aaron Chircop. DNF: Cory Eliason, Kerry Madsen, Jack Williamson and Daniel Harding.
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