McFadden again

James McFadden has cruised to a fifth win out west on the penultimate night of the Speedweek at Perth Motorplex.

It was McFadden’s fourth win of the 2024-25 season at Perth Motorplex as the Brady Motorsport machine again proved dominant.

He held off Dayne Kingshott by eight tenths, while Cole Macedo was a further 2s adrift in the penultimate race of the Speedweek and 13th round of the Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series led by Kingshott.

McFadden was quickest in the first qualifying group, with his 13.086 second lap being enough to set the Victory 1 Performance Quick Time.

From there he was third in his heat race, after starting p4 and won the B  Dash, after starting on the front row, on the inside of American Brad Sweet.

Kingshott, who started on the inside of McFadden on the front row, led for a few opening laps, but after that, it was McFadden who held the lead, surviving a number of challenges.

Kingshott battled hard, but had to settle for second, but with Callum Williamson being fourth, he extended his series lead to 94 points.

Macedo claimed his second podium result of his maiden WA Speedweek series, onboard the Trent Pigdon owned 7.

He started from p5 in the finale after being second quickest in qualifying session two – and was second to Sweet in his heat race.

Williamson started from p7 and moved up three spots, a big improvement on the DNS the team suffered at the last show, at Bunbury Speedway, last weekend.

He won a spirited battle with American Brock Zearfoss, with the two trading lines and places.

Zearfoss held on for fifth from South Australian Matt Egel, who started and finished sixth.

Taylor Milling, fresh from his fourth at the last round, moved up 10 spots to be ninth, while American Cory Eliason was this round’s Kincrome Hard Charger winning, crossing the line in 10th after being scheduled to start from p26.

He moved up one row before the field even rolled out after Joel Ettridge, who crashed hard in the Mid Pack Dash, surrendered a p18 start.

Then as the field formed, Kaiden Manders went to the work area with front suspension issues after being slated to start from p8, elevating Eliason to 22nd before the field took the green.

Brad Maiolo was strong for 11th after starting from p21, backing up a big heat race where he started 10th and finished fifth.

Jason Kendrick was 12th after originally marked to start p20, but like Eliason, he benefited from two cars in front of him dropping out before the race.

Sweet, who started from p4, was third before heading infield on lap 12 for a DNF.

The first caution period came when Manders pulled up on the back straight after only three laps were completed.

Jack Williamson was out shortly afterwards after slowing the W24 when coming out of turn four

Daniel Harding went over on the main straight and damaged a section of fence on a restart that involved a handful of cars, including damaging the top wing of the Kris Coyle 79.

The ninth and final round of Speedweek will be held at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday night.

Image: Richard Hathaway Photography

Feature race: 1st James McFadden, 2nd Dayne Kingshott, 3rd Cole Macedo, 4th Callum Williamson, 5th Brock Zearfoss, 6th Matt Egel, 7th Gio Scelzi, 8th Justin Whittall, 9th Taylor Milling, 10th Cory Eliason, 11th Brad Maiolo, 12th Jason Kendrick, 13th AJ Nash, 14th Jamie Maiolo, 15th Andrew Priolo, 16th Michael Keen, 17th James Inglis, 18th Matt Juhl, 19th Tim King, 20th Jaydee Dack, 21st Jason Pryde, 22nd Aaron Chircop. DNF: Brad Sweet, Kris Coyle, Daniel Harding, Jack Williamson, Kaiden Manders. DNS: Joel Ettridge.

Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series points top 20 after 13 rounds of 22: Dayne Kingshott

1962, Callum Williamson 1868, Taylor Milling 1808, Kaiden Manders 1762, Andrew Priolo 1692, Jack Williamson 1628, Brad Maiolo 1626, Jason Kendrick 1604, Kris Coyle 1576, Jamie Maiolo 1492, Aaron Chircop 1484, Michael Keen 1460, Ryan Newton 1436, Daniel Harding 1420, Ryan Lancaster 1392, Jaydee Dack 1258, Kerry Madsen 1192, James McFadden 1180, Joel Ettridge 1156, AJ Nash 1154.

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