Maiolo steals Perth sprintcars, Blight wins Aussie title

It was a big night at Perth Motorplex as Brad Maiolo stole a thrilling 20th round of the 2024-25 Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series, while Kye Blight scored a second Australian Late Model crown.

In the sprintcars Maiolo pulled off something special by coming from 15th to win a stunning A Main.

Callum Williamson appeared destined to get an important win in his championship charge, dominating from pole.

He led the first 28 laps, only to lose it to Maiolo just three laps from home as the #77 could not be stopped after missing the last round and having a new crew chief for the final three rounds of the season.

Having started from down in 15th, Maiolo took advantage of a dramatic opening sequence of laps.

The start was marred by a crash in the first turn, involving a handful of cars, with Queenslander Ryan Newton, back in the Monte Motorsport W17, and Taylor Milling in the W25 out of the show.

There was another red light a couple of laps later involving Tim King and Aaron Chircop on the back straight.

Williamson’s next attempt at building a lead was brought undone by a spinning Andrew Priolo.

Across the first 15 laps Maiolo had flown from 15th to fourth and was in the mix.

He then picked off Kaiden Manders to be third and stole second from Dayne Kingshott, who had held the spot all day.

Brad Maiolo flew to a stunning win. Image: Richard Hathaway Photography

Next in his sights was Williamson and not even the dominant #3 had an answer to the flying #77.

Maiolo ended up taking a special first win of the season by six tenths, while Kingshott was also within a second back.

The penultimate round of the series will be held at the Perth Motorplex next Saturday night.

Blight was also the toast of Perth Motorplex as he took a second Aussie Late Model title.

At the initial start Blight and Brent Vosbergen went side by side with the latter taking the lead up high.

To make matters worse for Vosbergen, American visitor Myles Moos also surged to second and the leading pair skipped away.

After 10 laps little separated the leaders and lapped traffic was about to create the defining moment of the race.

As Blight went under Veronica McCann to put her a lap down and ended up just cutting her nose off. 

She turned to avoid contact but Moos touched the back of her and spun to a stop to bring out the yellows.

However, all positions were reinstated and Blight got the jump.

The last caution was created by Brendan Hucker, who went head on into the Turn 2 fence.

But the late restart was not going to stop Blight from Moos by nine tenths.

Jamie Oldfield raced his way to third a distant 4s back, while Vosbergen ended up falling to seventh.

2024-25 Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series round 20 A Main results

1st Brad Maiolo, 2nd Callum Williamson, 3rd Dayne Kingshott, 4th Kaiden Manders, 5th Michael Keen, 6th Daniel Hartigan, 7th James Inglis, 8th Daniel Harding, 9th Jason Pryde, 10th Jason Kendrick, 11 Jaydee Dack, 12th Kris Coyle, 13th Andrew Priolo, 14th Myles Bolger, 15th Chad Pittard, 16th Kyle Francis, 17th Harrison Peet. DNF: Ryan Lancaster, Cameron McKenzie, Tim King, Aaron Chircop, Jack Williamson, Ryan Newton and Taylor Milling.

2025 Australian Late Model Title results

1. Kye Blights, 2. Myles Moos, 3. Jamie Oldfield, 4. Joe Chalmers, 5. Kodee Brown, 6. Brad Blake, 7. Brent Vosbergen, 8. Luke Halliday, 9. Todd Bayley, 10. Jason Oldfield, 11. Veronica McCann, 12. Craig Vosbergen, 13. Lachlan Onley, 14. Jacob Croker, 15. Callum Harper, 16. Jay Cardy, 17. Rod Musarra, 18. Darren Kane, 19. Beau Oldfield. DNF: Ben Nicastri (33), Brendan Hucker (33), Warren Oldfield (28), Joe Godsey (20), Brad Smith (13). Total Time: NTT. Winning Margin: 0.904. Fastest Lap: 15.927, Kye Blight.

Image: Richard Hathaway Photography