By Dean Thompson
Alexandra Speedway will warm up dirt track fans with the annual three-hour enduro for speedway sedans this Saturday 10 August.
There’s $2000 to win, plus racing from some hard-charging junior sedan racers.
Last season’s lap record-breaking brothers Damien and Brendan Miller will be back to defend in a field full of super combinations.
Leigh Bourke and Zac Swanson bring modified sedan experience, with Bourke the 15-lap record holder for sports sedans this past season at Alexandra.
Jake Drewett teams with Warrick Howie, who won a state championship at Alexandra a few seasons ago.
Shane O’Brien teams with his brother-in-law and reigning 100-lap Derby King Lennie Bonnici in sedan and chassis car combination and runner-up in the recent Derby Warrick Taylor teams with Peter Cox in an all chassis car team.
The 2012 enduro winners Matt Nelson and Darren Nelson team together again, also in a sedan/chassis combo.
Local Alexandra hero Luke Fallon, a winner in 2017, teams with Healesville gun Steve Kershaw, both very consistent top-five finishers.
Andrew Jordan and Lenny Bates have won the event before, too, and they are back to have another crack.
Bates is a driver who can make a deep run into the race before needing to switch with his teammate.
Another potential strong combination is Tony Moule and Frank Ramsdale, if Ramsdale can get over some wretched luck in these enduro events.
He has a car that has won enduros previously and Moule built his car which won the Derby five seasons ago.
Race-goers can expect more than 200 laps to be completed with 282 laps the record set last season by the Millers.
In junior SSA sedan racing, the young ladies lead the charge with Kasey Garlick, Chloe Sheerman and Bree Simpson among the favourites to win.
Garlick finished second in June in the Victorian Short Circuit Championship event.
The boys, including Jayden Bryant, Luke Cornfoot, Dylan Barrow and Linken Paterson, are hoping to spoil Garlick’s final junior sedan race before she graduates to the adult scene.
Racing starts from 2pm. Tickets are $50 for a family of two adults and three children aged 10 to 16, $20 per adult, and $10 for pensioners and for children aged 10 to 16 years.
Children aged under 10 years enter free. Call 0438 700 124 for more information.
