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Welcome one and all to our new website. Queensland Lightning Sprints race at various tracks including Maryborough, Toowoomba, Archerfield Brisbane and Lismore. Our race season usually starts around September and goes through until May. Once you are a member of our club, you will collect points at each racing meeting and then the final points will be announced at a Trophy Presentation Night at the end of the season. These cars have either car engines or some have motorbike engines. They can reach speeds up to 90 km on the straight and are powered by methanonl fuel. All drivers need to have NASR insurance and fire protectant safety gear according to Nasr specifications. If you would like to join this class, please contact Jenny Whell on jwhell@bigpond.com.au

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Attention Drivers

Scott Genrich has confirmed that the lightning sprints will be racing at Charlton Raceway, Toowoomba on the 11th February 2012. Racing will be for prize money only, no club championship points. Racing will be in conjunction with the speed car super series so a good opportunity for the Lightning Sprints to race in front of a big crowd. Please contact Dave (0407967293) or Jenny (0408708247) Whell to confirm nomination.

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Nominations
Charlton Speedway, 11th February 2012

Q2 Dave Whell	Q18 Scott Genrich	Q46 Jim Kennedy	Q55 Jenny Whell	Q20 Mark Sinton

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Results Archerfield Speedway, 14th January 2012.

Round 7 of the club championship was held at Archerfield Speedway Saturday night, 15 cars made the trip for 2 rounds of 2 heats and a 20 lap feature race. The 4 heats showed some good, fast, exciting racing and come feature time it was again Aussie champ Dave Fanning who took the chequered flag, Fanno kept out of trouble after a couple of incidents brought out the yellow flags for a comprehensive win, well deserved 2nd John Cariola, hard working 3rd Mark Sinton (1st B grader), 4th Scott Doyle, 5th Wayne Iacono, 6th Jim Kennedy, 7th Michael Gollagher, 8th Emma Harris, 9th David Van Vegchel, 10th Shane Matthews, 11th Jenny Whell, 12th Robert Cariola

Heat 1 - 1st Jim Kennedy, 2nd Dave Fanning, 3rd Scott Doyle
Heat 2 - 1st Dave Whell, 2nd John Cariola, 3rd Wayne Iacono
Heat 3 - 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Jim Kennedy, 3rd Mark Sinton
Heat 4 - 1st Wayne Iacono, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Emma Harris

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Results Maryborough Speedway, 1st January 2012

Round 6 of the club Championship was held at Maryborough on Saturday night with a good field of 16 cars making the journey up north. The Lightning Sprints put on a fantastic night of racing in 2 rounds of 3 heats and a Feature race. The 20 lap feature saw a great show put on by the drivers and it was Australian Champion who took another well earn't win with some awesome driving, 2nd was Dave Whell, 3rd Wayne Iacono, 4th Scott Genrich, 5th Steve Seefeld, 6th Michael Gollagher, 7th Anthony Parker (1st B grader), 8th Greg Polzin, 9th Mark Sinton, 10th Emma Harris, 11th Shane Matthews,12th Jenny Whell

Heat 1 - 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Jim Kennedy
Heat 2 - 1st Wayne Iacono, 2nd Steve Seefeld, 3rd Scott Genrich
Heat 3 - 1st Jim Kennedy, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Steve Seefeld

Heat 4 - 1st Wayne Iacono, 2nd Scott Genrich, 3rd Dan Moes
Heat 5 - 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Michael Gollagher, 3rd Dave Whell
Heat 6 - 1st Scott Genrich, 2nd Steve Seefeld, 3rd Dan Moes

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Results Charlton Speedway, 17th December 2011

Round 5 of the club championship was held at Charlton on Saturday night with a good field of 16 cars making the journey to Toowoomba. The Lightning Sprints were given 3 heats & a Feature race. 12 cars started the 20 lap feature which ended up being an eventful and expensive race. The start was exciting & fast until lap 8 which saw 4 cars taken out due to a spin out & 2 roll overs. Once the mess was cleaned up a good tussle between Dave Whell & John Cariola made for great racing until finally Whelly got the upper hand and came away with a hard fought victory, 2nd a very consistent John Cariola, 3rd Scott Doyle, 4th Mark Sinton, 5th David Van Vegchel, 6th Jenny Whell

Heat 1 - 1st Wayne Iacano, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Scott Genrich,
Heat 2 - 1st Dave Whell, 2nd Wayne Iacano, 3rd Michael Gollagher
Heat 3 - 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Wayne Iacano

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Results Archerfield Speedway, 3rd December 2011

Saturday night saw round 4 for the Lightning Sprints at Archerfield Speedway. A good field of 15 cars took to the track for three heats and a feature. Again terrific weather and a good track allowed for some good racing in the heats. The 20 lap feature saw 12 cars meet the green flag and it was incident and action packed from the start. Unfortunately 7 cars succumbed to incidents by lap 16 which left 5 cars to battle out the last 4 laps. It was Michael Gollagher who kept his nose clean to come away with a long awaited victory, well done Michael good racing. 2nd place went to a consistent Wayne Iacono and James Murphy had an excellent night to claim 3rd as well as 1st B Grader home, 4th Jenny Whell, 5th Shane Matthews.

Heat 1 - 1st Wayne Iacono, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Michael Gollagher
Heat 2 - 1st Dave Whell, 2nd John Cariola, 3rd Mark Sinton
Heat 3 - 1st Scott Genrich, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd John Cariola

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DARYL MARTIN RACING

Daryl Martin of DMR#96 is pleased to announce there in the final stages of having the current 2010/11 New Zealand Mini Sprint Champion on board with them for the Queensland Lightning Sprint Title that will be held at Charlton Raceway in Toowoomba in April 2012.

Dayne Maxwell from Hamilton New Zealand will make his International Racing Debut and strap himself into the driver’s seat of my Lightning Sprint, which has a Henchcraft Chassis with a ZX12 power plants in it say’s Daryl.

I have spoken to Scott Genrich at Charlton Raceway, and also Dave Whell from the club, it is close to finalization and all systems go say’s Daryl. I may also have the pleasure of having Chris Street owner of CSR Fabrications on the spanners and a former New Zealand Mini Sprint Champion himself.Thats a bonus say’s Daryl.

This is good for the Lightning Sprints, good for the Club, and certainly good for Speedway in general I believe. I hope this will attract a large car count. I just ask that people will make Dayne feel welcome. So come on down and say hello.

I am organising my passport and keeping in regular contact with Daryl, says Dayne. I can’t wait to hit the track and turn some laps at Charlton Raceway in sunny Queensland. To win a National Title is great, but to race in another country well that’s icing on the cake. I have been asked to bring my flag which I will do. Who knows, if everything pans out right and Daryl is up to it, we may even head down the highway to South Australia and do the National Title if we meet the requirements. “See you all at the track”...

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THIS WEEKS STORY

Local Toowoomba Driver Mark Sinton showed good form from Practice Thursday night through to the Main event Saturday night. With only two shows under his belt Mark performed very well in his heat races and stayed out of trouble. Mark opted not to nominate for the National Title up until the last minute, with limited racing done so early in the year but proved he can keep it up there with the front runners. With gaining two top three finishes in his heats which gave him 9th highest point scorer going into the Pole Shuffle. Coming up against another Toowoomba local Keith Blatch, Blatch with the fire in his belly after having such rotten luck all weekend defeated Mark Sinton in his first round. So this meant Mark has to start out of position ten. Mark then kept his nose clean to finish an outstanding 7th place in his first National Title and is now looking forward to the rest of the season. Well done to Mark and his crew for an outstanding effort that weekend at Charlton Raceway.

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Leader Board

Place	Car No	Name	Grading	Points
1	Q21	Wayne Iacono	A	709
2	Q2	Dave Whell	A	651
3	Q20	Mark Sinton	B Rookie	573
4	A1	Dave Fanning	A	567
5	Q7	John Cariola	A	534
6	Q3	Michael Gollagher	A	484
7	Q46	Jim Kennedy	A	411
8	Q18	Scott Genrich	A	367
9	Q55	Jenny Whell	B	270
10	Q10	Anthony Parker	B Rookie	267
11	Q32	Shane Matthews	B Rookie	235
12	Q54	Scott Doyle	A	221
13	Q22	Peter Campbell	A	194
14	Q39	James Murphy	B Rookie	149
15	Q71	Steve Seefeld	A	142
16	Q48	David Van Vegchel	B	132
17	N31x	Emma Harris	B Rookie	127
18	Q5	Mike Davis	A	108
19	Q24	Greg Polzin	A	88
20	Q90	Chris Elliott	B Rookie	74
21	Q55	Zac Smith	B Rookie	72
22	Q12	Dan Moes	A	60
23	Q29	Wade Pascoe	B	59
24	N31x	Dave Harris	B Rookie	33
25	Q35	Peter Bailey	B	18
26	Q41	Robert Cariola	B	5
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