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Nominations for Maryborough 20th March, 2010

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TASMANIA TITLE RESULTS

The Tasmania title at La Trobe Speedway Tasmania was run on saturday night 13th March, 2010. Results: 1st Mike Cruise (11th Title Win), 2nd Bruce Pitt, 3rd Nathan Hale, 4th Mitchell Freeman and 5th Adam Boyd.
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QUARTER SERIES FOR LIGHTNING SPRINTS

Queensland Lightning Sprints have put together a quarter series which consist of racing at 4 tracks. To contest this series you need to race at all 4 tracks and then you will be eligible for prize money at the end of the series. All drivers from their tracks need to raise some prize money to go toward the total prize.
Track 1: 13th March Charlton Raceway, Toowoomba
Track 2: 20th March Maryborough Speedway, Maryborough
Track 3: 27th March Archerfield Speedway, Brisbane
Track 4: 10th April Lismore Speedway, Lismore

If you want to be part of this, you will need to nominate by Sunday 7th March to amscott.59@bigpond.com
For more details contact Bruce Ayers on 33996100 or ayerseng@bigpond.com
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Results for Charlton Raceway 13th March, 2010

With 19 cars showing up to Toowoomba to do battle, we had 3 new drivers that had joined us. We would like to welcome #68 Trent Martin, #N3 Wayne Goodhew and #71 Steven Seefeld, we wish these guys all the best.

Heat 1: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Keith Blatch and 3rd Dave Whell
Heat2: 1st Michael Gollagher, 2nd Scott Doyle and 3rd Scott Genrich
Heat3: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Dave Whell and 3rd Brad Ayers
Heat4: 1st Scott Doyle, 2nd Scott Genrich and 3rd Wayne Goodhew

Only 15 cars made it to the final due to damage. Dave Fanning was the highest point scorer of the night and he drew marble number 6 which inverted the top 6. Will he get from 6th to 1st in 20 laps???? Of course with a great drive by Fanno he has taken the chequered flag with 2nd John Cariola, 3rd Alan Brosnan, 4th Greg Polzin, 5th Michael Gollagher, 6th Scott Doyle, 7th Steven Seefeld (1st B grader and 1st race meeting GREAT JOB), 8th Scott Genrich, 9th Trent Martin and 10th Wayne Goodhew.
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ALSRA  RACING SPECIFICATIONS RULE BOOK DRAFT CLICK HERE.....
If you have any queries and would like to express your thoughts about some rules that are in draft, please contact Peter Campbell by letter or email PCampbell@titanenterprises.com.au or Colin Bell colin.bell8@bigpond.com

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Archerfield Results for 20th February, 2010

20 Cars were ready to do some serious racing at Archerfield on Saturday Night. Was great to see some new cars in brisbane for the night with Robert Cariola #41, Drew Keith #63 and Gilbert #61. It was a jammed packed night with a lot of divisions racing. We were able just to have 2 heats and final.
Heat 1a: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Scott Genrich and 3rd Greg Polzin
Heat 1b: 1st Scott Doyle, 2nd Dave Whell and 3rd Alan Brosnan
Heat 2a: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Scott Genrich and 3rd Drew Keith
Heat 2b: 1st Ben Hilder, 2nd Dave Whell and 3rd Scott Doyle

Now with Dave Fanning winning both heat races, we were sure who had highest point scorer on the night, he picked marble number 6 which inverted the top 6. Still with 17 cars to contest the final it was a great show for the Lightning Sprints. Final Results: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Scott Doyle, 3rd Dave Whell, 4th Scott Genrich, 5th John Cariola, 6th Ben Hilder, 7th Greg Polzin, 8th Mike Davis, 9th Brad Ayers and 10th Jim Kennedy.
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Australian Title - Dubbo results

L-R : L-R First B-Grader home and also fourth outright Andrew Stevens, second outright Sid Whittaker, Winner Karl Geddes and third outright Drew Keith

Inaugural Westrac Australian Lightning Sprint                            Karl Geddes with the Winning
Champion Karl Geddes (second from right) with his crew                           Cheque

Write up about Australian Lightning Sprint Title
Lap times at Dubbo Title

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Lismore Race Results 16th January, 2010

What a great turn up of drivers for Lismore on the weekend. 14 cars took the trip down to Lismore for some full on racing. Unfortunately i was unable to make it, but i had my daughter went and she has some race results.

Heat1 : 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Glen Eyears and 3rd Scott Genrich
Heat 2: 1st Brad Ayers, 2nd John Cariola and 3rd Craig Smith

Final: 1st Dave Fanning, 2nd Scott Doyle, 3rd John Cariola, 4th Greg Polzin, 5th Scott Genrich,   
          6th Anthony Parker, 7th Glen Eyears, 8th Chris McGurk, 9th Andrew Sparks and 10th Luke Harper

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Archerfield Race Results 9th January, 2010

17 cars turned up for the race meeting at Archerfield Speedway, which included a compact #54 Anthony Parker. The race night consisted of 2 heats, 6 lap dash and 15 lap Final. With the Lightning Sprints being the only support for World Series Sprintcars, this night was very busy in between

Keith Blatch was the highest point scorer on the night, and he drew marble number 4, which inverted the top 4. Only 15 cars were able to make the feature as some cars had some problems. Dave Fanning #31 won the feature with half a car in front of Scott Doyle #8, then Keith Blatch #77, David Whell #27, Mike Gollagher #3, Greg Polzin #24, John Cariola #7, Scott Genrich #18, Audi Malt #6, Alan Brosnan #17, Glen Eyears #19, Chris McGurk #63 and Anthony Parker #54.

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BIS Race Results - 02/01/10

Fantastic night of racing at BIS with 17 cars doing battle over 4 heats and a 20 lap feature.  The track became slick early in the night and it was a battle for drivers to tighten their cars to suit the conditions with a decent cushion on entry another obstacle to overcome. 

Heat results:-

Heat 1:- 1st Scott Doyle Q8, 2nd Michael Gollagher Q3, 3rd Brad Ayers Q9

Heat 2:- 1st Dave Fanning Q31, 2nd Dave Whell, 3rd Keith Blatch Q77

Heat 3:- 1st John Cariola, 2nd Scott Doyle, 3rd Scott Genrich Q18

Heat 4:- 1st Keith Blatch, 2nd Dave Fanning, 3rd Glen Eyers

Feature:-
Sixteen cars lined up for the feature with a top 8 inversion drawn by Scott Doyle.  Keith Blatch quickly jumped into the lead after only a few laps with some spectacular outside passing on the cushion and he was followed through by a fast Scott Doyle who was also using the highline to great effect.  The race was just starting to get very intersting with Doyle throwing all he had a Blatch just as ther pair started carving up lapped traffic only to be halted by a caution for a spun car.  At he restart Allan Brosnan also looped the green #17 racer and the field had to line up again.  The race resumed with Doyle trying a slide job on Blatch but couldn't make the pass stick coming off the turn.  The pair continued to fight like this for the next 3 laps swapping positions several times before they once again hit lapped traffic.  This allowed Dave Fanning and Brad Ayers and a gaggle of chasing cars to close the gap slightly on the leaders.  Blatch made a mistake in turn 2 half spinning the number 77 which allowed Doyle to scoot past and open a big gap down the back straight only for the move to be negated immediately by a caution for yet another spinning car.  This allowed Blatch to restart from the front with only 5 laps remaining and although Doyle tried valliently to get past he just couldn't seem to get enough momentum off the turns as Blatch who went on to take a thoroughly deserved victory ahead of Doyle and Dave Fanning.  The 1st B grade driver home was Scott Genrich who is improving steadilly through each meeting.  Finishing placings were:-
Keith Blatch Q77, Scott Doyle, Q8, Dave Fanning Q31, Brad Ayers Q9, Dave Whell Q27, Craig Smith Q85, John Cariola Q7, Scott Genrich Q18, Glen Eyers Q19,Alan Brosnan Q17, Audi Malt Q6, Mike Davis Q5, DNF Jim Kennedy Q46, Andrew Sparks Q94.

Next Meeting is one week away back at BIS 09/01/10 as support for the World Series Sprintcars. Talk soon Peter Campbell

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Maryborough Race Results - 19th December 2009

18 cars turned to battle the Maryborough Speedway on Saturday night.  With that many cars we had 10 cars in one heat and 8 cars in the next heat. Scott Doyle broke his lap record at Maryborough in his heat 2 at a time of 13.014 seconds, Well done Scott.
 

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Toowoomba Race Results 12th December 09

15 Cars turned up to race at Charlton Raceway, Toowoomba on Saturday night, but unfortunately we had rain in the afternoon and the track was unable to be raced on. Meeting was cancelled.
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ARCHERFIELD RACE RESULTS 5th December 09
With 16 cars turning for the night of racing, the race shedule had to be changed to fit in 2 rounds of heats. 8 cars in each heat there was certainly going to be some great racing. We would like to welcome Andrew Sparks #94 to our team and also a comeback to Sid Whittaker #47, wish these guys all the best.

Heat 2a rain was just about to hit, but with a bit of luck it held off for the race. Heat 2b we weren't so lucky, with only 4 laps ran, the race was abandoned due to rain. Luckily the rain stopped so we were able to run our feature with the laps decrease to 12. Dave Fanning #31 was the highest point scorer on the night, and he drew marble number 6, which inverted the top 6. Unfortunately he couldn't take the win of Scott Doyle #8, but home strong in position 2.
Final: 1st Scott Doyle, 2nd Dave Fanning, 3rd Ben Hilder, 4th Craig Smith, 5th Brad Ayers, 6th David Whell, 7th Scott Genrich, 8th Johnny Cariola, 9th Alan Brosnan, 10th Mike Davis and 11th Andrew Sparks. Keith Blatch DNF.
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Well what a great night at Lismore. 10 drivers turned up to tackle the heat and the humidity of Lismore. Would like to welcome Mark Linder to our team and wish him all the best. We were given 3 heats, a dash, and 15 lap final, so we knew we were in for a hard night of racing.

With these race results, the top 4 were decided for the dash - #26 Ben Hilder, #14 Tony Brearly,#85 Craig Smith and #27 David Whell, and they were to race 6 laps. Unfortunately David Whell could not get his car started to contest the dash. Ben Hilder won, Craig Smith second and then Tony Brearly in for third. The final was then upon us with a 15 lap final. Lismore speedway really turned it on for the Lightning Sprints, with the seven cars all ready to race and then a spectacular display of fireworks coming from the pace car for the whole lap. It was a great sight to see. With David Whell and Brad Ayers off the front row, we all knew it was going to be a hard race. David Whell led the race for the majority of the time until Craig Smith passed him on turn 1 and 2 on the last lap. 1st - #85 Craig Smith, 2nd - #27 David Whell, 3rd - #9 Brad Ayers, 4th -#26 Ben Hilder,5th - #14 Tony Brearly, 6th -#17 Alan Brosnan and 7th - #18 Scott Genrich. All drivers did extremely well to battle with the heat and the humidity of Lismore.
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1st Queensland Lightning Sprints drivers at Archerfield Speedway 31st October, 2009

The night started with 12 drivers nominated for the meeting. All cars were well presented and looks as though alot of people have been busy in the off season. We would like to welcome a new driver Jim Kennedy #46 to our team and wish him all the best. Also, a big thanks to Jason Caplin who made the trip from Townsville to race. Feature win was hard fought between David Whell and Ben Hilder, but Whelly was the stronger this time. Brad Ayers came in at 3rd and Jason Caplin won the B Grade.
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FIRE EXTINGUISHERS

Please ensure that all race teams have Fire Extinguishers for all race meetings. If no Fire Extinguisher, no racing!!! Make sure all fire extinguishers have yellow date tag on them...Please read NASR rule here
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Australian Lightning Sprints AGM News:

1. Australian Title confirmed at Dubbo NSW January 23rd & 24th 2010
2. 5-year rotational system to be introduced for Australian Title (i.e. next time the Title will be held in NSW will be 2015)
3. All cars to have State ID on the inside of the Left Hand wing sheet. Letter to be half size of the number i.e. Q65
4. All steering bolts to be minimum of 8.8 High Tensile with NO lightening (solid) with the exception of drilling for lock wire if required.
5. Technical Committee to be formed - 1 member from each state
6. No forced Induction allowed

Press Release:
In what can only be described as a monumental move forward the Australian Lightning Sprint Racing Association has been formed after a long process of consultation and negotiation. The formation of Lightning Sprints brings together a number of similiar winged classes from five states under the one racing category, Litre Sprints from Queensland and New South Wales, Minisprints from Tasmania and Victoria and South Australian V6 Sprints.


Representatives of each of the founding states have been elected to form the national committee as follows: President Peter Campbell, Qld, Vice President Peter Kruska, TAS, 2nd Vice President Clayton Priest, NSW, Secretary/Treasurer Colin Bell, NSW, 2nd Secretary/Treasurer Brownwyn Sheen Vic. General Committee: Lee Payne, SA, Michael Buxallen, SA, Chris Milton, Vic, Tim Mason, TAS, Bruce Ayers, Qld.

For the immediate future the individual specifications of each class will be recognised and eligible to compete at meetings held in any of the states involved. It is anticipated that the inaugural Lightning Sprint Australian Title will be conducted in the upcoming 2009-2010 season which will no doubt be a highly prized and hotly contested event.

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ARCHERFIELD BRISBANE RACE STATISTICS 2008/2009

Going back through the lap sheets at Archerfield Speedway, we have discovered some good results about how many yellow lights and stoppages our litres had. With this information on hand, we have been able to get a total of 11 race meetings at the Archerfield Speedway Complex for the season 2009/2010 because of this. The list below shows how well we preformed-
Meeting #1 - 1/11/08
14 Cars faced the green lights; 5 off yellow lights/flags; 1 only Red light stoppage
Meeting #2 - 6/12/08 (washed out, rescheduled 20/12/08)
13 Cars faced the green light; (4 off drivers could make this rescheduled meeting due to prior committments); 4 off Yellow lights/flags; No Red light stoppage
Meeting #3 - 10/01/09
17 Cars faced the green lights; 3 off yellow lights/flags; No red light stoppage
Meeting #4 - 14/02/09
15 Cars faced the green lights; 2 off yellow lights/flags; 1 only red light stoppage
Meeting #5 - 2/05/09
16 Cars faced the green lights; 5 off yellow lights/flags; no red light stoppage
Meeting #6 - 23/05/09
23 cars nominated; Meeting washed out

Summary:
Total 20 heat races
13 yellow light/flags
2 off Full red light stoppages
8 heats went flag to flag no stoppages

Total 5 feature races:
6 yellow light/flag
NO RED light stoppages
1 flag to flag with no stoppages

15 cars average per meeting
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DAVE FANNING SCORES QUEENSLAND NUMBER 1

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