Its that time of the year again Fish Fans!

Our very own Scotty “The Fish” Farmer is back in America running the CS9 chev 360 non wing sprintcar this week racing Friday at Tulare in the Peter Murphy classic and Saturday at a USAC west coast show at Petaluma Speedway 🕺🐟

New South Welshman Kaidon Brown continued his Queensland Domination in the recent Nexgen/RAW Metal Corp BNE 50 Lapper /Jim Holden Classic at Archerfield Speedway.

Following up from the feature event victory in Toowoomba at Easter Brown was all class hitting the lead in the 50 lap main show during lap 18 and never looked back as the rest of the field fought for the minors.

The Hunter Valley Hurricane would emerge the highest points scorer after the round of heats and drew marble “10” inverting him to P10 as the field chose who started beside them eventually working up to the exclusive P1 starting spot that was handed to Zac MacDonald in the 23Q Spike Hawk.

Newly crowned Queensland and Australian Champion in the Compact Speedcar division Bodie Smith in the 77Q Spike kicked the nights dash for cash festivities underway with a win in the Sidtec Sedan Set ups and Supplies heat race one Zac MacDonald brought the 23Q home in second as Darren Vine in the MVT 19Q rocket crossed in 3rd the rest of the field all battled the fast pace jostling and dancing all over the very hooky surface, Brock Dean in fourth lead home Rooke, Brown , Singleton, Doyle and Tom Clauss back from his last outing tear up rounded out the field.

Nathan Smee parked the GRD Eagle #14N car on the podium in the United Waste Services heat race number two ahead of the 78Q BOSS Chassis car of Rusty Whittaker and recovering from a hot lap session wall lick was “The Bandit” Brad Dawson in third, Adam Clarke, Scotty Farmer and Nathan Mathers the only recorded finishers in this 8 lapper as Cal Whatmore JNR would be done for evening with oil tank damage sustained in a bingle with Tim Farrell who was now parked on the grass along with what appeared to be an engine miss firing 69Q of Gary Hudson.

The Nexgen Hire heat race three saw Kaidon Brown begin to hit his strides in the 97V King Hawk with a hard fought win over another King hawk this time in the hands of Brock Dean as Mitchell Rooke bagged $25 for his third place, Singleton, Clauss, Smith, MacDonald and Vine rounded out the field as Scott Doyle’s night ended on lap 3 with what turned out to be an engine oil line fire under the hood.

Adam Clarke was another contender beginning to show just how strong he was going to be-come the big dance time winning the fourth and final Fword Speedshop heat race as Whittaker bagged another second ahead of a blistering Nathan Smee in third, Scotty Farmer brought home the remaining runners of Farrell, Dawson and Mathers.

MacDonald lead the field into turn one however seemed to drift up track arm wrestling with Bodie Smith from P2 he opened the door for the inside line of Singleton, Whittaker and Farmer to rocket through as Whittaker was the winner of that battle for the same real estate coming out of turn two in the lead and began to roll off the laps in clear air as Brown , Clarke and Smee were working the field moving forward , Scotty Farmer brought on the yellows and tagged onto the rear of the bus after a spin , Tim Farrell came to halt in turns one and two with a differential problem and would see him infield along with Tom Clauss who pulled up stumps after 6 laps and Bodie Smith out after one.

Brown hit the lead finally pulling off a clean move past Whittaker and never looked back at the 18th lap point as Whittaker had now fallen victim to not only a major head cold but now the cars of Smee and Clarke slotting the 78Q into fourth the remaining laps were all very text book and fast both Mathers and MacDonald headed infield with 48 on the board as did Dawson and Whittaker just one lap later.

Brown crossed the victor parking the King 97V in Victory Lane in front of the NSW clean sweep of Clarke and Smee in third.

The best of the Queenslanders and putting on superb steer was Mitchell Rooke in the 3Q keeping out of trouble and running some quick clean laps ahead of Farmer who had worked his way back to the pointy end all but the hard way, Brock Dean was recorded in sixth after the 50 lap duration ahead of the 46Q Aggressor with Chris Singleton at the helm.

Adam Clarke being the highest point’s scorer bagged the Queensland Speedway Spares “Highest Points Scorer” voucher as Rusty Whittaker and Kaidon Brown both had a good stab at the lap money on offer.

Well done to The Captain Chris Singleton for winning the American Tire and Racing Services “Lucky 7th” place right rear tyre award as well !

Huge thanks to Dylan Byrne from Nexgen Hire and Todd Wanless from RAW Metal Corp as the naming right sponsors of the even.

Thanks also to Ron Wanless for the extra prizemoney addition adding to the overall purse in the 50 Lapper/Jim Holden Classic.

The QSRA next outing and final race night for the 18/19 season will be the Polar Ice Midget Series Grand Finale on May 25.

Final placings are still up for grabs in both the Polar Ice Midget Series and also the QSRA Club Points Score so it “Aint over yet”

Also a quick reminder the Annual Awards Banquet “Night of Stars” is on June 22 there will be a lot more info very soon and a link to click to purchase tickets there will be NO (ZERO) DOOR SALES , so please ensure you follow the link wisely

Also racers we know a few are waiting to see how they fair tonight in Sydney however nominations need to be into Brock Dean for the Nexgen/RAW Metal Corp BNE 50 next week at Archerfield.

Pit space (as most know with recent land development) is tight so to be able to have an allocated spot nominations are essential.

Brocks number hasn’t changed and a simple text to nominate is all it takes

Nominations are
Q3 Mitchell Rooke
Q8 Brock Dean
Q13 Tony Stephen
N14 Nathan Smee
Q18 Nathan Mathers
Q19 Darren Vine
Q22 Scotty Farmer
Q23 Zac McDonald
Q29 Adam Clarke
Q35 Callum Walker
Q36 Cal Whatmore
Q45 Tom Clauss
Q46 Chris Singleton
Q51 Tim Farrell
N63 Mitch Brien
Q67 Dylan Menz
Q69 Gary Hudson
S71 Troy Ware
Q81 Brad Dawson
N82 Jason Bell
Q89 Rusty Whittaker
A89 Scott Doyle
V97 Kaidon Brown

Good Luck to the QUEENSLANDCARS this weekens in Sydney for the big 50 !

4A Scotty Farmer (NZ)
29Q Adam Clarke
36Q Cal Whatmore JNR
46Q Chris Singleton
55N Scotty Doyle
69Q James Earl (NZ )
51Q Tim Farrell
67Q Bradley Harrison (West Auckland ……NZ )

#queenslandcars #superstars #jamesearlnearlyaqueenslander

Good Luck not only this weekend but in next weekends Sydney 50 lapper to these Queenslandcars heading south to Valvoline Raceway.

This Saturday the 27th is the running if the NSW State Title in which “The Fish” leads the charge in the Seamount Ride 4A along with Bradley Harrison in the 21Q, Adam Clarke in the JBR 29Q, Cal Whatmore JNR in the Spike Gaerte 36Q and Tim Farrell in the United Waste 51Q Eagle.

Then joining “Team Queensland” for the 50 will be Callum Walker in the 53Q IBRP Esslinger and Chris Singleton in the 46Q Aggressor !

GO THE QUEENSLANDCARS !!

#nswspeedcars #qsraspeedcars #onlyonewilltakethethrone

Sydney’s Kaidon Brown carved up the new surface at the Hi Tec Oils Toowoomba Speedway recently in his TFH King Hawk 97V knocking recent lap record holder Darren Vine off the boards with a 12.403!

Brock Dean opened the nights trips to victory lane in the Aliweld 8Q King Hawk after leading the 11-car field home in heat one followed by Darren Vine back in the turbo Esslinger MVT 19Q AS Brown rounded out the top three.

The Flying Fish Scotty Farmer was next to cross in the 22Q NLT Australia Spike Esslinger , Bradley Harrisons NuPave TRD 21Q Bullet was in fifth just ahead of the United Waste Services Eagle of Tim Farrell, Ricky Robinson in the BW Fabrication Breka Gaerte 56Q crossed in seventh as the eighth place getter Nathan Mathers in the 18Q Inksane Tattoo Artist Eagle Esslinger brought across the line the 36Q Spike Gaerte of Cal Whatmore JNR, Audie Malt in the 27Q Spike Gaerte and rounding out the field was Lachy Paulger in the 37Q Eagle Gaerte machine.

Kaidon Brown returned service in the second and final “all in” heat bagging the victory over Dean and Farrell.

Scotty Farmer banked another fourth place and was pursued by Robinson, Whatmore JNR, Vine, Mathers, Paulger as Harrison was the only recorded DNF.
Unfortunately, we had lost the 27Q Malt car due to a suspected oil pressure concern.

With just one point splitting the duo of Brown and Dean it was Kaidon to lead the field to the flag showing the dominant hand in the all King Hawk front row
Farmer and Vine filled the second row from P3 and 4, Farrell and Robinson were also having a great night banking enough points to occupy row three, Harrison and Mathers filled P7 and 8 just in front of the Gaerte Gang of Whatmore JNR and Paulger who rounded out the ten-car field.

At the drop of the green Brown put the hammer down and checked out as the rest of the field jostled into racing lines the laps counted down it appeared the remaining 9 starters had nothing to offer the flying youngster as he went on to take victory and park his TFH/Indy Race Parts 97V in victory lane.

Brock Dean came home in second ahead of third place Scotty Farmer, Brad Harrison notched up another “Lucky 4th” Place Revolution Race Gear Sunshine Coast voucher for his efforts, Tim Farrell crossed in 5th, Whatmore Jnr was the “Mover and Shaker” from P9 up to 6th at the flag ahead of Vine, Mathers, Robinson and Paulger rounded out the feature field.

Huge thanks to Todd Wanless and his RAW Metal Corp for backing the Two Track Challenge it was unfortunate that mother nature claimed the win on the first night however very promising signs for this Easter series to continue are strong.

Thanks also to the cars who made the trek up the hill even after the weather wasn’t looking flash for night two and the officials volunteering their time for another history making event.

Our next show is back at Archerfield on May the 11th for the Nexgen/Glenn Wright Painting BNE 50 lapper but not before a large number of Queensland Cars head south to Valvoline Raceway Parramatta for the NSW State Title on the 27th then the double header night which is the NSW 50 Lapper on Friday the 3rd and Saturday the 4th.

Our final Polar Ice Midget Series round 11 will see out the season of action on the track and is again at Archerfield on May 25.