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For more than 25 years, Tasmania has been a breeding ground for some of Australia’s very best speedway sedan competitors, producing no less than six Australian Championship wins.  The driver seemingly destined to be the next to join this illustrious group is second-generation racer Jarrod Harper.  Last season, Harper joined fellow Tasmanian Brad Smith on the national series trail and he is returning this season as a contracted driver in the 2008/2009 Carline Mufflers National Super Sedan Series.

Harper’s quietly spoken personality belies a breathtaking on-track style that never fails to entertain. A hard charger behind the wheel who is renowned for his wheel hiking antics, Harper seemingly delights in swooping around the outside of his opponents regardless of the track conditions.  Having started his Super Sedan career in 1990, Jarrod spent many years racing against his illustrious father Neville, a 7-time state titleholder. However, he quickly emerged from his father’s shadow, winning his first state title in 1998.  He has since won two more State Championships (2003 and 2006), along with two wins in Australia’s richest Super Sedan event, the Apple Isle Grand Prix (1999 and 2003).  He has also won Hobart’s Super Sedan Grand National on two occasions (1999 and 2004).  

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 Korn started his racing career more than 30 years ago in Gladstone and enjoyed tremendous success throughout the central Queensland region with a multitude of feature race victories and track championships, including a win in the prestigious Rebel 1000 event at Bundaberg’s Carina Speedway.  After 17 years of racing, he stepped out of the *****pit to focus on the relocation of his transport business from Gladstone to Dysart. 

For the second season in a row the NSW V8 Super Sedan Title is to be held at Gunnedah Speedway (North Western NSW). A field of some of the country’s best V8 Super Sedan drivers will be vying for the NSW Title honours this Saturday night (December 6).

The defending NSW Title holder is Wayne Brims is he is no doubt looking to make it back-to-back victories and the Northern NSW hard charger wants to keep the NSW Title in its own state.

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Michael Nicola needs no introduction to Australian speedway fans.  As a three-time Australian Super Sedan champion, Nicola is quite rightly regarded as one of Australia’s finest ever Super Sedan exponents.  In fact, Nicola is one of only three drivers to have won the national title on three occasions.  Having also won five state championships over a 10-year period, this season will see Nicola once again chasing the one major championship to thus far elude him, the Carline Mufflers National Super Sedan Series.

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Darryl Campbell hasn’t let last weekend’s Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway washout dampen his spirits. This weekend the Sydney based Sprintcar driver is heading west with much anticipation for Round Two of the Sprintcar Association of New South Wales’ Thunder Thru The Plains Series.

“I, like many others, am pumped about racing at a new track,” commented Campbell in preparation for the trip. “Personally, I’m looking forward to learning more about the car at different tracks and excited about meeting new fans away from our home track”

MEDIA RELEASE – AVALON RACEWAY, 6/12/08

Victoria’s Harley Bishop took a last lap opportunity on Saturday night at Queensland’s Maryborough Speedway to snatch the lead from Troy Jenkins and Mark Brown, and claim the third round of the unbelievably competitive Speedcar Super Series!

Indeed at the drop of the green, it was Jenkins who claimed the early lead from current SSS Championship point score leader Mark Brown, Bishop, QLD’s Brock Dean, New Zealand’s Jimi Quin, Nathan Smee of NSW, Mark George and Brendan Palmer both of the Sunshine state.

Immediately the front running duo of Jenkins and Brown raced away from the pack and set about delivering some of the finest wheel-to-wheel racing the city of Maryborough has witnessed! Lapped traffic also brought Bishop back into contention and as the race progressed through two yellow cautions for the stopped Stevie Walsh of New Zealand and later Brock Dean of Queensland; the Jenkins, Brown and Bishop trio fought over numerous laps for the victory position.

The combination of National Champion Jamie McHugh and Matt Pascoe proved too strong for the opposition after the duo dominated the two main events in the Grand Final of the 30/30 Super Sedan Spectacular at Lismore Speedway on Saturday night.

They clinched the overall series victory in a repeat of the previous week's opening round of the tournament at Toowoomba when McHugh and Pascoe emerged unbeaten.

The duo were the runaway winners of the series and their total dominance was underlined at Lismore after McHugh raced to a win in the initial main event that wrapped up the two round 30/30 Championship.

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Having been a sponsor of the Carline Mufflers National Super Sedan Series since it began, Wayne Randall has again extended his support of the series with a continuation of the Shock Doctor Lucky Sevens contingency award scheme. Whilst Randall – the only two-time champion in the history of the series – is only taking part in selected events on the 2008/2009 schedule, the Lucky Sevens Award will be up for grabs at all ten rounds of the expanded competition. 

As an authorised AFCO and Pro Shocks repairer, Shock Doctor can provide a comprehensive service that includes testing, diagnosing, repairing and re-valving of all AFCO and Pro Shocks shock absorbers.  With access to enormous amounts of data courtesy of their status as an approved AFCO and Pro Shocks repairer, the Shock Doctor can offer extensive testing and diagnosis capabilities that enables an accurate evaluation of which parts may need to be replaced to maintain maximum efficiency.  Such detailed assessment also ensures that competitors have a solid understanding of their shock absorber performance. Of course, Shock Doctor use only genuine replacement parts, making them the first choice in shock absorber repairs and service.

South Australian Trevor Green certainly hasn’t had the best of starts to his 2008/09 season World Series Sprintcar (WSS) Championship campaign. This Saturday night when the fifth round heads to his home track, Speedway City, he is looking to turn his fortunes around.

It was certainly an ‘Up and Down’ Western Australian leg to the WSS Championship trail last weekend at the Perth Motorplex for Green when he finished the two rounds with an eighth and seventh place finish in the respective feature races but it was an expensive and frustrating exercise in the process.

“Everything that could have gone wrong actually did go wrong,” Green said. “Considering what I had to get through to finish both feature races in the top 10 I am pretty pleased with it. It was a very expensive and frustrating trip as we lost an engine, a rear end, a massive tyre bill, and then we were dealt the rough end of the stick with some questionable official decisions. Each night due to our dramas we were forced to qualify via the B-main and that saw us forced to pass plenty of cars and tear up thousands of dollars worth of tyres in the process. It’s a tough deal when you travel across the other side of Australia and you simply cannot take a trick.”

After showing plenty of promise since joining the Street Stock ranks towards the latter half of last season, Adam Brook has managed to make a solid start to his first full season. Recently he scored back-to-back feature race podium finishes in the previous two rounds of the Sydney Street Stock Club Championship.

The third round of the Sydney Club Championship held at Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway resulted in Brook finishing the feature race in third, backing up his impressive second place finish at the previous round.

With two podium finishes under his belt, the confidence levels are certainly on the rise for the ex Formula Vee (Road Racing) competitor. As a result Brook has now been forced to reassess his objectives for the remainder of the season.

Queenslander Peter Britten is more renowned for his talents in AMCA Nationals and more recently V8 Dirt Modifieds. On Saturday night at Toowoomba’s Charlton Raceway he stepped out of his comfort zone and made his V8 Super Sedan debut in the first round of the 30/30 event.

The inaugural 30/30 event was certainly a daunting prospect to be making your V8 Super Sedan debut when he teamed up with local Adam Bradford driving his # 68 QLD JBR Motorsport supported Sweet machine. However, the pair of Bradford and Britten put together a consistent performance by ending the twin 30 lap feature races on the podium in third place in what was a fantastic result.

As one would expect Britten was both surprised and thrilled with getting a place on the podium with Bradford especially considering the high calibre of driver’s competing in the 30/30 event.

The latest driver to join Team Fox Racing (TFR), Western Australian ace Neville Lance; had a hard charging feature race performance during the second round of the Speedcar Super Series (SSS) at Toowoomba’s Charlton Raceway in Queensland, cruelly cut short due to a fuel system drama.

Lance, who was subbing for regular TFR driver Todd Wanless, just scraped into the feature race field and started the 30-lap event out of position 20. Earlier in the night Lance had some misfortune in his two heat races; a fifth place and a DNF (while placed in second at the time), that cost him a chance to run in the pole shuffle.

With nothing to lose and all to gain, Lance worked his way through the field with some daring and spectacular driving around the virtually one lane Charlton Raceway track. The multiple Western Australian Title holder and arguably one of Australia’s very best drivers never to win an Australian Title, was up to sixth with only a handful of laps before slowing and retiring due to a fuel system problem.