In front of an enormous crowd Luke Oldfield scored victory in the 25-lap preliminary A-Main at Archerfield Speedway for Night One of the Titan Garages and Sheds 2022 Australian Sprintcar Championship.

Oldfield battled it out with defending champion Jamie Veal for much of the feature race and later admitted he wasn’t sure that the end result was necessarily a good situation.

“I’m not sure it’s a good thing to win the preliminary main event on the first night of an Australian title but we’ll take it,” he smiled, “at least we know we have pace. I know it doesn’t mean much to win tonight but we’ve got a fast car and now we can focus on what we have to do tomorrow. It’s great to see such a fantastic crowd here tonight and I hope I’m standing in the same spot tomorrow.”

Jamie Veal took the lead from Oldfield with twelve laps to go but with only a handful remaining the Queenslander retook the Australian champ and maintained a narrow advantage until the chequers flew.

The spotlight was on hard charging Tasmanian Jock Goodyer who ripped the T22 to a spectacular third place and almost passed Veal in the final fifty metres.

Lockie McHugh placed fourth ahead of a rapidly moving Marcus Dumesny who had come from the seventh row of the grid to wind up fifth ahead of Aaron Kelly in sixth, Matt Dumesny seventh, Ian Madsen eighth, Steven Lines ninth and Dave Fanning rounding out the ten.

Tasmanian Tate Frost narrowly avoided (but not completely) the flipping Brent Kratzmann but sustained some top wing damage and came home eleventh on debut with Ryan Newton twelfth, Brock Hallett thirteenth, Luke Stirton fourteenth, Daniel Pestka fifteenth and Nicholas Whell sixteenth.

DNF’s were Jessie Attard and Brent Kratzmann who flipped in separate incidents.


Despite finishing fourth in the A-Main Lockie McHugh amassed enough points with his two heat wins and quick time in his flight to lead the points heading into the final night.


Quick Times in their respective Heat Groups for qualifying were:

Aaron Kelly 12.092

Luke Oldfield 12.105

Jordyn Brazier 12.183

Lockie McHugh 12.183



Heat race winners included:


H1 Taylor Prosser


H2 Luke Stirton

H3 Lockie McHugh

H4 Brent Kratzmann

H5 Luke Oldfield

H6 Jamie Veal

H7 Lockie McHugh

H8 Ian Madsen

Last Chance Preliminary Main event qualifier results:

1. Tate Frost

2. Ryan Newton

3. Dave Fanning

4. Daniel Pestka

5. Jordyn Brazier

6. Kevin Titman

7. Robbie Farr

8. Richard Morgan

9. Matt Egel

10. Jamie Bricknell

11. Darren Jensen

12. Bryan Mann

13. Randy Morgan

14. Taylor Prosser

15. Kristy Bonsey

16. Peter Doukas (DNF)



OVERALL POINTS AFTER NIGHT ONE

Lockie McHugh 93


Luke Oldfield 89

Jamie Veal 85

Jock Goodyer 83

Ian Madsen 81

Aaron Kelly 77

Matthew Dumesny 73

Marcus Dumesny 69

Steven Lines 69

Brock Hallett 63

Tate Frost 63

Ryan Newton 62

Jessie Attard 62

Luke Stirton 61

Nicholas Whell 60

Dave Fanning 60

Brent Kratzmann 60

Daniel Pestka 59

Jordyn Brazier 50

Kevin Titman 46

Robbie Farr 44

Richard Morgan 42

Peter Doukas 40

Taylor Prosser 40

Matt Egel 39

Darren Jensen 39

Randy Morgan 37

Bryan Mann 36

Jamie Bricknell 35

Kristy Bonsey 30

Tim Farrell 27

Mark Pholi 25

Karl Hoffmans 21

Adrian Redpath 21

Chris McInerney 20

Will Carroll 17

Trent Vardy 16

Mitch Gowland 16

Jason King 15

Libby Ellis 14

Andrew Baumber 13

Brenton Farrer 12

James Matthews 12

Adam Butler 12

Luke Thomas 8

Jy Corbet 0

The final night of the Titan Garages and Sheds 59th SCCA Australian Sprintcar Championship is scheduled for Sunday night, May 1.


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