Meet Santa at Nyora Raceway

by Dean Thompson
This Saturday night Nyora Raceway families can come and enjoy another dose of motorsport action for the last time in Gippsland until the new year.
Feature events for the compact speedcars, junior sedans state series racing and a sports sedan feature headline with women's standard saloons and junior standard saloons supporting the main events.
As a bonus for the kids, club president Marcus Reddecliffe has made his annual phone call to Santa Claus’s staff and made a booking for this Saturday night. Bring your kids and expect Santa Claus somewhere between 8 and 9pm.
There will also be a little fireworks display to keep eyes in the sky enjoying the tremendous colours. Plus, a raffle will be held with a home pizza oven, a gingerbread house as second prize, Nyora clothing merchandise as the third prize and a free pass to a future Nyora event (excluding monster truck night).
With the Victorian state title at Nyora this season the compact speedcars first have this Victorian Compact Speedcar Club points event.
It is also doubling as an opportunity for drivers to get some laps in and familiarising themselves with the track and set ups before the big event in the new year.
Current New South Wales state champion and Victorian racer Justin Paull leads the nominations that include 16 entrants and some seriously good racers.
Jess Nicholas, Caleb Mills, Louis Rodriguez, Tania Hallett, Matt Papa, Aston Rodriguez, Trevor Perry, and Michael Conway are just some of them. Mills and Papa have both been competing in the speedcar class and drop into compact speedcars this weekend.
Everybody is keen to get one up on each other before the title, bragging rights for a few weeks. Compact speedcars are open wheel with engines such as Yamaha R1, Suzuki GSXRs and Kawasakis.
Last weekend’s Junior Sedan Promotional Association winner at Redline Raceway James Peacock will lead out the nominations in the top star category of the four-cylinder junior sedans.
Cruz Carlin, Axel Robinson, Will Fallon, and Lysterfield’s Brad Marshall are some of the series front running regulars, they will do battle with Tyson Heaphy, Nathan Miles, Jaylen Knight and Tristan Jarred - who lives in Nyora - all are representing Nyora and keen to win in front of locals.
Officer-based racer Luke Morrison is the driver to beat in the new star category, having won this past weekend at Redline Raceway also.
Noah Basten and Darcy Dannatt are two others competing at the front of the field and they will have to fend off the eager Nyora members Jai Hallett, Jackson Heaphy, Kade Robertson, and Cruz Abela. Heaphy and Abela will be in the hunt for a podium.
Brad Warren of Longwarry leads the entrants in the sports sedans and jumps out of the wingless sprint he raced in Sydney last week and into one of his sedans keen to win.
Braidan Webster, Chris Aarts, Jordan Haley, and Ray Gould are all regulars at Nyora and have competed this season already. Aarts would love to get the victory over one his mates in Brad Warren.
Warragul driver Caroline Allen and Bree Walker of Trafalgar are back to do battle in the women's standard saloons, and so far this season their contests have been fantastic.
Stacey Sheedy, Tasharni Murray, Maddison Miles from Catani, and Vicki Price are also in the field and at some stage of their racing they have all been capable of podium results, most recently Murray got her first podium at Bairnsdale Speedway.
Junior standard saloons are on the program and recent winner at Drouin Nathan Miles is keen to do so at his home track Nyora. Ella Sheedy and Cooper Irons from the nearby Drouin club are keen to ensure Miles is hurried on race night, anything could happen.
Spectator gates open from 11am, on track competition starts 4:30pm
Pre-event online ticket purchase prices are adults at $25, pensioners for aged care and disabled at $10, children of any age up to 16 at $5. A family ticket of two adults and two teenagers is $55-.
Do yourself a financial favour and pre-buy online and turn up to the gate and with your phone and you will have a few extra dollars in your pocket.
Purchase of tickets at the track gate sees pricing change to adults at $30, pensioners for aged care and disabled at $10, teenagers aged 12 to 16 at $10 all kids up to the age of 11 $5 dollars. A family ticket of two adults and two teenagers is $60-.
Eftpos is available at the track and for enquiries you may contact 0428 847 888.