Little speedsters rev up

AVALON Raceway heats up tonight for the start of the summer season with speedcars set to be the highlight of this evening’s opening round.

Wingless sprints, street stocks and modified production sedans will also be on the agenda, but Avalon Raceway customer relations manager Brian Alexander said the speedcars would attract the biggest crowds.

“They’re our quickest category we have tomorrow night,” he said yesterday. “Power-to-weight ratio, they’re almost as quick as the sprintcars but just smaller.

“The nominations we have already received are certainly the best drivers in Victoria. Some of them have represented themselves at national level.”

Torquay teenager Kye Walters will be looking to resume where he left off in this year’s modified production sedans.

“I’m looking forward to it,”: the 19-year-old said. “We won the championship for modified production sedans last year, so hopefully we can repeat that.”

“At Avalon, I think we’ll have four or five nights where our class is programmed so at this stage we look like doing all of them, and one round is a round of the Victorian series, so we’re probably expecting about 30 cars that night.”

Preseason has included rebuilding and updating components of his sedan, but Walters said he’ll also be looking to repeat his Vic Series title win of last season.

Next week at Avalon, the sprintcars arrive in town.

For more information visit avalonraceway.com.au.