DIRT track action returns to Rushworth Speedway this Saturday night, with big fields of drivers keen to start the point score championship chase all over again.
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They will be joined by the national division - known as the AMCA Nationals -along with the Marsh Modified Sedans, which will also kick-start their seasons.
In a year in which the national title for AMCAs is in Victoria, drivers will be keen to get some early laps in.
For others it will be a chance to test their new engines and chassis in order to have them right by the time the national championship comes around.
Victorian champion Jamie Collins leads the nominations of these crate
350ci and 253ci engines machines, with challengers in the form of Jeremy Moore, from South Australia, Dean Heseltine, Paul Sullivan and Keenan Casey among others.
Marsh Modifieds will have a number of new competitors joining the category from the Daylesford Speedway Club.
Last season Goulburn Valley club championship victories went the way of Phil Lamb in the GV Open Saloons, Wayne O’Keefe in the GV Production Sedans, Jacquie Fitzpatrick in the GV Ladies Saloons and Lachie Fitzpatrick in the GV Junior Sedans.
All except Jacquie are nominated this Saturday night to start their defence of their championships.
Lamb will resume hostilities with Adam Box after the pair had the hardest fought and closest battle last season and victory could go either way at any round.
O’Keefe will have a number of competitors looking to knock him off, including Mark Cecil, who is at home in a sedan as much as he is in his open wheel race cars.
Chloe Lamb will be hoping to steal a march on Jacquie Fitzpatrick in her absence, however Maddie Naismith, Chelsea Hodge and Kelly Nadort are hoping to score a big win.
Lachie Fitzpatrick will lead a host of very fast kids to the start line in the Juniors.
Will somebody jump out from the field just like he did last season and put themselves in the frame for regular race wins?
Racing begins from 4pm with entry costs $25 per adult, aged pensioners are $15, kids 12 to 16 are $12.50, while under the age of 12 is free. Family tickets (two adults and two children) are $60.
