This Saturday night (November 11), the Sprintcar Racing Association of Victoria Super Sprint Series will head to the New South Wales and Victorian border for round two at Moama’s Heartland Raceway. The spacious track will allow some of Victoria’s best to run wide open, which is sure to create some action-packed Sprintcar racing.

Last season the SRA Super Sprint Series had multiple attempts at staging a round at the Heartland Raceway venue, but unfortunately wet weather intervened and no SRA racing was seen in the thriving townships of Echuca and Moama. This Saturday night however, racing is a certainty and one driver that is particularly looking forward to the occasion is local hometown favourite Travis “Squizzy” Mills.

Mills, a former Compact Speedcar Australian Champion, will be racing in front of a number of local sponsors, family and friends in his own car for the first time after previously racing for Jordan Motorsport and Craig Lawless.

“We’ve got three or four local sponsors that will be watching us Saturday night and I’m really looking forward to performing in front of them for the first time in our own car and obviously putting in a good result,” said Mills during the week.

Mills purchased the car he steered in the second half of last season - the Craig Lawless Cool Chassis - and the 26-year-old claimed fourth position in the overall points count for the SRA Super Sprint Series. He is hoping to reproduce the form that got him to that position, but round one at Geelong’s Avalon Raceway a fortnight ago was not the best way to begin the SRA season for Mills.

“We had a fuel problem at Avalon that seen us run out of fuel in the B Main,” said Mills. “We sent everything down to John Sidney and the fuel problem as well as a couple of others things are fixed and we are raring to go racing on Saturday night.”

Joining Mills in the field will be the reigning SRA Series Champion, John Vogels, from Simpson. Vogels is currently sitting second in the points after round one and this Saturday night will present an imperative opportunity for the south west favourite to gain a lead in a series he is aiming to win three times in a row.

Making his first SRA appearance for season 2006-07 is the first and only SRA feature winner at Heartland Raceway, Grant Anderson. Way back in mid April last year Anderson took the victory and from that point he has kicked on in improvement, including contesting events in Western Australia and fairing extremely well. ‘Ando’ will enter Saturday night as a true contender in the V#37 Foster Chassis.

One driver that is definitely going to add some spice to the racing will be 18-year-old Jamie Veal from Warrnambool. In round one at Avalon Raceway, Veal showed everyone he is a star on the rise in Sprintcar racing by finishing fifth. The former Formula 500 leading light will relish the big track this Saturday night, where his heavy right foot will do all of the work in an attempt to consolidate on his current seventh placing in the points score.

Others to be in the 25 plus strong line up include Brett Milburn. ‘The Jet’ is third on points approaching round two and the V#68 is sure to be in the mix once again. Rod Dalton, supporting a striking new paint scheme, established some fast form in round one and as a result finds himself in eighth position on the points table ahead of Daniel Newnham and Brett Smith, two others that will be at Heartland Raceway keen to stay in the top ten of the SRA Super Sprint Series.

‘The Flying Dutchman’ Mike Van Bremen, a two-time SRA Super Sprint Series Champion, failed to make the A-Main field in round one and the former World Series Sprintcars driver will be seeking a better result this time around. To do so, he will bolt in the teams “killer” Maxwill engine to achieve maximum horsepower that could prove vital at Heartland Raceway.

Three South Australians – Glen Sutherland, Steven Lines and Wayne Rowett – will make the journey along with New South Welshman Chris Muir to Moama in a bid to upset the strong Victorian contingent in what will be a ripping contest for the second round of the SRA Super Sprint Series.

Heat racing will have even more significance this Saturday night and beyond with Revolution Racegear a welcomed addition to the list of valued supporters of the SRA season. At seasons end, Revolution Racegear will supply the driver with the most heat wins with the latest spec suit the X Tech.

THE SRA SUPER SPRINT SERIES TOP TEN HEADING INTO ROUND TWO:


1 David Murcott 404
2 John Vogels 375
3 Brett Milburn 356
4 Stephen Bell 341
5 Carl Ludeman 340
6 Matthew Reed 335
7 Jamie Veal 330
8 Ron Dalton 314
9 Daniel Newnham 307
10 Brett Smith 304

The Sprintcar Racing Association of Victoria wish to thank the following Super Sprint Series sponsors:
HOOSIER TIRES AUSTRALIA, D&F RACING PRODUCTS, JOHN SIDNEY RACING, SPRINTCARWORLD, REVOLUTION RACEGEAR, MAXAM PRINTING, VALVOLINE, PERFORMANCE RACING PHOTOGRAPHY, M D MOTORSPORTS, HI ACE WINGS, CAMDEN NEON SIGNS.

SprintcarWorld – www.sprintcarworld.com.au
John Sidney Racing – www.johnsidneyracing.com.au
Camden Neon Signs – www.camdenneon.com.au
M D Motorsport – www.mdmotorsport.com.au
Revolution Racegear – www.revolutionracegear.com.au