Jock Goodyer
Tasmanian Sprintcar star on the rise Jock Goodyer has just recorded the best possible build up to the 2022/2023 www.clayperview.com Sprintcar Speedweek.
He stormed to victory in the grueling “Max’s Race” event last Saturday night at Premier Speedway Warrnambool by besting a fifty plus car field.
The 21-year-old screen printer from Launceston now sets his sights on victory in the lucrative $150,000 Speedweek series which kicks off at Murray Bridge this Monday – Boxing Day night.
Ace crew chief Hayden Kendrick is now back on the spanners after a season with racing phenom Kyle Larson in the USA.
Goodyer showed he had plenty of speed at Eastern Creek Speedway earlier this season too where he was leading the A-Main before a Heim joint on the radius rod broke and he ground to a halt – remarkably without rolling over when he entered turn one at full speed.
That win in Sydney would have been added to his success in the NT Title and Darwin Titles and the Max race have been his fourth trip to Victory Lane since August – that’s pretty impressive sledding for the fourth season racer.
“We were leading the Chariots (Of Thunder) Series before I hurt my neck,” Goodyer recalls, “we did not win any races in that deal we were just consistently in the top four and five.
“I do not think we can afford to do that in Speedweek though, I think it is going to take wins.”
Wins will pay handsomely too.
Should Goodyer or any other driver win all four nights of Speedweek they will pocket $30,000 plus a $15,000 bonus for winning the series.
Jock Goodyer is driving young force with a chance to bank that $45,000 in seven days and now with a win in Max’s Race to his credit he will have that little bit of extra swagger when he rolls into the pits this Monday night.
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David Murcott
The word ‘veteran’ would not sit well with Victorian Sprintcar icon David Murcott but there is no denying its suitability.
The Warrnambool wheel-twister remains as popular as ever for his legion of loyal fans accrued over thirty-five years in the game with only one season off since his debut as a sixteen-year-old.
In those three decades he has achieved a lengthy list of accolades of course highlighted by those two incredible Australian Sprintcar Championship wins at first Latrobe in 2014 and then backing it up in Bunbury the year after.
Along the way also have been stunning successes at a wider variety of venues due to his love of travelling and racing interstate.
One of his most memorable will always be the victory at Avalon Raceway for the WSS Speedweek Series driving for Bruce Stephens.
It was collectively their first WSS success.
“It’s something I’ll always remember,” grins Murky, “for that reason Speedweek will always be special to me.”
Now in his thirty fifth season he is also in his twentieth year with long time sponsor and friend Andrew Elder from Mainline Dyno log Dynamometers.
“Andrew started with me back in 2002-2003 when I went to America, and he has been with me ever since.
He has come along with each team I have driven for, and I cannot thank him enough.”
There is no doubt for “Murky” though one of his great joys is driving for Darryl and Mikey Downing and crew guy Nathan in the iconic #S97 Mainline Dyno log Dynamometers / Eagle Trailers, Campers and Caravans / Moore Mechanical Cool Chassis powered by Johnny Maiolo.
The foursome work exceptionally well together and present a major danger to victory each and every time they front – even if they have only had one race together this season due to a high percentage of rainouts.
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Cody Maroske
Queensland young gun Cody Maroske has his sights set firmly on some interstate travel and ferocious open wheel warfare as he points the SRV Racing Kenworth towards Murray Bridge and the first round of the Clay-per-view Sprintcars Speedweek Series.
The 29-year-old Sprintcar driver / Team Manager for SRV Racing is living his Speedway dream and cannot wait to get on board the four nights in seven days $150,000 juggernaut that is Speedweek.
Now in his sixth season racing Sprintcars having started his career in 2017 Maroske has a gorgeous race inventory and a stout Cool Chassis / Newman and Inglis Race Engines rotated program to bring into battle.
Placing thirteenth in last year’s Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic Maroske is keen to improve on that result considerably and boost his reputation in the SA-VIC region of the country.
Known as a real gasser in his native QLD Maroske will add a definite spark to the four-night tour in the #Q27 SRV Road freight / Valvoline / Kenworth as www.clayperview.com Sprintcar Speedweek blazes across Murray Bridge Speedway, Borderline Speedway, Avalon Raceway and Premier Speedway from December 26 to January 1.
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Tate Frost
Tasmanian Sprintcar youngster Tate Frost simply cannot wait to go racing.
The 20-year-old Motor Technician from Launceston on the Apple Isle has been hamstrung like so many southern state racers by the lack of laps he could lock in due to the unseasonal and uncooperative weather pattens so far in 2022/2023.
Now, in just one weeks’ time, he gets to finally flip the switch and contest all four nights of the Clay-Per-View Sprintcar Speedweek – plus a little bonus excursion.
So keen to get laps in are the Frosts they will venture straight to Simpson (after Murray Bridge’s Round One) to race on the 27th and be back in time for Round Two of Speedweek on December 28 at Mount Gambier.
The T62 Maxim powered by KRE has a number of new partners on board including Doolan’s Heavy Haulage, Kart Magic, Kobelco and Launceston Mowers and Chainsaws in addition to Mooie Make Up this summer.
The team has once again employed the expertise of Steve Trigg to swing the spanners as Tate comes into his fourth season in Sprintcar racing.
Coming off the back of a stout 2021/2022 where Frost placed fifth in a hectic Australian Championship at Archerfield and scoring runner-up to James McFadden at “Max’s Race” in Warrnambool this time last year the team is eager to go.
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Ryan Jones
Murray Bridge Sprintcar throttle smasher Ryan Jones knows extremely well the Clay-Per-View Sprintcar Speedweek is special.
He knows for many reasons.
Only the first one is the making lap’s part.
“I think Speedweek is cool this year in particular because it’s at least a gradual step towards some kind of normality,” says the always articulate Jones, “it is not quite World Series yet, but it is a big move back towards it.
“Just the idea of racing those four nights in a week at those four places with a bit of the razzamatazz attached back to it makes the whole deal significant in itself.”
Jones has come close to a Speedweek round victory.
“I ran second to Kerry Madsen with Jason Johnson coming in third behind us,” Jones recalls, “Jason led, I was running second, but Kerry got by us both then Jason had a moment and wound up back in third.
“It was at Murray Bridge so that made it really special for me.”
Coming into this year’s CPV Sprintcar Speedweek which kicks off in a week’s time Jones is, like many teams in the southern states of Australia, a touch ‘underdone’ in terms of racing laps.
Hoping to turn that into a bonus rather than a disadvantage, however the eternal optimist will wheel the Murray Machining and Sheds Darryl and Valma Wright owned Triple X with vigor come December 26.
Still with PM Race Engines mumbo and still as enthusiastic and aggressive as a teenager Jones has been in the Sprintcar caper for seventeen years – having started when he was twenty-one years old.
A multiple Aussie 360ci Champion, he remains an absolute wild card in every sense of the word in every event he enters.
Jones will add significant firepower to the www.clayperview.com Sprintcar Speedweek when it starts at his home track – the Murray Machining & Sheds Murray Bridge Speedway next Monday night.
