PERTH MULTIPLEX: McFADDEN WINS ROUND 15 OF THE MADDINGTON TOYOTA SPRINTCAR SERIES

Feature photo by: Cochrane photography

MADDINGTON TOYOTA SPRINTCAR SERIES

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The James McFadden juggernaut continued in round 15 of the Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series at the Perth Motorplex on Friday night, Febraury 7.

In the first of the two-night show for the Barbagallo Australian Mr Sprintcar Nationals, McFadden won the 30-lap feature race from Daniel Harding and Kaiden Manders.

McFadden’s win was his first with the A1 sticker on the Brady Motorsport entry, fresh from winning the Australian Sprintcar Championship in South Australia last week – and after taking out the Warrnambool Classic in Victoria the previous week.

McFadden started outside polesitter Kaiden Manders on the front row for the main event and after threatening to make a move in heavy lapped traffic, he struck a telling blow on lap 17 – and after that was never headed in the run to the checkers.

The race only had just over a lap remaining when Kerry Madsen activated the only caution period in the race, parking the Diamond Bay Motorsport 26 in pits bend with a flat right rear tyre. This was only a blip in McFadden’s run to the finish line.

He started and finished fourth in his heat race after earlier being the quickest qualifier in his group and then won the B Dash. Manders won the A Dash after also winning his heat race.

Harding, who started from p4, was started p2 in his heat race which he won, putting him off pole for the B Dash, where he followed McFadden across the line, taking second.

Both Callum Williamson and New Zealander Michael Pickens had Alf Barbagallo tribute cars, running different interpretations of the famous 77 that raced back at Claremont Speedway for many years.

Former Aussie champion Marcus Dumesny, who started from position five, took fourth ahead of Williamson who started from p6 and was running second when the caution lights came on.

He was relegated two spots for an earlier infringement and finished fifth.

Queenslander Luke Oldfield was sixth (from p7), ahead of Brad Maiolo in seventh (from p14), Dayne Kingshott in eighth (from p16), Jason Kendrick in ninth (from p8) and Queenslander/former Aussie champ Lachlan McHugh in 10th (from p3).

Another former champion in Jock Goodyer was 11th (from p18), from Kris Coyle in 12th (from p13), American Cory Elaison in 13th (from p28), Queenslander Ryan Newton in 14th (from p26), Taylor Milling in 15th (from p10), Jason Pryde in 16th (from p11), Michael Keen in 17th (from p21), Andrew Priolo in 18th (from p15), AJ Nash in 19th (from p27), Jack Williamson in 20th (from p25), Aaron Chircop in 22nd (from p19), Jaydee Dack in 23rd (from p24) and Daniel Golding in 24th (from p22).

Non finishers were Queenslander Dylan Menz, Madsen, Tim King and Pickens.

Racing returns to the Perth Motorplex tonight for night two of the Barbagallo Australian Mr Sprintcar Nationals, with the feature race winner to pocket $40,077 (the 77 paying tribute to Alf Barbagallo who famously campaigned the #77).

Kyle Francis was out of the show at the very beginning with major mechanical issues while Myles Bolger crashed hard in the B Main, heavily damaging the W13.

Heat 1: 1st Luke Oldfield, 2nd Lachlan McHugh, 3rd Taylor Milling, 4h Jason Kendrick, 5th Brad Maiolo, 6th Jason Pryde, 7th Jaydee Dack,  8th Aaron Chircop, 9th Jacob Smith, 10th Jack Williamson, 11th Myles Bolger.

Heat 2: 1st Daniel Harding, 2nd Kris Coye, 3rd Callum Williamson, 4th Dayne Kingshott, 5th Tim King, 6th Kerry Madsen, 7th Ryan Lancaster, 8th Cory Eliason, 9th Mick Saller, 10th Daniel Golding. DNF: Ryan Newton.

Heat 3: 1st Kaiden Manders, 2nd Michael Pickens, 3rd Marcus Dumesny, 4th James McFadden, 5th Andrew Priolo, 6th Michael Keen, 7th Jock Goodyer, 8th Dylan Menz, 9th AJ Nash, 10th Brooke Newson. DNS: Kyle Francis.

A Dash: 1st Kaiden Manders, 2nd Lachlan McHugh, 3rd Marcus Dumesny, 4th Luke Oldfield, 5th Michael Pickens, 6th Jason Pryde.

B Dash: 1st James McFadden, 2nd Daniel Harding, 3rd Callum Williamson, 4th Jason Kendrick, 5th Taylor Milling, 6th Kerry Madsen.

Midpack: 1st Kris Coyle, 2nd Brad Maioo, 3rd Andrew Priolo, 4th Dayne Kingshott, 5th Tim King, 6th Jock Goodyer.

B Main: 1st Jack Williamson, 2nd Ryan Newton, 3rd AJ Nash, 4th Cory Eliason, 5th Jacob Smith, 6th Mick Saller, 7th Brooke Newson. DNF: Myles Bolger. DNS: Kyle Francis.

Feature race: 1st James McFadden, 2nd Daniel Harding, 3rd Kaiden Manders, 4th Marcus Dumesny,  5th Callum Williamson, 6th Luke Oldifleld, 7th Brad Maiolo, 8th Dayne Kingshott, 9th Jason Kendrick, 10th Lachlan McHugh, 11th Jock Goodyer, 12th Kris Coyle, 13th Cory Eliason, 14th Ryan Newton, 15th Taylor Milling, 16th Jason Pryde, 17th Michael Keen, 18th Andrew Priolo, 19th AJ Nash, 20th Ryan Lancaster, 21st Jack Williamson, 22nd Aaron Chircop, 23rd Jaydee Dack, 24th Daniel Golding, DNF: Dylan Menz, Kerry Madsen, Tim King and Michael Pickens.