Sydney’s Kaidon Brown will defend his Australia Speedcar Grand Prix crown at Castrol Lismore Speedway, Saturday night, February 15.
Brown heads the entry list for the seventy-second AGP which was first held in 1938 at the former Sydney Sports Ground venue.
The son of a gun heads to the Lismore Showground venue fresh from a Speedcar main event win at the Perth Motorplex last weekend.
Brown is in very impressive unbeatable form after he won his heats before he raced to his first feature race career victory at the Perth venue driving the local Travis White Racing entry.
Nathan Smee, Reid Mackay and Rusty Whittaker are other former 2025 AGP winners who have entered at the Lismore venue which has become the home of the AGP in recent years under the promotion of Kim and Mick Sauer.
“We are again very pleased and proud to host the famous Australian Speedcar Grand Prix with its incredible history, Kim Sauer said.
“It’s a race, with its wonderful perpetual shield, that carries the honour of being one of the oldest Speedcar events in the world.”
Another travelled driver entered for the AGP is Queensland’s Harry Stewart who recently contested Oklahoma’s annual Chili Bowl Indoor Midget Nationals.
One particularly interesting AGP nomination (at this writing without a driver) comes from the famous Mackay family whose generational history and heritage with this race goes back into the ‘fifties. Car is powered by a Hyundai engine which is currently going through a trial and evaluation period under the Speedcars Australia sanctioning body.
Some of Australia’s greatest drivers have won the AGP, while arguably one of the most famous American competitors in Indianapolis 500 history, four times “500” winner AJ Foyt, won the AGP in consecutive years (1975, 1976) at Sydney’s Liverpool Speedway.
America’s ‘king” of Sprintcar racing, 20 times World of Outlaws National Champion Steve Kinser, won in 1986 also at Liverpool.
Ten times Australian Sprintcar Champion Garry Rush created history as the only man who won the AGP on pavement at Liverpool in 1977 and on dirt at the Sydney Showground on April 20, 1996. That year’s AGP was one of the most famous of all as it was part of the two-week Final Salute to the 70 years of Speedway at the Sydney Showground.
This venue hosted the AGP in consecutive years throughout the ‘fifties and ‘sixties.
The AGP will be supported with racing for AMCA Nationals, Wingless Sprints, RSA Stockers, RSA four cylinder Sedans, Junior Sedan Top Stars and New Stars categories.
A newcomer to the New Stars ranks is ten year old Ambrose Sauer – ten year old son of promoters Kim and Mick Sauer.
There’s also another Lismore family involvement when Nathan and Natasha Herne, whose father is the long retired legendary multi Australian V8 Dirt Modified Champion Stuart Herne clash in the AMCA Nationals events.
BY DENNIS NEWLYN
Photo: Gary Reid.