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The Australian Sprintcar Championship is a dirt track racing championship held each year to determine the Australian national champion for winged sprint car racing.The single championship meeting runs in either late January or early February and has been held each year since the Windsor RSL Speedway in Sydney hosted the first championship in 1963.
Sydney driver Brooke Tatnell has won a record eight series since first contesting races in the inaugural series run in 1987. Brooke is also part of the only father and son combination to ever win the series with his father, former national Speedcar and Sprintcar champion George Tatnell, winning the first two series run in 1987/88 and 1988/89.
After the success of the 1995 Australian Sprintcar Championship at the speedway, the first Kings Challenge was held in 1995 and was won by Sydney-based driver Brooke Tatnell. Traditionally run on the Friday night before the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at the Premier Speedway in Warrnambool ( Victoria ), the $10,000 to win event was moved to ...
Racing the Barrows owned OTR (for Oval Track Racing, an Australian designed and built chassis), Joey finished second in the 1995/96 World Series Sprintcars behind multiple Australian Sprintcar Champion Brooke Tatnell. In 2020 Saldana started up Saldana Racing Oil Tanks.
The Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic is an Australian dirt Sprint car racing meet that takes place at the Sungold Stadium Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, Victoria every year in late January. [1] The classic traditionally takes place one week before the Australian Sprintcar Championship .
Others have included Skip Jackson, Jaymie Moyle, Kerry Madsen, Ian Madsen, Garry Brazier, Trevor Green, Mitchell Dumesny, Jamie Veal, James McFadden and current one lap track record holder Brooke Tatnell. In 2018, multiple World Champion BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Car driver Tom Harris became the first British driver to compete at the Nationals.
Mount Gambier driver Steven Lines was the defending champion from 2013–14, and looked to defend his title from the likes of multiple Australian champions Max Dumesny, Brooke Tatnell and James McFadden, as well as a host of Australia's top drivers, along with drivers (especially during the start of the season) from the World of Outlaws in the ...
A then 16-year-old Brooke Tatnell had made his Australian Championship debut at Speedway Park in 1988, making the 40 lap Final before a mid-race crash took him out of the event. Speedway management would later honour George Tatnell following his death from cancer in 2007 with the annual "George Tatnell Cup" for Sprintcars.