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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.
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The first Australian Sprintcar Grand Prix was held in 1978/79 and was won by Sydney-based driver Garry Rush. The race is currently known as the Valvoline Australian Sprintcar Grand Prix due to sponsorship from oil company Valvoline. The current champion is California sprint car driver Brad Sweet.
The Australian Sprintcar Championship has been contested every year since 1963. Only open to Australian Sprint Car drivers, the Championship is for winged 410ci cars. It is contested at a different track each season, on a state-by-state rotational basis. The 2015 Championship was held at Western Australia's Bunbury Speedway.
As with the Australian Championship, drivers from New South Wales have dominated the event with 18 wins. The home state of Victoria had to wait until the 20th running of the event to have a home winner with Warrnambool's own Max Dumesny winning in 1992. The race is regarded as the largest car count in sprint car racing.
Sprint cars are open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Historically known simply as "big cars," distinguishing them from "midget cars," sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States and Canada, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
With the Kings Challenge running prior to the Classic, the event attracts the best sprintcar drivers from Australia and the United States. [ 1 ] Brooke Tatnell (1995), Skip Jackson (1998), Danny Lasoski (2001) and Donny Schatz (2002) are the only drivers to have won the Kings Challenge / Sprintcar Classic double in the same year.
Australian sprint car drivers (6 P) Pages in category "Australian racing drivers" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.