Rolling Thunder® Raceway (RTR) is charging on towards its second season of top class Speedway competition with the exciting announcement of the Sprintcar Thunder ™ Series and a spectacular mix of competitor classes including Sprintcars, Midgets, AMCA Nationals and the home grown Marsh Modifieds amongst other yet to be confirmed classes.

With the new season fast approaching the time is right to announce RTR’s planned season and the details of the new Sprintcar Thunder Series.

Racing will resume at the big Bacchus Marsh venue with the first round of the Sprintcar Thunder Series kicking off on 11^th November. The Sprintcar Thunder Series is open to all SCCA 360ci Sprintcars including Sprintcars that comply with the American ASCS/USCS engine specifications. This exciting new series will be inaugurated with the winner taking home a huge $2000, 2^nd $1000 and 3rd $800 in prize money. Every eligible Sprintcar that competes on the night will be guaranteed a minimum of $400 start money.

“The ASCS sprintcars in the USA have enormous support and with many leading speedway journalists, officials and team owners openly stating that this is the way to go in Australia, I have decided to promote the class by introducing a series this year” Stated RTR promoter Ray Solomon. “I think that now that the 410’s have been adopted nationally, the next logical step was to see the ASCS 360 specifications introduced into Australia also.”

“I will be looking to promote even bigger events in future seasons and will also be looking at ways of encouraging top Australian and USA driver to compete in the Sprintcar Thunder Series”. Solomon continued.

The Sprintcar Thunder Series will be run over 5 rounds at Rolling Thunder Raceway with a possible round at Redline Speedway in February 2007. Top local Ian Lewis will be competing in the series and it is hoped that the likes of Americans Travis Rilat and Brad Sweet can both be brought out for selected events. 

Other rounds of the series at RTR will be on the 9^th December, 3^rd January, 20^th January, 24^th February,  14^th April and will see a minimum of $1000 first prize and a minimum of $300 per car.  Further details of the series will be released on Rolling thunder raceway website.

So that future information regarding the series can be emailed directly to owners, drivers and supporters, all interested parties are invited to send an email to ray@formula-motorsports.com  to register their interest and be placed on the RTR distribution list.

Open sprintcar events are also being planned at RTR, details of these will also be released on the RTR website.

The mighty Speedcars will return again to RTR this season on December 9^th and March 17. This class has been growing in strength in recent years and the racing has been close and spectacular.

The crowd pleasing AMCA Nationals will again be running at RTR on the 11th November, and then again on December 9 and February 24th. Indications are that the car count will bigger than last season and the competition is guaranteed to be fierce between some traditional rivals and the new-comers to the class.  Watch out for some great action from the AMCA Nationals.

Marsh Modifieds will again strut their stuff on the 3^rd and the 20^th of January.

The Bacchus Marsh Speedway was the birthplace of the Marsh Modified's back in 1999 when they were known as Super 6’s. Now the class has in excess of 22 very competitive cars.

Further dates and classes will be announced as soon as possible and posted on the RTR website.