Today is the day the 2025 Australian Stock Car Championship season started off at Winton Raceway.

Four practice sessions were available for drivers today before the action gets underway on Saturday with a final practice session, qualifying and Race 1 and Race 2 set for that day before Race 3 and 4 on Sunday.

It is great to have the season underway after a couple of months off following the great conclusion to the 2024 season at One Raceway.

Regular readers may be wondering why there is an ASCN edition this week as one was not planned, there is no timing for the practice sessions, so the day opened up.

Some late news and that is that Brad Lighton in the #26 Holden Commodore is in the round so that brings the total up to eight entrants.

Chris Robinson’s #54 Ford Falcon has had to miss out this round, but we do appreciate the efforts that Chris and his team made in their attempts to try get the #54 ready for Winton and we look forward to seeing the #54 again soon.

Remember you need a subscription to blendline.tv‘s service to watch the action online and if you want to go to Winton, it is $15 to attend Saturday, $20 for Sunday, $30 for both and Under 16 is free.

Meanwhile Richard White Racing is all set up in Adelaide for the Adelaide Motorsport Festival, Paul Zemunik and Stephen and Josh Dale are there too plus other Stock Car owners and drivers.

Zac O’Hara and Elliot Bambour will run the #3 Lumina and Richard White will be taking the #8 Monte Carlo for a ride in the four sessions over the weekend and with plenty of drivers in Adelaide, you never know who may get a ride.

Are you looking for an engine for your Stock Car? how about a Dodge engine? there’s two for $25,000 apiece, they are the R5 P7 engine.

Our hunt for information on the always interesting Thomas/Faulkner/Abelnica/Stocker/Moss driven Oldsmobile aka ‘Intrepid’ is going well, we are learning more from people and there’s the chance that we could wrap this up soon.

Speaking of names, cars that had names included Ken James ‘Divine’ and ‘Rusty’, the latter reportedly named after Divine Brown, the woman that Hugh Grant was busted with, and Rusty is named after surface rust, George (the two-seater), Elroy, Bubba and Kevin were Brad Jones car, Charlie was Gene Cook’s oval car (now Mick’s car), Dagwood was the name of Neil Bonnett’s winning car and Destiny is the Ian Thomas owned and that Fastrack later (still does?) possessed.

Rusty Wallace team in the 80s had cars named Samantha (after Samantha Fox) though I don’t think Rusty wanted people to touch his car like Samantha’s well known song, Vanessa after Vanessa Williams, Madonna after Madonna of course, Whitney after Whitney Houston, Sampson apparently after Basketball legend Ralph Sampson and Millie.

That’s it for this edition, it wasn’t planned but I just can’t stay away for a week, stay tuned for round updates all weekend and a wrap on all the Round 1 action early next week.

See you next week.