There are 57 days to go until the first round of the 2026 season gets underway at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Entries are now open for the event, it is still quite early as only some Legend drivers have put entries in, but we will keep it up here weekly, so when the time comes for SCA drivers to put their entries in, they will know where to find it.

Formula Ford, AASA Tin Tops, Formula RX8 and Legend Cars are also on the bill for April 25-26 with action taking place under lights on the Saturday before a full day on Sunday and the racing is on the Druitt circuit.

An early schedule has been released by the AASA and so far, the first round comprises of two 15 lap races both of which will be on the Sunday and Saturday will have practice and qualifying.

It is a free spectator event so if you would like to see Stock Cars Australia in action and you live close to Sydney Motorsport Park, April 25-26 is a good time to check them out, further details can be found here.

A reminder to AUSCAR and Sportsman owners that if you are interested in participating in the 2026 edition of the Winton Festival of Speed, please contact Troy Perichon, President of SCA AUSCAR for further information.

If you need to get your car or truck to do some laps to get it in great shape for the season or to have a run before joining anytime through the season, there are options available to you through Drive Events to run at Calder Park from March to September this year.

The Adelaide Motorsport Festival has a small but interesting Stock Car presence this year, Bob Middleton is going to be driving his #85 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, the car that crushed the V8 Stock Cars field in 2001 with Andrew Miedecke driving it and was doing it again in 2002.

Bob Middleton won a race in the #95 car in the 1996/97 season finale, and he had also won a race in the #85 in first race of three at Winton in October 2002, the #95 driven by Chris Templer won the other two.

Josh Dale is back at the track with the #3 Chevrolet Silverado; Tabiatha Ambrose will be driving the #9 Ford Fusion, but the very interesting news is the Stephen Dale will be driving a Toyota Camry.

The Western Australians have a very interesting Stock Car scene happening and sadly the tyranny of distance prevents Stock Cars Australia from going to Western Australia and put on a combined show or vice versa as the WA numbers and the East Coast numbers would be perfect.

Two-time Stock Cars Australia race winner Jack Perkins will be racing in the new Mustang Cup Australia series, the Shannons SpeedSeries aligned series will be on Fox/Kayo with the series starting at Phillip Island on March 27-29.

Check out this Apex Hunters United clip which has Steven Richards talking about AUSCAR, starts from about two minutes and fifteen seconds.

Earlier in the week, we were having some fun with an Australian car set for NASCAR Racing, the first one of the series of games, you’ve got to admire the amount of effort that went into the field, it would have been very slow going getting it to look right.

If we ever get the opportunity to own a team, Team ASCN would have a car looking something like the above, a Stock Car wouldn’t be all-or-nothing, an AUSCAR would be the likely destination, it will take a couple of years (a max of 3?) of saving from this moment on to get to an AUSCAR but we have a starting point, now the task is to go from there.

The Blue, White and Red are the colours of Deniliquin High School, the 21 is the birth date of a late friend, 1521 2QN is a Deniliquin originated AM (and FM) radio station, Hilton Electrical Solutions belongs to a friend in Deniliquin and Daytona Demon is a song title which fitted perfectly.

Thank you to those who keep repeating the message that it can be done.

Sponsors

If you have a car sponsor and you want to give them some promotion, we can do that here for you for free, it doesn’t even matter if you own that particular company.

If anybody is looking for sponsors and wants us to post about it, let us know what packages you are offering, and we will put it up for you for as long as you like.

Parts Wanted

Do you have a Pontiac Grand Prix bonnet that is just taking up space? Phil Muffet needs one for one of his two Pontiacs, so if you’re eager to sell one, please contact Phil and help get the project closer to completion.

For Sale

The #8 Monte Carlo is for sale, this car was built in 1999 for Joe Bessey and was run in Winston Cup competition, it was driven by Geoff Bodine and other drivers in 1999 and 2000, it went on to be raced in SCCA competition and then it was brought to Australia by Graham Booth and it has been around SCA since the very beginning.

Don’t worry fans, Richard White Racing isn’t going anywhere, they’ve got plenty of Stock Car racing left in them for the future with a very interesting project ahead, one that will be greatly helped by a sale.

You can buy the car as it is, you can buy the car with a fresh engine, or you can buy the car and have Richard White Racing prepare it for the 2026 season.

Check out the above video to see the car in action at Calder Park Raceway in November 2025, the #8 Monte Carlo had won one of the four races that weekend.

If you’re interested, check out the link above that has all the details and then contact Richard.

If you’re looking for something in the style of the early decades of NASCAR, there is a Ford Galaxie for sale for $25,000, it is a 1969 Ford Galaxie body with a 1989 Randercar chassis with a McGunegill built 347 ci windsor engine, find out more here.

If you have a Stock Car, an AUSCAR, a Sportsman or a HQ for sale, drop us a line any time and we’ll advertise it for free, it can be a complete, turn key car, a car missing some parts or even if it is just a roller, we’re also happy to advertise the sale of parts and promote offers for working on cars.

You may just have the car, the parts or the skills that somebody really needs.

Additionally, if you want to buy a car, tell us what you want, what condition you want it (complete or roller) in and your price range and we will post it for you.

Information Most Wanted

We are looking for parts of histories on a couple of cars, the problem we have is that while people have given us answers, the answers do differ and so we seek written, verbal or visual proof to sort the histories out.

Paul Scicluna is looking for information on his #12 Pontiac Grand Prix.

This Pontiac raced at the Grand Prix round in 1999, it finished 23rd, 10th and 16th for the weekend.

The information we have received is that the car came from Les Kennewell and he got it from Robert Tinworth.

Determining which car from the Tinworth team is not as straight forward as Robert Tinworth said ‘l had 5 of them’ when asked about his cars in 2020.

An advertisement in January 1997 offered four Pontiacs for sale, two front steer cars with 23-degree engines and two rear steer cars that were to be sold as rollers.

One car that gets mentioned a lot is the ex-Kyle Petty Pontiac that was later the Harrington Commodore and then the Tinworth Pontiac, we’ve read somewhere it was sold a few years ago which if true would not be the car we seek as Paul has had his car since before 2000.

So, if you know the answer, please let us know.

We are looking for anybody who knows with absolute certainty the beginnings of the story of the #8 ride car that eventually became the #27 ride car and is now the #3 Chevrolet Lumina.

We have two different early history opinions on this car; one is that Brad Jones got it from George Elliot and there are suggestions that that it came from Walter Giles or it was a car that had something to do with Walter and supporters of both views are very confident that they are correct.

It is possible that the car may have been used by both George and Walter, but so far, we have no way to prove it.

We have asked them about it, but they don’t know the answer, that’s why the question is asked.

This car may have also been used by Ron Goodman as he drove an ex-George Elliot Oldsmobile at the Gold Coast round in 1992 with an Oldsmobile front and rear, but the car had Chevrolet Lumina 3/4 windows, and it was given back to George which makes it very interesting as the car has an Oldsmobile rear bumper, Lumina 3/4 windows and had a Lumina nose added later.

Help us end one of the great Australian NASCAR mysteries.

See you next week.