There are 57 days to go until Round 3 of the Australian Stock Car Championship is held at Winton Raceway (August 29-30).

Before that, the SCA AUSCAR field is going to Winton to participate in the 2026 edition of the Winton Festival of Speed from July 23 to 26 2026 along with other AUSCAR and Sportsman owners as well as many other racing categories.

SCA President Troy Perichon worked hard on getting as many of the SCA AUSCAR field as possible as well as those who own either an AUSCAR or a Sportsman.

Troy will be driving his #6 Ford Falcon; this car is an AUSCAR, Sportsman and SCA race winner, it had its start with Jim Richards and then had great success with Eddie Abelnica in Sportsman competition.

Duncan Brown will be driving the #02 Ford Falcon; this car was the ex-Tony Howlett Sportsman that was later owned by Brad Hall.

Jamey Hollier will be driving his #71 Ford Falcon at the event; Jamey is the defending SCA AUSCAR champion and this car was previously driven by Rodney Jane before it served as a track car at One Raceway.

Brad Hall will be driving the #09 Ford Falcon; it is one of two Sportsman vehicles that will be on the track for the special weekend.

Eddie Woods will be driving the #55 Holden Commodore; this car has been eagerly awaited since its restoration was announced and hopefully, we will see it regularly in the future.

Lukas Gates will be at Winton in the #22 Holden Commodore, it is always good to see this car in action and if it does rain at Winton, it will do very well there just like Lukas had done in those miserable Calder Park conditions last November.

Brad Lighton will be driving his well-presented #26 Holden Commodore; the car made a statement in the past and it continues to make one in the present.

Brendan O’Connor will also be there; he drives either the #10 Ford Falcon or the #10 Chevrolet Silverado in Stock Cars Australia and will be driving the Falcon at Winton.

Did you miss out on watching the action from Round 2? AASA has Race 1 on their YouTube channel.

They’ve also got Race 2 and you’ll find the other two races on the Livestream page though you may have to do a little searching as one race is mislabelled.

You may have seen Richard White Racing’s videos on social media, now you can see some of those videos on YouTube just like the one above.

Sponsors

Sponsors are very important in motorsport and below are some of the sponsors that either sponsor cars or races in a round.

West Heidelberg Motors are located at 34 Lillimur Ave, Heidelberg West VIC 3081.

Burgess Design and Build, they are located at 27 Market St, Goulburn NSW 2580.

Zoom Auto Care offers Mobile mechanical services and Race car services in the Goulburn, Tallong/Marulan and the Southern Highlands areas, if you interested in Zac’s services, call him on 0458132904.

Zoom Auto Care does have a Motor Vehicle Repair License with their license number being 63282.

If you have a car sponsor and you want to give them some promotion just like what you see above, 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.

Parts For Sale

Do you need a wheel for your Holden AUSCAR? Brad Hall is selling them for $210 each.

Engines are popular at the moment including a couple of Toyota and Chevrolet engines plus a Dodge engine.

TRD Phase 9 Engine – $35,000
TRD Phase 14 Engine – $60,000
Chevrolet SB2.2 Engine – $25,000
Chevrolet SB2.2 Engine – $27,000
Dodge R5P7 Engine – $22,400

For Sale

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 that does not get your interest, how about a HQ Holden or two? there’s the #20 HQ Holden complete with the AUSCAR VIN ‘A 625’ or there is Cameron Fisher’s #39 HQ Holden for $20,000.

If you want something historic, how about the Future Tourer that James Brock drove to victory at Bathurst in 1999, it was previously the #03 AUSCAR that Peter Fitzgerald had raced, it is for sale for $69,500.

If you want a Generation 5 body shell, one is now available, it is a Camaro made by Five Star, it is the one that Michael Bouts raced at Calder Park in 2023, you’ll find it in the group Race Cars 4 Sale Australia if the link doesn’t work for you.

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 whereabouts of cars and finding out parts of histories on a couple of cars, we’ve had some success in finding cars that have

In 2023, the above #2 Chevrolet that was raced in ARCA was spotted in South Australia and Victoria, it has not been mentioned since, where did it go?

The car was driven in ARCA by Dustin Hapka in 2012 for Wayne Hixson; he drove it at Elko Speedway and Kansas Speedway for 18th and 32nd place finishes.

Last reports suggested that the car was being auctioned, hopefully it is still in the country.

Do you know the fate of this Ford Thunderbird? It is an ex-Charlie O’Brien car (it is not the #41 Ford Thunderbird) that was driven by Pete Nolan in 1999, it was last known to have been owned by a Rodney Brewer and was the #6, the number was styled just like Mark Martin’s was at the time but it did not have a Valvoline livery.

On the subject of a Ford Thunderbird, if there is anybody in contact with Martin Borrows, we would like to find out what happened to his Ford Thunderbirds, we are hoping that they are still around somewhere as the Thunderbirds are in small numbers and the more that we find, the better.

Does anybody know where the #88 Ford Fusion has gone? It has been a couple of years since it was last mentioned.

Does anybody know who ordered two Commodores for the 2000/01 season, a season that did not happen which resulted in the two cars remaining in the USA? The above car is one of the two.

Now that we firmly believe that the #8/#27 ride car turned #3 Lumina was originally an ex-#31 Race Cars & Engines Oldsmobile that was then used by NASTRAK/George Elliot, we are hoping to find out if the car that was leased out to Ron Goodman in 1992 is the same car, it is also theorised that Walter Giles used it when he went between Buick and Chevrolet Lumina eras.

That’s it for this edition of Aussie Stock Car News, thank you for coming.

See you next week.