New track for junior racers
Horsham Motorsports Club volunteers and committee members built a brand-new junior quarter midget track in the centre of its existing full-sized speedway.
The new addition to the Blue Ribbon Raceway will allow the club to host events for boys and girls from the age of five to 16 years, who can compete in various categorisations of the quarter midget race car.
The new Horsham track will complement south-west based Laang Speedway as another track in western Victoria that can host competition for these cars.
The first event in Horsham is on November 5, with other events to be considered throughout the season depending on car numbers, and a state series round that has been allocated to the club in May.
If cars in the Wimmera multiply quickly, other events can be scheduled locally.
Avalon near Geelong, Bairnsdale, Nyora in South Gippsland, Wangaratta and Nagambie are other townships families could visit to compete throughout the season.
Horsham race drivers Charlie Simpson, 8, Jed Simpson, 6, and their cousin Reed Muller, 6, have already signed up for the quarter midgets.
Volunteer and Horsham Motorsports
Club committee member Dylan Simpson shared his excitement about the track’s construction.
“With my two boys competing in the class and my nephew, we have been travelling to Avalon for most of our racing last season,” he said.
“This development, as our club looks to diversify its income and develop junior race drivers, could not have come sooner.
“We all want to see our children having exciting opportunities and this gives parents another way to get their children into the community, out and about, making new friends and being active.
“It is all positive to have this track constructed in the middle of the Blue-ribbon Raceway.”
Interested parents can contact Mr Simpson via the Horsham club and
become a member to keep informed of local opportunities.
Horsham Motorsports Club thanks the hardworking volunteers who worked through the Bathurst 1000 weekend to get the track constructed and near completion for the November start to the Junior Quarter Midget season.