Maddington Toyota Sprintcars: Kingshott extends title lead over Wiliamson as series makes Geraldton debut

Maddington Toyota Sprintcars series made its debut on the dirt track of Geraldton City Speedway this weekend, with Bunbury driver Dayne Kingshott extending his championship lead with a win on Sunday night. The round 19 result was decided in 30 laps of high-octane action in front of a healthy crowd, with South Australian Luke Dillon coming in second, ahead of local speedster and two-time series champion Callum Williamson in third. It was a late move on Williamson which saw Dillon claim second after battling through the field following a P5 start. Williamson and Kingshott topped their two qualifying and Revolution Race Gear Dash groups, but the Bunbury driver bettered Williamson’s qualifying time by 0.03 seconds to take pole in the feature race. From there, the duo matched each other with a fourth place and a win in their respective heat races and dashes before the main event where the bulk of the points were decided. Chad Pittard crashed out on the opening lap of the feature race, before Jason Kendrick spun and hit Taylor Milling on lap five for the evening’s second DNF. Five laps later, Jack Williamson rolled his car, with the officials red flagging the race. Upon resumption, Kendrick, who was involved in the lap five incident also rolled, putting him out of the race. Sunday night was a much better outing from Williamson, who struggled to find his rhythm on opening night, finishing 10th in Saturday’s feature race. Round 18 was won by Daniel Harding who gave a superb drive after qualifying in P2, challenged only by Dillon who started from fourth. Harding was third quickest in his qualifying group, but found momentum and delivered clean drives to win his group’s heat and Revolution Racegear Dash, seeing him to the front row alongside Jason Pyde. However, the first Maddington Toyota Sprintcars Series feature race saw the championship leader tangled up in the first major crash. He was able to recover a fifth place finish, after his team quickly made some repairs to get him back up and running. Kingshott has now extended his drivers championship lead to 124 points over Williamson with four rounds to go. The action returns to Perth Motorplex this Saturday.