Baypark Speedway 2024-25 Season

Meeting 4 Preview:  Bay of Twenty – Saturday Dec 7, 2024.

Both the oldest and newest titles on the Baypark Speedway calendar are up for grabs this Saturday night.

The South Pacific Super Saloon Car Champs is an event which traces its origins back to the 1970s and the early days of the original Baypark Speedway. In contrast the other half of the twin title attraction this weekend establishes an inaugural (and unofficial) national title for the emerging F2 Midget Car class.

This season, the Jaxxon Concrete Pumps South Pacific Super Saloon title assumes added importance as the main curtain raiser for the 2025 New Zealand championship at Baypark in February.

It’s attracted the largest Super Saloon field assembled in the North Island to date this season numbers 24 drivers. Reigning New Zealand champ Chris Cowling leads the entry list which also includes former national champions Sam Waddell, Steve Cowling, Mick Quin and Brent Emerson.

Aucklander Ben Harding made a winning return to Baypark last season while other highly rated visitors from across the North Island include Hawke’s Bay racers Thomas Stanaway and Jeremy Browne, Stratford’s Joe Ingram, Palmerston North’s Peter Bengston and Wellington racer Mark Pitcher.

Governing body Speedway NZ recognises the F2 Midgets as a sub-class of the Midgets and the category doesn’t have official title status. But growing car numbers has encouraged Baypark to initiate the BSL Racing Aotearoa F2 Championship as a way to recognise the class and begin the path to an official title in the future.

Form at Baypark last season and with one outing already this season for the F2s points to James Earl and Corbin Anderson as the likely front runners along with Joshua Matthews, Devon George, Dion Kendall and Tylar Brown lining up in a 21-car field that is a mix of Baypark and Western Springs based drivers.

Another impressive Sprint Car field has been assembled for the fourth meeting of the season.

The entry list is headed by Hamilton’s Daniel Thomas who has already claimed two Baypark feature wins this season and Jonathan Allard who won on the second night of the season. Early season podium finishers Dean Brindle and Rodney Wood are expected to challenge again while current 2NZ Dean Cooper makes a return after crashing out on opening night.

Stock Cars make their second appearance of the season with a capacity 30-car field drawn from the ranks of the Baypark, Rotorua, Huntly, Gisborne and Kihikihi tracks