Australian champion and Katanning star Kye Blight in good form ahead of Albany speedway showdown

Australian champion and Katanning star Kye Blight will tackle a strong field of late models in round five of the Pro Dirt Series at Albany’s Attwell Park Speedway on Saturday night. Blight has competed in the past two late model events in WA, driving the borrowed Paul and Alice Stubber-owned machine. He won the third round of the series at the Perth Motorplex in November and then finished second in round four at the same venue on Saturday night. Blight finished eighth and second in his two heat races and started the 30-lap feature race from position nine, before shooting his way into the top three. However, he fell narrowly short of successive feature wins, going down by 0.027sec. to winner Matt Goodlad. The series moves to Albany this weekend, where Blight has had plenty of success as he looks to add another victory. More than 20 cars have nominated for the event. Albany’s new season will begin with a bang as it hosts the final round of the Ivix Industries South West Sedan Championship on the same night. The series began in 2019, and in the third year will head to Attwell Park for the fourth and final round, initially set down for Bunbury. However, the Bunbury venue postponed the start of its season because of ongoing upgrades and the South West Sedan Championship organisers decided to bring the event to Albany. The championship consists of junior sedans, street stocks and production sedans. A total of $6000 prize money will be handed out to the top 10 drivers in the final points standings for both street stocks and production sedans, with each winner pocketing $1500. Only 41 points separates the top four drivers in the street stock standings going into this Saturday’s decider. Clint Hadley (325 points) holds a slender advantage over Ethan Genev (306), Phil Lycholit (290) and David Fall (284) while Albany’s Paul Bowman is fifth with 228 points. In the production sedans it has been a two-man battle thus far between Kyle Sayer and Aydan Trewern and it appears set to continue in the final. Sayer (369) holds a slender 10-point buffer over Trewern (359) who will have the home track advantage for the deciding night of racing. Richard Nelson (236), Albany’s Clinton Theyer (187) and Wayne Leviston (187) sit inside the top five. Albany young gun Harrison Beres is leading the top star junior points standings with 294 points ahead of round three winner Matthew Thompson (236). In the new stars junior standings Jake Fisher (312) leads from Colby Bosley (274).