SDAV Hot Rods History
SDAV Hot Rods History
This Club has been involved in Speedway racing for over 40
years and there have been many changes along the way. Speedway has grown in
popularity as it gets passed onto each generation of people involved.
Over the years, this club has hosted many drivers that have won multiple State
and Australian championship titles and some are still racing in this class today.
The range of current drivers competing at the club have a wide spread of age and
experience, some having raced in other forms of speedway in the past, then
moving into Hotrods, some of the young are extremely keen to develop their
driving skills. The combination of the different drivers makes for a good racing
environment as the young bring a new level of competitive spirit and enthusiasm
that helps drive the more experienced ones to try harder each race meeting.
There was a driver at the club who raced for fifty years in speedway and rarely
missed a race meeting, a great competitor and a true legend of this club, having
won many races and titles along the way Ray Welsh and his yellow 75 Hot Rod.
SDAV Hot Rod
State Title Winners
1967
Ray Welsh Jim Duggan Graeme Roberts
1968 Ray
Welsh Summer Title
1968 Ray
Welsh Winter Title
1969 Ray
Welsh
1970 Ray
Welsh
1971 Ray
Welsh
1972 Ray
Welsh
1973 Ray
Welsh
1974 Ray
Welsh Summer Title
1974
Tony Koolen Winter Title
1975 Jim
Duggan
1976 Jim
Duggan
1977 Jim
Duggan
1978 Jim
Duggan
1979/80 1st -
2nd - Chris Howard
1980
Tony Koolen Ray Welsh Chris Howard
1981
1982
1983/84 Chris Howard
1984
1985
1986/87 Col Watt Chris Howard
1987/88 Chris Howard
1988/89 Chris Howard
1989/90 Chris Howard
1990/91 Chris Howard
Stan Marco Ted Alabacos
1991/92 No Title Held
1992/93 Harry Kipper
Chris Howard Eddie Cook Jr
1993/94 Eddie Cook Jr
Chris Marco
Ray Welsh
1994/95 Chris Howard
1995/96 Peter Williams
Ted Alabacos
Mark Tangey
1996/97 Chris Howard
Corey Brokenshire
Mark Tangey
1997/98 Graeme Pitcher Ted Alabacos
Ray Welsh
1998/99 Phil Jenkins
Ted Alabacos
Mario Nastasi
1999/2000 Dean Walsh
Shane Michell
Peter Williams Phil Jenkins
Ted Alabacos
2000/01 Jason Kavanagh
Phil Jenkins
Shane Michell
2001/02 Jason Kavanagh
Dean Greenham
Mick May Russell Hovey
Ray Welsh
2002/03 Jason Kavanagh
Shane Michell
Shaun Walsh Dean Greenham
Phil Jenkins
2003/04 Dean Greenham
Shaun Walsh
Shane Michell Mick May
Peter Milne
2004/05 Shaun Walsh
Mario Nastasi
Kali Hovey
Dean Greenham
Phil Jenkins
2005/06 Shaun Walsh
Andrew Howard
Phil Jenkins
Kali Hovey
Dave Wandin
2006/07 Shaun Walsh
Andrew Howard
Tony Green
Mario Nastasi
Russell Hovey
2007/08 Phil Jenkins
Shaun Toulmin
Mario Nastasi
Andrew Howard
Kali Hovey
2008/09 Allan Pitcher
Kali Hovey
Chris Shaw
Rod Smith
Dean West
2009/10 Allan Pitcher
Kali Hovey
Dean West Mick May
Vaughn Matthey
2010/11 Jason Kavanagh
Dean West Kali Hovey
Phil Jenkins Shannon
Meakins
2011/12 Jason May Jason Kavanagh
Eddie Ivermee Allen Luckett Kali Hovey
2012/13 Jason Kavanagh Shannon
Meakins Dean West
Eddie Ivermee Allen Luckett
Australian Title Winners
1971 Ray
Welsh
1972 Ray
Welsh
1973 Ted
Alabacos
Ray Welsh
Ken Howard
1974 Ray
Welsh