THE 2014 AUSTRALIAN SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2014 Australian 360 Sprintcar Championship is being hosted by Murray Machining and Sheds Murray Bridge Speedway on Friday 28 March and Saturday 29 March 2014 with the rain date Sunday 30 March 2014. Murray Bridge was allocated the Championship event at the 2013 SCCA Delegates Conference. AVE Pty Ltd has been awarded the tender to
provide TV coverage of the 2014 Australian Sprintcar Championship in Latrobe. The replay of the Championship will be over two weeks on free-to-air network SBS in the Speedweek show, scheduled for Sunday 16 February 2014 and Sunday 23 February 2014.
Rush became the first, and as yet, the only, driver to win four straight Championships
Side by side racing Rush and Paul Mcmahan.
RUSH REIGNS SUPREME
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ydney sprintcar driver Garry Rush is the dominant figure on the Australian Sprintcar Championship Honour Roll. Rush has won the Championship ten (10) times – a record that is going to be very hard to topple. Just to show how difficult it is to win the title, Rush first stepped onto the Championship podium in 1967. He finished second to fellow NSW driver Dick Britton at Westmead Speedway, Sydney, NSW. Eight years later, Rush was back on the podium with third place to arch rival Dick Britton and Victorian Graeme McCubin at Impact photography Brisbane, Queensland in 1975. 14 inside SPEED
Then Rush’s ‘reign’ began two years later – 1977 – at Bunbury, Western Australia. Rush fought off local favourite, Noel Bradford (WA) who finished second and George Tatnell (NSW) third. In 1978, back in his home State NSW at Parramatta, Rush became the second driver since Dick Britton (1966/1967) to win back-to-back Championships with those two victories in 1977/1978. Rush became the first, and as yet, the only, driver to win four straight Championships when he next won the Championship in 1981 at Brisbane, Queensland. He won again in 1982 at Tralee Speedway, ACT; in 1983 at Newcastle, NSW and again in 1984 at Rockhampton, Queensland. That
made it the ‘six pack’ for Rush and it wasn’t to end there. At Warrnambool, Victoria, Rush made it Championship #7 in 1986, then chalked up another amazing back-to-back performance in 1989 and 1990 with wins at Canberra, ACT and Brisbane, Queensland. He reached the unbelievable ‘double figures’ in 1992 with a memorable win at his home track Parramatta, NSW. Garry Rush has won the Australian Sprintcar Championship ten times, he has finished second three times and has finished third five times – an amazing 18 times on the Championship podium spanning a period of 36 years!!!