Sydney speedway rider Kieran Sproule scored a hard earned victory in the previous round of the Kurri Kurri Speedway Club Senior Solo Championship.
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The win took the 22-year-old to the top of the ladder.
Sproule competed in all four rounds of the 2016 Australian Speedway Solo Championship and he is taking that invaluable experience into his attack on the 2016 Kurri Kurri Speedway Club Championship.
Two rounds of the championship have been contested with round four coming up this Saturday.
Last month’s round three was abandoned due to inclement weather.
Sproule had mixed results in the opening round scraping in to the B final with two wins from his five qualifying heats.
He dug deep to win the B final, transferring to the A final where he finished third and totalled 10 points.
Then in round two, Sproule found his best form winning four of his five qualifying heat rides, going straight in to the A final.
He scored a win in the A final, building a tally of 17 points, taking him to an overall total of 27 points and a share of the outright lead with Queensland teenager Zaine Kennedy.
Josh Pickering from Heddon Greta is just one point behind the joint leaders with Cessnock’s brothers Alan and Josh Macdonald only one point further back in equal fourth place.
Another close chase is looming in the junior 250cc solos.
Current World Under 16 Junior Speedway Solo Champion, Matthew Gilmore from Cowra holds a narrow one point lead over Lake Macquarie’s Mitch Cluff.
Other divisions of the championship chase will continue in the junior 125cc solos, senior 500cc B Grade, senior sidecars and quads.
Saturday’s program of racing gets underway with the junior 125cc solos at 11am with the remaining races to follow from around 1pm.
Meanwhile, Hunter rider Sam Masters has qualified for the Grand Prix Challenge.
Novacastrian Masters and fellow Aussies Brady Kurtz and Max Fricke are part of the 16-strong field who will be vying for three places in the 2017 Grand Prix series. The challenge series will be held in Sweden on September 3.
Newcastle’s Jason Doyle and former world champions Chris Holder are both in this year’s Grand Prix series.
Grand Prix Challenge line-up: Piotr Pawlicki, Krzysztof Kasprzak, Kenneth Bjerre, Sam Masters, Krzysztof Buczkowski, Peter Ljung, Hans Andersen, Patryk Dudek, Tomasz Jedrzejak, Max Fricke, Nicolas Covatti, Robert Lambert, Brady Kurtz, Martin Smolinski plus two wild cards.
