First wingless sprints feature race win for Tommy Britton comes in Albany, Paul Joss tops legend cars return

Tommy Britton and Paul Joss claimed feature race victories as Albany kicked off its new speedway season on Saturday night. Attwell Park Speedway came alive with action as it hosted round two of the Wingless Sprints WA Championship and round four of the Legend Cars WA Championship. In the wingless sprints event, Britton led from start to finish in the 20-lap main event to claim his first feature-race win. Britton had a perfect night, winning both his heats to start from pole position and shot straight to the front when the final went green. Blake and Matt Iwanow quickly raced to second and third respectively as Heydon Hicks slipped back to fifth place, while former local Kurt McKain continued his strong night by running in fourth spot. As several battles unfolded back in the pack, Hicks got by McKain for fourth on lap seven. The major incident of the final happened when Kodi Clayden and Ben Stockdale came together, Stockdale rolling over in turn two as a result. They both retired, joining a number of other cars on the infield but Britton kept in clean out in front as he raced away to a memorable first feature win by 0.779sec over Blake Iwanow. Matt Iwanow, Hicks and McKain rounded out the top five. Earlier in the night Hicks and Matt Iwanow claimed heat race wins alongside the two won by Britton while Lachy Horton claimed the mid-pack dash from Blake Scarey and Travis Armstrong. Paul Joss claimed an impressive win in round four of the Legend Cars WA Championship. Joss reigned supreme in the 20-lap final as the division made a successful return to Albany. However runner-up Brendan Radford threw down a strong challenge in the dying stages, going down by only 0.279 in a gripping final circuit. Joss finished in victory lane ahead of Radford while Ken Melvin who started sixth on the grid to round out the podium. Steve Barrow was fourth across the line with Greg Joss fifth and Travis Gould, who qualified on the second row, dropped back to finish sixth in a final that was devoid of major incidents. Earlier Paul Joss coasted to a big win in heat one and then did the same in heat two. Radford was a narrow winner of heat three and the final preliminary went the way of Paul Joss.