Speedway stars steer Legend Cars

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‍Yesterday, four stars from the Speedway world took to Queensland Raceway, in preparation for the TFH Hire Legend Cars Short Track Nationals at Sydney Motorsport Park next weekend (April 25-26).

The TFH Hire Legend Cars Short Track Nationals will be headline act at the inaugural round of the Hi-Tec Oils AASA Nationals Series – 2026 powered by WOLF SPORTS.

Legend Cars will see the debut of four Speedway aces, Sprintcar #1 Jock Goodyer, Australian Super Sedans #1 Joel Berkley, Australian Speedcar champ Kaidon Brown and Super Sedans winner Callum Harper.

For the quartet, the test was about completing laps, learning, and getting to grips with the small, lightweight and nimble machines. Fortunately, it was a trouble-free day for all.

Berkley was very pleased with how the productive test day was; however, he feels next weekend will be another challenge.

“It was good fun, but it's hard to really tell when you run it by yourself,” he said. “It’ll be a different ball game next weekend.

“We shared the track, but we weren't near each other, we were around 15-20 seconds apart. We all got plenty of laps and a bit of enjoyment out of it all, just trying to figure out the difference from what we normally do from a driving side.

“There is not much I can take from driving the Super Sedan, maybe back when I used to race Production Sedans, I’ve taken a little bit from that. The only tarmac stuff I’ve done is a rare outing at a hire kart track.”

Jock Goodyer at the wheel

Goodyer thoroughly enjoyed driving the cars and explained that for him it was all about getting his head around driving a racing car in a new way.

“They're an interesting thing to drive, not what I’m used to at all,” Goodyer said shortly after stepping out of the car. “They are like a go-kart or similar.

“We’ve got to learn apex’s and all that sort of stuff, just a different side of racing compared to what we are used to. It was a good learning day to just analyse data and figure out where you've gone wrong and just try and find a few tenths here and there.

“I started off pretty slow, I think I scraped off a full second from where I started. I was happy to just keep on working on it throughout the day, but I think Joel set the quickest time out of us all.”

“I just had the fastest car,” Berkley laughed in reponse.

As you can tell a friendly rivalry between the Speedway quartet has started. They were asked if the target was to be the best Speedway racer.

Joel Berkley driving at Queensland Raceway

“We all want to win,” Berkley said. “But that's probably not going to happen against the regulars, they're over hyping all the dirt guys they think we are going to win. It'd be great to make the main show (the A Main).”

Goodyer echoed those remarks, stating that he can’t wait to get to Sydney Motorsport Park.

“We just don’t want to be the one that is last because then you are going to get the s**t taken out of you,” Goodyer said.

“I just want to go out there, have some fun, learn a different track, a different side of racing. It’s awesome to be doing a different sort of motorsport.”

The event will be taking place on the shorter Druitt layout of the Sydney Motorsport Park complex.

The TFH Hire Legend Cars will be running a speedway style format with heats, a dash, a B Main and an A Main. Click here to read more about the Legend Cars weekend format.

“A big thanks to the TFH Racing boys for giving us a run, Marcos Ambrose and all the Australian Auto-Sport Alliance team for organising something different,” said Berkley. “A speedway and circuit racing crossover should be a good thing for the sport.”

It won’t just be the TFH Hire Legend Cars on show, the event will also play host to Round 2 of the Yokohama AASA Australian Formula Ford Championship and Formula RX8 Championship.

Additionally, some old-school NASCARs and AUSCARs will also hit the track as part of the Stock Cars Australia, while AASA TT concludes a packed support program.

The Hi-Tec Oils AASA Nationals Series – 2026 powered by WOLF SPORTS will be broadcast on Clay-Per-View.

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