Sports Compact on the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series undercard

Victorian state series Sports Compact will be branching out next month, it will feature on the national Australian Auto-Sport Alliance sanctioned Hi-Tec Oils Super Series support bill at Sydney Motorsport Park.

A regular with the Victorian Motor Racing Championship (VMRC), the trip to New South Wales will not only be the category's first outing with the Super Series, but it will also be Sports Compact’s first visit to Sydney Motorsport Park.

Sports Compact, formally known as 2 Litre Sports Sedans underwent some changes at the start of last season to open the regulations to a wider range of machines, and boy did it work.

The diverse field contains in excess of 20 cars at every round, including John Cooper Works Mini Coopers, Nissan Bluebirds, Toyota 86s and old-school Corollas.

The great thing about the category is that every car boasts different strengths and weaknesses in different areas of the circuit.

“The great thing about the category, there is not one car that's the same as the other,” said Sports Compact president Travis Talbot.

As well as fighting for outright honours, there are now five classes within Sports Compact.

Class A is the premier class for the club and is for highly modified spaceframe cars or floor pan machines that are modified beyond the floor pan class rules.

Class B & C, 1600-2000cc & 0-1600cc, these classes are for heavily modified production cars that utilise the original factory floor pan.

Class D is for heavily modified production cars that utilise the original factory floor pan, with engine capacities up to 2.5L and heavier minimum weight to promote parity with class B.

Class E is for heavily modified production cars that utilise the original factory floor pan and have a forced induction engine. Again, meavier minimum weights apply to promote parity with class B.

Sports Compact can also accept invited cars, machines with similar performance that don’t quite fit within the regs.

Sports Compact competitors are chomping at the bit to get over to Sydney Motorsport Park and race under lights.

“The news that we’ll be racing at Sydney Motorsport Park has been really well received,” Talbot said. “Like any race category, it's always good to go somewhere else.

“Sydney is somewhere where the club has never raced before and having that opportunity to do that has the members very excited.

“Something that I really wanted to do was put our club on a national stage at some point, AASA gave us the opportunity to do that, which is for a club level racing class is almost unheard of.

“AASA gave me the pick of the bunch; I could put my category anywhere on the calendar. Night racing on the full circuit. What other chance do you get to do it? That was the one we had to do in mine and the committee's eyes.”

This indicates the high regard in which the AASA holds Sports Compact.

A typical grid boasts over 20 cars, and Talbot teased that this will likely be even bigger at Sydney Motorsport Park.

“We've got a few new additions that are coming along for Sydney,” he said. Just because it is a special event for us racing under lights.

“Something that we're pushing and encouraging as a club is for the drivers to run the Fast and the Furious style neon under glows on their cars, just to have a point of difference out there on the track.”

In 2025 the category made an interstate visit to The Shell V-Power Motorsport Park in South Australia with the VMRC, what followed was the decision to join the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series for 2026. Talbot hopes that racing with the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series for one event becomes an annual tradition.

“I 100% would love to, if the members let me do it or not is another story,” he chuckled. “I would absolutely love to do at least one event every year on the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series calendar, because they are just such great race meetings.”

If you have never watched Sports Compact, click the link here to watch.

Sports Compact’s next round is the Sydney Motorsport Park event from July 17-18.

They will be joined by the TA2 Muscle Car Series, Yokohama AASA Australian Formula Ford Championship, Formula RX8, Innovation Race Cars, TFH Hire Legend Cars Australia, Game Over Australian Endurance Championship and Hankook Australian Drivers’ Championship.