Late Model Racing Western Australia

Vosbergen and Blight Wins Prelims, Vosbergen Leads Points!

3/7/2025

Vosbergen and Blight Wins Prelims, Vosbergen Leads Points!

After one huge night of racing action in the Mobil 1 Australian Late Model Championship at the Perth Motorplex it is former Australian Champion Brent Vosbergen (Team Vosbergen Racing - TVR) who leads the points ahead two other former Australian Champions in Kye Blight (Kye Blight Racing) and Brad Blake!

Vosbergen was fastest in his qualifying flight, grabbed two second places in his heat races and then claimed the first fifteen lap preliminary to score 234 points, while like Blight is just one point behind after being eighth in his qualifying group, winning both of his heats and then claiming the second prelim. Blake is just four points further back while the top five is rounded out by Tasmanian Brad Smith (Brad Smith Devil Motorsports 6T) and American visitor Myles Moos.

Preliminary feature one got off to a good start, Brent Vosbergen just besting Brad Blake with Brad Smith, Joe Chalmers (Team BCM Motorsport:) and Jamie Oldfield (Oldfield Racing) all fighting it out just behind.

A restart would bunch the field up once again with six complete, but this would result in the biggest incident of the night, a number of cars coming together at the front and the resulting dominos effect ultimately seeing New South Welshman Ben Nicastri (@Nicastri Racing) going upside down in turn four, with a number of other cars strewn all over the track.

Brent Vosbergen would lead away Blake on the restart, Smith able to maintain third while Jamie Oldfield finally got by Chalmers for fourth.

Craig Vosbergen then joined the party, chasing down and passing Chalmers for fifth while further up the field Smith was able to get by Blake for second.

Lapped cars would come into play at the halfway point, Smith closing onto the back of Vosbergen in traffic, and sticking the nose underneath with five to go.

Vosbergen fought back on the outside and retook the lead, with lapped traffic seeing Smith drop back slightly, but Smith was not one to give up, fighting back while Brad Blake got stuck up high which allowed Jamie Oldfield to get by with only a couple of laps remaining.

Just as Brent looked to take the win, the yellow lights came out for his father Craig, who became stranded in turn two after spinning while running up high, setting up a green, white, chequer finish.

Vosbergen got away cleanly while Oldfield went with Smith, going high and looking for a way through and giving Blake a sniff, but in the end the order remained unchanged, Vosbergen defeating Smith, Oldfield, Blake and defending champion Joe Chalmers in the first of the two prelims.

The second prelim saw Blight and Moos hit the line together, Blight going high and Moos low and Blight getting the advantage and beginning to pull away.

Blight stretched his legs while Moos was quickly coming under pressure from Warren and Jason Oldfield (Oldfield Racing), the duo both getting by for the minor podium positions.

The caution lights came on for the first time in the race with six laps complete as Dylan Barrow found himself buried in the turn four wall, setting up a restart.
Blight launched away quickly, Warren Oldfield doing all he could to keep pace with him, the top two pulling away as Jason Oldfield led Lachlan Onley, who was able to get past Moos on the restart.

Moos moved to the top and was able to get back around Onley and then continued on past Jason, grabbing third once again with four laps remaining.
Back up front Blight had been able to pull away from Warren, and maintained the lead, cutting through traffic like a hot knife through butter as he went on to claim the win from Warren Oldfield and Myles Moos.

The overnight points will put the drivers into five heat races tomorrow, with final points then being tallied to set the field for two ten lap B Mains (two cars transfer from each) followed by the all-important Championship final to be held over forty laps.

Tonight was just a taster, because tomorrow, it gets even better!

Release by DTN Media.

Pics Courtesy Cochrane Photography and Richard Hathaway Photography.

Official Results

Qualifying Flight 1, 2 laps: 1. Brad Blake 15.462, 2. Todd Bayley 15.914, 3. Myles Moos 15.944, 4. Warren Oldfield 15.946, 5. David Boyes 15.986, 6. Jay Cardy 16.002, 7. Kodee Brown 16.060, 8. Brendan Hucker 16.278, 9. Cameron Pearson 16.248, 10. Callum Harper 16.528, 11. Jason Oldfield 16.829, 12. Abbey Pickering 16.974, 13. Steve Schofield 17.136, 14. Veronica McCann 17.156, 15. Craig Vosbergen 17.287, 16. Jacob Croker 17.288, 17. Peter Walker 17.393, 18. Freddy Kinsella 17.460, 19. Chris Barrow 17.460, 20. Bradley Oldfield 17.824, 21. Shaun Cubbage 17.867, 22. Greg Horan 18.517, 23. Ben Strautins 18.625, 24. Jordan Cunningham 18.846, 25. Peter Seaton 20.185, 26. Matt Nylander NTT.

Qualifying Flight 2, 2 laps: 1. Brent Vosbergen 15.660, 2. Brad Smith 15.742, 3. Ben Nicastri 15.756, 4. Joe Chalmers 15.791, 5. Rod Musarra 15.844, 6. Lachlan Onley 15.852, 7. Luke Halliday 15.870, 8. Kye Blight 15.875, 9. Joe Godsey 15.984, 10. Dylan Barrow 16.073, 11. Jamie Oldfield 16.108, 12. Darren Kane 16.395, 13. Mat Robbins 16.432, 14. Matt Goodlad 16.549, 15. Glynn McBeath 16.574, 16. Damian Hudson 16.583, 17. Jay Bassanelli 16.697, 18. Bruce Mackenzie 16.940, 19. Ryan Huxtable 16.974, 20. Nathan Richards 17.083, 21. Jac Dolmans Snr 17.090, 22. Darren Ahearn 17.626, 23. Casey Paech 17.810, 24. Beau Oldfield 17.988, 25. Peter Nicola NTT, 26. Jeff Roth NTT.

Heat One, 8 laps: 1. Warren Oldfield, 2. Brad Blake, 3. Kodee Brown, 4. Callum Harper, 5. Jacob Croker, 6. Chris Barrow, 7. Steve Schofield, 8. Greg Horan (7), 9. Peter Seaton (7). Total Time: 2.08.539. Winning Margin: 1.168. Fastest Lap: 15.825 Warren Oldfield.

Heat Two, 8 laps: 1. Todd Bayley, 2. Jason Oldfield, 3. David Boyes, 4. Brendan Hucker, 5. Ben Strautins, 6. Bradley Oldfield. 7. Peter Walker. DNF: Veronica McCann (2). DNS: Matt Nylander. Total Time: 2.12.112. Winning Margin: 0.429 Fastest Lap: 16.099 Todd Bayley

Heat Three, 8 laps: 1. Myles Moos, 2. Jay Cardy, 3. Craig Vosbergen, 4. Freddy Kinsella, 5. Cameron Pearson, 6. Jordan Cunningham, 7. Shaun Cubbage, 8. Abbey Pickering. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 2.169 Fastest Lap: 15.927 Craig Vosbergen.

Heat Four, 8 laps: 1. Joe Chalmers, 2. Brent Vosbergen, 3. Luke Halliday, 4. Dylan Barrow, 5. Mat Robbins, 6. Nathan Richards, 7. Jay Bassanelli, 8. Casey Paech. DNS: Peter Nicola. Total Time: 2.11.477. Winning Margin: 2.039. Fastest Lap: 16.067 Brent Vosbergen.

Heat Five, 8 laps: 1. Kye Blight, 2. Brad Smith, 3. Jamie Oldfield, 4. Rod Musarra, 5. Bruce Mackenzie, 6. Jac Dolmans Snr, 7. Beau Oldfield. DNS: Jeff Roth, Matt Goodlad. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 3.114. Fastest Lap: 15.748 Kye Blight.

Heat Six, 8 laps: 1. Lachlan Onley, 2. Joe Godsey, 3. Darren Kane, 4. Damian Hudson, 5. Glynn McBeath, 6. Darren Ahearn, 7. Ryan Huxtable. DNF: Ben Nicastri (7). Total Time: 2.13.305. Winning Margin: 3.338. Fastest Lap: 16.102 Ben Nicastri.

Heat Seven, 8 laps: 1. Veronica McCann, 2. Brendan Hucker, 3. Warren Oldfield, 4. Callum Harper, 5. Todd Bayley, 6. Bradley Oldfield, 7. Jacob Croker, 8. Matt Nylander (7). DNF: Greg Horan (7). Total Time: 2.10.835. Winning Margin: 1.527. Fastest Lap: 15.811 Veronica McCann.

Heat Eight, 8 laps: 1. Craig Vosbergen, 2. Myles Moos, 3. Jason Oldfield, 4. Cameron Pearson, 5. David Boyes, 6. Peter Walker, 7. Ben Strautins, 8. Shaun Cubbage (7). Total Time: 2.08.714. Winning Margin: 1.123. Fastest Lap: 15.770 Craig Vosbergen.

Heat Nine, 8 laps: 1. Brad Blake, 2. Freddy Kinsella, 3. Kodee Brown, 4. Jordan Cunningham, 5. Abbey Pickering, 6. Jay Cardy, 7. Steve Schofield, 8. Peter Seaton, 9. Chris Barrow. Total Time: 2.12.243. Winning Margin: 0.690. Fastest Lap: 16.135 Kodee Brown.

Heat Ten, 8 laps: 1. Kye Blight, 2. Brad Smith, 3. Dylan Barrow, 4. Joe Chalmers, 5. Damian Hudson, 6. Darren Ahearn, 7. Nathan Richards. DNS: Matt Goodlad, Jeff Roth. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 4.035. Fastest Lap: 15.587 Kye Blight.

Heat Eleven, 8 laps: 1. Jamie Oldfield, 2. Ben Nicastri, 3. Joe Godsey, 4. Jac Dolmans Jnr, 5. Casey Paech, 6. Jay Bassanelli, 7. Glynn McBeath, 8. Rod Musarra. Total Time: 2.12.512. Winning Margin: 0.219. Fastest Lap: 15.991 Ben Nicastri.

Heat Twelve, 8 laps: 1. Luke Halliday, 2. Brent Vosbergen, 3. Lachlan Onley, 4. Darren Kane, 5. Beau Oldfield, 6. Ryan Huxtable, 7. Mat Robbins, 8. Bruce Mackenzie. DNS: Peter Nicola. Total Time: 2.12.260. Winning Margin: 2.676. Fastest Lap: 16.101 Luke Halliday.

Preliminary Feature 1, 16 laps: 1. Brent Vosbergen, 2. Brad Smith, 3. Jamie Oldfield, 4. Brad Blake, 5. Joe Chalmers, 6. Callum Harper, 7. Todd Bayley, 8. Kodee Brown, 9. Craig Vosbergen, 10. Jacob Croker, 11. Abbey Pickering, 12. Peter Walker (15), 13. Ryan Huxtable (15), 14. Steve Schofield (15), 15. Bruce Mackenzie (15), 16. Casey Paech (15), 17. Beau Oldfield (15), 18. Nathan Richards (15). DNF: Freddy Kinsella (6), Ben Nicastri (3), David Boyes (3), Cameron Pearson (3), Damian Hudson (3). DNS: Greg Horan, Jeff Roth, Matt Goodlad. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 0.796. Fastest Lap: 15.411 Brent Vosbergen.

Preliminary Feature 2, 15 laps: 1. Kye Blight, 2. Warren Oldfield, 3. Myles Moos, 4. Jason Oldfield, 5. Lachlan Onley, 6. Rod Musarra, 7. Joe Godsey, 8. Veronica McCann, 9. Darren Kane, 10. Luke Halliday, 11. Glynn McBeath, 12. Mat Robbins, 13. Jac Dolmans Snr, 14. Jay Cardy, 15. Bradley Oldfield (14), 16. Ben Strautins (13), 17. Jay Bassanelli (13), 18. Shaun Cubbage (13), 19. Chris Barrow (13), 20. Darren Ahearn (13), 21. Peter Seaton (13). DNF: Dylan Barrow (8), Jordan Cunningham (7), Brendan Hucker (1). DNS: Peter Nicola, Matt Nylander. Total Time: No Time. Winning Margin: 3.138. Fastest Lap: 15.425 Kye Blight.

Official Points After Night 1