Dominant display from Dustin Higgs secures super sedan feature race at Mt Barker speedway season opener

Dustin Higgs powered to a convincing victory in round two of the Marri Park Tavern WA Super Sedan Series at Mt Barker Speedway on Saturday.

The meeting doubled as the season opener for the Mt Barker Speedway Club.

In a small field of eight competitors that hit Les Gorman Park for the final, Higgs was in a league of his own as he led every lap on his way to feature success ahead of Rob Knox and Nathan Thiele.

Knox started the 20-lap final from pole position after a fifth, second and first place in his three heat races while Higgs would start alongside him.

Higgs needed just one corner to take the lead and he skipped out to a big advantage by the halfway point of the race.

Thiele started in position five and worked his way past Gary Higgs to secure third spot after just three laps.

He began to apply pressure on Knox in second but out in front Dustin Higgs was sailing away from the rest of the field.

A mistake from Knox allowed Thiele and Gary Higgs closer but he was able to hold off their challenges in the concluding stages.

Dustin Higgs crossed the line 6.992 seconds ahead of his nearest rival in a dominant display to take out round honours.

Knox fought hard to keep hold of second spot while Thiele, Gary Higgs and Ryan Huxtable rounded out the top five.

Kemble Aylett, Mt Barker’s Warrie Hambley and rookie Glynn McBeath were the other drivers to finish while Bryce Fisher did not start in the final.

Earlier Thiele marked his return to the track by winning the opening heat race before Dustin Higgs led from start to finish in heat two and then Knox emerged victorious in the final preliminary.

Dustin Higgs has now won the first two rounds of the series, backing up his triumph at Manjimup.

In the support divisions Sophie Leonard was successful in the junior formula 125s, taking top honours from Kade Kulker and Mason Kulker.

Sam Jewell was too strong in the senior formula 125s for Jacob O’Farrell and Taylor Harris.

In the junior sedans there was a strong showing from Baxter Trouchet to defeat Joel Bowman and Syarra Parry.

Paul Bowman claimed the overall victory in the street stocks ahead of Trent Claybrook and Tyron Hall while Clinton Theyer topped the points in the production sedans with Dillon Ugle and Myra Oborne on the podium.