Two times Super Sedan Series Champion Wayne Randall celebrates 50 years of racing on Saturday night after starting his career as a 17-year-old on the same track - Castrol Edge Lismore Speedway.

Randall, 66, has speedway pumping through his veins. His dad Col was an experienced racer and his mum, June, spent decades as a lap scorer at Lismore Speedway, insisting on using the old fashioned way of recording laps with a pencil.

Wayne’s sons Brett, 45, and Justin 43 have followed in the tyre tracks of their father and grand father and are racers.

“My parents in their eighties still drive from Lismore and watch me race everywhere,” Wayne told <i>Super Sedan Association</i>.

He began 50 years ago at Lismore Speedway in his dad's Blue Devils Racing team, driving a FC Holden.

“I remember when we built up a ‘new’ FC Holden, in order to do the set-up, we heated the rear left spring with an oxy torch, lowered the car, then went to the dump got a left front coil spring also the four coils out of it (the FC Holden at the wrecking yard) and put it in the left front. We then got an oxy torch to lower the left front by literally leaning on it and we then put the left rear spring four inches back as well as fitting the coils.”

Wayne has driven the Ian Boettcher Mazda Rotary RX7, the ex-Paul O’Neill Camaro that he twice took the National Super Sedan Series, or the Keith Rubach #6 Danny Smith built Rocket Pontiac. However it is his formative years with his dad's Blue Devils Racing team that he fondly recalls.

After the FC Holden, Wayne later drove an LH Holden Torana in the Blue Devils Team that comprised his father and Greg Bulmer.

“We got Rookie of the Year and Driver of the Year that was recognised by the club and that was something that I would never have expected, something I did not dream of,” Wayne said.

“It’s a terrific feeling when you are supported by your peers – that is worth more than winning a title. I hold that very high even today – fifty years later."

The Blue Devils stable became a dynasty in the area.

“We all went away as a team and were known as a team,” Wayne said. “We helped each other and ran as the Blue Devils Team for probably around 10 years. We had T-shirts made up and everything was as part of a team.”

“We had FC Holdens, then dad went to an XU1 Torana and I did the same,” Wayne said.

“After the first season we were sponsored by Capital Car Sales courtesy Barry Nicholas. He helped us a lot and was with us for a fair while up until at least six years.”

All eyes on Saturday night will be on Sean Black, who takes a 191 point lead into Round 10 of the McCosker Super Sedan Series supported by TMS Quality Sportswear.

Promoter David Lander has received a very strong entry list from the Super Sedan Association as this round looms as one of the most vital of the series.

Three times Australian Super Sedan Champion (and twice National Late Model titleholder) Darren Kane heads the nominations, which also includes triple National Super Sedan titleholder Matt Pascoe, twice National Champion Mick Nicola (Victoria) and last start McCosker series round victor Sam Roza. Other top runners entered are Steve Jordan, Ian and Hayden Brims, Tania Smith, Trent Wilson, Bob McCosker and Mark O'Brien among the cast of the fast.

Three times Australian Super Sedan Champion (and twice National Late Model titleholder) Darren Kane will be one driver to watch.

“We have a very good entry list comprising twenty-two cars and they are all quality cars and drivers. This promises to be a great night of Super Sedan racing,” Lander said.

It will also be a very special occasion for Ian Brims who drive his final race in the sport. His sedan racing involvement spans over three decades. He is a former state and national titleholder

for the Modified Production Sedan Class and also winner of the New South Wales Super Sedan Championship.

Over the years Ian has also been a mainstream sponsor of Super Sedan racing via his Brims Concrete company at Murwillumbah.

With five rounds remaining after Lismore, the series is wide open in the battle for the 2020-2021 season tournament championship.

Kane (1886 points) currently sits in second spot in the standings while third placed on the ladder, Sam Roza, is a further three hundred points behind Kane.

The top ten ten are rounded out by: Mick Nicola (1379); Justin Smithwick (1334); Steve Jordan (1331); Nicholas O'Keeffe (1168); Matt Pascoe (1148); Josh McLaren (1134) and Carter Armstrong (1035).

The Super Sedans will be supported with racing for Wingless Sprintcars, AMCAs, Production Sedans, Street Stocks and Junior Sedans in another big variety program.

Lismore Speedway gates open at 4pm with racing commencing at 5:30pm

McCosker Super Sedan Series Lismore round 10 Nominations: Bob McCosker; Matt Pascoe; Sam Roza;Trent Wilson; Sean Black; Hayden Brims;Tony Brinkmann; Ian Brims; Craig Hammond; Tania Smith; Steve Jordan; Zac Pascoe; David Musch; Mark O’Brien; Darren Kane; Wayne Randall; Dion Bennett; Justin Smithwick; Josh McLaren; Nicholas O’Keefe; Colin Kaine; Mick Nicola.