The Victorian Motor Racing Championship (VMRC) made a trip over the border to the Shell V-Power Motorsport Park in South Australia for its third round of 2026.

It is the second time that the VMRC has visited the river land circuit after a successful debut last year.

There were six categories in action across the June 6-7 long weekend, of course many of the regular Victorian Championships, but also a couple of national series.

The round was highlighted by the Australian Super Trucks, the event had a Truck theme, with truck displays and activations littered around the venue.

The maiden appearance of the Trucks at The Bend pulled a huge crowd and created a great vibe around the Shell V-Power Motorsport Park.

While the trucks used the 3.41km West Circuit, the rest of the categories utilised the full 4.95km layout.

The big rigs were joined by the pint sized Superkarts, which coupled as both a South Australian state round and the second round of the Australian Triple Challenge.

The state categories were the ever-popular Vic V8s, Vic TT, Hyundai Excels and Holden HQs.

Australian Super Trucks

For the first time ever, the Australian Super Truck Series descended upon the Shell V-Power Motorsport Park in South Australia, and all six races were action packed.

The start of the weekend could not have gone better for Dale Cornfoot, he took pole position and the first two race wins.

Cornfoot won the opening race ahead of 2019 champion Shannon Smith, with Mark Nonnan in third.

A collision at Turn 8 on the opening lap saw Frank Amoroso and Riley Fern retire with damage, while Steve Zammit and Tye Oxley were disqualified for over-speeding.

The top three were replicated in Race 2, Cornfoot from Smith and Noonan, Zammit and Fern were the last two classified finishers.

Race 3 saw Harvey Dale cross the line first in the Thorpe Racing truck, in what was the team’s first race meeting in nearly a decade.

However, for the second-straight race he was disqualified for over-speeding. This promoted Oxley to the top spot ahead of Noonan, Zammit and Fern. Cornfoot finished fifth, he limped his Kenworth to the line a lap down, Smith retired.

Dale got retribution in the final race of the weekend, he stormed from the back of the pack to take the win, a win he was able to keep.

It was an incredibly actioned packed race with several incidents and accidents, Oxley finished second ahead of Smith, Zammit, Cornfoot, Noonan and Fern.

Both Truck Team Championship races on Saturday were won by Cornfoot.

Vic V8s

All weekend long the Vic V8s were dominated by Greg Lynch, with the Holden driver comfortably taking victory in all four races.

Greg Lynch won the opener by 17.7s from Mark Kakouri, with Steven Bonner a further 5.8s back.

Lynch beat Kakouri by 10s in the second encounter. Adam Caddeo rounded out the top three after Bonner made an error running off the road at Turn 14 late in the race.

After failing to complete a lap on Saturday Brett Lehmann came from the back of the field to finish second in Race 3 ahead of Caddeo and Kakouri.

However, Lehmann suffered another mechanical issue in the final race. Lynch again took the win from Kakouri and Ford driver Gary Finemore.

Vic TT/Hyundai Excels

As it was in the Vic V8s, Vic TT was dominated by one driver, Aston Martin Vantage steerer Ran Maclurkin. However, the fight for second was on all weekend long.

Maclurkin won by over 13s from Mazda MX5 driver Robert Mikolajewicz in the opener. The lightweight and nimble Mikolajewicz beat home the powerful FG Falcon Ute driven by Mark Weckert. Wayne Alway’s RX7 suffered an issue and forced him to retire.

Maclurkin was challenged throughout Race 2 by the turbo-charged Nissan Pulsar of Tim Maynard but was still able to win by 1.3s. Weckert managed to edge out Mikolajewicz by 0.8s for third.

It was much the same in Race 3, however overheating issues forced Maynard into retirement midway through the encounter. Again, Weckert was able to defend the race long attack from Mikolajewicz.

Race 4 again saw Maclurkin take off into the distance, leaving Weckert and Mikolajewicz to scrap for second. Weckert prevailed.

The Hyundai Excels shared the track with Vic TT and saw Brenden Jenner and Noah Elsworthy locked in combat all weekend.

Jenner prevailed in three of the races, however Elsworthy got the better of his fellow Victorian to win the final by 0.2s.

Holden HQs

The HQ Holdens were arguably the most entertaining category of the lot, with a field of over 20 cars, the slipstreaming duals were endless.

Despite not winning a race, two second place finishes and two thirds were enough for Steve Banks to take the rounds honours.

The first saw Ryan Woods and Banks fighting hard for the win, however their fierce fight allowed the rest of the pack to catch up and get involved.

Woods won from Andrew Magilton who incredibly stormed through from the back of the grid, Banks finished in third.

It was a similar story in Race 2, with Woods beating home Banks and Darryl Crouch. Magilton spun out of the lead on lap 1 and fell to last, notably he recovered to finish ninth.

Magilton was error free and won Race 3, Woods finished just 0.3s back in second, while Banks was a distant third.

Woods didn’t make it out for the final race and opened the door for his competitors to steal the round win, which Banks did.

Magilton took off into the distance and was never seen again, he took the victory while Banks beat home Coutch in a thrilling scrap for second.

Superkarts

A round of the South Australian Superkart Championship ran in conjunction with second round of the Australian Triple Challenge. As a result, drivers from five different states converged at The Shell V-Power Motorsport Park.

It was the largest grid of the weekend with over 32 karts racing, drivers came from far and wide, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and even Western Australia.

However, it was local South Australian Ilya Harpas that won three of the four races outright, dominating all the races he finished.

Race 1 saw him win from West Aussies Brett Burvil and Paul Clark.

In Race 2 it was Burvill and Ralf Rupprecht that rounded out the podium.

Harpas suffered a mechanical issue in Race 3 forcing him to pit and lose several laps. This allowed Burvill to take the win after a great mid-race battle with Rupprecht. James Boden rounded out the top three outright.

Harpas was back to winning ways in the final, he prevailed by 45s seconds from Rupprecht and Clark in the outright honours.

The next round of the VMRC takes place at Winton Motor Raceway from August 29-30 and incorporates Winton 300 endurance race.