AUSPEV Championship Series

Tasventouras · January 13, 2025, 5:52am

My hiatus from race organising was short lived
It’s been too long between races!

Stoked to announce that my new project AUSPEV Championship Series is born

Series 1 will be a trial run across 3 months at 3 different tracks in Western Australia. Hopefully, with enough interest, we will incorporate a 3 race series in Queensland for series 2, essentially giving us an east coast and west coast conference before the Electric Racing League Nationals in 2026.

I’m still working a little bit on the ERL side of things, but the AUSPEV project gives me freedom to pursue the community level racing that im passionate about, while (hopefully) simultaneously kicking some bigger goals with the Electric Racing League.

This 3 race series will kick off on Feb 16th at Cockburn International kartway (1km outdoor track with 130m straight),

followed by a race at Hi Voltage on the 16th March (short indoor track, tight and technical, polished surface)

and wrapping up with a camping / racing event down at Bunbury City Kart Club. A country town track, 650m in length with a straight just under 100m- which in my opinion is one of the best tracks for PEV racing that ive been on

Racers will accumulate points across the series for the championship, however registrations will be available for the individual events if people only want to attend 1 race.

Thanks to our 2024/25 ERL season members, the entry pricing for these races has been significantly reduced to hopefully encourage some new riders to give racing a try.

There will be FREE freeriding sessions for anyone wanting to ride on the track without racing too

While we wont have the funds for live streaming, we will have some decent drone footage across these events. One part of the project im quite excited about is running some post race analysis/commentary with some of the competitors to overlay our drone footage. It should hopefully compliment the race foorage quite nicely

I will try my best to keep this thread updated promptly, however results will be featured on the ERL and Auspev socials right away - @electricracingleague and @auspev

Tasventouras · January 13, 2025, 5:56am

Tasventouras · January 13, 2025, 6:51am

Rules & Format:
https://www.esra.org.au/auspev

poastoast · January 13, 2025, 7:01am

sooo! there’s racing you say? i’m already planing to visit the radium bois…

in march you say?
April?!!!??
drones you say???

[edit]
oopsies lmao

Tasventouras · January 13, 2025, 9:55am

Hope you can make it out west!

Tasventouras · January 13, 2025, 10:30am

Oh i have just seen your registration @poastoast !!! Fuck yes

Tasventouras · February 16, 2025, 1:26pm

Race 1 of the series kicked off today and it was epic! A bit hotter than we would’ve hoped for, but all in all the event ran smoothly and there was some great racing!

We had 14 e-skaters battle it out in their category with a much smaller turnout from the EUC boys. Our man @JeffyJ raced in both and absolutely killed it getting on the podium for both.

The format worked really well, providing some excitement with the reverse grid heat and giving all riders the opportunity to earn themselves some points.

It was probably the first event where I felt comfortable both directing and racing simultaneously, so thats promising for the rest of the series and future events ahead. A lot of the stress was eased by working with a solid team who all had their dedicated roles and did them extemely well, big shoutout to @CARVECRAFT

@Joelskishreds really caught Jeff and myself off guard with the amount of natural skill he has. He’s only had his V5 up and running for a couple of weeks and he’s already keeping up, catching up and even going faster than us at some points! He’s going to be a serious threat as time goes on, if not already!!

There will be plenty of videos and photos uploaded to the auspev IG this week, but for now, here’s the results for race 1

E-skate
Tas Ventouras - 51 points
Jeff Cameron - 46 points
Joel Pritchard - 41

EUC
Aaron Burrage - 47 points
Jeff Cameron - 36 points
Julian Richards - 24 points

2x @dragy_motorsports fastest lap points were awarded to Tas and Aaron for achieving the fastest laps in their categories

JeffyJ · February 16, 2025, 2:18pm

Cheers Tas. You killed it today. Well deserved win!!!

That overtake of you caught by the drone in the reverse grid race was nuts!!!

Tasventouras · February 17, 2025, 10:25am

Starting to stitch some footage together. Heres esk8 race 1 of 3

Tasventouras · February 18, 2025, 1:50pm

Race 2 of 3

Reversed grid format. Quite entertaining with several overtakes and battles.

Tasventouras · February 18, 2025, 1:52pm

Cheers! You’re a trooper going back to back with EUC and esk8 races… and getting podium for both!

We need to do a dual class podium photo at the end of the series i think. Even though the partipant pool is low, you guys put in a massive effort on race day and deserve the recognition!