By Darren ODea

BUNBURY, Australia James McFadden continued his strong run in the Brady Motorsport No. 23, winning round 10 of the Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series at Bunbury Speedway on Jan. 1.

McFadden started third for the 30-lap final and after switching spots with Kerry Madsen on lap 17 (up to that point Madsen had led all the way), he was never challenged in the run to the checkers.

Ryan Newton, who started eighth, grabbed second in the dying stages, relegating Madsen to third.

The Brooks Hire New Years Day Sprintcar show victory was McFaddens fourth win since teaming up with the Brady family-owned team, headed by former racer Sheldon Brady.

He was second in his qualifying group and then took a heat race win after starting third.

The team is firing on all cylinders, all eight of them, the KRE is ripping, McFadden said. Our car, we basically ran the same as we ran at Kwinana and it went around the track nice.

Newtons start came after he was third quickest in his qualifying group, setting up a front row start in his heat race which he won.

He held down fifth from lap 10 to lap 28, before claiming another three scalps in two laps to be runner up.

The Queenslander has contested all 10 rounds of the series so far, either in his regular Q66 or in the Monte Motorsport W17.

He said it was a real racy track and you could move around.

For Madsen it was a case of so near, yet so far after looking solid in the Diamond Bay Motorsport W26 for the first 17 laps.

He was third in his qualifying group and took full advantage of a front row start in his heat race to claim a win.

Madsen won the Revolution Racegear B Dash, setting up a front row start with Keen.

He was a little disappointed, especially after leading for so long,

You just had to be really careful with the lapped cars I thought, Madsen said. I had my chances, so nothing to complain about.

Former Australian champion Jock Goodyer started and finished fourth, while Gio Scelzi was fifth after starting sixth.

The finish:

Feature: 1st James McFadden, 2nd Ryan Newton, 3rd Kerry Madsen, 4th Jock Goodyer, 5th Gio Scelzi, 6th Matt Egel, 7th Justin Whittall,  8th Brock Zeafross,  9th Jamie Maiolo, 10th Matt Juhl, 11th Taylor Milling, 12th Jack Williamson, 13th Cory Eliason, 14th Kris Coyle, 15th Dayne Kingshott, 16th Ryan Lancaster, 17th Callum Williamson, 18th Luke Oldfield, 19th Kaiden Manders, 20th Brad Maiolo, 21st Aaron Chircop, 22nd Jaydee Dack, 23rd Myles Bolger. DNF: Andrew Priolo, Michael Keen, Daniel Harding and Brad Sweet.