By Darren ODea

KWINANA BEACH, Australia Brad Sweet claimed his first win of the current WA Sprintcar Speedweek series, at the Perth Motorplex on Thursday night.

Sweet crossed the line ahead of local stars Dayne Kingshott and Callum Williamson at the Merger Contracting Sprintcar Muster that was round 11 of the 2024-25 Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series.

It was a return to form for Sweet who crashed out the previous night at Bunbury Speedway.

He started third for the 30-lap final after at the start of the show setting the Victory 1 Performance Quick Time.

In his heat, Sweet went from fourth to second and was also second in the A Dash.

He hit the lead on lap six and survived some surging efforts from both Williamson and Kingshott who were unable to make a move stick.

Kingshott won the battle to lead on the first lap over American Brock Zearfoss who started next to him on the front row.

The race was six laps deep when the caution came on after Kerry Madsen and Ryan Lancasters campaigns ended early.

From then it was a drag race through lapped traffic for the front runners as they jockeyed for track position until the caution lights came on with a handful of laps remaining seeing Matt Egels car being pushed to the infield.

Shortly after, the red lights were activated after Taylor Milling crashed in turns one and two and was collected by Jason Kendrick who was unable to stop in time.

Sweet said it was fun to race with Kingshott and Williamson, saying people dont realise probaby how good they are when you travel all the way over here to Perth to their stomping ground, they are really hard to beat.

They were hot on my heels all night and we were good early, I kinda found the right line and drove to the lead and these guys were breathing down my throat at the end, so just happy to get the win, Sweet said.

I could just tell my car wasnt getting down the straight aways, I wasnt getting off the corner and I was kinda protecting, I wasnt sure where to be and when you are like that, you know somebody is coming.

I have been doing this a long time and I tried to put the last few laps together the best I possibly could.

Kingshott, who struggled midpack with Williamson the night before, set up pole position after being third quickest in his qualifying group, moving from second to a win in his heat race and winning the A Dash.

After getting to the lead early, he dropped back to third before claiming second with a handful of laps remaining.

Williamson, who started fifth, was second from lap nine until surrendering the spot in the dying stages.

The previous nights winner, James McFadden, started and finished fourth, while Zearfoss took fifth from Jock Goodyer, who started eighth and finished sixth.

The finish:

Feature: 1st Brad Sweet, 2n Dayne Kingshott, 3rd Callum Williamson, 4th James McFadden, 5th Brock Zearfoss, 6th Jock Goodyer, 7th Kaiden Manders, 8th Andrew Priolo, 9th Cory Eliason, 10th Cole Macedo, 11th Ryan Newton, 12th Kris Coyle, 13th James Inglis, 14th Michael Keen, 15th Justin Whittall, 16th Daniel Harding, 17th Matt Juhl, 18th Jason Pryde, 19th Jamie Maiiolo, 20th Joel Ettridge.  DNF: Luke Oldfield, Jason Kendrick, AJ Nash, Taylor Milling, Matt Egel, Jack Williamson, Ryan Lancaster and Kerry Madsen.