January 10, 2026

GILLMAN SPEEDWAY: FAB FOUR FOR HOLDER AS HE WINS SECOND AUSSIE TITLE

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Feature photo: Rohan Tungate, Jack Holder and Jaimon Lidsey

Speedway GP star Jack Holder stormed to his second Australian Championship as he completed a clean sweep of wins at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway on Friday night, January 9.

The world number five won all four rounds of the championship on 72 points overall. He also topped the podium at the double-header in Albury-Wodonga last weekend and won in Mildura on Wednesday.

Victory sees Holder add to the Aussie crown he claimed in 2023. He also earns one of Australia’s places in the Speedway GP qualification rounds, where he is joined by runner-up Jaimon Lidsey and the winner of the FIM Oceania Championship, which takes place at Gillman on Sunday.

Holder lifted the Aussie Championship before the Gillman final had even been staged. But this didn’t break the Sheffield and Gorzow rider’s concentration as Holder finished the job by winning the final ahead of Tungate who blazed through the heats with a 15-point maximum. Tungate claimed third place in the overall standings on 61.

Lidsey was third on the night as he secured second spot in the overall standings on 64 points – just fending off Tungate for the SGP qualifying round spot.

Despite Zach Cook finishing the Gillman round with nine championship points, he took fourth spot in the overall standings on 41, with former SGP2 star Keynan Rew taking fifth place on 39.

Ben Cook finished fourth in the Gillman round as he bounced back after missing the Mildura meeting due to illness, taking sixth overall on 37 ahead of Jacob Hook, who ended an impressive series on 31 in seventh place.

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL STANDINGS: 1. Jack Holder 72, 2. Jaimon Lidsey 64, 3. Rohan Tungate 61, 4. Zach Cook 41, 5 Keynan Rew 39, 6. Ben Cook 37, 7. Jacob Hook 31, 8. Mitchell McDiarmid 30, 9. Tate Zischke 29, 10. Justin Sedgmen 26, 11. Alex Adamson 21, 12. Jack Morrison 19, 13. Reid Battye 19, 14. Lachlan Russell 16, 15. Dayle Wood 8, 16. Bradley Page 2, 17. Ben Whalley 2, 18. Harry Ryan 1, 19. Nick Hohlbein 1, 20. Will Cairns 1.

GILLMAN HEAT SCORES: Rohan Tungate 15, Jack Holder 14, Keynan Rew 12, Jaimon Lidsey 12, Ben Cook 11, Mitchell McDiarmid 10, Zach Cook 9, Tate Zischke 8, Justin Sedgmen 7, Reid Battye 6, Jacob Hook 6, Jack Morrison 4, Alex Adamson 3, Lachlan Russell 1, Dayle Wood 1, Will Cairns 1, Harry Sadler 0.

SEMI-FINAL 1: B Cook, Rew, Z Cook, Sedgmen.

SEMI-FINAL 2: Lidsey, Zischke, Battye (DQ 2 mins), McDiarmid (DQ).

FINAL: Holder, Tungate, Lidsey, B Cook.