{"id":206932,"date":"2025-12-29T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:24:16","slug":"speedway-news-corey-day-wins-perth-high-limit-opener-drama-for-larson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206932\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedway news: Corey Day wins Perth High Limit opener, drama for Larson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767025451_431_image0.jpeg\" alt=\"Corey Day wins Perth High Limit opener, drama for Larson\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorey Day won the High Limit opener in Perth. Image: Josh Cochrane Photography <\/p>\n<p>Off the back a stunning Perth debut on Boxing Day, coming from the back of the field to finish second in a full green feature, the NASCAR aspirant put on another clinic to kick off the three-night High Limit bonanza.<\/p>\n<p>The Californian made quick progress from fourth on the grid, passing pole man Kaiden Manders for the lead by the eighth lap.<\/p>\n<p>Manders stayed in the fight and even managed to reclaim the lead briefly after a late-race caution, however Day was ultimately too good, scoring the $15,000 bounty with a well-crafted victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place is just awesome, it suits my style really well,\u201d said Day of the Perth venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a different track tonight than we had on Boxing Day. It\u2019s good to know we\u2019ve got our car good in both of those conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHats off to [Manders], he kept me honest for sure. It gets tricky in lapped traffic when you lose your clean air and your race car starts working a little worse. You just get to them and you and you really slow down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did my best to try and stay in clean air and keep it rolling, but it\u2019s hard when the track is this wide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another WA driver, Krikke Motorsport\u2019s Dayne Kingshott, completed the podium after a race-long battle with Jock Goodyer.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Kofoid, who won on Boxing Day, finished fifth in the High Limit opener ahead of Motorplex regulars James McFadden and Callum Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>They were followed by a trio of Americans in Cole Macedo, Brock Zearfoss and Brad Sweet, while an in-form Kerry Madsen came home 11th.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest shock of the night was a lowly 17th place finish for reigning High Limit International winner Kyle Larson.<\/p>\n<p>After running in the top 10 early a flat right-rear put him to the back of the field early in the race.<\/p>\n<p>High Limit International continues at Perth Motorplex on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Day won the High Limit opener in Perth. Image: Josh Cochrane Photography Off the back a stunning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[126295,126296,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-206932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-corey-day","9":"tag-kyle-larson","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}