2025 Motorsport Award Presentations
22 February 2026 / Story by Ian Combes, Photos by Bryan Shedden
2025 Motorsport trophy presentation
On the 15th February, after the Sprite CSCA Supersprint round at the Amaroo (South) Circuit at Sydney Motorsport Park, the MX-5 Club held it’s 2025 motorsport presentations.
You may remember that we were originally going to have another event at Benzin café in late 2025, but unfortunately, there was not enough support for the event, so the Club was forced to cancel it.
Going back a few years, the Club would typically hold a presentation after the first track day of the following year. This is this practice that we’ve gone back to now. The first track day of 2026 was a Sprite Car Club event, now that we are part of CSCA again. That means instead of packing up after running a track day, we are packing up our cars…. At least I am anyway.
The best laid plans of mice and men went side-ways this day though. The original plan was to kick off at 5 pm after the track day. For those who have forgotten already, that Sunday was one of those thoroughly annoying wet/dry/wet kind of days – you just weren’t sure if the rain was going to settle in, or if it would drizzle a bit and then dry out again.
Anyway, the end result of that was that despite there being 80 odd entrants, most people had disappeared by early afternoon. The day looked like (and did) fizzle out early, so at about 2 pm, a 5pm start for the presentation was looking distinctly dodgy. A quick hike down to The Garage got the catering moved up to 3:30 pm, following by a quick whip around to get people to stick around. The worked surprisingly well, apart from people coming from off-site for the presentation, who came after 5 pm. Even that worked out ok actually. What could have been a mini-disaster, turned into a great event!
First, we ran through the sprint trophies. Many congratulations to the winners.
First in Standard class was Bryan Shedden, second was Jake Murphy, and third was Chris Andry.
First in Clubman class was John Karayannis, second was Tyler Schaafsma, and third was Glenn Thomas.
First in Modified Class was Luke Kovacic, second was Kyle Robinson, and third was Reece Lyndon.
In Open class, first was Ian Spinks, second was Jason Russell, and third was Jamie Collins.
In the non-MX-5 class, first was David Phillips, second was Stewart Grigg, with Jason Atkins in third place.
In the Ladies class, first was Keiran Taylor, with no second or third being awarded in 2025.
We don’t normally expect many Motorkhana class winners at a track day presentation, but there were a surprising number in attendance.
In Open class, Christopher Stevens took out first place, from Damian Ryan and Ian Hung.
In Ladies class, Annie Chan took out first place (and came with Ian Hung to collect their trophies) from Helen Green. No third place.
In the Junior class, Charlie Karayannis has learnt well from Dad, taking out first place, from Chase Raddatz and Mackenzie Ryan. That will be a competition in 2026!
The Mike Hicks 2025 Club champion was Bryan Shedden, who seems to be able to do things in a 1.5 L ND MX-5 to defy the imagination. Well done Bryan and well deserved! Life member, highly valued member of the MX-5 Club and patron for the trophy, Mike Hicks was on hand at the presentation to present the trophy to Bryan.
As we always do, we took the opportunity to thank our many motorsport volunteers for their efforts in 2025. Being a member of the CSCA makes things a lot easier, but we still need (and still value) our motorsport volunteers!
The Motorsport New Member of the year in 2025 was Jayden Psaroulis, who scored the Russ Maxwell perpetual trophy. Since recipients of NMOTY trophies are not informed (it’s meant to be a surprise), Jayden didn’t know he needed to be there, so the trophy was accepted by David and Chase Raddatz who I’m sure suitably embarrassed Jayden the following week at MX5 Mania!
CSCA kindly brought along a number of 2025 CSCA championship trophies to display at the presentation, including the overall champion club trophy won by the MX-5 Club in 2025. That is interesting because there are a limited number of CSCA classes that MX-5s can actually compete in. There is a lot of history on that trophy, that is for sure.
Individual MX-5 Club members did well in the CSCA championship. Congratulations to Luke Kovacic for winning the M1 class, and coming equal first overall. Equal Champion! Well done.
Other class winners were Kyle Robinison (P1 class), Lionel Ascone (P2 class).
A number of other club members also achieved second and third place places in the championship.
Well done to all the class placers. Roll on 2026!
