Both of Baypark Speedway's recently crowned national champions are making a return to their home track this Saturday night.

Tauranga racer Chris Cowling will make his first home track appearance as the New Zealand Super Saloon Car champion night while Saloon Car champ Jarred Fletcher (Cambridge) returns the scene of his title win in January.

Cowling will line-up in the Bay Invasion event after an unbeaten South Island campaign in February which saw him win the New Zealand Championship, an unprecedented fourth consecutive NZ Grand Prix and also the South Island title.

'It's my first appearance this season in the Super Saloon at Baypark and I'm really looking forward to it,” says Cowling.

'There was some great racing early in the season but we missed it because we were still building our car.”

The Super Saloons are contesting the BOP Championship this weekend and the field also includes NZ title third place finisher Craig Cardwell (Auckland) along with Tauranga's former national champs Sam Waddell and Steve Cowling.

Waddell returns to Baypark fresh from a successful double-header at Cromwell last weekend where he won a round of the Southern Super Saloon Series and finished third in the Daryl Ainsley Memorial.

Thames racer Matt Smith, who was unbeaten during the most recent night of Super Saloon racing at Baypark, will be another pace-setter.

Cowling will also line-up in the BOP Saloon Car Championship on Saturday night as part of the 20-car field headlined by national champ Fletcher and podium finisher Trent Amrein (Tauranga). Visiting drivers from Auckland, Huntly, Kihikihi, Gisborne and Stratford will challenge the home track contenders.

Jarred Fletcher in action.

Saturday's programme also features Sprint Cars and, for the last time in 2022-23, the Midget Car division.

The Sprint Car field is headed by Jonathan Allard who has been racing in California since winning the North Island Championship at Baypark last month.

And a strong midget car field will contest round five of the North Island-wide Midas Allstars Series with the feature race doubling as the Bay of Plenty Championship.