The Albury driver’s confidence received a boost when he led from start to finish to win his maiden World Series Sprintcars race at Allansford’s Premier Speedway on Saturday night.

Anderson got the early advantage in the 35-lap feature and held sway from south-west duo David Murcott and Corey McCullagh.

“Adrenaline is still running high and to beat the best in the business, I know how hard it is,” he said from the infield post-race.

“I grew up watching my old man (David) race all these races and I have huge respect for all my competitors. I just know how hard it is to drive one of these cars and I know the big guns do make it look easy but it’s not.”

Anderson said his victory proved he was a versatile driver.

“I’ve got the reputation for a slick, smooth track specialist, they believe I can’t run on the heavy stuff but anyway I proved a few critics wrong because that was a hooked up, fast race track and we led from start to finish,” he said.

“Now I know I can win on the heavy stuff and the slick, so the confidence is up.”

Anderson hopes to replicate his form at the Annual Sprintcar Classic in mid-January. 

McCullagh also enjoyed a personal milestone, recording a career-best in quick-time.

He described his nine-second lap as “perfect”.

The reigning classic winner became just the third driver to set a nine-second lap at the Allansford track when he clocked 9.986 in flight one qualifying.

“It is the quickest I have ever been around here and I think there’s only three people who have done the same thing,” he said.

“It was literally one of the (most) perfect laps I have ever done but also one of the fastest. I am just happy to reward the (pit crew) boys, they’ve been doing a good job.” 

McCullagh said it was pleasing to show improvement.

“I think my previous (best) one was about two years ago when I was 10.26 (seconds), so to knock three tenths off that is pretty cool,” he said. 

The Victorian 90 driver said a change to his car set-up had him feeling confident ahead of his classic defence.

"We made some changes this morning to the motor and it’s running really well so I am actually more excited about the classic now,” he said.

“If you asked me last week I wasn’t, so I think we’re getting the 90 car back to where it belongs.”

McCullagh said he felt no added pressure to go back-to-back in Australia’s most esteemed speedway race.

“I have already won it once and I’d like to do it a couple more times but we’ll focus on week by week and see what happens,” he said.