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Met up with "Chesh" on my travels down under this winter and he doesn't look a day older than he does in that photo!

If that's true, then all I can say is GET WELL SOON PAT!

15 - a young Tom Owen 16. Sean Willmott

If no one else does prior to the end of next week SD. I'll do the necessary for you upon my return to the UK (my proggie is currently buried somewhere in a suitcase!)

The Six Qualifiers for Saturday's Final from Friday's qualifier were: Michael Slade 13 Arlo Bugeja 12 Tyron Procter 12 Aaron Summers 12 John Oliver 12 Ricky Barney 10 * ----------------- Res: Daine Stevens 10 * * = after run off Karlis Ezergailis was a non-starter and news circulating was that he had damaged an ankle (rumours suggested he had BROKEN it!) whilst loading his bikes at home!!!

That makes you and me two old gits together then Conkers! Jeez you've made me remember the days of being instructed to "distract"the KGB bloke with the Ruskies whilst certain deals were done out of sight!

Yep! (but not going to reveal their names - don't want other teams, especially local rivals, getting in on them now do I?! Seriously though, there's a lot of good kids out here but, there again, there's a lot of good 'uns in the CL back there - pity there's only eight teams in the competition this season. As for tonight's / tomorrow's meetings (I'm talking Aussie time here!), Sir Lunchy together with Ron / Shona Malm will be bringing regular updates throughout the meetings on both the Yahoo speedway lists (UK & Aussie). And just to end this posting on a REALLY serious note - Just make sure the weather warms up before I get back to the UK next Wednesday will you please people? (Know I can rely on BSF members!)

Just to advise that I'm told Korey Williams is a non-starter for the qualifier - presumably he'll be replaced by the next in line for Friday night's meeting.

The Australian Under 21 Speedway Championship will be held at Gillman Speedway (Adelaide) this weekend. Ten Riders are seeded directly through to Saturday's Final whilst 16 other young hopefuls will battle for six qualifying places available the night before. Saturday's championship will be held over 20 heats, with a winner-takes-all final. List of competitors Seeds · Tom Hedley, Vic; · Cameron Woodward, Vic; · Mark Jones, NSW; · Chris Holder, NSW; · Trevor Harding, WA · Matthew Wethers, SA; · Robert Ksiezak, SA; · Troy Batchelor, Qld; · Jason Doyle, Qld; and · Cory Gathercole, Vic. Friday's qualifying field: · John Oliver, Qld; · Korey Williams, NSW; · Daine Stevens, NSW; · Tyron Proctor, Vic; · Karlis Ezergailis, Vic; · Luke Slade, NSW; · Michael Slade, NSW; · Hayden Sandford, SA; · Aaron Summers, SA; · Arlo Bugeja, SA; · Corey Dore, Vic; · Sam Dore, Vic; · James Holder, NSW; · Daniel Harding, WA; · Brock Gates, Vic; · Rick Barney, Qld; · Anthony Perks (NSW, reserve); · Harley Liersch (SA, reserve); and · Carley Gittus (WA, reserve).

Stop eating those pasties and save money then! :-)

And if everything goes to plan, there'll be heat-by-heat results update on both the British & Australian Yahoo Groups (for the Friday & Saturday) courtesy of Sir Lunchalot plus Ron & Shona Malm.

Excellent news nz kiwi

Just turned midday and pleased to confirm that, after some fairly "tropical" weather over the past few days, the sun is beating down and the sky is blue here at Manly where I'm currently based. That's a two hour drive from Newcastle but I'm told the weather is similar there this morn so everyone is looking forward to the meeting. Looks like Leigh has his ninth Oz title in the bag (will he try for number ten next year?) and main focus will be on who'll finish runner up and claim the brand new Jawa, supplied by MJM Speedway Spares, for the highest placed non-GP rider. My money's on Todd! As usual mein hosts Ron & Shona Malm will be providing live heat by heat results on both the general speedway Yahoo group and the Australian one. Racing commences around 7pm Oz time (8am UK?).

Well it had to happen sometime! After temperatures hovering around the 40 degree celcius mark for the last two days here in Adelaide, today it's rained all day! And THAT has led me to suffer my first EVER rained off meeting here in Oz! Today's (Sunday) scheduled Oz Under 16 Solo Champs will noe be staged tomorrow afternoon at the Sidewinders Club circuit at Wingfield with the Pairs Championship following on in the evening.

Blimey! Can't imagine his dad as a redcoat! :-)

Yes I did Sir L and it appears to me, although I could be wrong, that Phil's "mate" Trackman only appears after a few JB's!

Qualifying scores from last night: (Proggie order - 5 rides) Anthony Perks 3 Scott Smith 6 (4 rides) Chris Holder 14 Steven Reid 6 Roy Stout 6 John Oliver 10 Ricky Barney 9 Dave Watt 12 Troy Batchelor 0 (withdrew after one ride) Jason Doyle 0 (withdrew after one ride) Korey Williams 2 (withdrew after one ride) Olly Allen 14 Michael Slade 10 Leigh Fernance 4 Dave Booth 11 James Holder 8 Tim Chilcott (res) 0 The Junior final was won by a certain Nick Morris making WWTBP a very proud dad indeed - and rightfully so!

You should have stayed in Oz MM - that way the mozzies would have continued to bite you rather than me which they've been doing with avengeance since I flew up here to Queensland! The Bundy's still flowing and am back at mein host's Gavin Elmes after being out cruising on Phil Cain's motorboat with him, Gavin and a certain Mitch Shirra today. Phil will probably be regretting letting me drive the thing though seeing as I beached it on a sandbank! I'd only had about four Bundy tinnies by then too!

Humbug (well it IS nearly Xmas!) - said mechanic's alcohol bill is not huge, it's GINORMOUS!

Hi Darrell - hope you're not working TOO hard! Would have replied yesterday but was recovering from Shane Parker's "Octane (and Bundy!) Overdose!" Anyway, it was a tad chilly (to say the least!) at Sidewinders on Friday but there was some good racing. Heats as follows: 1. Ward, Winchester, Paver, Scott. 42.06 2. Sissis, Liersch, Heeps, Paver. 45.33 3. R. Sedgman, Medson, Heeps, Scott. 44.91 4. Branford, Medson, Dennis, Paver. 45.11 5. Ward, J. Sedgman, Branford, Heeps. 43.48 6. Ward, Sissis, Medson, Barnfield. 43.34 7. J. Sedgman, Sissis, Scott, Dennis. 43.80 8. J. Sedgman, Medson, Liersch, Winchester (exc). 44.19 9. Branford, Barnfield, Scott, Liersch. 45.21 10. J. Sedgman, Barnfield, R. Sedgman, Paver. 44.17 11. Ward, R. Sedgman, Dennis, Liersch. 43.30 12.(r/r) Barnfield, Dennis, Heeps, Winchester (fell-ex). 46.25 13. R. Sedgman, Sissis, Branford, Winchester. 44.51 FINAL: Ward, J. Sedgman, R. Sedgman, Sissis As you can see your whippersnapper Robert was just one point off of reaching the final but had two good wins. Cheers Bryn

Yeah Main Man I must be! With assistance from Lunchy, further details as follows: In the main event, the qualifying heats were followed by a five man final. One of the highlights of the night (and trust me there were many!) was Troy Batchelor holding off Leigh Adams to inflict a rare Adams defeat. Batchelor had the inside gate and Adams the extreme outside but Batchelor earned the win by answering eveything Adams threw at him. Parks himself was in fine form too only lowering his colours to Adams both in a heat and in the final where he pushed Leigh hard for the full four laps Rory Schlein eased himself back into the swing of things in his first meeting back after his long lay through injury Scores L Adams 3,3,3,2 = 11 K Doolan 2,ret,2,1 = 5 R Schlein 0,2,3,1 = 6 C Gathercole 1,0,2,0 = 3 S Parker 2,3,3,3 = 11 T McGowan 1,2,2,2 = 7 S Johnston ret,3,1,2 = 6 A Summers 1,0,0,1 = 2 M Wethers 3,1,2,3 = 9 T Harding 1,0,1,1 = 3 J Lyons 2,1,2,0 = 5 T Batchelor 3,3,fx,3 = 9 R. Ksiezak 1,0,0,0 = 1 Final Adams, Parker, Batchelor, McGowan, Wethers In the "Young Guns" solos Ty Proctor and Scott James shared the spoils with two wins apiece with Proctor's two seconds giving him the trophy for the overall winner. With Ksiezak elevated to the main event, he was replaced in the field by Danny Warwick. T Proctor 4,4,3,3 = 14 S James 2,2,4,4 = 12 D Warwick 3,1,2,1 = 7 A Bugeja 1,3,1,dns = 5 D Harding 0,0,0,2 = 2 In the sidecars Treloar / Plaisted were just that bit too good for the other outfits and would have had an unblemished record but for a retirement when in first in their first ride Final Treloar/Plaisted, Plaisted /Harrison, Bottrell/Teale, Munro/Edwards

Jeez the Bundy has been flowing after what was simply a brilliant night at Gillman Speedway attended by a big crowd who witnessed a superb evening's action which included the main solo event, a support "Young Guns", sidecars, freestyle motocross, a globe of death, bmx fire jump, a live rock group and goodness knows what else! I had a ball sharing the commentary duties with Brendon Gledhill - every part of what was a jam packed schedule of events went like clockwork and, as I said, thegrog flowed freely afterwards! It's 4am here in Adelaide, I'm a bit "bundified"if you get what i mean so just the basic results for now: Senior solos: 1. Leigh Adams 2. Shane Parker 3. Troy Batchelor 4. Travis McGowan Young Guns winner: Tyron Proctor Sidecar winners: Darrin Treloar and Justin Paisted. Good to see Forum members Ozyace, Marty, Lunchy and, of coure, Main Man amongst others in attendance. Time for me to crash out people - I'm bushed!

Quick result from last night: 1. Darcy Ward 2. Justin Sedgman 3. Ryan Sedgman 4. Arthur Sissis Some excellent racing from the young úns and good to see Trevor Harding, Robert Ksiezak and Troy Batchelor in attendance to support the kids as well as Shane. Former Halifax fans will be interested to learn too that another interested spectator was a certain Steve Baker.

Shouldn't that one if us will report on the meeting when (and IF) we have recovered sufficiently to do so MM?

Well we started off to the practice from Noarlunga BUT as it was, er shall we say precipitating hard, we decide to turn back and get a feed instead!