hawkeyenz Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I thought NZ were allocated 2 places at Norden.So who is the other rider joining Grant?Or have they given a place up? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Jade Mudgeway finished second in the NZ Under 21's. He is from the North Island (Featherston) so he might not have been able to make it down to Ronnie Moore Park if he has a fulltime job? Perhaps they gave the place up. Dylan Moohan from Auckland was third. See here for results : http://motospeedway.net/blog/solostats/200...#RANGE!A128 I was out at Christchurch airport today and noticed a sign post saying that it is 15,000+ Kms to Frankfurt. Norden is a long way for the Kiwi boys to come for a one off experience!! The freight alone for their equipment would cost them a fortune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Jade Mudgeway finished second in the NZ Under 21's. He is from the North Island (Featherston) so he might not have been able to make it down to Ronnie Moore Park if he has a fulltime job? Perhaps they gave the place up. Dylan Moohan from Auckland was third. See here for results : http://motospeedway.net/blog/solostats/200...#RANGE!A128 I was out at Christchurch airport today and noticed a sign post saying that it is 15,000+ Kms to Frankfurt. Norden is a long way for the Kiwi boys to come for a one off experience!! The freight alone for their equipment would cost them a fortune. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Too right it is.I have nothing but admiration for the youngsters who come over for these competitions.The young guys who travel over for the 80cc World Championship the last two years,especially.Will be hoping to make it to Norden and also up to Denmark to see the young boys from Oz again this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedyguy Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 at http://vetschamps.solobike.net.nz/ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's been some interesting debate and full scorers on the yahoo group http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicar Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Any results of North Island Championships? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Any results of North Island Championships? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Been told Jason Bunyan first, Andrew Bargh 2nd but have yet to receive full details Bryn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delgado Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I'm also interested in results of South Island Championships (Oreti Park Speedway,Invercargill - 26th January), if anyone have them. Could only find the top three: South Island Solo Championship 1st #23 Andrew Aldridge 15 points 2nd #5 Grant Tregoning 13 points 3rd #7 Larry Ross 11 points courtesy of worldpeedway.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barcroftlad Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Sorry I'm a bit late in picking up on this thread. I also live in Auckland and would like to see a bit more.Speedway gets little publicity in the media here unless someone of world class reputation is in the country. Rosedale Park in Avondale seems to be the main track for bikes in Auckland nowadays but there is another track in Onehunga that sometimes has them on a Sunday afternoon,but this is mainly a stock car track. For the past two summers Ivan has brought some good quality Long Track riders for I think GP meetings at New Plymouth, or close to it. Maybe Stratford. Ian Hosking has a hand in the running of these. Over the summer holiday period there are usually bike meetings in places like Meeanee/Napier and Nelson. I haven't noticed any promotional/advertising stuff this year. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicar Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Hm, it's different to know what happened in New Zealand. So when and where were North Island Champs and South Island Champs and who knows results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normac Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Hm, it's different to know what happened in New Zealand. So when and where were North Island Champs and South Island Champs and who knows results? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dont know the north island results, think there posted above, but south island were last weekend and were as Delqado said. long track at new plymouth didnt run last year havent heard if they have sorted their s@%$t out yet.but the 1st round is held this sunday at Omakau in Central Otago followed up on the 9th Feb at Ascot park for the NZ titles. the NZ short track title is on at Oreti Park speedway on the 23 of Feb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeyenz Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Entertaining meeting at Moore Park on Saturday night. Run on the old 13 Heat format. NZ Selection win 44 points to 34 points over the Elf Oil All Stars . Elf Oil All Stars Jason Bunyan, 3,3,3,2 (11) Michael Long 0,0,3,0 (3) Andrew Bargh 3,2,0,0 (5) Mitchell McHardy 1,1,2,0 (4) Jade Mudgway 2,2,1,1 (6) Karl Bagshaw 2,0,0 (2) Sean Mason 1,1,1 (3) NZ Selection Andrew Aldridge 2,3,3,3 (11) Sean Cox 1,0,2,2 (5) Grant Tregoning 2,2,3,1 (8) Andrew Tree 0,1,2,1 (4) Larry Ross 3,3,3,2 (11) Alex Cunningham 3,1,0, (4) Cory Lang 0,1,0 (1) Essentially another North Vs South Island Match with Bunyan supplementing the North. It was 30 points each after Heat 10 with 8 heats shared and a 4-2 each but then Bargh stopped while leading Heat 11 gifting a 5-1 to the NZ Selection. He then trailed around at the back on a borrowed machine in Heat 13. The last three heats were 5-1, 4-2 and 5-1. Larry Ross is now 53 years old, once of Wimbledon and Halifax fame. He used all his 'experience', well OK actually it was blatant cheating, at the starts to make sure he usually made the first corner first. Bunyan outgated him in their first meeting but he returned the favour in Heat 12 and held on in the fastest time to that point. Aldridge beat that time in the last race by another .5 of a second. The race callers had dubbed him "Rolling Ross" by the end of the meeting. Andrew Bargh looked good until his bike problems. Andrew Aldridge had a good meeting and had a similar pace to Bunyan in his only defeat but never looked like getting past. I hope he does well at Rye House and can break into a Premier League side. Grant Tregoning the U21 Champion needs to get out of the gate quicker. Again he seemed to be able to run at a similar pace to the other high scorers but was always giving them a start. Andrew Tree, Jade Mudgeway, Mitchell McCardy and Alex Cunningham all tried hard, with Tree winning the flying farewell beating Tregoning. There were 29 heats in all including the supporting classes , Sidecars, 500's and Juniors. There was a couple of great battles in the Juniors and the rest of the racing was pretty good. To all those Eastbourne fans who complain about the toilet facilities at Arlington come to Ronnie Moore Park and then you'd never complain again!!! The women usually queue for ages to use the two portaloos and the guys head off into the pine forest in preference to the "facilities". Mind you the barbeque run by the local Scout group as a fundraiser was excellent value. Congratulations to everybody who arranged the meeting at such short notice and were rewarded with a much larger crowd than were there the last time I visited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searley Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Andrew Aldridge 2,3,3,3 (11) Andrew Aldridge had a good meeting and had a similar pace to Bunyan in his only defeat but never looked like getting past. I hope he does well at Rye House and can break into a Premier League side. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Really looking forward to seeing him at Rye. He could turn out very special indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 (edited) Heat details Elf won toss and choose 1-3 Heat 1 Bunyan, Aldridge, Cox, Long --------3-3 -- Elf 3 NZ 3 Heat 2 Cunningham, Bagshaw, Mason, Lang --------3-3 -- Elf 6 NZ 6 Heat 3 Ross, Mudgway, McHardy, Tree --------3-3 -- Elf 9 NZ 9 Heat 4 Bargh, Tregoning, Lang, Bagshaw --------3-3 -- Elf 12 NZ 12 Heat 5 Aldridge, Mudgway, McHardy, Cox --------3-3 -- Elf 15 NZ 15 Heat 6 Bunyan, Tregoning, Cunningham, Long -----3-3 -- Elf 18 NZ 18 Heat 7 Ross, Bargh, Tree, Bagshaw --------2-4 -- Elf 20 NZ 22 Heat 8 Long, Cox, Mason, Lang --------4-2 -- Elf 24 NZ 24 Heat 9 Tregoning, McHardy, Mudgway, Cunningham - 3-3 -- Elf 27 NZ 27 Heat 10 Bunyan, Ross, Tree, Long -----3-3 -- Elf 30 NZ 30 Heat 11 Aldridge,Cox, Mason, Bargh EF -----1-5 -- Elf 31 NZ 35 Heat 12 Ross, Bunyan, Tregoning, McHardy --------2-4 -- Elf 33 NZ 39 Heat 13 Aldridge, Tree, Mudgway, Bargh -----1-5 --- Elf 34 NZ 44 Bargh on borrowed bike Elf Oil All Stars 34 1 Jason Bunyan, 3,3,3,2 (11) 2 Michael Long 0,0,3,0 (3) 3 Andrew Bargh 3,2,EF,0 (5) 4 Mitchell McHardy 1',1',2,0 (4)+2 . .6th U21 5 Jade Mudgway 2,2,1',1 (6)+1 . .2nd U21 6 Karl Bagshaw 2,0,0 (2) . .8th u21 7 Sean Mason 1',1,1' (3)+2 . .14yrs old 12th U21 (first competitive meeting on 500cc) NZ Selection 44 1 Andrew Aldridge 2,3,3,3 (11) 2 Sean Cox 1',0,2,2 (5)+1 3 Grant Tregoning 2,2,3,1 (8) . .1st U21 4 Andrew Tree 0,1,1',2' (4)+2 . .4th U21 5 Larry Ross 3,3,2,3 (11) 6 Alex Cunningham 3,1',0, (4)+1 . .7th U21 7 Cory Lang 0,1',0 (1)+1 . .15 yrs old 13th U21 Best meeting this season in NZ from Kiwi Speedway Forum Edited February 4, 2008 by kiwi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 I can't believe Larry Ross is still going strong.Not sure if that says a lot about him or the standard of speedway in NZ nowadays.Almost a pity Mitch Shirra wasn't there as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeyenz Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 (edited) I can't believe Larry Ross is still going strong.Not sure if that says a lot about him or the standard of speedway in NZ nowadays.Almost a pity Mitch Shirra wasn't there as well <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I believe Larry only started riding again last season. Larry beat Bunyan in the fastest time of the day to that point in Heat 12 but the standard in NZ is weak. I think it is improving but these guys need to have more competative meetings. More of them need to get to a point where they can ride professionally and then the bar will be raised for the next generation coming through. At the moment we have two Premier League reserve standard riders and a number who would score in the Conference League. Given the lack of interest and sponsorship in NZ it must be really hard for Kiwis to get across to Europe and allowing Commonwealth riders access to the Conference League will assist them up the ladder. It is a real shame Dale Finch was so badly injured last Easter. He is only seventeen (maybe 18 now) and was looking as talented as Ricky Wells at the time of his big crash. Mitch would probably spice it up a bit. I can still see him punching Kai Niemi in the pits at Arlington circa 1980 and then having a bit of a wrestling match with Bob Dugard as it all got a bit testy. Edited February 4, 2008 by hawkeyenz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariusz Dubi Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hello! When will take place NZ solo championship 2008? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normac Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hello! When will take place NZ solo championship 2008? this saturday nite, 23rd feb,at oreti park speedway,right down the bottom of the south island, 5pm start so dont be late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normac Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 NZ TITLE 1 JASON BUNYAN 15p 2 LARRY ROSS 13p 3 ANDREW BARGH 12p 4 ALEX CUNNINGHAM 12p 5 ANDY TREE 11p 6 JOHN TUFFLEY 10P 7 GRANT TREGONING 9p 8 ANDREW ALDRIDGE 7p was a run off between Bargh and Cunningham for third, Alex got the start but andrew cut back under him coming outa turn two and that was the race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Hats off to Larry ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delgado Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Any results of North Island Championships? Been told Jason Bunyan first, Andrew Bargh 2nd but have yet to receive full details Bryn More of that you can find now here D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicar Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 What happened with Andrew Tree? Any news? Does he really died?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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