Australia 2008/2009

[Bryn]

Awaiting full details but have heard top three in Queensland Under 21 title as follows:

 

1. Darcy Ward

2. Josh Grajczonek

3. Kozza Smith

[Bagpuss]

Up the Stars

[em1500uk]

Well done to Darcy and Kozza

[sean blyth]

well done darcy if thats the result

[Andrew E]

well done darcy so happy we got him

[em1500uk]

Sixteen year old Darcy Ward won the Qld Under 21 Championship at Pioneer Park last night in one of the most thrilling finals seen for a long time. Josh Grajczonek was first away, with Ward breathing down his neck for two laps, before the two began swapping places in close proximity until the chequered flag fell on Ward.

 

Just behind them, another duel was fought between Kozza Smith and Mitchell Davey. Smith had come through the heats unbeaten and had first choice of gate. He chose Gate 4 but found himself high in the heavy dirt going through the first bend and lost ground on the others.

 

Steven Reid looked a threat, and but for fall in his last outing, would have pipped Davey for the fourth spot in the final. Smith conjured up a masterly escape as Reid got out of shape in front of him.

 

Kyle Newman also took a heavy tumble, in his last race. The young Englishman's engine failed coming through pits bend and he "bailed out" to avoid riding into the fence. However he slid into the wall backwards at speed and was checked by the ambulance before regaining his feet. Newman's first ride was bottler, when he rode side by side with Hugh Skidmore for a lap, before pulling away.

 

Ashley Cathcart's first and third race falls effectively knocked him out of contention. Damien Koppe was another to bite the dust, squandering a second place which he had all sewn up. Skidmore and Ryan McManus each had a turn at flipping their bikes out of the tapes. The best race of the heats saw Grajczonek lead away from Ward, Smith and Skidmore. In a massive outside sweep, Smith jumped into the lead and the fight was on. However, none could gain any further advantage over another.

 

Davey had early chain and engine problems which seemed likely to ruin his chances, but he fought back, making his clash with Ward a memorable race. Davey got the jump on Ward and fended him off, as Ward made every effort for an outside pass, with the two crossing the line less than a bike length apart.

 

Heat Points: Kozza Smith (NSW) 15, Josh Grajczonek 13, Darcy Ward 13, Mitchell Davey 12, Steven Reid 10, Hugh Skidmore (NSW) 9, Kyle Newman (UK) 8, Damien Koppe 8, Ashley Cathcart 7, Mitchell Weismantel 7, Kurt Palmer 3, Ryan McManus 3, Matt Pilcher 3.

 

Final: 1. Darcy Ward, 2. Josh Grajczonek, 3. Kozza Smith, 4. Mitchell Davey.

There ya go

Edited December 1, 2008 by em1500uk

[Trackman]

Rory Schlein A Hot Favourite For The Jack Young Cup At Gillman

Author : Gillman Media

 

Rory Schlein will start as the red-hot favourite to win the Jack Young Cup at Gillman Speedway this Saturday night (6 December).

 

The four-times South Australian Champion has just returned from a season competing in the British, Swedish and Polish Leagues and should have too much experience for his rivals in the Cup which he previously won in 2005.

 

Also making their first appearances since returning from the British League season are Arlo Bugeja and Aaron Summers. Summers finished third in the Victorian Championship last weekend so could be the biggest threat to Schlein.

 

Other riders include Victorians, Tom Hedley, who was fourth in the Victorian Championship, Justin Sedgmen – who won the Ivan Mauger Golden Helmet meeting at Gillman on 8 Nov, Jake Anderson, who won the Golden Helmet meeting at Renmark the previous weekend, and Brock Gates.

 

16-year-old English rider Kyle Newman returns for his final Gillman appearance before returning home to England, and former international rider Nigel Sadler will make a rare appearance. Sadler was forced to retire by illness, but still wants to ride, and will be appearing at selected Gillman meetings. He had intended riding in the Golden Helmet meeting but injured his wrist at a winter practice session.

 

The late Jack Young was the first rider to win the World Speedway Championship and remains South Australia’s greatest-ever rider.

 

Backing up the Jack Young Cup will be a strong field of Sidecars, split into two divisions.

 

Division 1 will feature six of last season’s Australian Championship field - Darrin Treloar, Mick Headland, Mark Plaisted and Mark Mitchell, who were the four finalists in the Best of the Best Clash of Champions at the last meeting, plus Kane Irwin and Damien Niesche.

 

English rider Mick Cave will head the division 2 field against Trent Headland, Tim Bichard, Jack Spear, Brenton Dwyer, Daniel Puddy, Keith Bichard and Steve Hentschel.

 

For the first time the support events will also include races for Encourage grade Solos and 350cc Junior Solos.

 

The Encourage grade will include Victoria's Mitch Goodwin and local riders Daniel Mutton, Ben Hatcliffe, Frank Graham and Adam Briggs.

 

Four riders - Robert Branford, Brenton Barnfield (Vic), Robert Medson and Tylor Thompson - will ride in the 350cc events, which are for riders under 16 competing on the main track on full size bikes, but with 350cc engines instead of the normal 500cc.

 

The 125cc juniors, including 2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup qualifier Arthur Sissis, will compete on the infield track as per normal.

 

Racing starts at 7.30 pm. This will be the last meeting before Christmas, with the next meeting, the South Australian Sidecar Championship, on 27 December.

 

Regards.

[gatesy50]

From Motorcycling Australia web sit.

 

December 5, 2008

Speedway action goes live to the world

 

 

ImageSpeedway action in Mildura during the early stages of 2009 will be beamed live around the World, following an announcement from Mildura Motor Cycle Club this week.

 

Recent sponsorship for both the Australian Solo Speedway Title - on 7th January 2009 - and the Australian Sidecar Speedway Title, on 29th March 2009 has allowed the Club to contract Big Screens Australia to provide an on site telecast of the events as they happen, including action replays”.

 

“We have had the big screen before, but this season we are fortunate to have both major title events and a new season partnership deal with beverage supplier, Independent Distillers, has enabled us to contract the screen for both meetings,” Gledhill said.

 

“The Australian Sidecar Championship has never had on course coverage before, but we will provide that coverage in March of 2009.”

 

In another first for the Mildura Club and for Australian Speedway, these events will both be streamed live on the Internet in addition to the screen being at both events.

 

“People from all over the world will be able to take the live feed, for the payment of a small fee,” Gledhill said.

 

“Big Screens Australia will bring a whole new dimension to the titles.

 

“Being able to watch replays of incidents and the racing will elevate the professionalism and event presentation to a completely new level, not seen anywhere in Australia before”, Gledhill continued.

 

“It will add great atmosphere to an already energetic live event – viewed live on the Woodstock Big Screen” he added.

 

“For people around Australia and the rest of the world to view either meeting as they happen will be a unique experience.

 

“Solo racing is incredibly popular in UK, Sweden and Poland, where local speedway ace, Leigh Adams competes regularly and is so highly regarded.

 

“It is also popular in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and other Nations, where, through this capacity, people will be able to log on to the Internet, pay a small fee and watch the meeting evolve as it happens.

 

“Many fans around the World will be keen to see if Adams can claim his tenth Australian Title”.

 

The live stream will be available to Europe in mid-morning, so it should have the potential to attract a large international audience.

 

“We are very pleased to be a part of these events,” Big Screens Australia Manager Steve Timmis said.

 

“The Mildura Motor Cycle Club was the first motorcycle Club in Australia to use the Big Screen concept for the Aussie Solo Title in 2007 and they are now setting the benchmark again, being the first to use the giant 40 square metre Woodstock Screen for an Australian Sidecar Title as well and stream both major events out live on the Internet.

 

“Sidecar speedway is not as popular in Europe, but is going through a massive growth in England, so there should be quite a few English fans log on to the Sidecars as well.

 

“We expect plenty of contact from Australian fans, not able to make the tour for the three round Solo series in January as well as good numbers of folk, who will not be able to get to Mildura for the big three day Sidecar Championship weekend, from 27th to 29th March,” Timmis concluded.

 

The growth and significance of Mildura as a major motor sports venue in Australia has already been widely recognized, particularly through the Easter Power Sports Group, but the capacity for people from all over the World to watch events live from Mildura will further this growth.

 

The Woodstock Big Screen will be at Mildura’s Olympic Park on Wednesday 7th January 2009, for the Solo meeting and on Sunday 29th March 2009, for the Sidecar Title event.

 

Both of these events can be watched live on the Internet by following the link on www.milduramotorcycle.org.au.

[BigFatDave]

Sam Martin has come into tonight's Jack Young Cup line-up as a late replacement for Brock Gates who has been injured at work.

[spiderweb]

Sam Martin has come into tonight's Jack Young Cup line-up as a late replacement for Brock Gates who has been injured at work.

 

 

Should be a good night just getting ready to leave for gillman pick you up from the royal ars# at 6pm? LOL.

[BigFatDave]

Should be a good night just getting ready to leave for gillman pick you up from the royal ars# at 6pm? LOL.

I wish!! Just back from my Dietician (yes go ahead & cack yerself!), I've lost 200 grams in the last month!! At this rate by the time I'm ninety I'll be NotSoBigFatDave!!

 

Should be a ripper meeting; Go ROOBOY!

 

I see Ronny Bar - ooops, sorry, Parker is making good on his latest threat to retire.

[Bavarian]

Get fit with Arthur Dunger, then! See how it goes here mate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tED12irUKEg

[Sandie]

Latest news from Jack Young Cup -

There is one heat race to go before the semi finals.

Rory Schlein is automatically into the final having won all his heats. Despite having a bad stomach upset (thats the polite words - and not what the text said!!)

 

Nigel Sadler is also going well.

 

6 races to go before the final.

 

I dont have any more detail - next text will be after the final.+

 

EDIT:

Riders for the final are: Schlein (12)

Summers (9)

Bugeja (8)

Sadler (8)

 

 

 

2nd EDIT

Meeting won by Summers

Schlein didnt get off the line and pulled off the track.

 

Congrats to Summer but a good run out for Rory as this is his only meet before the Aussie Titles start in January

 

 

Thanks to Lynette Schlein for the texts

 

 

Edited December 6, 2008 by Sandie

[em1500uk]

Any news of what's happening in the NSW State Championship?

[spiderweb]

Any news of what's happening in the NSW State Championship?

Hi folks

 

 

 

From the Aussie Yahoo site;

posted by Ron.

 

Just back from Gosford.

 

 

 

Chris Holder won the NSW Championships tonight. Apart from winning the final, he also scored a 15 point maximum.

 

Kozza Smith finished second in the final (13 points in qualifying for the final). Lee Herne finished third (11 points) and James Holder fourth (12 points) in the final. Bryn will probably update further once he has had his medicine.

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

 

Ron

 

 

 

 

 

Also from Lance;

Aussie Long Track from Brisbane,

Attended the meeting today very hot day, sidecar rider Kim French hit

the fence during practice and was taken to hospital. The meeting

started about a hour late and due to the heat there was lots of track

watering. 1100 cc Long Track Sidecar title was won by Ross Brown /

Craig Parsons from Micheal Kent / Karl England with third place going

to Paul Newman / Daniel Newman

The 250cc 4/ Solo title was won by the teenage rising speedway star in

Darcy Ward who was Unbeaten in the class all day, while slow out of

the tapes on his laydown machine, he came from behind all day passing

both inside and outside in spectacular fashion, although he only took

the lead on the last lap exiting turn 2 when race leader Jace Castles

fell, Darcy went on to a comfortable victory.

The Up to 450 cc 4/FTX class was the main event and approaching the

final Darcy Ward looked the one to beat, again unbeaten in this class

as well, he was away slowly and struggled to catch the early leaders.

The race for victory developed into a battle between Jace Castles and

Rohan Tungate over the last 2 laps with Jace Taking the lead from

Rohan exiting turn 2 on the last lap, although it could be questioned

as a yellow flag was being frantically waved for a fallen rider. Darcy

battled valiantly for fourth place, was a gutsy effort in the hot

conditions, only to come up short in his last race. Was some excellent

racing in all the classes on a long hot day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[em1500uk]

Thanks for that spiderweb

[spiderweb]

 

More from the JACK YOUNG CUP Gillman

 

Solos

> 1st A.Summers 2nd A.Bugeja 3rd N.Sadler 4th R.Schlein.

> Sidecars

> 1st M.Headland 2nd M.Mitchell 3rd D.Treloar 4th M.Plaisted

>

Division one sidecars raced hard with lots of passing.

Mick Headland half spining and hit for a slow flip .

But in the final it was Mick all the way.

 

Rory was in a class of his own winning every race but his bike failled

10 meters out of the gate!

UK rider Kyle Newman did not score a point!

 

There was a disapointing field of 9 riders.

 

350 solos had there first run at Gillman and were very fast Robert

Branford 3 wins Brenton Barnfeild 1 win times were only about a second

a lap slower than the big boys.

 

Division two sidecars was won by UK visitor Mick Cave from Jack spear

2nd Dwyer 3rd and Kieth Bitchard 4th

Solo encourage saw a couple of falls with Ben Hatcliffe falling and

Mitch Goodwin riding over the fallen bike. Adam Briggs also hit the

fence in a seperate race.

 

Juniors produced some good racing with Aurther Sissis starting 20

meters back carving up the othe 4 bikes for a win.

So next 3 races he started 40 meters back and came home 1st and two

2nds with 9 year old Dakota Ballantyne taking 3 wins.

full results on the Gillman web site Monday.

Ps it was only slightly warmer than the Best of the Best meeting!

 

 

 

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[Shortcrust]

Good times again for the KL boys, well done Kozza and Darcy!!

[Bryn]

NSW CJAMPS:

 

The things I do for you lot! Tis 6.16am here in downtown Manly and I didn't know this time existed on a Sunday morn! But I'm off down to see the kids compete in a surf carnival so here's a further update on last night.

 

16 riders - top four through to the final after 20 heats.

 

Heat scorers (in programme order): Tim Heffernan 4, Taylor Poole 2 (crashed 2nd ride - was told afterwards he was ok, bike wasn't! Tayor actually went THRU the fence that is wooden!), James Holder 12, Michael Dyer 1, Rick Wallace 1, Todd Kurtz 3, Chris Holder 15, Sam Masters 9, Michael Penfold 8, Lee Herne 11, Kozza Smith 13, Richard Sweetman 10 (fell in 1st ride - exc), Jay Herne 9, Kurt Shields 9, Alex Davies 6, Hugh Skidmore 6.

 

Final: all way - gotta go - off to beach!!!

[BigFatDave]

NSW CJAMPS:

 

The things I do for you lot! Tis 6.16am here in downtown Manly and I didn't know this time existed on a Sunday morn! But I'm off down to see the kids compete in a surf carnival so here's a further update on last night.

 

 

 

- gotta go - off to beach!!!

Surf Carnival, eh, Brynbach? Right!