After the first half of the Olympic Park season has been chock full of top Solo speedway action, with the successful conduct of two Australian Championships, this Saturday night sees the break out of the Sidecars into great three wheeled action, with the conduct of the annual Sidecar Shootout, with the winning team taking the coveted “Dudley Bradshaw Trophy.”
The line up is star studded with the current and former Australian Champions in the field. Mark Mitchell and Tom Golding have again started their season quietly, much the same as they did last season, when they planned their peak at exactly the right meeting of the year. Five times Champ, Darrin Treloar, with Justin Plaisted on board, has taken the exact opposite route to the Easter Title at Newcastle, by riding just about everything that is possible, including another Australian Long Track Title together at Tamworth just a couple of weeks ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Olympic Park’s permanent Arena Motorcross will light up to the thrills of the jumps when the annual January Arena Motorcross event will be staged this Saturday night.
Good fields have entered in each division, with some of the best riders entered in the top division, especially locals, Ryan Grayling and Jason Wood, who will not have things their own way against Josh Spanos who has just completed the International SuperX Series; the city based Supercross, which starred the great Australian World Champion Chad Reed, amongst a scintillating line up of top flight Australian and overseas riders.
Grayling has now had two full seasons at the top level of Australian motorcross and has picked up his skill level accordingly, while Wood continues to challenge some good riders at every event which he contests.
Grayling will use the Mildura meeting to sharpen his fitness as the 2010 Australian Motorcross Championships begin not too far into the New Year. He will enjoy the competition with some riders who he races regularly, especially Spanos, as the young Riverlander did particularly well in his first tryout at International status competition. Spanos is a good rider and on the short version of the jumps should be able to give the local riders some stick when it comes to maintaining higher corner speed and being more efficient on the jumps, not losing ground by taking too much air off each jump. Spanos had some good mid pack results in the touring SuperX circus, which travelled all around the Nation’s Capitals and some major eastern seaboard venues in NSW and Queensland. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday night’s Mildura Speedway Masters saw a great all round performance from all participants, with Justin Sedgmen taking the major honours in the Solos with Jason Bradshaw and Simon Cohrs taking the chocolates in the Sidecar division. Troy Mills was the winner of the Quads Masters final from Lachy Mannes and Nathan Mills.
Byren Gates and Mick O’Loughlin dominated the Sidecar heats of the Masters, recording four great wins, but were always under challenge from the Bradshaw / Cohrs team and Ouyen’s Munro brothers, Scott and Kane, who have now garaged the Header and gone to the faster and more powerful option. The Munro’s riding has improved greatly and now that plenty of track time can be assured with the wheat harvest done, we are likely to see further improvement, as they are now mixing it with the top Mildura riders. Read the rest of this entry »
Olympic Park will host a fabulous Sidecars, Solos and Quads Masters meeting this Saturday night, with a great line up of talent all vying for the status of being the Mildura Master.
A return of Sidecar racing will have the crowd excited, as for the last few weeks, the Sidecars have ridden just as support events to the major Solo Championships conducted at Olympic Park.
Patrons will be pleased to see a top lineup of chairs, with some the top locals engaged in a titanic struggle for supremacy. Regular stars, Byren Gates / Mick O’Loughlin, Jason Bradshaw / Simon Cohrs, Clint Mayes / Jamie Knudsen and Chris Holmes / Neale Hancock plus Ouyen’s Munro brothers, Scott and Kane, Melton based, Mark Radford / Steven Stagg and Simon Hartley / Nathan Chisholm, as well as Broken Hill’s, Rick Stephens / Dean Hobbs, makes an electric eight team field to contest the “Masters†title. Read the rest of this entry »
World Under 21 Champion, Darcy Ward, from Queensland, won the SportZprint 2010Â Australian Under 21 Speedway Championship at Olympic Park last Saturday night, his second consecutive Title. Finishing second was Justin Sedgmen, who has capped off a wonderful first twelve months as a senior rider.
Ward did not win the Championship easily and was only the third qualifier to the event final.
Leading the points score after the twenty heats of the event was young NSW rider, Sam Masters, who scored fourteen points for the night, only dropping one point to eventual third place man, Josh Auty from England. Masters worked the track well, using his good starting and good corner speed to advantage. Read the rest of this entry »
The SportZprint 2010 Australian Under 21 Speedway Championship will see the cream of Australia’s young speedway talent on display at Mildura’s Olympic Park track this Saturday night.
Amongst the rider’s list will be the current World Under 21 Champion, Darcy Ward, from Queensland, who took the World crown against massive odds back in the European summer of 2009. Ward was able to blast both the top two fancied riders away, so look out at Olympic Park, as Ward should start as hot meeting favourite. Read the rest of this entry »
The cream of Australia’s young speedway riders will be in action at Mildura’s Olympic Park Speedway next Saturday, 16th January when the SportZprint 2010 Australian Under 21 Speedway Championship is conducted at the famous venue.
Many of the riders were engaged in the senior Solo championship meeting, the last of the three rounds was held at the Newcastle Showgrounds last weekend, where local rider, Justin Sedgmen, knocked the series leader and anticipated winner, Troy Batchelor, from his perch, by thrashing him in heat four, which put paid to his chances of the Title. A third place in that heat behind Sedgmen and fellow local, Cory Gathercole, was enough to relegate Batchelor. Read the rest of this entry »
An injury to promising young NSW rider, Alex Davies, at the final round of the Australian Championship final round at Newcastle last weekend, has left the young man with a chipped elbow, putting paid to his podium chances at Mildura this Saturday night, in the 2010 SportZprint Australian Under 21 Title meeting.
Davies showed good form during the three rounds of the senior series and was looking forward to coming back to Olympic Park to contest the Under 21 crown. Davies will be replaced in the field by lone SA rider, Robert Branford, making the first reserve, fellow SA rider, Ben Hatcliffe and coming from NSW will be Nick Rowe to take the second reserve position. Read the rest of this entry »
The cream of Australia’s young speedway riders will be in action at Mildura’s Olympic Park Speedway next Saturday, 16th January, when the SportZprint 2010 Australian Under 21 Speedway Championship is conducted at the famous venue.
Many of the riders are currently engaged in the senior Solo championship meeting, the last of the three rounds is being held at the Newcastle Showgrounds on Saturday 9th January.
A strong field on riders have nominated for the Under 21 meeting, which will feature the current World Under 21 Champion, Darcy Ward, from Queensland. Ward has a couple of compatriots in Josh Grajczonek and Tyson Nelson in the field, but the current field is jam packed with young talented riders from NSW. One Queenslander, Mitchell Davey, has withdrawn from the meeting citing expense of travel after just having been at Mildura and not making it through the senior Title Qualifying meeting as a problem for him.
The large group of New South Welshmen includes, Alex Davies, Sam Masters, Richard Sweetman, Hugh Skidmore, Michael Penfold, Taylor Poole, Mason Campton and Todd Kurtz.
These riders will be pitted against the Victorians, who include local riders, Ryan and Justin Sedgmen, Jake Anderson and Dakota North and the lone Englishman, Josh Auty. Read the rest of this entry »
A great night of hot speedway action greeted fans at Mildura’s Olympic Park Speedway on Wednesday night when the Club hosted the Coomealla Memorial Sporting Club’s 2010 Australian Title Qualifying meeting.
Local fans were generous in the praise of young Justin Sedgmen, who finished the meeting in second place overall, as one of the six riders who qualified through the meeting to contest the 2010 Australian Solo Title series, which will be held over three rounds over the next ten days.
Rob Ksiezak (SA) , finished on top with 13 points from Sedgmen (12), with Queenslander Josh Grajczonek and NSW youngster, Alex Davies tied on 11 points. In fifth place was English visitor, Josh Auty (10) with the sixth and final qualifying place requiring a run-off to decide between Joe Haines (England), James Holder (NSW) and Dakota North (Vic) on nine points each. An eventful race saw North fall in turn three of the third lap which forced Referee, Mr Rob Perks, to stop the race prematurely, giving the race win, and therefore the last qualifying position to James Holder as it was deemed that he was substantially in front of the young Englishman, who was given second place. North, by virtue of the fall took seventh place in the meeting. Read the rest of this entry »
