Andrew Warnest

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DIV 2 SIDECAR CHAMPIONSHIP – THIS SATURDAY JANUARY 15TH @ GILLMAN SPEEDWAY

January 11, 2022 Filed Under: Dirt Track, News, SA Women in Motorcycling, Speedway, State Championship

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DIV 2 SIDECAR CHAMPIONSHIP – THIS SATURDAY JANUARY 15^TH @ GILLMAN SPEEDWAY

AND; well supported by the Gillman Speedway Solo Championship.

ALSO; Flat track solos and SA’s awesome junior ‘stars of the future’!

Gate Open; 4.00pm, with FREE Parking.

Tapes up; Juniors from 6.00pm and Seniors from 7.00pm

To get in; Adults $25.00 Concession $20.00 Children U/16 FREE

Food & drinks; Full canteen & bar service all night, plus the Gillman Souvenir Shop will be open.

ALSO; buy a Programme for only $5.00, with a chance to win 1 of 2 $50.00 fuel vouchers.

FULL details and rider list www.gillmanspeedway.com

COVID contact tracing at entry gates

MASKS to be worn whilst lining up and being served at gate, sign-in, bar, canteen and souvenirs.

NO MASK NO SERVICE (For your protection and our workers)

Get along to Gillman Speedway this Saturday night for another exciting chapter in the history of this great venue, with the crowning of the SA Div 2 Sidecar Championship, as well as the Gillman Solo Championship.

With a warm night forecast, grab the family and get down there early to have a wander through the pits, and then head to a prime viewing area to see some of SA’s awesome junior talent on display from 6.00pm – and including 2021 SA Champion, Harry Sadler, along with fellow MSA Rising Star nominee, Ashley Jansen-Batchelor – and the next generation coming through like Kobi Channing and Riley Stout – you won’t regret getting there early to see these future stars!

Then head to the brilliant canteen for a feed before settling in for the main event(s) – and who to watch – well, here we go!

SA Div 2 Sidecar Champs; Previous results from this season means there could be up to 5 teams, and maybe more, who could come out on top – but whoever wins, it will mean that they will have had to have ridden a great meeting to do it – so look to Kym Menadue / Shane Dolan, Aaron Silvy / Jaron Silvy, Thomas Adams / Jaxon Rayner, Brian Silvy / Damian Egan and Mitchell Spear / Glen Zaworski to lead the way on the night. Going to be such a good night’s racing!

In the Gillman Solo Championship – you would think Internationals Liam May & Brayden McGuiness would lead the way, but with a heap of interstaters present, it should go down to a great final to end a close night’s racing!

Photo credits to the brilliant Judy Mackay – with thanks!

South Australian Div 2 Sidecar Championship Riders;

Aaron Silvy / Jaron Silvy

Paul Snadden / Greg Black

Adam Pascoe / Tim Wegner

Wayne Lethbridge / Grant Simounds

Brian Silvy / Damian Egan

Thomas Adams / Jaxon Rayner

Mitchell Spear / Glen Zaworski

Dean Hobbs / Daniel Low

Matt Crundwell / Jamie Crundwell

Danial Puddy / Byron Mordaunt

Tim Bichard / Brendan Marsh

Kym Menadue / Shane Dolan

Photo credits to the brilliant Judy Mackay – with thanks!

Gillman Solo Championship Riders;

Blake Ridley

Liam May

Dayle Wood (Vic)

Teagan Pedler

Declan Knowles (Vic)

Jake Turner (NZ)

Steven Graetz

Brayden McGuinness

Shaun Sampson

Patrick Hamilton (Vic)

Michael West (NSW)

Jackson Milner (Vic)

Jack Morrison (Vic)

Aden Clare (NSW)

And don’t forget also – Make Volunteering your 2022 Resolution – every Club will need a hand at some point during the year, so give just one day this year – cook a BBQ, serve in the canteen, help at sign on, pick up a flag point, help prep the track and the venue the day before – all it does at the end of the day, is benefit you and your kids!

2022 MOTOCROSS DATES – SO FAR – PRINT IT OFF AND PUT IT ON THE SHED FRIDGE DOOR!

January 10, 2022 Filed Under: Motocross, News, SA Women in Motorcycling, SAMX Championship

2022 MOTOCROSS DATES – SO FAR – PRINT IT OFF AND PUT IT ON THE SHED FRIDGE DOOR!

Huge thanks to all of the motocross clubs that were very pro-active in the lead up to the Christmas / New Year break in supplying us with their dates for 2022 – club and/or open dates!

As you can see below, there are already some 40 motocross events scheduled for 2022, with more to come – and happening now with Coaching Days and Come & Try Days coming up through January at MRA with their exciting new Rev Rookies Program (which is brilliant to see).

Any clubs that have not as yet scheduled their dates and forwarded them to MSA – feel free to send them in – projects@motorcyclingsa.org.au – and this calendar of dates will be updated and re-released – so the one on the fridge door can be replaced – and so everyone can keep up with, what is shaping up to be, a huge year of MX action in SA!

Get around it, start planning the year and support the clubs that are going above and beyond to give everyone a place to ride – and almost every weekend as well!

Says SA Motocross Sports Manager Clint Gow-Smith, “I am so excited for 2022 and the SAMX Community that we have coming together – and we will only get stronger together, so lets hit those tracks in 2022 and make it an unbelievably huge year for the sport in 2022 – GET KEEN & FIRE UP!

** For those who got in quick – the MRA Club Day scheduled for Sunday 27th Feb has been cancelled – the calendar has been changed to reflect this.

And don’t forget also – Make Volunteering your 2022 Resolution – every Club will need a hand at some point during the year, so give just one day this year – cook a BBQ, serve in the canteen, help at sign on, pick up a flag point, help prep the track the day before – all it does at the end of the day, is benefit you and your kids!

MAKE VOLUNTEERING YOUR 2022 RESOLUTION

January 6, 2022 Filed Under: All disciplines, News, SA Women in Motorcycling

MAKE VOLUNTEERING YOUR 2022 RESOLUTION

Definition of volunteering

‘Volunteering is time willingly given for the common good and without financial gain’

It is also what our clubs, our riders and our sport depend on to make the sport we all love happen!

Put simply, without the thousands of volunteers around South Australia that put the time in to making the sport happen – it wouldn’t happen!

So, for 2022, Motorcycling SA’s catch cry will be;

Make Volunteering your 2022 Resolution!

Help out just once in 2022 at your Club, or at an event, and make a huge difference to our sport.

It doesn’t take much, and those who will benefit include your family members – like YOUR children – and your friends – so really, you’re just helping out your mates!

Here’s just some of the things you can offer to help out with;

Serving in the canteen or cooking the BBQ
As a flag marshal or as a sweep rider
As a timekeeper or a lap scorer
Running a control or a check-point
As an observer
Or assisting at sign on and/or scrutineering

Or ask your Club what you can do to make our great sport better in 2022!

None of the positions listed above require you to have an accredited officials licence, and all you need to do is sign on the Volunteers Sign On Sheet and you are covered under MAIL insurance for your time.

Make Volunteering your 2022 Resolution!

What is volunteering?

Volunteering is time willingly given for the common good and without financial gain. This definition was developed by Volunteering Australia to cover a range of activities that Australians take part in. The definition was expanded upon in a series of explanatory notes.

According to Volunteering Australia:

“The term ‘volunteering’ covers a wide diversity of activities in Australian society. It includes formal volunteering that takes place within organisations (including institutions and agencies) in a structured way, and informal volunteering, acts that take place outside the context of a formal organisation.

While the vast majority of volunteering is undertaken by individuals, entities also donate employee time and this is included within this definition of volunteering.

Volunteering should not be exploitative or be used to replace paid employment. While volunteering provides substantial benefits to society, importantly it also provides significant benefits to the volunteers themselves. The personal benefits of volunteering need to be recognised and fostered.” (Volunteering Australia)

CHRISTMAS CLOSURE!

December 23, 2021 Filed Under: All disciplines, News, SA Women in Motorcycling

2021 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS – THAT’S A WRAP!

December 20, 2021 Filed Under: News, Road Racing, SA Women in Motorcycling, State Championship

2021 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS – THAT’S A WRAP!

The 2021 SA Road Race season finale was held at The Bend East circuit November 27^th and 28^th. With very few riders ever seeing the track prior to the meeting, it promised to be something very exciting, and that’s exactly what it delivered.

The season was run over 4 separate rounds held at each of the state’s circuits, with an interclub round at Phillip Island unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19. But last weekend, all of the racers were glad to be back racing again for their last attempt to secure valuable series points to add to those from Mallala and Mac Park races earlier in the year.

With many newcomers showing great speed very early, some older racers developing their race craft throughout the year and representing the state in this year’s ASBK Championship and not to mention the introduction of the bLU cRU SA Junior Cup series, the 2022 season is shaping up to be one of our best ever!

Huge congratulations to the 2021 South Australian Road Race podiums, and thanks to all who rode and supported the 2021 Championship, and as has become the norm, COVID played its part that makes it hard for everyone to plan!

2021 South Australian Road Race Champions

SUPERBIKE

2021 SA Champion: Jamie Banks

2^ndplace: Paul Van der Heiden

3^rdplace: Michael Kemp

SUPERSPORT

2021 SA Champion: Declan Carberry

2^ndplace: Charles Holding

3^rdplace: Paul Van der Heiden

PRODUCTION 300

2021 SA Champion: Mitchell Simpson

2^ndplace: Jordan Simpson

3^rdplace: Gordon Hensley

JUNIOR

2021 SA Champion: Samuel Pezzetta

2^ndplace: Rikki Henry

3^rdplace: Ryder Gilbert

PRE-MODERN ‘06

2021 SA Champion: Jamie Banks

2^ndplace: Dwayne Tosen

3^rdplace: Glen Marchiori

LIMITED

2021 SA Champion: Ben Liebig

2^ndplace: Gordon Hensley

3^rdplace: Darren Trotter

NAKED BIKE

2021 SA Champion: Ben Liebig

2^ndplace: Mick Fisher

3^rdplace: David Williams

Photos by the very brilliant Rebecca Bowdidge from Pit Lane Studios – with thanks!

AREA 99’S FIRST COACHING DAY AT NURIOOTPA, WITH SOME OF THE bLU cRU SA JUNIOR CUP RIDERS TAKING UP THE INVITE!

December 20, 2021 Filed Under: Coaches, News, Road Racing, SA Women in Motorcycling

AREA 99’S FIRST COACHING DAY AT NURIOOTPA, WITH SOME OF THE bLU cRU SA JUNIOR CUP RIDERS TAKING UP THE INVITE!

A pretty special day on Saturday, December 18th in Nuriootpa, at Robinson Park Go-Kart Circuit, with the very first coaching day for junior road race being run by Will Strugnell’s AREA 99, and taking up the invite, and in preparation of the bLU cRU 2022 SA Junior Cup, were a number of riders brand new to road race!

Huge congrats to Will Strugnell as the head coach, who was supported by Kym & Allan Bolto, for the drive in getting all of this off the ground at this new venue – with thanks also to the go-kart crew for opening their gate!!

Robinson Park, it turns out, is an ideal venue for junior road race coaching, a good selection of corners, breaking points and it’s ideal for the 150cc bikes and smaller! So good to have a venue like this now available for junior road race development – well done to Struggie & Area 99 who has made it possible!

The new riders who attended the day were; Tomi Doble, Cooper Pitt, Seth and Ethan Dellow, Lucas Warren, Declan Smart and Fred Barry, as well as current riders Rikki Henry & Cooper Rowntree who were there as well lending a hand.

It was fun to see the riders who were new to bitumen finding their feet – and keeping them on the pegs – as the day went on, with a couple of motocross lads in Declan Smart and Tomi Doble, taking to it like ducks to water, with all present improving as the day went on!

Current Supersport 300 competitor, 2018 MSA Rising Star Award finalist for road race, Cooper Rowntree lent a hand with the coaching, and said Kym, “And a special thanks Cooper Rowntree for the corner demo’s for the Juniors, great job.”
And said Cooper, “What a great day riding the r15 in Nuriootpa at Barossa go-kart track. A day of skill based training with a bunch of amazing people Kym Bolto and Willy Strugnell for inviting us. Looking forward to returning #yamaha #practicing #R15 #asbk #bLUcRU“

It was also cool to see Rikki and his Dad there as well. Fresh from his wildcard ride at The Bend in the Oceania Junior Cup, it was great to see the 2021 MSA Rising Star nominee helping by showing the new riders the fast way around the track!