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NEWS – LOCAL SPEEDWAY RIDER ASHLEY JANSEN-BATCHELOR 3RD PLACE IN THE AUSTRALIAN SPEEDWAY 125CC INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP

April 6, 2022 Filed Under: News, Speedway

Saturday night, Ashley competed in what was probably the most hotly contested Australian Championship in a number of years with 16 riders from all over Australia competing. This Championship was delayed more than 12 months due to Covid-19 Restrictions.

Ashley had a great night over his 5 heats progressing straight through to the final with only 1 point separating each of the top four riders and no single rider had won every one of their heats. Any one of the top four riders could have come away with the win. In the end NSW’s Beau Bailey come away with the win followed by WA’s Mitch Mcdermit, SA’s Ashley Jansen-Batchelor and SA’s Harry Sadler

Ashley said he was “really happy to have made the podium at an Australian Championship and it is really a dream come true. It was great to finish my 125cc racing career on a high!! I had not done a lot of 125cc racing this season so to finish in 3rd place is really something I am very happy with. It’s not everyday you get to say you are Australia’s Number 3 at your chosen sport so I would like to thank everyone that has helped get me here over the years, it means a lot to me.”

Ashley along with team mate Harry Sadler finished in 2nd place in The Best Pairs Australian Championship the following day.

RESULTS – TEAM SA 2ND AND 6TH AT THE CBS BINS 2022 AUSTRALIAN UNDER 16 125cc TEAMS (BEST PAIRS) CHAMPIONSHIPS

April 5, 2022 Filed Under: News, Speedway

Motorcycling SA’s official State Teams, Team SA, featured for the first time in 2022 at the CBS Bins Australian Under 16 125cc Speedway Championships, held at Sidewinders Speedway over the weekend of April 1-3 2022.

Team SA had 2 teams entered for the Championships, and were led by the defending Champions (from 2020 – thanks to COVID there was no 2021 Championship), Harry Sadler and Ashley Jansen-Batchelor in Team 1, with Team 2 being made up by debutants, Kobi Canning and Darcey Timmis.

In mixed results, Hazza & Ash finished with the Silver Medals this time, with the Western Australian team of Mitchell McDiarmid and Linkin Metcalf extracting a little revenge by reversing the result from 2 years ago. It went down to the 6^th round of heats to decide the winners, with WA sneaking in by a solitary point, 25-24.

Darce and Kobi had a troubled day, being beset by mechanical woes (Darcey whilst leading home an SA 1-2 in their 2^nd heat), and a couple of crashes where fatigue seemed to be the contributing factor, especially as it was a huge 3 day event, with this final day being run in warm conditions, with little or no rest between heats, but still managed to finish in the top 6 at their first attempt.

OVERALL	NO.	RIDER		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	TOTAL	TOTAL
2	3	Ashley Jansen-Batchelor	Team SA 1	3	1	1	3	2	3	13	24
	4	Harry Sadler	Team SA 1	2	2	2	0	3	2	11
6	13	Kobi Canning	Team SA 2	3	3	2	1	E	N	9	11
	14	Darcey Timmis	Team SA 2	0	R	R	0	1	1	2
	RESERVES
	17	Haydon Kuchel	Team SA 2						0

Shout out also to Haydon Kuchel, who subbed in for Kobi for the last heat, great to see Haydon get a ride as a Reserve and see what teams riding is all about!

All up, it was still a great effort by our 4 riders, who will be among the youngest to represent SA this year, and with the talent also coming through, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a team from South Australia on this podium for many years to come!

Huge well done to all, and their teams behind the scenes (read parents!) who helped them get to the meeting, the MSA Speedway Sports Manager, Adam Possingham, who acted as Team SA Team Manager for the event.

Next up for Team SA should be the endure crew who will be taking on the best in Australia at the Australian 4 Day Enduro Championships in Victoria at the start of May – stay tuned ……

Team SA 2022 – (from left) Adam Possingham, Harry Sadler, Ashley Jansen-Batchelor, Kobi Canning, Darcey Timmis

Harry Sadler, Ashley Jansen Batchelor

Kobi Canning, Darcey Timmis

Harry & Ashley with their runner up awards

All pics – Terry Scriven (Terry’s Proshots Photography)

SIDEWINDERS PUT ON AN AWESOME WEEKEND OF SKIDZ WITH NSW’S BEAU BAILEY CROWNED THE AUSTRALIAN UNDER 16 125cc INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE TEAMS CHAMPIONS FOR 2022!

April 5, 2022 Filed Under: News, Speedway

The weekend of April 1-3 saw the Sidewinders Junior Speedway Club host the CBS Bins 2022 Australian Under 16 125cc Championships, both individual and teams – and what a huge weekend it was for some outstanding and talented speedway sKidz from around Australia.

Friday night saw a quick practise session happen just for the 16 riders and 2 reserves who were taking part in the Individual Championship on Saturday evening, with many of the interstate riders never having ridden on a track with a fence before, but all came to grips with the Sidewinders surface quickly, and were singing the praises of the junior specific venue (the only one of its kind in Australia).

It didn’t take long for the favoured riders in the Championships – Bailey, Sadler, McDiarmid, Jansen-Batchelor, Grabham, Loftus – to all look comfortable as they sized each other up in readiness for Saturday night’s ‘hostilities’, while Anika Loftus and Darcey Timmis were also looking each other over to see who would come out of the Championships with the Aussie #1 speedway girl bragging rights.

AUSTRALIAN INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP

With a huge amount of work by the dedicated crew from Sidewinders, Saturday dawned fine but cool, with track prep continuing during the day, led by Roy Stout, who continued to cut laps on the grader and water truck to prepare, what turned out to be, a brilliant surface to go sideways on!

As the sun slowly set, a huge crowd flowed through the gates and quickly filled Graham Baker Hill in anticipation for a great nights racing – and with round 1 of the Championship kicking off under a brilliant sunset, the 2022 Championship was underway.

And in a relatively incident free night – only a couple of laydowns and no injuries – with some fantastic rides by all who entered (and all 18 riders need to be congratulated for such a high standard of competition), the scores at the end of the heats were as follows – with not one rider scoring a maximum on the night!

OVERALL	NO.	RIDER		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	TOTAL	SEMI	FINAL
1	14	Beau Bailey	NSW	3	3	2	3	3	14		1
2	9	Mitchell McDiarmid	WA	3	1	3	3	3	13		2
3	16	Ashley Jansen-Batchelor	SA	2	2	3	3	2	12		3
4	11	Harry Sadler	SA	2	3	1	3	2	11	1	4
5	1	Noah Grabham	NSW	2	3	2	1	3	11	2
6	5	Kobi Canning	SA	1	0	3	2	1	7	3
7	7	Jordy Loftus	QLD	3	2	2	2	1	10	4
8	13	Lachlan Russell	NSW	1	2	3	1	EXC	7
9	4	Linkin Metcalf	WA	3	3	0	EXC	EXC	6
10	2	Anika Loftus	QLD	1	2	1	2	0	6
11	3	Darcey Timmis	SA	DNF	1	0	1	3	5
12	8	Cooper Antone	NSW	2	EXC	1	0	2	5
13	12	Jake Fleet	QLD	1	DNF	2	0	2	5
14	6	Sonny Spurgin	NSW	0	1	EXC	2	1	4
15	15	Ambrose Fraser	VIC	0	0	0	1	1	2
16	10	Jordan Hargreaves	SA	0	0	1	0	DNF	1
	RESERVES
17	17	Haydon Kuchel	SA		1				1
18	18	Haydon Pascoe	SA

With the scores as above, this meant the 3 riders to advance straight to the final were, the pre event favourite, Beau Bailey, WA’s Mitchell McDiarmid and local Ashley Jansen-Batchelor, with the semi-final to see who would be the fourth rider in the final made up of current SA Champion, Harry Sadler, Noah Grabham from NSW, Jordy loftus from QLD and the 3^rd Croweater to make the semis, Kobi Canning.

Sadler out of red led the semi from tapes up to never be headed, but the battle raged behind him for part of the journey as Canning had a cracking start from the outside gate to put himself into second going down the back straight for the first time, but Grabham wasn’t going to be denied and went inside going into turn 1 on lap 2 and by the end of the 2^nd lap had the job done, with Canning then having to fend off Loftus for the final half to finish in 3^rd.

This meant Harry Sadler went into the final, making for 2 South Aussies in the final, and with Kobi finishing 3^rd in the semi, it made for 3 locals in the top 6, or 50% – a huge effort by all concerned!

After the support events did their thing while the finalists did their final preparations, it was then time to crown the Australian Champion for 2022 – with the final line up looking like this

RED	GATE 1	Beau Bailey	NSW
BLUE	GATE 2	Mitchell McDiarmid	WA
WHITE	GATE 3	Ashley Jansen-Batchelor	SA
YELLOW	GATE 4	Harry Sadler	SA

When the tapes went up to get the final underway, Bailey & Jansen-Batchelor made the best starts, but the pole line was the deciding factor with Bailey using it to full advantage to ensure he came out of the turn in front. McDiarmid also stuffed it up the inside of Jansen-Batchelor in turn 1 to put himself back into second by turns end, and with this pushing Jansen-Batchelor wide, it left Sadler with nowhere to go and he couldn’t make any move.

And that is the way it stayed for the duration, with Jansen-Batchelor all over McDiarmid until half way and Sadler all over Jansen-Batchelor as he tried to find a way round, but it was to no avail and as he crossed the line to a great cheer from Graham Baker Hill, Beau Bailey won his first Australian Championship – and then celebrated with a lap with the chequered flag – and a cool ‘doughy’ as well!

All riders spoke well at the presentations, which were hosted by emcee and commentator, Paris Charles, with the presentations done by Adam Possingham, Sidewinders President & MSA’s Speedway Sports Manager, Ivan Golding, MA Speedway Commission member, and Steve Baker from CBS Bins. To once again have CBS Bins involved as naming rights partner to the Championships is fantastic for the sport here in SA, and the Sidewinders Club as well.

The awesome trophies were made by Roy Stout, and the 4 riders who made the final also received a $50.00 voucher from AMX Superstores’s Blair Athol store, with a huge thanks to Beckz for making that happen. It certainly added to the event to have AMX Superstores involved, with the marquee looking the goods!

In the battle of the girls, Anika just finished in front of Darcey to have bragging rights as Australia’s #1 speedway girl for the next 12 months, although Darcey did get the only heat win between the girls in a top ride during the night.

AUSTRALIAN TEAMS (BEST PAIRS) CHAMPIONSHIPS

Not even 12 hours after the individual Championship was decided, 14 of the field from the night before were back at Sidewinders for the Australian Teams Championship, as 7 State Teams took on each other across 6 rounds of heats – with each team of 2 riders going head to head with another team on track (so still 4 riders), with the idea to get a maximum of 5 points per ride (your team finishing 1^st & 2^nd) to maximise the score for your team – with 30 points the maximum score possible.

To say that Sunday, in many ways was tougher then the night before would not be stretching it, as the riders were now in their 3^rd straight day of sKidz, and with all aged 14 or younger, the fatigue was certainly starting to show, with a number of crashes marring the action – with, fortunately, all riders unhurt.

Add into that warm conditions and 6 rides with no support classes, it was a huge 3 hours of action to finish the weekend. When the dust had settled (there was none really – the track was once again on prime condition), the team from WA of Mitchell McDiarmid and Linkin Metcalf had gained a little revenge on the SA team of Harry Sadler and Ashley Jansen-Batchelor, as Hazza and Ash had grabbed the Championship back in 2020 on the WA’s home track, so it was only fair the result was reversed this time.

In 3^rd place and completing the podium as the NSW team of Individual Champ, Beau Bailey and Noah Grabham, with Beau apparently a little sleep deprived after the excitement of the night before – which is probably understandable when you win your first Australian Championship – but again, what was great to watch was that no team went ‘maximum’ with the result going right down to the final heat.

Adam Possingham was once again on hand to present the awards, joined this time by David Bitmead and Mark Baker, with this being special as it was Mark & David’s fathers that originally built Sidewinders, and they both raced on the track as juniors, so it was fantastic to see them present on behalf of their fathers.

A COUPLE OF SPECIAL MENTIONS – ON TRACK

Firstly Team Loftus – great to see the brother and sister team finish in the top 5 – and get a maximum score in one heat, when Anika led home Jordy in a fine team ride – and also to Team SA’s Darcey Timmis & Kobi Canning – they were on point for a maximum in their 2^nd heat when Darcey’s bike let her down while leading, with Kobi nearly taking her out before recovering to take the heat win.

Here is the final rundown from the 2022 CBS Bins Australian Teams Championships.

OVERALL	NO.	RIDER		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	TOTAL	TOTAL
1	7	Mitchell McDiarmid	WA	3	R	3	2	3	2	13	25
	8	Linkin Metcalf	WA	1	3	0	3	2	3	12
2	3	Ashley Jansen-Batchelor	SA	3	1	1	3	2	3	13	24
	4	Harry Sadler	SA	2	2	2	0	3	2	11
3	5	Noah Grabham	NSW	R	0	1	3	3	0	7	22
	6	Beau Bailey	NSW	2	3	3	2	2	3	15
4	9	Cooper Antone	NSW	3	2	3	1	0	2	11	18
	10	Lachlan Russell	NSW	R	1	1	2	2	1	7
5	1	Jordy Loftus	QLD	1	2	2	2	3	1	11	16
	2	Anika Loftus	QLD	0	1	0	3	1	0	5
6	13	Kobi Canning	SA	3	3	2	1	E	N	9	11
	14	Darcey Timmis	SA	0	R	R	0	1	1	2
7	11	Ambrose Fraser	VIC	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	10
	12	Sonny Spurgin	VIC	2	1	1	1	1	1	7
	RESERVES
	17	Haydon Kuchel	SA						0

AND A COUPLE SPECIAL MENTIONS – OFF THE TRACK

A big shout out needs to go to Tracy Turvey for lifting the Championship up a level by live streaming the whole event over Facebook, with hundreds of people watching the action live from all around Australia, and even a few from overseas, like Scotland and mainland Europe. Hopefully all future Championships will follow suit and have live streaming for all those who can’t attend in person!

To Brian Tickle and his canteen crew, who kept everyone fed all weekend – Sidewinders can boast one of the best track side canteens going around here in SA, and they proved it once again with a great selection of hot and cold food and drinks available all weekend – and not to forget the sausage sizzle put on for all riders on Friday night as a welcome to the Championships – simply brilliant!

AND – FROM THE BRILLIANT TEAM AT SIDEWINDERS;

Not to steal anything from Bugs Bunny – but ‘that’s all folks’!

The 2022 Australian 125cc Speedway Championships have been run and won in both the Individual and Pairs and we can safely say it has been a MAMMOTH task!

To get our ageing ol’ girl into Australian Championship nick was no mean feat and behind the scenes there have been numerous people who have worked TIRELESSLY to ensure the event went off without a hitch. Those people are too hard to name as someone will undoubtedly be missed off the list, so from the Sidewinders Committee we say an ENORMOUS THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to EVERYONE who played a part in the events’ success – YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

To the riders and their families who despite the ‘tough times’ we are still facing, travelled thousands of km (and those from SA as well who were a lot closer) to make their kids dreams come true – THANK YOU!

To the supporters who came to the venue and supported the riders and to those who watched on Facebook from afar – THANK YOU!

AND

Don’t forget that now the event is over that if you want a piece of Speedway history to contact Mick Hargreaves directly for DVDs and to keep an eye on Terry Scriven (Terry’s Pro Shots) and Mike Gerlach’s (JDM Photos) Facebook pages this week for all of the photos!

Terry Scriven’s pics are here – Mike Gerlachs are yet to be uploaded

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EAGLE TRAILERS, CAMPERS & CARAVANS 2022 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS, presented by AMX SUPERSTORES – ROUND 1 ENTRIES OPEN 6.00AM WEDNESDAY 30TH MARCH – THAT’S TOMORROW MORNING FOLKS!!

March 29, 2022 Filed Under: Motocross, News, SA Women in Motorcycling, SAMX Championship, State Championship

EAGLE TRAILERS, CAMPERS & CARAVANS 2022 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS, presented by AMX SUPERSTORES – ROUND 1 ENTRIES OPEN 6.00AM WEDNESDAY 30^TH MARCH – THAT’S TOMORROW MORNING FOLKS!!

Entries open through Ridernet for round 1 of the Eagle Trailers, Campers & Caravans 2022 South Australian Motocross Championships, presented by AMX Superstores – tomorrow morning at 6.00am – with round 1 to be held at the Gillman Motocross Track, and will be hosted by the Motocross Riders Association.

For the 2^nd year running, Motorcycling SA and the SAMX Committee is proud to announce that Eagle Trailers, Campers & Caravans are on board as the major partner, and will be joined in the naming of the event by AMX Superstores, and again, for the second straight year.

Also exciting is the Girls & Women’s Classes once again enjoying the support of Titanium Security Australia (juniors) and Butler’s Mechanical Services (senior), and we thanks them for their continued support of the girls and women in motocross – and if the Women’s Ride Days at South Coast and MRA are anything to go by, there may well be record numbers across the three (3) classes in 2022 – which would be awesome!

A full range of seven (7) senior and nine (9) junior Championship classes will be on offer, along with the 50cc 4-U9 Non Comp Class for the newbies to the sport, making for 17 classes of competition over the 2 days of racing at each of the 4 rounds of the 2022 Championship.

THE 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP

2022 is certainly looking to be a huge year with numbers on the up across all events, and disciplines, so far, with most clubs seeing more and more new riders, as well as some returning after a few years – seems coming out of COVID lockdowns everyone is keen to throw a leg over and have a ride – which is awesome for the 2022 Championship!

What is also exciting is the number of young riders who are coming out of juniors and will be looking to challenge the established senior riders, and word is that there are a few senior riders already looking over their shoulders at the coming talent – Sunday’s racing could be top notch in 2022 for sure!

In the juniors, there are more than a few names across most classes that are being spoken of as possible podium place-getters in 2022, with round 1 certainly offering up more questions and unknowns than answers if pre-season ride days are anything to go by.

With that said, the 4 clubs that will be hosting the rounds in 2022 are certainly going to be in for some great action at their venues, and they are venues that are going to offer something different for each round, with the 4 rounds of the 2022 Championship being;

Round	Date	Club	Address
1	April 23 & 24	Motocross Riders Association	65 Wilkins Rd, Gillman
2	May 21 & 22	Riverland Junior Motorcycle Club	19695 Sturt Hwy, Old Calperum SA 5341
3	July 16 & 17	Port Pirie Motorcycle Club	Port Broughton Road, Port Pirie SA 5540
4	August 27 & 28	Keith & Districts Motorcycle Club	Andy Caldecott Park, Charles Well Rd, Keith

It is exciting for this year’s Championship to be returning to Port Pirie for round 3, the first time in a few years the Championship has headed to Pirie, with the club doing many improvements to the venue in anticipation, and to all those who want to get some laps in beforehand, head up at Easter for their iconic Easter ‘King of the Gulf’ classic – with entries open as you read this!

Entries are also open for round 1 of the MRA Club Series that is being run this weekend – for all those who want to cut some laps of the round 1 venue – before round 1 – to see what MRA are going to have on offer!

2022 CLASSES

Here are the 2022 Classes being offered, along with the entry requirement for it to be an official Championship;

JUNIOR CLASSES

50cc Auto Non-Comp

50cc Auto 7-U9 Years (Min 8 Entries)

65cc 7-9 Years (Min 8 entries)

65cc 10-U12 Years (Min 8 entries)

85cc 2str/150cc 4str S/W 9-U12 Years (Min 8 entries)

85cc 2str/150cc 4str STD & B/Wheel 12-U16 Years (Min 8 entries)

Girls 85cc 2str/150cc 4str 11-U16 Years (Min 6 entries)

Girls 125cc 2str/250cc 4str 13-U16 Years (Min 6 entries)

100-125cc 2str 13-U16 Years (Min 8 entries)

122-150cc 2str/200-250cc 4str 13-U16 Years (Min 8 entries)

SENIOR CLASSES

PRO MX 1 (Min 8 entries)

PRO MX 2 (Min 8 Entries)

Expert All-Powers (Min 8 Entries)

Clubman All-Powers (Min 8 Entries)

Veterans 35-44 Years (Min 8 entries)

Veterans 45+ (Min 8 Entries)

Women All Powers (Min 6 entries)

**Minimum entries must ALSO be attained at least 3 of the 4 rounds for the class to be an official Championship, and riders must START at least 3 of 4 rounds to be eligible for Championship awards:

ENTRIES OPEN FOR EACH ROUND;

Entries for each round will open, with all entries to be through Ridernet – as per the sup regs, which are now up on the MSA website for all to view – and there are some changes for 2022, especially in regards cross entering and finalising of results, so best have a read beforehand.

Once entered, a copy of the sup regs, plus the self-scrutineering form will be emailed to everyone as well.

ROUND	VENUE	ENTRIES OPEN	ENTRIES CLOSE	LATE ENTRIES CLOSE
1	Gillman	Wed 30^th March	Monday 18^th April	Wednesday 20^th April
2	Riverland	Friday 22^nd April	Monday 16^th May	Wednesday 19^8h May
3	Port Pirie	Friday 17^th June	Monday 11^th July	Wednesday 13^th July
4	Keith	Friday 29^th July	Monday 22^nd August	Wednesday 24^th August

CAMPING

Camping facilities will be at the discretion of the host club – competitors should refer to the Final Instructions for event specific camping arrangements.

CATERING

Canteen and any special catering (eg; Saturday night dinners) will be at the discretion of the host club – competitors should refer to the Final Instructions for event specific camping arrangements.

VENUE ENTRY

Entry to the venues for the Eagle Trailers, Campers & Caravans 2022 South Australian Motocross Championships, presented by AMX Superstores, will be at the discretion of the host club. Competitors should refer to the Final Instructions for times and locations for venue entry.

All pics courtesy of Eric McConnochie – with thanks

SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S BRAND NEW bLU cRU SA JUNIOR CUP – ALMOST READY TO GO!

March 22, 2022 Filed Under: Coaches, News, Road Racing, SA Junior Cup, State Championship

SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S BRAND NEW bLU cRU SA JUNIOR CUP – ALMOST READY TO GO!

Whilst the likes of, fellow juniors, Cameron Rende and Sam Pezzetta, have been ripping it up Nationally, locally there has been a team of 12 riders, most of whom are new to the sport of road race, who have quietly been going about getting ready to launch off the start line at Mount Gambier’s Mac Park Raceway in a few short weeks at Easter!

All have been getting themselves prepared in some way over the past few weeks, with most now kitted out in their brand new bLU cRU SA Junior Cup leathers – and don’t they look awesome with the design centred around the SA sporting colours! Some of the crew have also been doing stuff off track, helping with promotional days and the like, with 8 of the 12 also taking the advantage of a Ride Day on the East Circuit of The Bend to cut a heap of laps – especially as they will be racing there later in the season as well!

And who are the riders who will be making 2022 bLU cRU SA Junior Cup history, as the inaugural squad to ride in this exciting new Series to be run here in SA for the first time – well, they are;

Cameron Rende

Ryder Gilbert

Rikki Henry

Lucas Warren

Cooper Pitt

Ethan Dellow

Seth Dellow

Tomi Doble

James Howie

Fred Barry

Archie Schmidt

Xayvion Amoy

Ryder Sweet

Here’s a bit of a photo rundown of what they have all been up to;

Also need to say a huge thanks to the great coaches that have been guiding these lads – those who are part of Levi Day’s On Track Rider training crew (Ty Lynch), and Will Strugnell, Kym & Allan Bolto, and also just joining the party, Sandro Malatesta – and the clubs who have offered their support – Cafnix, the Historics, Mount Gambier, and the Levis MCC as well, who is sponsoring Cooper Pitt!

And of course – without the support of some amazing business support – none of this would have been possible – and here they are, with the list getting longer with each passing month – words can’t describe the value of this great support – so please thank and support these great businesses now and into the future!

There will likely be a couple of the bikes and crew on display at the MSA stand at the 2022 Australian U16 125cc Championships for junior speedway at Sidewinders Speedway, Wingfield, on Saturday and Sunday, April 2 & 3, if you want to check out these great bikes and what it’s all about – all questions can be answered, including how to get involved in 2023!

SA RIDERS GETTING IT DONE AT THE PAPERCLIP – ROUND 2 OF ASBK 2022 IN QUEENSLAND!

March 20, 2022 Filed Under: News, Road Racing, SA Women in Motorcycling

SA RIDERS GETTING IT DONE AT THE PAPERCLIP – ROUND 2 OF ASBK 2022 IN QUEENSLAND!

SA’s road race crew have backed up the great results from round 1, with more of the same at round 2 of ASBK 2022 – the mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance Australian Superbike Championship, presented by Motul at Queensland Raceway, over the ‘middle’ weekend of March!

9 South Aussies, plus a truck load of team members, family members and supporters, made the trek, down 1 rider from round 1 as Cooper Rowntree was forced to miss this round, but he has already said he will be back for round 3 at Wakefield Park over the weekend of April 22-24.

Word also has it that there will be yet another SA rider joining the party from round 3 as well – so 11 South Aussies in action in ASBK – simply brilliant!

And – as all, or most of our riders have social media pages, here are the ones that we know of so far, so check out their reports and thoughts on how their season has started!

Cam Rende https://www.facebook.com/Cam-Rende-80-103641782246962

Dan Falzon https://www.facebook.com/JonDanielsRacing

Arthur Sissis & Sam Pezzetta https://www.facebook.com/ArthurSissis61RacingTeam

Olly Simpson https://www.facebook.com/ollysimpsonracing

Dallas Skeer https://www.facebook.com/DallasSkeerRacing

Ty Lynch https://www.facebook.com/TyraLynchRacing

Still very early in the Championship of course, but can’t help but be excited with 3 South Aussie riders sitting on Championship podiums so far, with Olly Simpson & Ty Lynch both on the Supersport podium, and, young Cam Rende sitting 2nd in Oceania Junior Cup (and getting his 2nd win of the year as well).

Shout out also to our 2021 MSA Rising Star, Sam Pezzetta, on getting his first National podium, with a brilliant 3rd in race 2 of the R3 Cup Series – super effort that in Australia’s version of ‘Moto3’ – with Sam, and fellow South Aussie, Mitch Simpson pushing each other along in the big group all fighting for the win!!

Round 2 results – and where they are all sitting in the Championship after round 2 of 8 rounds!

	RACE 1	RACE 2	RACE 3	OVERALL	CHAMPIONSHIP
SUPERBIKES					(after round 2 of 8)
Arthur Sissis	7th	4th		5th	6th
Dan Falzon	11th	11th		11th	8th

600 SUPERSPORT
Olly Simpson	4th	3rd		4th	2nd
Ty Lynch	5th	7th		6th	3rd
Dallas Skeer	dnf	dns			17th

300 SUPERSPORT
Sam Pezzetta	9th	dnf	5th	10th	9th
Mitch Simpson	14th	9th	7th	9th	11th
Jordan Simpson	dnf	11th	dnf	16th	18th
Cooper Rowntree					23rd

OCEANIA JUNIOR CUP
Cameron Rende	2nd	1st	dnf	6th	2nd

R3 CUP
Sam Pezzetta	6th	3rd	7th	5th	6th
Mitch Simpson	5th	6th	5th	4th	7th
Cooper Rowntree					20th
Jordan Simpson	13th	10th	dnf	14th	16th

Huge congrats also to Georgia & Dan Falzon – not only did Dan ride in Queensland on Friday and Sunday – but they also got married here in SA on Saturday, which in itself was a huge logistical effort – well done to you both and congratulations ( – 783 Media)