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TROY Series SA 2019 – ROUND 2 @ TUNGKILLO THIS SUNDAY

July 26, 2019 Filed Under: News, Trials

TROY Series SA 2019 – ROUND 2 @ TUNGKILLO THIS SUNDAY

This Sunday at Tungkillo – on the road to Palmer – will see the Gawler MCC run round 2 of the TROY Series SA for Trial, with action kicking off at about 9.30 in the morning, and with free entry for spectators.

This is the last hitout for SA’s finest trial exponents before they prepare for the Trialsport & Global Racing Oil 2019 SA Trial Championships at the Southern Flinders ‘Trials Mecca’, Mungeree, in 3 weeks time. (Entries are open for the Championships through www.trialsport.com.au/entries).

Sunday will feature almost all of SA’s finest junior trial riders, many of which will be heading to the Australian Championships in Tasmania in October, and include 2 time Australian Junior Champion, Haydon Barwick, 2018 Australian Champion, Hayden Eardley, MSA Rising Star nominee Alex Cowan and current Australia #2 Junior Woman, Charlotte Cowan.

Also riding this weekend, and fresh from getting off the plane from France where they rode the French GP round of the WTC, will be SA’s 2 riders competing in the 2019 World Trial Championship, Connor Hogan and Lillie Yiatrou – and who will also be representing Australia later this year at the Trials des Nations.

Also in action will be 2 of the best sidecar teams that Australia has to offer – seriously need to witness in person what these teams can do on 2 wheels – with Australian Champions Steve Rees & Melissa Rogers facing off against Chris Schultz & Stu Gerhardy – seriously, worth the drive just to watch these 2 sidecar teams!

Unfortunately there is no catering this weekend, but free entry, bring a packed lunch and watch some great trials action from the shade of a gum tree!

But – on hand will be Greg Knight, from Rockhopping SA – so if you are looking for any bikes for sale and/or what to by the kids to start riding trials, Greg is the man to talk to – just look for his trailer with the GRO flag lying high!

INTERNATIONAL SA RIDERS WRAP! (20/21 JULY)

July 22, 2019 Filed Under: Motocross, News, Road Racing, Trials

INTERNATIONAL SA RIDERS WRAP!

A quick look at how some of our International riders fared over the weekend, with some mixed results and many miles traveled! Well done to all for taking your sport to the next level and taking up the international challenge – never an easy thing to do when Australia is so far away from the majority of the action!

If any South Aussie riders are taking up the International challenge and want to let everyone know what you are up to – email your efforts to projects@motorcyclingsa.org.au and include, where, when, results & a pic or 2, and the MSA staff will be more than happy to shout your results from the roof top!

Levi Day

British Superstock Championship;

P7 in today’s race at Snetterton in Superstock 1000! Happy with that result, we kept chipping away all weekend and from where we were on Friday to today’s race was a big step forward.

Huge thanks to my team IN Competition Aprilia for giving me an awesome RSV4 to ride. And to my sponsor AJN Steelstock, was great to have 22 guests from AJN and their customers there today being a part of it all! And to all the people that make it possible to do this and support me.

Thruxton up next in two weeks!

Brian Anthony

British Sidecarcross Championships, passengering for Gary Moulds;

From Gary’s team; “So, this weekend the team are in Deanmoor Cumbria. After the enforced break in riding the last few weeks with Steve’s injury we welcome Brian Anthony into our team to ride the 3rd Round of the British Sidecarcross championship. It’s great that we have Brian on as the guy has so much enthusiasm for racing, it’s also great that Steve is here with us to help and support both Gary & Brian.

We’d like to thank Jesper Rasmussen and the Danish Federation for providing Brian with the necessary licence and start permission to take part this weekend.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings, no expectations other to enjoy ourselves and hopefully score a few points.

A great weekend was had, and after qualifying 3^rd at Deanmoor, good racing and well deserved results Gary and Brian got 3 X 3rd places in only their first time out together hope this is the last of Gary’s problems for this year.”

Brian, Lara & kids are now back on the continent and heading to Latvia for their next event – traveling and living the dream indeed Team Anthony!

Connor Hogan (#218)

Trial2 World Championship, Auron France;

Tough day at the office for Connor, finishing 27^th in the Trial2 class at round 7, the final round of the Championship in Auron France over the weekend.

It’s been a tough season for Connor, and after 5 straight weeks away from home, it’s a fair bet that he is looking forward to coming home tomorrow, but still a super effort from him in 2019, with just the Trials des Nations to end his International year and a target to get Team Australia back onto the International Class podium, like in 2017.

Lillie Yiatrou

Trial2 Women’s World Cup, Auron France;

Round 2 of the Trial2 Women’s World Cup was also a tough day at the office for our WTC rookie, Lillie, who finished 12^th, just 1 point off 11^th (her round 1 result), and after qualifying with a clean but the slowest time, it meant she led the whole field onto the course, also not something easy to do, being the first to ride each section.

Lillie now flies home and will prepare for the final round in Spain in September, which will be followed by her Trials des Nations debut straight after.

OVERSEAS ROUND UP; SOUTH AUSSIES SMASHIN’ IT OVER THE 13 & 14 JULY WEEKEND!

July 15, 2019 Filed Under: Motocross, News, SAMX Championship, Speedway, Trials

OVERSEAS ROUND UP; SOUTH AUSSIES SMASHIN’ IT OVER THE 13 & 14 JULY WEEKEND!

Again, a number of South Aussies were smashin’ it in Europe over the weekend, and in 4 different disciplines – motocross, trial, speedway & sidecarcross – here’s the rundown on how our local talent went;

Brayden Mcguiness

Brayden had some excellent results in the Slovenian Championship over the weekend.

Overall he finished 2nd in the Under 21 Class and was an outstanding 5th overall in the Championship. Awesome stuff!

Lillie Yiatrou

15 year old Lillie had an awesome debut Qualifying, nailing it for 11th (out of 16) from her 2 runs, with a great time and 1 point lost, which put her in a great spot on track for her debut GP the next day.

From Lillie’s mum, Paula; Well, our first round on the GP circuit has been a hell of a roller coaster! Lillie placed 13th.

Really happy with that and a harder standard than she normally rides back home in Australia. Now we head to next week’s round 2 in Auron, France.

Brian Anthony

GP9 (Germany) was overall a good GP with Team Cuche we had few engine dramas in race 1 unfortunately resulting in a DNF whilst in a points scoring position and race 2 we had a pretty good race finishing 14th scoring another 7 points and ticking off two more goals I set myself to finish top 15 and on the lead lap which isn’t too easy with how fast these guys are!

Overall must be happy as it was our first race together and it takes time to get comfortable. Thanks Lara and the kids for being by my side always and to everyone who helps and encourages me and the few people that really go out of their way to help on and off the bike, from advise from the top guys, to letting me warm up and training with them and support through the week, even just for somewhere to wash our clothes etc. it’s very appreciated!

Bring on the next race I want more!

Dakota Ballantyne

NICE speedway challenge 11/07/19

I was lucky enough to pick up a ride at an individual meeting here in the UK at the Isle of Wight.

The NICE challenge is an event where all riders are supplied an engine (JAWA 2 valve) to showcase how individual skill and knowledge can separate the field.

Unfortunately tonight I had a bit of bad luck, my first and second race I had an incident with the air fence (crashed) excluding me for stopping the race both times.
Third heat came and I made an excellent start from gate 4 to lead for 3/4 of a lap before starting to struggle and have a fall on the last corner of the last lap!!
Last race came and I had made a few changes to the setup as time allowed and I made an excellent gate again and rode it all the way the chequered flag!

Thank you to everyone that helped me to be a part of the challenge, I appreciate it!
I know to stay on my bike next time

Massive thank you to Josh Moss for driving 4+ hours to help spin spanners for me

Connor Bailey

Had another great night tonight at Glasgow, beating my PB points score again with 6! Learned plenty, and I’m finally getting my starts up to pace. Thanks to Craig for letting me have that one! Also thanks very much to Graeme Martin for mechanic-ing for me, I really appreciate it!

Thanks very much to Graeme Martin for helping me out last night in the pits, thanks for helping everything run smoothly. Also thanks to Ciaran for helping me pack up, you definitely know your stuff and you’re gonna make a great mechanic some day

Alex Larwood

Alex rode the World Junior Motocross Championships over the weekend in Trentino, Italy as part of Team Australia, and in one of the hottest fields and tightly contested classes at the Championships, Alex fought through Qualifying to qualify 24^th (of 40) in his group and missed the automatic entry to the main races.

He then had to go into Last Chance Qualification and had to finish in the top 5 to go through. He finished 6^th (of 38) and missed out – by only .416 of a second – and was the 2^nd reserve for the 125cc class.

While heartbreaking to miss out by such a small margin, Alex, was still a fine representative and ambassador for his country and for himself.

Connor Hogan

After a less than successful Qualifying that netted 2 fives, Connor bounced back in the Trial GP in Portugal to finish a great 22^nd in the Trial2 Class, in what was a hotly contested class, and with positions changing by the section, Connor was as high at 17^th and as low as 24^th before the end of the event.

Like Lillie, he now heads to Auron in France for the next round this coming weekend.

SO – if you know of any other South Aussies riding overseas, please let us know who and what they are up to and how they are going by emailing; projects@motorcyclingsa.org.au with all the details – and a pic or 2 – and especially if the venue is as awesome as the Portugal round of the Trial GP (below) – Qualifying section was in the middle of the town, with vantage points at a premium!

TRIALSPORT & GLOBAL RACING OIL 2019 SA TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIP – ENTRIES NOW OPEN!

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: News, State Championship, Trials

TRIALSPORT & GLOBAL RACING OIL 2019 SA TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIP – ENTRIES NOW OPEN!

Entries are NOW OPEN for the Trialsport & Global Racing Oil 2019 SA Trial Championships – to be held at Mungeree in the Southern Flinders Ranges.
A full range of classes, from Trial 1 to Trial 5, Women, the 3 sidecar classes and classes for the older bikes & riders PLUS: the 4 competitive junior classes, Junior A & B, for both, boys AND GIRLS, as well as Mini Trial and Non-Comp as well! (All detailed in the supp regs)
Camping on site from Friday night, as well as catering – check out the awesome catering packages available, including the Saturday night Woolshed Dinner, when you enter – www.trialsport.com.au/entries.
Get around it – it’s not the 6 time and undefeated Trials SA ‘Event of the Year’ for no reason!

SOUTH AUSSIE RIDERS IN EUROPE!

June 24, 2019 Filed Under: Motocross, News, Trials

SOUTH AUSSIE RIDERS IN EUROPE!

2 South Australian riders had mixed results over the weekend in Europe, with Brian Anthony climbing onto an International podium for the first time, with Brian and his rider, Joachim Reimann finishing 2^nd overall at the German Championship round in Rennen over the weekend.

While this was happening Connor Hogan was having an improved ride at round 3 of the Trial2 World Championship in the Netherlands – in dry conditions and at a venue that was virtually all man made.

Here’s the round up – and as you can see, Brian is a man of many words!!

Trial GP Netherlands Qualifying 2019

(From Brenton Hogan) Connor in the Netherlands. Connor usually doesn’t worry about going too fast in Qualifying, just get the clean. He did go clean in Q2, unfortunately there were 29 other guys that went clean and faster! He qualified 30 out of 32 meaning he is 3rd rider away in T2. This isn’t a big deal though. Probably means less chance of getting caught up in queues and picking up time penalties.

Trial GP Netherlands 2019

(From Connor) Had a lot of fun riding the sections this weekend, they were far more enjoyable then the other rounds. I was fairly happy with my riding, my 1st lap wasn’t too bad but my last lap was well off the pace. Had a number of questionable observing decisions which cost me many points putting me in 27th by the end of the day. Had some really good rides but I was not consistent enough for them to make a difference.

#rockhoppingsa #GRO #globalracingoil #Jitsie #thehellteam #hippelracing

Photo credits: Jitsie, Team Hippel & Connor

German Sidecarcross Championship, Rennen

(From Brian)

Yewwww German Championship round

Race 1 P3, Race 2 P2, Overall P2!!!

Work hard never give up and dreams can come true!

Pics; Bildermacher-Sport Jens Körner

‘VANITONE’ CLASSIC TRIAL THIS SUNDAY @ TUNGKILLO

June 14, 2019 Filed Under: News, Trials

‘VANITONE’ CLASSIC TRIAL THIS SUNDAY @ TUNGKILLO

This Sunday the AJS MTC will be running its annual ‘Classic Trial’ for all of the old trials ‘irons’, from Bultacos to Montesas to TY Yamahas & TL Hondas, so if you have an old trials bike stashed in the back of the shed and feel like having a ride, this is the event for you!

Entries can still be put in through www.trialsport.com.au/entries or by contacting the AJS MTC through the contacts on the supp regs which can also be found on the entry log in.

There will be classes to suit all rider ability – on solo AND sidecar machines!

This has always been a great day with the sections set to suit, and look after, the old bikes, so if you aren’t heading to Keith to watch the SAMX Championship round, and fancy a ride, with some awesome catering from Cafe Dee Wheels – this is the day for you!

Photos by the excellent Trentino @ www.trentino.smugmug.com