Trials

TRIALSPORT & GLOBAL RACING OIL 2019 SA TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS; THIS WEEKEND IN THE SOUTHERN FLINDERS!

August 15, 2019 Filed Under: Enduro, Motocross, News, State Championship, Trials

TRIALSPORT & GLOBAL RACING OIL 2019 SA TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS; THIS WEEKEND IN THE SOUTHERN FLINDERS

With the Trialsport & Global Racing Oil 2019 SA Trial Championships now just under 24 hours away, The AJS MTC & Team Hogan have set 2 great loops of sections – and as is the Mungeree way, logs will be on the menu, along with creeks, hills and rocks – all the goodies needed for a brilliant event!

Mungeree is located at Bangor, right at the end of the Bridle Track, just off the Port Germain Road – ‘Mungeree’, 1173 Bridle Track, Bangor GPS – S32.940246, E138.133185 – and yes, it is well worth the drive!

Viewing will be prime for all spectators, with Saturday a relatively short loop around the homestead, and includes the creek (which may even be flowing) and around to the ‘Widow-maker’ part of Mungeree, while Sunday will head to the ‘Scrub’ paddock, which not only has awesome riding, but also has awesome views of the top of the gulf towards Port Augusta!

As always, Trials South Oz are offering a full range of classes, which means there will be riders from 6 years of age right through to 60+, with classes for modern and classic bikes, seniors & juniors and sidecars.

Team Australia members, Lillie Yiatrou (Aust #3) and Connor Hogan (Aust #2) will be in action, along with current and former Australian Champions, Alisha Harry, Hayden Eardley, Haydon Ahrens, Haydon Barwick and the sidecar team of Steve Rees & Melissa Rogers, as will all of Team SA who are gearing up for their assault on the Australian Championships in Tasmania later in the year!

Action kicks off at 10.00am Saturday and 9.00am Sunday, with the event fully catered by the amazing Tyler Hogan and helpers – country tucker at its very best – with free entry to the event for spectators & programmes so you know who is who.

There is also a raffle on over the weekend with some great prizes on offer, with all monies raised going to the Team Australia Trials des Nations fund for their trip to Ibiza in Spain in September – AND – on Saturday morning at Riders Briefing, the 2019 Team SA State Teams to the Australian Championships will be named and presented!

ALSO ON THIS WEEKEND!

CRYSTAL BROOK’S ‘HUNTS FUEL’ RACE WEEKEND

(ALSO A ROUND OF THE SA VMX SERIES)

Crystal Brook MCC are hosting a round of the SA VMX Series this Sunday at their brilliant venue at Crystal Brook, which is also their ‘Hunts Fuel’ Race Weekend, complete with a Demo class for 7 years and under stars of the future!

Crystal Brook is one of the premier motocross tracks in SA, with prime viewing for spectators who get to relax on the lawns in front of the clubrooms as they look down across the track and see all of the action as it unfolds.

And like the SA Trial Championships, entry to the venue is free for spectators and their canteen will be open and fully stocked.

So, a weekend in the Southern Flinders awaits – Trials at Mungeree both days, or modern & vintage motocross at Crystal Brook on Sunday – or do both – chuck the swag in the car and head to Mungeree and enjoy a great day of trials action on Saturday, then cruise down to Crystal Brook on Sunday morning for a day’s MX action – weekend sorted!

AND STILL MORE ACTION TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND!

ROUND 2, SCOTT WARE MEMORIAL TRI-SERIES

Also on this weekend is round 2 of the Scott Ware Memorial Tri-Series, a 3 round series co-run by the Gawler, Keyneton & Clare MCCs, with round 2 being hosted by the Keyneton MCC at Eden Valley on Sunday.

Like the events above, entry for spectators is free, with the property being used a prime property for off road racing, with viewing also fantastic as you wander among the moss rocks & gum trees.

The Keyneton MCC have organised for catering to be provided by the Barossa Valley Machinery Preservation Society, with coffee supplied by Barossa Bean Bar.

Get around it if the Flinders isn’t your thing – 85 of SA’s finest off road riders, from 7 years of age and up will fire up and keep you on the edge of your ‘deckie’ all day!

AND ALSO ON SUNDAY;

Riverland JMC have round 2 of their 2019 Club Series on at their Renmark venue, with their canteen open all day.

Morgan MCC have round 6 of their 2019 Club Series on at their Morgan venue on Burra Road, again, with their canteen open all day.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2019 MSA HALL OF FAME & MSA LIFE MEMBERSHIP – NOW OPEN

July 29, 2019 Filed Under: All disciplines, Coaches, Dirt Track, Enduro, Motocross, News, Reliability, Road Racing, SAMX Championship, SAORC, Speedway, Supermoto, Trials

HEADS UP EVERYONE! Nominations for the 2019 MSA Hall of Fame and MSA Life Membership(s) ARE NOW OPEN

It’s now time to get thinking about a couple of the categories for the 2019 MSA Night of Champions – the big 2!

All nominations are able to be done online, plus – all forms can also be downloaded from the Motorcycling SA website.

2019 MSA HALL OF FAME NOMINATION FORM; HERE

MSA LIFE MEMBERSHIP NOMINATION FORM; HERE

Nominations for the other annual awards will open in late August – stay tuned!

The Frank Franklin Trophy

(For an outstanding contribution to South Australian Motorcycling)

The MSA Rising Star Award
(For our most outstanding riders under the age of 16!)

MSA Regional Volunteer Awards
(For our hard working & quite brilliant volunteers)

Tickets will go on sale for our ‘Night of Nights’ in October, and once again Clubs will be able to book a table of 10!

With 2018 close to a maximum with 190 attendees, and a maximum of 220 seats available for the night – be quick when tickets go on sale so as not to miss out on Motorcycling SA’s ‘Night of Nights’!

TUNGKILLO TRIALS COACHING IN AUGUST

July 29, 2019 Filed Under: Coaches, News, State Championship, Trials

TUNGKILLO TRIALS COACHING IN AUGUST

Following the great day at the recent Tungkillo Coaching Day the AJS MTC are organising another, and especially in the lead up to the Trialsport & Global Racing Oil 2019 SA Trial Championship that is being held at Mungeree on August 17 & 18.

Sunday, August 4^th, 9.00am to 4.00pm

Hoads Woolshed Rd, Tungkillo

Head coach; Rob White

ALL AGES & ABILITIES WELCOME

Enquiries; Peter Arnold

0438 100 310 ride@trialsport.com.au

Sup regs, online entry, catering & meal options for the 2019 SA Trial Championships, also being run by SA’s premier trials club, the AJS MTC, in conjunction with Team Hogan; www.trialsport.com.au/entries

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!