26 April 2010

The 600 Novice class this year is shaping up to be a family affair with brothers Tyson [86] and Nathan Jones [84] leading the championship.  They are both riding Honda CBR 600's, it appears that there motocross background is helping them in the Novice class. Tyson went into this round with a 4 point advantage over Nathan. After the Qualifing session on Saturday morning in the wet Nathan qualifyied .272 seconds ahead of his brother Tyson who was over a second ahead of Kale Henderson.  Nathan took out the first race ahead of Tyson by just .948 with Ben Meade a very close 3rd position.  The second race saw the result switched around with Tyson winning by 5.482 seconds over Nathan, Ben Meade finished 10 seconds behind in 3rd place.  Race 3 saw a repeat of race 2 with Tyson winning ahead of Nathan and Ben Meade.

26 April 2010

The committee has discussed the possibility of changing the current club logo, they feel it's outdated and due for some modernisation. So if there is any members that would like to submit designs for the new logo we would be very grateful, the winning design will receive free membership for 2011.

Send all your submissions in jpeg format to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , please be aware that the logo will be required in a vector format after it has been accepted by the committee.  The plan for submissions is prior to the Annual General Meeting.

26 April 2010

The current Australian Superbike championship leader Wayne Maxwell on the GAS Honda entered the Open 600 Expert/Non Expert class of the Hartwell Championship Round 2 at Winton for some practice on 24/25 April.  On the Saturday it was a wet track for most the day whilst Sunday was perfect condtions.  In qualifying on the Saturday Wayne was in 1st postion with a lead of 2.512 seconds ahead of Shane Walters and 2.882 seconds ahead of Nathan Mawson, current Hartwell championship leader Tony Urwin was back in 4th postition 3.378 seconds behind Wayne Maxwell.