Morris Park comes alive
THE engines revved, spectators roared and the 2021 Speedway season was off to a flying start at the end of February.
85 competitors travelled from all over NSW to compete in what Club spokesperson Brett Williams described as a “watershed event”.
‘We had over 1200 people at our track on Minore Road. Most of us were blown away. It was the biggest crowd in over a decade for a speedway event in Dubbo.”
‘It really was a huge result, a real kick-along for all of us. We’ve battled drought and then COVID over the past few years so to have so many fans and competitors come out to Morris Park was sensational,” he remarked.as the Dubbo club recovered from two season's impacted by drought and COVID-19.
Brett says the full program included NSW Late Models and NSW Formula 500's “with Junior drivers, Production sedans, Fast fours, limited sedans and the crashing bashing fender benders.” Winners on the night z NSW Late models – John Lodge z NSW F500's JNRS – Blake Mathews
z NSW F500's SNS – Lachlan Caunt
z Production sedans – Shane Holmgreen
z Junior Sedans – Tyler Burnham
z Fender Benders – Jamie Keer
z Fast Fours – Ray Giffen
Brett says everyone is now gearing up for the next event on Sat, march 6 which will include the NSW Late Model state titles and the NSW AMCA Series.
Racing starts at 5pm and you can secure your tickets at 123tix. com.au
TWENTY six Dubbo Veteran Swimming Club ‘Duckies” fluffed their feathers on Sunday according to Judy Walsh.
“Going by the times and the lack of breakers, it seems most of the flock swam close to their nominations,” she mused.
Peter Hargreaves claimed the 50 metre freestyle in a well-timed race.
“Pete has been in excellent form but el-presidento, Henry Willcockson tried that little bit too hard and broke! It was especially heartening for Pete after his heartbreak loss to Josh Bird the week before. Perhaps his prayers were answered?”
The final of the 2 x 50m Backstroke/breaststroke Relay saw the first two placegetters break allowing Louise Taylor and Roger Mackay to claim the points with a margin of 0.37.
“A great result for two of our keenest and an impressive performance in a Brace Relay!”
Tom Gray was a shade off a perfect time (0.06) in winning the 25
metre Breaststroke.
Greg Salmon also clocked 0.35 to win the 25 metre Backstroke.
Judy says it was a happy time at the pool.
“It was really lovely to see Reg
Ferguson, Neil Cullen, Mark Scullard and Marg Ross on the deck after a bit of a break. A big cheerio to all our Ducks who are a bit under the weather at the moment.”
Judy also had a special mention for two of the Ducklings – Lani and Mia for their ef-forts.
This Sunday is the annual Vern Traeger Memorial and coincides with the March Jok-ers Ink Monthly Trophy race.