Aust Historic Championships RACE & RALLY ROUNDUP
2019 “Make Smoking History” Australian Historic Road Racing Championships • 27-30 September 2019 – Collie Motorplex, WA
With perfect weather over the four days, conditions were ideal for the 12 Championship races that were up for grabs along with 2 support classes. The schedule was always going to be hectic to accommodate the 56 races on the new 2.5km circuit over two days. As it turned out the meeting was abandoned with just 33 races run following an oil spill by a sidecar, which was so extensive that officials were left with no other alternative. A disappointment was the cancellation of the traditional Period 3 500 class due to lack of entries. Kicking off the Championships was the Period 4 Post Classic Junior and after the two qualifying sessions it was local rider Paul Smith (1972
Honda CB350) on Pole closely followed by Adam Senior and Glen Ottley making it an all WA front row. Race 1 was an all the way win for Smith from Senior who was untroubled over the 5 lap journey with Tony Logan (1971 Honda CB 350) in third place. In Race 2 the same three riders filled the top three places. Race 3 on Monday morning saw
Adam Senior winning from Smith and Ottley. WA riders once again faired well with the top five places all going to local riders. Period 3 Classic Unlimited saw Victorian Adam Donovan (1962 500cc Norton Manx) snatch pole from fellow Victorian
Peter Large with WA rider Glenn Baldwin rounding out the front row.
Peter Large (1962 Norton Atlas) won the first race from William Sayer (1962 Norton Atlas) with Donovan third. Race 2 saw Adam Donovan taking the win from Large and Sayer, and Race 3 was a similar result.
In the Period 5 Forgotten Era Sidecars WA duo Ray Watkins/Paul Cubbitt took pole from another WA duo in Andrew Davies/Josh Mathers with Edward and Bronson Poucher from NSW rounding out the top three. Race 1 saw Watkins/Cubbitt take the lead before they were chased down by Edward and Bronson Poucher who went on to take the win with Andrew Davies/Josh Mathers third. In race 2 Watkins/Cubitt got their revenge taking the win from Davies/Mathers after a race long battle with Edward and Bronson Poucher. Race 3 saw local duo Andrew Davies/Josh
Mathers take the win from another local duo Mark Ackermans/Tristan Scalmer with WA making it a clean sweep with Michael Smith/Jason Dillon in third place.
In the Period 5 Forgotten Era Junior New South Welshman Keo Watson (1981 Yamaha TZ350H) took pole with a 1:19.6310 second lap 4.5 seconds ahead of Victorian Timothy Large with WA’s Steven Crane rounding out the front row. Keo Watson won the first race in convincing fashion from Steven Crane with Kathleen Mercer taking third place. Race two saw the top two again battling for the win with Watson
coming out on top. Crane was again second with Timothy Large taking third place ahead of the fast finishing Brian Richardson.
Period 5 Forgotten Era Formula 750 saw Keo Watson (1981 Yamaha TZ350H) grab his second pole position ahead of NSW rider Stephen Craig with local hotshot Adam Senior rounding out the front row. In race one Stephen Craig upstaged Watson taking the win with Senior third. Race two saw the same three riders
fighting for the win with Watson winning by under a second from Senior with Craig in third place.
Period 4 Post Classic Unlimited saw ex-WA rider Aaiden Coote (1972 Rob North Trident) secure pole ahead of Queenslander Kyle Mountney with veteran WA rider Colin Boujos taking third position. In race one Coote survived a race long battle with Kyle Mountney, when the latter high-sided exiting the chicane on the penultimate lap. Second was Owen Ward (1972 Honda CB-K2) with William Sayer (1972 Triumph Triton) third. Race two and it was more of the same from Coote and Ward with Boujos third. Period 6 New Era Senior saw Glen Ottley (1990 Honda VFR400) taking pole ahead of Neal ‘Plumba’ Grey and Paul Smith. In Race one Grey and
Ottley battled it out at the front before
Grey pulled away to take the win from Smith and Ottley. Race two saw Neal Grey take his second win of the day ahead of Glen Ottley and Smith. Adam Senior took pole position in the Period 5 Forgotten Era Unlimited with a 1:16.292 lap ahead of Tony Hynes and NSW rider Stephen Craig. Senior dominated the race to win from Hynes and Craig in third place, and in the second race Senior won by 5.2 seconds. Period 6 New Era 250 Production saw Keo Watson (1990 Honda CBR 250RR) again on pole, ahead of Richard Langdon and Paul Smith. In race one Langdon took the win from Smith with Stephen McDermott in third place after Watson failed to start the race. The result in race two was the same with Watson again failing to start. Period 6 New Era Formula 1300 saw Aaiden Coote (1988 Honda
VFR750) grab his second pole ahead of Josh Mathers and Paul Joshua, with this being the finishing order in race one, with Coote setting a new outright record of 1:14.006. That record lasted just five laps before Mathers took it down to 1:13.8740 seconds on his way to beating Coote in race two with Glen Ottley taking third place.
Period 3 & Period 4 Sidecars saw Lindsay Donai/Lee Menzies take pole position from veteran NSW rider Doug Chivas/Scarlett Poucher and WA’s Kevin Webb/ Martyn Dunbar-Stuart. In the first race Kevin Webb/Martyn DunbarStuart led for a good part of the fivelap journey before being pushed back to second place by Donai with Doug Chivas/Scarlett third. Steve Scott/ Brendan Darcy took first place in the P3 Sidecar division, from Peter Large/ Wayne Rowe and Christopher Large/ Peter Heywood. In race two Donai/ Menzies again took the win from Chivas/ Poucher with Webb/DunbarStuart in third place. In the P3 Ian
Milton/David Vincent grabbed the win ahead of William Hargrave/Annette Tregger with Scott/Darcy in third place. Period 6 Formula 750 saw Aaiden Coote (Honda VFR750) secure a third pole position ahead of Paul Joshua and Tony Hynes. Coote was simply unstoppable in the first race to win from Hynes (Suzuki GSX-R750) with John Riley (1988 HondaVFR750R) in third place. Coote again demonstrated his talent with another dominant display in the second race, Hynes was again second with Glen Ottley taking third. There were two non-championship races over the weekend: Period 2 & Period 3 Lightweight & Junior. Tony Hynes on the 1938 Series ‘A’ Vincent took out all three races in convincing fashion. In the Period 6 Ultra Lightweight & Period 6 Lightweight Sam Clarke and Scott Topping fought it out with Clarke winning the first two races before Topping took a hard fought victory in the third race with Mark Laing-Hughes in third spot.