A good field of seven (well for Qld it is!! we had two rows on the grid FFS
) turned up for QVMXs Rockberg race day today near Caboolture on the north side of Brisbane.
Popeye debuted his recently acquired Wasp KTM lightweight in the growing evo class to join Isaac Higgs and Lisa Fox came out on Ronnie Ashes Wasp Honda four and also debuted her new passenger-none other than one John "I'll never get on one 'o those fockers" Tate 'You shopping trolly racers should get a life" etc... etc.... are words I recall hearing form his lips in the not too distant past. He must be reaching a significant birthday or something like that to change his mind so readily.
The track was tight and very technical for not just the newbies as it followed a creek for a bit and had lots of neg camber and disappearing terrain to follow.
Our Wasp had wheel bearing and then/therefore front brake issues and we had to park up for the day which was taken once again by the McMurdo/Hollaway ridden EML/GR650 Suzuki chased on the narrow and tight circuit by the new pairing of Broad/Shaw on the nippy little DR500 unit. Nick Higgs had Dave Rotherum aboard and had his Norton/EML humming before swapping with Popeye and testing the Wasp/KTM for the 2nd and 3rd races.
The last race saw McMurdo stand aside to let Hollaway/Fletcher take the GR650 out for some laps/laughs and after leading for a lap they stalled and had trouble finding a gear which let Broad and Shaw get by but then the DR had some rear wheel issues and that let us back in front which we had to the finish.
A great day of lovely sunshine and even lovelier commradery tied together a great race day held by a great bunch of folk who love their old mxers.
