Well what a great weekend, another fantastic Clarkefield event run. Saturday was a great day of Viper practice and the inaugural Pre 2000 show n go event, plenty of people riding lap after lap on the grass track and a few circulating the short enduro loop. The whole saturday show n shine was a little undersubscribed but it was a very late notice thing in its planning and execution and wasn't expected to be huge, more of a gauge to see if its worth putting more time and effort into promoting next year, i think it certainly is.
I chose not to hang around saturday night and instead get a good nights sleep in my own bed to return in the morning, those that stopped over the night enjoyed the huge annual bonfire put on by property owner Shane, many laughs and lots of lemonade drank
Sunday was a great day of racing with lots of classes seeing very healthy numbers on the line, especially the later era classes which i also rode in myself on a mod Husky 150 after my TM250 decided to lunch its chain 3 corners into its first race!!
The track did get a little dusty at times but the local CFA did a great job of attempting to keep some moisture in the ground at every opportunity, there was a few little whinges about the dust but i guess thats life, i don't think there was any complaints lodged by race winners
It would have been great to see more pre 78, 75, 70 bikes out there but with CSC and VCM both having rounds the previous weekend i guess a lot find it difficult to race consecutive weekends. There was a handful of blokes rolling around in the Vinduro rec class which was great but a most impressive sight for me was seeing 20 or more juniors lining up at a start line to head out for their (rec) ride times during the day, so many that they had to be split into two groups!! Kids keep clubs alive so its great to see so many people taking advantage of the time allowed for them during a race day.
Everyone i spoke to had a top weekend, regardless of where they finished in their races, myself included. A lot of people involved in the planning and execution of weekend long events like this so big thanks to those involved and their helpers, Peter Gruber and sons, Mick Hughes, John Orchard, Frank Derose, Jamie Teal, Ross Nimmo, the lovely lap scorers, Lancefield Lions club, Clarkefield CFA crew, and many other i have missed. Most importantly though land owner Shane Gardiner (and family) spends a lot of time in the weeks leading up making his paddock perfect for us to all come and tear it to shreds!!
And he loves it as much as we do which helps
I had a great weekend, i'll be back for sure.
Cheers, Brendan
