Gippsland Gets Smoked
| 28 February 2014 |
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Gippsland Kart Club's first club race day of the year was clouded in smoke. The open cut coal mine near Morwell caught fire due to bush fires in the area a couple of weeks earlier. Smoke and ash from the mine fire has been affecting surrounding communities ever since.
The wind direction last weekend meant Tramway Park Raceway was in the line of fire, so to speak, resulting in reduced visibility and fine ash particles hanging in the atmosphere and falling on the track for most of the day.
Above: Alan Miller (62) and Lachlan Crampton (44) on the front row for a Sportsman R Medium heat
pic - Steve Dansie
Overall results were:
Junior National Heavy: 1 Troy Alger, 2 Elly Morrow, 3 William Jacobson
Clubman Light: 1 Curt Sera, 2 Nikola Alger
Clubman Over 40s: 1 Grant Wicks, 2 Brian Milkains, 3 Frank Schena
Sportsman R Medium: 1 Todd Blackney, 2 Lachlan Crampton, 3 Steve Gorman
Rookies: 1 Marcus Fraser, 2 Samuel Downing, 3 Chad Densley
Clubman Heavy: 1 James Dean, 2 Grant Wicks, 3 Ryan Aitken
Sportsman R Heavy: 1 Samuel Morrow, 2 Matthew Bink, 3 Simon Pooley
Junior National Light: 1 Ben Bargwanna, 2 James Fyfe, 3 Jack Kesper
Cadets: 1 Rhys Kemp, 2 Bailey Collins, 3 Aiden Castle
Sportsman R Light: 1 Lachlan Crampton, 2 Steve Gorman, 3 Todd Blackney
TaG 125 Medium: 1 James Dean, 2 Ross Miller, 3 Jason Bargwanna
Above: JNL, Jack Kesper ahead of Lachlan Clough
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Ryan Aitken backs it in speedway style ahead of Jason Bargwanna and Jack Gorman
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Clubman Light and Over 40s ran on track at the same time. Nikola Alger (CL) heads the Over 40s
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Cadet winner Rhys Kemp ahead of Aiden Castle
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Geoff Wyhoon, TaG 125 Medium
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Top 3 in Rookies - Marcus Fraser leads Samuel Downing and Chad Densley
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Grant Wicks (22) gets up the inside of Brian Milkins (4) and Frank Schena to take 3 from 3 in Over 40s
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: James Fyfe leads, and beat, Benjamin Bargwanna in the JNL final, however Bargwanna's consistency earned him the win overall
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: Stray wheel wanders in to the weigh station...
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: TaG Medium, Ross Miller leads Matthew Fraser
pic - Steve Dansie
Above & Below: Alan Miller and Lachlan Crampton get together in turn 1
pics - Steve Dansie
Above: New Red Rooster livery for the Bargwanna team
pic - Steve Dansie
Above: I think we know where Matthew Bink's wheel has gone...
pic - Steve Dansie
