The Bend Stadium Sprint

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The Bend is South Australia’s Motorsport Crown Jewel. Completed in 2018 it is a world class facility with all the bells and whistles, including a Stadium Circuit that is used for GoKarting, Drifting and Rally Cross. July 2019 saw the inaugural Stadium Sprint event that was a time trial rally cross event that combined tarmac and gravel road surfaces. It was an amazing event that has a very promising future.

  • Full History

    • 26/10/2019 The Bend Stadium Sprint (#2): Clubman AWD Class Win & 3rd Outright. 3 Course Layouts

      • Course 1: Tarmac: 46.173 seconds (4th fastest outright)

      • Course 2: Dirt Long: 57.328 seconds (3rd fastest outright)

      • Course 3: Dirt Bowl: 53.813 seconds (2nd fastest outright)

    • 06/07/2019 The Bend Stadium Sprint (Track Option A) = 48.778 seconds Clubman Class win & 3rd Outright

The Bend International Circuit

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The Bend is South Australia’s Motorsport Crown Jewel. Completed in 2018 it is a world class facility with all the bells and whistles!

  • Full History

    • 03/05/2018 SA Time Attack = 2:19.80

    • 07/05/2018 Hyperdrive3d Inter club Challenge 13 = 2:16.81

    • 15/02/2019 Twilight Session @ The Bend = 2:16.00 (PB)

    • 10/05/2019 The Bend Open Track Day = 2:19.56 (wet)

    • 27/07/2019 SA Time Attack = 2:16.308

The Bend GT Circuit

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The Bend GT Circuit is the full 7.77km (35 corner) circuit that is the second longest permanent race track in the world (second only to the Nordschleife, Nurburgring). The Eastern side of the track introduces more elevation changes, blind crests and tight technical corners with reducing radius’ that really push cars and drivers to the limit!

  • Full History

    • 04/10/2019 Open Pitlane tack day = 3:48.10

OzGymkhana

When OzGymkhana was first introduced in 2012 I instantly fell in love with it. A combination of precision (medium speed) driving and memorization (only 1-2 runs on each layout, similar to Motorkhana) that perfectly suited my driving style. To date this has been my most successful motorsport discipline, where I have achieved consistent class wins, 3rd in the National Championship Shootout and 2nd outright in the 2015 State Championship.

  • Full History

    • 23/09/2012 OzGymkhana Round 1 = No penalties, 1st in class & 7th outright

    • 09/12/2012 OzGymkhana Round 2 = No penalties, 3rd in class & 11th outright

    • 17/02/2013 OzGymkhana Round 1 = No penalties, 2nd in class & 3rd outright

    • 05/05/2013 OzGymkhana Round 2 = No penalties, 1st in class, 7th outright

    • 2013 OzGymkhana Round 3 = No penalties, 1st in class, 8th outright

    • 2014 OzGymkhana Round 2 = No penalties, 5th outright & 4th after the shootout.

    • 2014 OzGymkhana Round 3 = DNF (failed wheel bearing)

    • 2014 OzGymkhana Round 4 (National Championship Round) = 1st penalty ever!

      • 6rd outright

      • 3rd in the National Championship Shootout

    • 2014 State Championship Result = 2nd in class (Modified AWD)

    • 15/02/2015 OzGymkhana Round 1 = No penalties, 1st in class, 3rd outright

    • 12/04/2015 OzGymkhana Round 2 = No penalties, 5th outright

    • 17/05/2015 OzGymkhana Round 3 = No penalties, 2nd outright

    • 25/07/2015 OzGymkhana Round 4 = No penalties, 1st in class, 3rd outright

    • 2015 State Championship Result = 1st in class, 2nd outright.

Victoria Park Sprint / Adelaide Motorsport Festival

Photo by Frank Kutsche

Photo by Frank Kutsche

The Adelaide Motorsport Festival is one of SA's biggest motorsport events with tens of thousands of spectators coming through the gates to watch a huge variety of cars and bikes from all era's compete in Victoria Park, just outside the Adelaide CBD. The first weekend it was run (2014) the sprint was a single day event on the Sunday with a Hillclimb held at Windy Point on the Saturday. The popularity of the sprint however saw it expand to a two day event in 2015; after spectating that year I made sure I was competing again in 2016.

  • Full History

    • 13/04/2014 Victoria Park Sprint = 56.90 seconds

    • 19/11/2016 Victoria Park Sprint = 54.57 seconds (PB)

Collingrove Hillclimb

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The Collingrove Hillclimb is a private hillclimb track owned by the Sporting Car Club. My second ever motorsport event was a Multiclub event held on the 16/06/2009 where my best time was 43.42 seconds. This placed me 8th in my class and 36th Outright.

At my most recent outing to Collingrove I achieved a new personal best time of 34.82 which placed me 2nd in my class and 9th Outright. My best ever result at the venue!

  • Full History

    • 14/06/2009 Multiclub Hillclimb = 43.42 seconds

    • 28/06/2009 Winter Cup Round 1= 40.67 seconds

    • 2009 Winter Cup Round 2 = 39.27 seconds

    • 10/08/2014 Adelaide Motorsport Festival = 36.69 seconds

    • 27/09/2015 WRXSA Hillclimb = 35.16 seconds

    • 04/09/2016 WRXSA Hillclimb = ? (lost in time)

    • 19/03/2017 = 34.99 seconds

    • 21/05/2017 = 34.82 seconds (PB)

    • 12/08/2018 = 35.76 seconds

    • 23/09/2018 = 35.01 seconds

    • 29/09/2019 = 35.43 seconds

Mallala

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My first track day at Mallala was a Time Attack event in 2009 where I got a time of 1:27.76; I am struggling to find a record of many of my times from back then but the next year I had dropped that time down to 1:23.08.

2016 SA Time Attack was one that I couldn't really skip considering I was featured on the poster for the event! Thanks to a new engine build earlier that year I set a new PB of 1:21.85 which pushed me into the top 10 WRXSA drivers.

My next goal was to bring that time down to below 1:20 which I achieved in 2017.

  • Full History

    • 5/10/2009 Time Attack = 1:27.76

    • 08/03/2010 Time Attack = ?

    • 25/07/2010 Time Attack = ?

    • 04/10/2010 Time Attack = 1.23.08

    • 06/03/2011 Time Attack = ?

    • 16/03/2014 Supersprint = 1:23.3

    • 24/10/2015 SA Time Attack = 1:23.9

    • 29/10/2016 SA Time Attack = 1:21.85

    • 18/11/2017 SA Time Attack = 1:19.59 (PB)

Willunga Hillclimb

Willunga has a checkered history for me as it was here that my engine let go. I did return in 2018 however and set a time that I was proud of.

  • Full History

    • 09/12/2018 = 1:32.38 (PB)

Motorkhana / Auto Tests

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My first ever event was a Motorkhana, remarkably I finished the event without incurring any penalties for hitting cones or going in the wrong direction.......

  • Full History

    • 24/05/2009 Motorkhana = No penalties & 13th place outright

    • 05/02/2012 Motorkhana = No penalties & 3rd place outright

    • 12/08/2012 Motorkhana = ? (in the GTi)

    • 16/09/2012 Motorkhana = No penalties, 4th in class & 6th outright

    • 21/10/2012 Motorkhana = No penalties, 4th outright

    • 08/03/2015 Motorkhana = No penalties, 4th outright

      • Also broke the records on 2 tests, but lost them to Garry Dodd the same day!

    • 26/06/2016 Motorkhana = No penalties, 5th place outright

    • 2018 Class E State Champion

    • 05/09/2021 The Bend Auto Test (part of the 2021 “The Bend Classic”) = No penalties, 3rd Outright & 1st in Class.

      • Fastest outright on the first layout; then 4th and 6th on the other two layouts.

    • 07/05/2022 Slideshow Alley 2 = 11th Outright, 3rd in Class.

      • Single layout = 56.75 seconds

    • 19/03/2023 SA Motorkhana Championship Round 1 = No Penalties, 3rd Outright & 1st in Class

      • Class Record Time for the “Loopy Slalom” 34.39 sec

Mount Alma Mile

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Photo by MWP Sports Photography

First event was in 2010, but unfortunately I did not think to keep the results! Still a fun event.

  • Full History:

    • 10/04/2010 Mount Alma Hillclimb = ?

    • 02/04/2011 Mount Alma Mile = 54.56 seconds

    • 31/03/2012 Mount Alma Mile = 64.49 seconds (in the Swift GTi)

    • 06/04/2013 Mount Alma Mile = 51.94 (PB) 3rd in Class (47th outright of 91)

Adelaide Hills Tarmac Rally

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Photo by Tony Donoghue Photography

Photo by Tony Donoghue Photography

After being in the motorsport scene for a few years and volunteering at a number of events I was given the amazing opportunity to act as a course car in the 2012 & 2013 Adelaide Hills Tarmac Rallies. It was an amazing (and tiring) experience that I will never forget!

Legend of the Lakes

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I have attend the Legend of the Lakes Hillclimb in Mount Gambier twice early on but have not made it back there since despite it being an exciting and pictueseque event. The only recorded time I can find is 64.85 seconds.

  • Full History

    • 06/11/2009 Legend of the Lakes = 64.85 seconds

    • 08/03/2010 Legend of the Lakes = ?

Lanac Park

At the end of 2010 I purchased a Suzuki Swift GTi that I used mainly in dirt based events. The Southern Districts Car Club had a dirt track called Lanac Park located near Mount Compass. The Club has now moved onto a bigger and better venue, the Mid Murry Motorplex which I only competed at once before selling the GTi.

I competed in a few different Dirt Motorkhana's & Khanacross events but did not end up keeping many of the results.

  • Full History:

    • 20/02/2011 Motorkhana = ?

    • 13/03/2011 Khanacross = 10th outright

    • 01/05/2011 Khanacross = 15th outright

    • 26/02/2012 Motorkhana = No Penalties, 2nd in Class & 7th outright

    • 29/04/2012 Khanacross = No Penalties, 1st in class & 28th outright

    • 19/08/2012 Khanacross = ?