The weekend as part of the SOUTH WEST GAMES , was a challenge between south aust and victoria raced at the big south west minimotto track in victoria , a small but dedicated team heading across for the 15 hour return trip to fly the south aust flag. The track as per normal was outstanding with a very dediciated track offical waiking the some 750 meter track prior to racing cleaning off the dust and checking the track surface poor guy must of spent some 45 min with the blower vac and did a splendid job , the guys as per normal all made us very welcome but i think were a little shocked by our mass of marques team shirts and euro bikes lol ,the day started off in great weather that time of the morning is was still cool and the bikes hit the big track and good form pushing hard from the early practice sessions all the south aust riders looked good and in fine form and ran the full practice session with out incident, the fomat as per normal junior followed by senior the big track allows the bikes to really push hard and work to there max capacity we ran two sessions for a practice and allowed time for any fine tuning, shortly after the racing got underway CAG followed by water cooled , euro , fat 50s ( r1) and then motard , due to the small number of south aust entrants we unfortunately werent able to offer any riders in junior or senior in any of the CAG classes , fat 50s (r1) or motards that basicaly reduced us to water cooled chinese and air mixed and the euro classes, in them classes we were able to compete in, we were able in the juniors to control both 1 and 2 postion between both ayden and nathan same in the euro class , senior we also ran right up front of the field most times putting 2 of our riders into the top 4 postions , unfortunately after we ran round 1 the heat set in and it was hot, personaly i think the track temp would of been around mid40s put a rider with leathers and a helmet and you probaly getting in the high 40s most the guys suffering due to the heat and so were the bikes many bikes as the day got hotter failed to finish the race and many that did were limping home i noticed more and more bikes failed to finish the race as the day went on due to the heat ,the length of the race was reduced due to this and we also reduced it to 3 rounds as the day went on and the heat increased personally i think everyone was more than happy with that idea, brandon ran for the first time with the big boys the seniors as per the juniors was able to put his bike right up there at the front he pushed it as hard as possable in the conditions and always finished in the points postions and considering that was his first time with the seniors he looked right at home and as per normal brought home the silerware, both liam and bill seem to struggle in the heat and were still able to push right up there and make the vics work hard for every point they got liam as per normal end up on the podium and i believe bill just missed out this probaly more due to the extreme heat than his racing both ayden and nathan raced it out too see who was going gold and silver lol at the end of the day they split it ayden took the chinnese water class mixed with the air, nathan took the euro class so they both ended up with a gold and silver each, the other rider the made the effort to go over for the race was marky mark who im not 100% sure what happened but had to withdraw from racing after round 1, i believe due to engine problems however lets not forget he made the big trip across to fly the south aust flag and that itself is a big effort and expense , unfortunately at the end of the day the trophy stays in victoria we did the best we could but with a mere 5 riders in basically only haif the classes it was a long shot many south aust riders doubling up runing 2 classes in the extreme heat however you couldnt expect them to run in anymore classes this unfortantely was our down fall and fell well short off the vics points , now theres some people that we have to thank thats all the guys at the SOUTH WEST MINIMOTO CLUB for looking after us all so well and the bbq everyone there is super friendly and a credit to the sport and take it very proffesionaly including the guy on the 20ft platform above the track who does all the video off the big meets for them great too see and a nice guy as well HIPPY AND HIS WIFE mate thank you to you both they opened there home to us, cooked for us, and even made coffee in the morning for us thank you great people from all us guys here in south aust APBA thank you to you all and hopefully we can do it all again some time soon

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POCKET BIKE PAUL