Round 4 South Australian Championship - Crystal Brook


What a great day at Crystal Brook for Round 4 of the South Australian Championships. Twenty Eight riders made the journey north for the second trial run by the Crystal Brook M.C.C. for many years.

A trials display was conducted at the Crystal Brook Show on Saturday which generated great deal of interest prompting a larger than normal spectators numbers on Sunday.

Scott Irrgang took victory in A Grade after Jarrod Barwick led early on. Scott now leads the State Championships by a margin of 10 points. With only one round to go Scott is in an unbeatable position as the best 4 rounds count.

In B Grade John Harry has been very convincing, winning all 4 rounds to date. Daren Diener who missed the first two rounds is in a position to challenge for 3rd place in the championships after taking second place at Crystal Brook. Peter Arnold has ridden consistently to place 2nd in the championships with a 3rd place at Crystal Brook.

Grant Stephen has taken his first State Championship in C Grade with another victory at Crystal Brook. Second place is still open with Matthew Stanley David Martin and Steve Fraser all having a chance at filling the second place in the championship. Matthew Stanley rode well to take second place at Crystal Brook followed by Steve Fraser in third.

The battle of the Greybeards is going down to the line with only 6 points separating Colin Behn and Malcolm McKenzie. Malcolm has the inside running despite being in second place but with Colin only being able to add 9 points to his 81 whereas Malcolm can add 25 points due to only the riders best four rounds count.

Todd Kuerschner with Steve Sparkes have taken out another A Grade Sidecar championship with a win today over Chris Schultz and Stuart Gerhardy. Chris and Stuart have acclimatised to their new outfit and move up to A Grade with taking one win over multiple Australian Champion pairing of Todd and Steve.

Junior has been very interesting this year with Andrew Baker and Joel Whitburn taking two wins a piece. The series will come down to the last round with the highest place of this pair taking the championship.Third place will be filled by Drew Hender who has taken two seconds and two thirds in the series to date. Joel won the Crystal Brook round with Andrew taking second and Drew placing third.

Full results can be viewed on the AJS website at www.ajs.asn.au

Peter Arnold

Crystal Brook Trial 11/8/02
Rider Lap 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
  A SOLO    
1 Scott Irrgang 12 2 4 1 0 2 1 5 6 1 34
2 Jarrod Barwick 8 7 7 2 4 12 6 6 4 2 58
  B SOLO    
1 John Harry 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 2 7
2 Daren Diener 6 0 1 0 0 10 1 3 7 3 31
3 Peter Arnold 2 5 5 6 5 20 10 10 9 3 75
4 Scott Baxendale 19 14 11 9 3 23 17 16 11 7 130
N/C Robert White 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 1 13
N/C Steve Jarvis 14 5 2 2 2 3 10 16 6 9 69
  C SOLO    
1 Grant Stephen 2 0 0 0 3 6 1 1 3 1 17
2 Matthew Stanley 6 1 0 1 1 3 7 1 2 1 23
3 Steve Fraser 5 0 0 1 0 6 10 8 13 6 49
4 David Martin 2 6 6 6 1 8 10 7 7 6 59
5 Luke Jarvis 5 11 0 5 0 10 8 9 10 10 68
6 Ricardo Stocco 13 10 6 6 5 10 17 8 11 10 96
7 Mark Opie 14 11 9 6 7 17 13 8 7 13 105
8 Tony Tildesley 10 7 10 11 16 18 7 14 8 13 114
9 Michael Browne 7 4 2 5 5 30 30 30 30 30 173
N/C Peter Kiely 7 7 6 4 5 8 7 5 6 10 65
N/C John Hender 13 16 10 9 DNF
  GREYBEARD    
1 Malcolm McKenzie 11 3 0 0 1 1 3 5 7 0 2 33
2 Colin Behn 16 0 0 0 0 0 10 6 7 0 2 41
  JUNIOR    
1 Joel Whitburn 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
2 Andrew Baker 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 5
3 Drew Hender 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 7
4 Adrian Browne 2 0 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 1 12
5 Elyse Arnold 8 10 11 8 7 10 10 10 6 5 85
  SIDECAR A    
1 Todd Kuerschner / Steve Sparkes 5 8 5 5 8 6 0 1 5 2 45
2 Chris Schultz / Stuart Gerhardy 13 20 8 8 9 4 13 7 7 3 92
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