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GasDash Prologue
Prologue for the 10th Anniversary Gascoyne Dash ran like clockwork this morning, and all entrants are now traversing east towards Gascoyne Junction for the main race over the next two days. Today’s racing was held on what is revered as the longest prologue track in Australia – a 20km course set amongst Carnarvon’s horse racing …
2013 Gascoyne Dash Fires Up
The 2013 Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash fired up today with the scrutiny and street parade of 36 vehicles and 80 bike riders through the main street of Carnarvon, in the Gascoyne Region of Western Australia. Competitors from all over Australia have converged on Carnavon, close to the most western point of the continent to start their …
PERSEVERANCE & DETERMINATION PAY OFF FOR AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI WINNERS
Seventy brave and battle-weary competitors made it through to the finish line of the 2013 Australasian Safari in Geraldton today, 3200 kilometres and seven days after 100 racers started in Jurien Bay, Western Australia last Friday. Queensland Yamaha dealer Rod Faggotter has had a convincing moto win, not only for himself but also for Yamaha. …
Marathon Day – Australasian Safari Leg 4
Today’s leg of the Australasian Safari took competitors from remote inland Gascoyne Junction to tropical Carnarvon on the Coral Coast of Western Australia in two stages of 133km and 156km. It was a Marathon Day, meaning no outside assistance was allowed from service crews. Most competitors agreed the first stage, which was a rough rocky …
A ROCKY ROAD IN LEG 3 OF AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI
While the auto leaders made it through relatively unscathed today, the bikes took more of a hammering and Safari is living up to its reputation as Australia’s toughest off-road motorsport event. Western Australia’s Gascoyne was the scene for 432 hard competitive kilometres of racing today in two stages, and the course offered up what the …
TWISTS, TURNS AND BARREL ROLLS ON LEG 2 OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI
It wasn’t just the course that had rocky patches, twists and turns on Leg 2 of Australasian Safari today, where competitors had a huge 667 kilometres in three competitive stages racing from Kalbarri to Gascoyne Junction in Western Australia. Autos It was a dramatic day for some in the autos with Car 100 – Kees …
Safari Revs Up
The 100 competitors and their 400-plus support crews, families, officials, medics and organizing team gathered in Wanneroo yesterday to complete their final vehicle checks and paperwork for the 2013 Australasian Safari. Today, the Australasian Safari travels to the turquoise coast of Jurien Bay for the Prologue – a time trial on sandy beach tracks to …
Fellows Harvests Another Hyden AORC Win
Reigning Australian Offroad Racing Champions, David Fellows and Mark Bergamin (#1) picked up where they left off at the end of 2010, winning their second consecutive ARB Pinjarra Engineering Hyden 450 in a time of 4 hours 40min 14.72 seconds. Held over the Easter long weekend in the wind swept wheat fields of Hyden, Western …