Back on the 13th & 14th of August. The VMPRA returned to Cohuna, the home of pylon racing in Victoria. Below are the results and Season Championship standings, plus a link to a gallery of images from the weekend.
Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Leigh Hocken
2nd Tom Wetherill
3rd Gary Davidson
Fastest Time (Red Box): 58.98 Leigh Hocken
No. of competitors: 5
Class – F3T
Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Andrew Davies
Fastest Time (Red Box): 69.13 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 8
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Tom Wetherill
2nd Tom Allen
3rd Mike Kellet
Fastest Time (Red Box): 89.10 Tom Wetherill
No. of competitors: 9
Season Championship
This was the first race for the 2022/2023 season championship.
FA1
1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Tom Wetherill
3rd – Gary Davidson
F3T
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Barry Murphy
3rd – Andrew Davies
Q500
1st – Tom Wetherill
2nd – Tom Allan
3rd – Mike Kellet
Next Race
The next race meet will be on September 17-18 at Rick Townsends field in Newbridge.
I hope to see you all there.
Report – John Schmidli
Photos – Tom Allan & John Schmidli
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