Chad Peters Memorial
June 3rd & 4th

It was with great sadness that the Motocross community lost one of its dearest friends
and supporters.  Chad lost his battle with cancer earlier this year and his friend David Geneve took upon setting up the Chad Peters Memorial event. His working crew of the WA Senior MX Committee and the BSA Harley Davidson Motorcycle Club workers, along with many of Chads friends and family set about to raise a stack of money for the Cancer Council of WA.

A Target was set and the work begun, a race event over 2 days, including all classes solos and quads, seniors and Juniors, a monster Auction, legends race and a convoy of road bikes to the event, Invited Stars from the East and home grown Stars of the West. This was going to be an event that would rival the Manjimup 15000 of which this event replaced this June long weekend.
Saturday looked to be a quieter day than we had hoped for, many of the Junior solo riders not supporting the event, for whatever reasons are unknown, 80 riders including 2 Junior Quad classes enjoyed the perfectly prepped track and 4 rounds of racing.
Junior Blasters had a field of 8 and put on a brilliant display of skill rivalling their two wheeled counter parts for best lap times. The commentators seeing the fierce competition of at least 5 riders lap after lap were as excitable as the parents with the kids pushing each other to race as fast as Ive ever seen. Well done to all the Blaster riders, you are all Champions, I don’t think you all realise just how much you have improved and how fast your all going. No one will forget the 90cc Class, the kids are flying and I heard an official on the day comment on the skill level of some of the riders being exceptional. Since Saturday weve seen bike upgrades and new racers get their licenses for forthcoming events, lets hope to see this class flourish.

Clubmans saw a mixed bag of quality racers putting in lap times that would see them podium in the pro class to brand new woman racers. Welcome to all the new racers that joined in the Clubman class on Saturday and did over 20 laps on the Noble Falls Circuit.

Sunday began quite emotionally for those of us who knew Chad, the National Anthem and one minutes silence was quite a scene on the start straight. The Honda Shop Racing team sat abreast of the hill for photo’s followed by the roar of 195 riders warming up their bikes for practice. Quads had one class on Sunday, with an assortment of National Champions on the track you just knew the racing was going to be spectacular. Every race had the crowd hanging over the fence to see who would holeshot, no one was out their playing this day, pride and fastest lap times were on the line. Noble Falls is one track where Quads can hold their own against anyone’s lap times including the likes of Marmont, Addison and Porter.

It is quite amazing the atmosphere of the day was so competitive yet in the pits it was very social and very friendly, I’m sure Chad would have been proud to have seen 4 classes of Quads compete over the weekend remembering what was most important, to get out and be involved and have a go.
The event raised in excess of $25 000 for Cancer research, Everyone should be very proud of their contributions whether they raced, volunteered or came along to spectate.
Donations will be excepted through the MWA office until June 13th

Results Blasters
1 JQ14 Luke Gaisford    100  25  25  25  25
2 JQ7 Joel Mortimer        88  22  22  22  22
3 JQ53 Tom Udell           72  18  18  20  16
4 JQ28 Simone Gaisford  71  20  20  13  18
5 JQ19 John Roki            63  14  13  16  20
6 JQ23 Nicholas Osborne 62  16  16  15  15
7 JQ8 Brayden Spencer   60  13  15  18  14
8 JQ91 Jessica Osborne   56  15  14  14  13

Results 90cc Juniors

1 JQ10 Christopher Bosnakis    93  25  25  25  18
2 JQ9 Aston Oliver                   84  22  15  22  25
3 JQ16 Donovan Petersen        84  20  22  20  22
4 JQ22 Luke Versaci                67  16  16  15  20
5 JQ33 Casey McKay               65  15  18  16  16
6 JQ24 Daiel Soltoggio             56  18  20  18  --

Results Clubmans
1 Q18 Tom Stevens               100  25  25  25  25
2 Q79 Bradd Jefferies              88  22  22  22  22
3 Q93 Michael Harcourt            73  13  20  20  20
4 Q71 Santel Bush                   70  16  18  18  18
5 Q47 Daniel Udell                   64  18  16  15  15
6 Q88 Grant Williams               61  20  15  16  10
7 Q21 Cathy Bush                   59  15  14  14  16
8 Q99 Mike Allfrey                   54  14  13  13  14
9 Q23 Angelo Versaci               47  11  11  12  13
10 Q76 Katryna Douglas           42  10  10  10  12
11 S4 Sally Grime                    38  9     9    9   11
12 Q6 7Darren Williams            35  12  12  11   --

Quads Pro Class
1 Q55 Christopher Brenton       72 22  25  25
2 Q11 Graham Terry                69 25  22  22
3 Q97 Colin Jefferies                54 20  16  18
4 Q33 Chad McKay                  53 15  18  20
5 Q28 Grant Gaisford               47 16  15  16
6 Q27 Clinton Hill                     42 14  13  15
7 Q93 Michael Harcourt            41 13  14  14
8 Q42 Anthony Yewers             38 18  20    0
9 Q40 Leon Wilken                   37 12 12  13
10 Q83 Brendan Reynolds        34 11  11  12


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