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Firstly sorry for a late posting of photos from last weekend,
and secondly sorry for having to leave SWEGA earlier than the end. As
some of you know I had to go to Dubai on Tuesday morning and came back
Thursday Morning. This left me so tired that even though I tried I could
not complete the posting of photos last night. So here they all are now!!!!
Cornwall Solo Grasstrack
- Another fine day down in Cornwall and some very close racing. Pictured
Left Gaving Horsbough.
SWEGA Grasstrack
- Well the Cornwall close racing continued at the SWEGA meeting, on what
must have been the most superbly presented Grasstrack I have seen this
year. Unfortunately the close racing ended in the sidecars when Ricky
McAuley was hit by Clive Stoneman, leaving Phil Stoneman needing airlifting
to hospital. Thankfully the SWEGA organisers moved swiftly and with the
excellent help of St. Johns Phil was very quickly whisked away to be checked
over. Thankfully he is OK. Pictured left the amazing Tim Nobes leading
Wayne Barrett and Lewis Denham |
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SCGTRA Grasstrack
- 15th May saw the Southern Centre Grasstrack Riders association open
their season with a whopping 150 rider line up and a lovely hot sunny
day as well! Track was in good condition although quite hard, despite
the rain the previous day.
Pictured left Shaun Harvey and Danny Hogg during practice, Danny obviously
having far too much of an easy ride! This performance even continued during
racing!
Don't forget that you can click any image on the gallery page to enlarge
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Bristol Grasstrack
- Speedy update tonight, got to go to Newcastle over the next 2 days via
Coventry and Sheffield, so thought I would try and get the update done
tonight before I go. So please excuse any mistakes!
Bristol meeting, early rain had me worried but thankfully it came to
nothing. Racing was exceptional with some excellent racing in all classes.
Pictured left, Luke Atwell taking an interesting line down the back straight!! |
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Swindon Grasstrack
- Always a favourite of mine, a very well run club that always puts on
fantastic meetings. Shorter than normal track, which proved to much for
some but still left some excellent close racing and a few different faces
winning.
Weather was fantastic although I heard that over night there was some
substaincial rain and thunder. My head is glowing red after 2 days Grasstrack.
Swindon followed by Berks Bonanza, whilst not allowed to photograph at
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Worcester Grasstrack
- My first trip up to Worcester, hopefully not my last. Strange to see
a car boot sale right next door to a Grasstrack Meeting. Track was in
really good shape up till the rain started and then well it got wet and
slippery and a few people came off! Including Tim Nobes. Nick Beasley
had a little tumble in the 350's after hitting Paul Derrick, thankfully
they were both OK.
The Helmet video camera also had another outing and got its first mud
bath! Having now had the time to play back the footage it managed about
10 seconds in the final. I will however post some of the footage from
the earlier races later! |
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Bristol Grasstrack
On arrival at the bristol meeting it was very apparent by the stricken
vans that the field was a little on the wet side. So the first part of
the morning was towing vans into the pits, unfortunately for Steve Leigh
his van was so deep in the mud that not even my 4x4 could pull it out.
Still the track area was less wet than the pits which seemed to be good.
With 60 scheduled races we needed all the good weather we could muster.
And with that the sun came out and dried the track out even more!! Racing
was excellent with Jamie Rodgers (pictured left) showing all the way to
do it until his chain came of and so did he! Well done Bristol, they completed
about 56 races before 5pm.. |
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Somerton Grasstrack
- This has got to have been the best Somerton meeting I have been to.
55 races seemed to be a tall order for the day, but no, smooth effective
marshalling and pits gave an enoyable day and not even a late finish,
and even though the entry for 1000cc sidecars was a little lower than
many events the quality of racing was just as good. My helmet camera also
went out for its first trial run, in the very capable hands of Tim Nobes
and then followed by Kev Colborne passengering Tim Warren's 1000cc Sidecar
outfit. I will hopefully be posting some video footage but at the moment
the file sizes are way to big!! (40mb per race for those that understand)
Declan Ritchings pictured left after winning a head to head scrap with
Matt Gurd. Both riders were having an excellent days racing |
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Southern Centre Presentation Evening - Late opps!!
Later then was originally intended the pictures of the Southern Centre
Grasstrack Riders Association presentation evening. Show left a picture
of the spectacular Pete Langran (500cc Sidecar). Did the black eye come
from another accident yes of course, but not on the bike, fell down the
cellar at the pub!!
What a corker!
Galleries
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Wimbourne Practice Day @ Weymouth Speedway Track.
A lovely sunny but extremely cold day for the practice session at Weymouth.
There were quite a few riders and 500cc sidecars that battled with the
cold to get to Weymouth, but overall it was a good day specially when
the sun came out and the wind dropped.
Pictured left Mike Read and passenger James who's goal must have been
to see if he could touch his head on the ground!
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New for 2005
I have been trying for just over a year to get a low cost, high quality,
helmet video camera system up and running. Towards the end of last year
I figured a way of hooking up my portable digital picture viewer to a
bullet camera. The picture viewer is capable of recording footage digitally,
no tapes, no hassle!! well hopefully!!
I will be taking delivery of the miniture video camera shortly and will
be spending some time sorting out suitable mounts for both frame and helmet
applications. The system will be capable of video and sound recording
and will fit into a very small rucksack which will need to be worn by
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GALLERY
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GALLERY
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The full 2004 Gallery is complete.
Well after many hours of sat in front of the computer I have completed
the full gallery, Month by Month, Event by Event and Class by Class. I
am not sure how many photos are in the galleries but I would expect it
to be near 35,000.
Please bear in mind that the photos shown in these galleries have not
been colour corrected, cropped or modified in anyway and do not really
represent the final printed image. I have included every image I have
taken so please bear in mind some of them are out of focus and indeed
some are just plain rubbish, but I haven't got the heart to delete them
as yet.
The next step is to sort out some of my Landscape and other motorsport
photos and create some galleries of those.
For now enjoy the largest collection of grasstrack photos anywhere online!!!
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Sittingbourne Ok so what happens at the end
of the grasstrack season, most people put their bikes away for the winter
or do that little bit of work they should have done months ago. Not the
case for 15 people on friday, sittingbourne speedway track was the venue
and enjoyment was the order of the day. The weather was about right for
a December day, bloody cold but at least it was dry.
So let me ask you another question how far would you drive to have a
blast on your bike out of season? Bristol to Sittingbourne? Wow some serious
dedication....!
Pictured left - Kev Beer - To find out why he is in such a good mood
you will have to read my report on Grasstrackreview.com
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Swindon,
Wimborne
and SWEGA
Presentations, OK later than planned here's the photos from the presentation
evenings. A chance for all to let there hair down have a drink and chat
about the years racing, Rick McAuley took that a stage further at the
Swindon presentation evening and did a 1 man striptease on the dance floor.
Alas I was not fast enough with the camera to get a shot! The Swega presentation
a couple of weeks later was where that changed. I am not going to say
any more other than it was dark, they shouted take a photo, the flash
went off and I suddenly realised what I had photographed! - PAGE 3 SWEGA
Click each of the names above to view the gallery. |
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Guernsey
Beach Race Photos - Having reached both the end of the 2004
Grasstrack season and 10 years of marriage it was time for me to have
a Holiday, first one this year! As part of our Honeymoon we spent some
time on Guernsey, so we decided to go back and have a long weekend. What
a suprise they had a motor racing event on, on the day we were coming
home. Thankfully my Wife let me go and watch and take some photos. If
you click on the blue text above it will take you to a Gallery of Photos
from the first 5 heats of racing.
Oh and Yes that is an Espace! - Normally at home with 5 Kids and 2 adults
inside!
If time permits I will add a small Gallery of the Best shots from our
Long Weekend. |
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He and Perle have started a Motorcycle Adventure Holiday Venue.
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Grasstrack Update
- Cornwall Solo - I really enjoy going down to the Cornwall Grasstrack
meetings. OK so its a long drive (8 hour round trip) but you know that
it's one of the most scenic drives you will make in the year and also
that you will always find a freindly welcoming group of people.
Anyway, wet was the order of the day....Nothing fell out the sky, just
wet from the weeks worth of rain leading up to race day. I have added
all the photos including the difficult to tell who he was, too muddy pictures.
Pictured left: Chessney King - Youth InterWinner
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Grasstrack Update
- Danebury Grasstrack - I will be brief today as time is running out this
evening and I have a million things to do.
I have posted all the photos I took at the weekend, including those where
things went a little wrong! So if you want one and it looks a little bit
strange let me know and I will tell you if it was on the crap list!!
Excellent racing though on a magnificent track! How much work went into
that? I bet it must have been months....Congrats to the Danebury club
for a superb effort. Also thanks to Gareth Bemisters Girlfriend for helping
me complete the amazing task of printing 9 photos and mounting between
the end of racing and the presentation.
Don't forget to check the Danebury Website out....
www.daneburygrasstrack.co.uk |
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Grasstrack Update
- Somerset Star - Congratulations to the Wyvern Moto Club for an Excellent
weekend of racing. Its a shame the wet weather came to visit on Sunday,
had it been dry I think we would have had some of the best racing of the
year as the track was in perfect condition.
I have spoken with Pete Shaw and he tells me he is fine! after this interesting
roll!
I have already updated Wyvern's
Website if you are interested in reading the report before it gets
to Grasstrack Review. |
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Grasstrack Update
- Bridgwater, Hell of a meeting, some very close racing in all classes
and the weather held as well.
Photos as normal have been arranged in galleries: Solos, Youth, Sidecars
and Practice.
Please also note that me camera reset its counter and the automatic web
page creater has put the images in number order, so in some galleries
the last races of the day are at the start and then followed by the first
races! Confused? |
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An Evening with Lew Coffin - A couple of pictures of
the afternoon and evenings entertainment. |
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SCGTRA Present a cheque to Naomi House - Mathew
and Steve Gurd, Andy Downes, Chris Sparks and myself went to Naomi House
on Saturday Morning. They had an Open Day and we had a cheque for £700
which was raised from the SCGTRA Grasstrack meeting held on the 4th July.
In addition to this cheque they raised between £200 and £300
on the day making a massive near £1000 raised. Unfortunately no
where near to the funds required to run the Childrens Hospice. We were
then treated to a guided tour around the facility, which I would like
to add is an impressive place and caters for not only terminally ill children
but their families.
Please take a look at their Website - www.naomihouse.org.uk
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