A TOTAL of 67 cars from around NSW entered in the Hedweld Milbrodale Mountain Classic, with some of Australia’s top drivers competing.
The outright winner of the 196km classic was Mittagong’s Buddy Crowe and son Buddy Jr driving their Pro Class Buggy.
Second was Warialda’s Terry Rose and Shane Egan (Pro Class Buggy), third was Maitland’s Scott McNeil and Melinda Saxby (Super 1650 Buggy).
Local drivers had mixed fortunes over the weekend.
In Pro Buggy class, Mark Eveleigh and Kristy Hedley, had problems over the weekend with the Eveleigh car being forced to retire on the Sunday afternoon section of the long course with oil pressure problems.
Prior to the stoppage, this car did the fastest single lap of the long course and won the Man of the Mountain award, (Mark had stepped out of the car and Brad Prout was the driver at the time). Car 907 finished 12th in class and 26th outright.
Kristy Hedley and sister Rikki had problems in the first race on Saturday afternoon, and lost more time on the long course when a shockie snapped off.
The crew cable tied it up and sent her back out. The Hedley girls finished 13th in class and 30th outright.
In the Prolite Buggy class, our only local competitor was Damien Penfold and nephew Jarrad Eveleigh. This duo only managed to complete two laps of the event when they were forced to retire with a blown engine, placing 13th in class and 61st outright.
In the Super 1650cc Buggy class, Singleton’s Gary Hardie and Anthony Roberts had a great weekend, finishing second in class and 12th outright.
In the Sportsman Buggy class, Singleton’s Ian (Billy) Standing and daughter Traci had a great weekend by finishing second in class and 15th outright. Singleton’s Steven Honey and James MacDonell didn’t have a great weekend, as they were forced to retire when the selector shaft broke in the gearbox in the first section of the event. They finished 11th in class, 57th outright.
Competitors at the presentation praised the efforts of the Hunter Valley Off Road Racing Association for the running of a brilliant event, one even remarked he raced at all the Australian Championship events and the Milbrodale Mountain Classic topped those events.
Class winners were:
Pro Buggy: first Buddy Crowe / Buddy Crowe Jr, second Terry Rose / Shane Egan, third Jeff Thomas / Louise Dorrian.
Prolite Buggy: first Matt-hew Martin / Lorraine Avery, second Stephen Taylor / Maria Raccosta, third John Batchelor / Jordie Batchelor.
Super 1650 Buggy: first Scott McNeil / Melinda Saxby, second Gary Hardie / Anthony Roberts, third Ian Irons / Simon Lennox.
Sportsman Buggy: first Les Webster / Louise Stelter, second Ian Standing / Traci Standing, third Alisha Crowe / Kerry Crowe.
Extreme 2WD: first Gavin Mickle / Ron Schmidt, second Warren Irons / Tania Irons, third Martin Dal-Santo.
Clubman Buggy: first Mark Cowie / Brett Blackshaw.
Extreme 4WD: first Ian Cotton / Allan Young.
Man of the Mountain: ( this is the car/driver/navigator who does the fastest single lap of the long course section: Brad Prout driving car 907 with a time of 15 minutes, 32.36 seconds.
Best Female Performance: Alisha Crowe.
Nigel Beeston Memorial: Allan Young (hard luck award - he rolled in his first drive of the car).
The Hunter Valley Off Road Racing Association would like to thank all the property owners, local community groups and local businesses that assisted us in the running of this event, for without them it would be impossible.
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