One of the most talked-about performances would possibly be that of Canterbury’ s Harriet Grace.
SIDECARS Tokomaru’ s Barry Smith, with Whanganui’ s Louise Blythe as co-pilot, won the F1 Sidecars class, while it was a Whanganui sweep of the podium in the F2 Sidecars category with Tracey Bryan and Jo Franzen leading the“ Dowman family affair” of sibling team-mates James and Michael Dowman and then father-and-daughter crew of Peter and Lucy Dowman to the top step. the day outright for her class, at the same time becoming the first female ever to win a solo bike class overall at Whanganui. A solid performance by Cameron Leslie gave him the Formula Two( 600cc) title this year, the Auckland man finishing the series ahead of Bulls rider Ashton Hughes and Waikato’ s Jesse Stroud, while Silverdale’ s Tyler King was the dominant force in both the Formula Three and Supersport 300 classes. The other bike classes also provided nail-biting excitement, the racing always close around the Cemetery Circuit, with many Whanganui riders to the forefront, particularly in the sidecars classes.
CLASS DOMINATION Whanganui’ s Richie Dibben qualified his lightlymodified Suzuki RM-Z450 motocross bike fastest in the supermoto class at each of the rounds this year and then set about winning every race at every round, making him a rarity as the only individual unbeaten among the more than 200 two-wheeled bike competitors this season. For the record, the all-female Bryan and Franzen team were unbeaten in the F2 sidecars class this year. The only rider to come close to that was the on-form Mitch Rees, who topped F1 qualifying at each round and won all but one F1 race all
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