The 22nd February 2015
Khanacross results
What a difference twelve
months makes. Last year local rev heads had to wait until
June for the Douglas Shire Motor Sports Association’s track
to dry out for their first event. In 2015 the club has been
able to run two events already, and we are only half way
through February.
The dry weather had caught some members out with this time
of the year usually reserved for car maintenance, repair and
rebuild. Never the less there was a good turn out with
twenty drivers lining up for last Sundays khanacross and
junior motorkhana.
The motorkhana was contested by three juniors, who all drove
exceptionally well. They competed over 14 runs on the day
with all three recording fastest times at various stages.
Toneisha Phillips drove superbly to record the fastest time
on the first run and continued to lead for the rest of the
day finishing on a time of 1012 seconds.
Ethan Bakker tried hard all day to catch Toneisha but in the
end had to settle for second spot on 1041 seconds, while
first time competitor Sophie May got off to a somewhat slow
and nervous start but quickly improved eventually posting
the fastest time on the last run to finish third on 1056
seconds.
Ross Dunkerton got off to a flying start in his Datsun 1600
setting some scorching times in the khanacross and quickly
building a lead up over the second placed Nissan Micra of
Greg Erwin.
Unfortunately that all came undone on the third run when a
momentary lapse in concentration resulted in Ross taking a
wrong turn and incurring a penalty for a wrong direction.
Dunko’s 5 second lead over Greg quickly turned to a 23
second deficit.
Ross continued on setting some blistering times over the
days competition but was unable to catch Greg’s Nissan
eventually finishing second, eight seconds a drift of Greg.
Shane North, who has now made more come backs than John
Farnham drove the wheels off his Ford Laser to finish in
third place.
The result gives Greg to wins from two starts and he is
shaping up as a title contender.
The Cairns father and son duo of Dave and Josh Coulson
finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Josh won the junior class ahead of Flynn Dunkerton and Heath
Barry.
Heath’s result was pretty impressive as he beat both his Mum
and Dad on the day.
The Associations next event (weather permitting) will be on
15th March.
