Offroad racers head for Gwavas endurance event
Wednesday 7 August 2013, 11:09PM
By Mark Baker
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DELAY BOOSTS ANTICIP...ATION FOR OFFROAD RACERS
• Best Forsyth Electrical enduro brings top teams to Hawkes Bay
• National championship last chance points push
• 41 – and counting - entries
Top New Zealand offroad racing teams will finally hit the forest roads and tracks of Gwavas Forest in southwest Hawkes Bay this weekend after the recent ‘weather bomb’ forced the postponement of the Best Forsyth Electrical endurance race.
Northern teams contesting the 2013 New Zealand Offroad Racing Championship will hit town this weekend for a last shot at adding to their points tally. The championship has been shortened this year to enable teams to also contest the ENZED Taupo 1000, the biggest event in the sport in this country.
Hawkes Bay Offroad Racing Club’s endurance race, held over 250 km in Gwavas Forest, is the second round of the championship’s regional segment. Northern and southern racers then come together at the national final in October.
The club says this weekend’s race follows the style of the previous Gwavas event in 2011, featuring fast shingle roads, fire breaks, and downhill sections between scrub and trees. The race will be based at the forest airstrip but will run in the opposite direction in that part of the forest, with some sections of track not raced for six years or more.
The club says some teams will come for the championship, others with the aim of getting in some endurance race time before September’s Taupo event.
Forest gates are open to allow team and spectator access off Gwavas Road between 7.00 am and 7.30 am on Sunday morning.
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Entries as at Wednesday August 7
109 Alan Hilliam
111 Martin Gore
130 Colin Meredith
150 Clive Thornton
157 Tony McCall
169 Paul Eayrs
193 Malcolm Langley
230 Anthony Hewitt
245 Neville Mather
302 Jason Delahunty
368 Sam Atkins
378 Gary Preston
450 Rex Croskery
457 Glenn Turvey
469 Grant Rosenberg
511 Jamian Hill
517 Nick Magness
519 Todd Graham
531 Gregg Carrington-Hogg
534 Andrew Wilton
544 Ivan Booth
559 Pete Tinsley
575 Kenneth Mawson
605 Klem Christensen
624 Craig Mulholland
697 Warren Adams (pictured)
714 Tyler Castle
724 Ollie McCall
731 Taine Carrington Hogg
777 Dyson Delahunty
808 William Vander Wal
829 Martin Van der Wal
882 Justin Leonard
900 Maurice Bain
991 Mike Konings
C67 Wayne Rowe
C76 Ricky Jessen
U20 Ben Thomasen
U52 Shayne Humberstone
U77 Dave Bonniface
U88 Mike Small