November 15th - 17th 2024
The 4th and final round of the 2024 Pirelli Motul Victorian Road Racing Championship at Broadford saw a few highlights for the Race Center Team caping off another great year of racing. All Images featured courtesy of Russell Colvin
Scintillating Sauce
Supersport - Harley Side - Yamaha R6 #95
Harley ultimately took home 2nd in this years Supersport championship however it was the manner in which he did it which was impressive.
It was always going to be a tall order to take on the class of this years field Scott Nicholson who had our measure for the majority of the championship. Still, Saucy showed glimpses of brilliance and was able to give Scott a run for his money in a few races this season, just not on a consistent enough basis which ultimately showed we just didn't have the raw speed to match Scott.
Harley's tenacity was on full display in the final round and this clip of him having a dip in Qualifying is a great example of it. He did have a couple of offs over the weekend, one in qualifying and one in Race 1 which resulted in a rare DNF for the Sauce machine but it was breathtaking to watch and he rode a stella round.
Joey, Josh and Glen did an amazing job to turn his bike around after each stack with no on track time lost and the bike working perfectly as if nothing had happened each time.
Qualified - P2 57.88
Race 1- DNF
Race 2 - P2
Race 3- P2
Final Championship Standing - P2
What and Acheivement!!!! - Supersport 300 - Colin Bone #69
Boner reaching a 1.05 at Broadford on a SS300, was a long term and ambition goal we set this year. Particularly because he started racing a lot later in life , he never thought he would be capable of that sort of pace. But, you know what, we achieved it together! 1.05s on a SuperSport 300 is no easy feat!
Far too often in this, and any sport for that matter, we only focus on the elite or those who have been racing since they were kids. Seeing someone like Colin get out of his comfort zone, take up racing later in life and now have the guts to set such an ambition goal for himself. Then to take it head on even if it seemed like a mountain to climb, the fact to he had the guts to take this on in the first place is amazing enough.
You also have to factor in that he runs in a team with some seriously quick young riders. Putting yourself in that environment and letting your goals be discussed and on display even though you may not be able to achieve them takes serious guts. And for that, we are so very proud of Colin!!! The fact that he bloody achieved it too.... well that's just seriously cool.
Congratulations Boner, 1.05s!!!! That is simply awesome!
Qualified - P10 1:05.95
Race 1- P10
Race 2 - P7
Race 3- P11
Final Championship Standing - P4
Superbike - William Sharrock - Yamaha R1 #44
Will had a great 1st year on the Race Center Yamaha R1 in the Superbike class in VRRC. The highlight of the season being scoring a pole Position at the PI round and leading some laps at Broadford in Rd2. We still have work to do to find the pace we really want but we have some plans in place and hope to get there in the 2025 season.
Qualified - P6 58.112
Race 1- DNF
Race 2 - P7
Race 3- P6
Final Championship Standing - P5
Supersport 300 - Alexander Brisbane #54
Alex B, after having the first half of the year off, he also achieved the goal that was set for him of 1.05s on the R3 Supersport 300. A goal that when he started 2 years ago seemed far fetched. But again we got there. We can't wait to see Alex continue his journey in 2025
Qualified - P9 1:05.736
Race 1- P8
Race 2 - P6
Race 3- P6
Final Championship Standing - P12
New Faces
It was great to have 2 new faces pitting with us, Mathew Ritter in SS300 with a 3rd place in Race 2 and Hamish Gibbs having his first taste of the VRRC in the Supersport class. He did a brilliant job and smashed his PB with a very respectable 1.00.6! Top job
Thankyou for the Support
Massive hats off to the team. Bricko, Joey, Bill, Glen, Dingo, Pasquale, Luke, Timmo, Alex, Daz, Russ, young Will Glazy all our family, partners & friends for their amazing help and support.
As always a big thank you to our sponsors who have thrown their support behind our team
All Images courtesy of Russel Colvin
