The two-day event showcased quality, first class racing and Macleay District Motor Cyle Club (MDMCC) junior members performed at an extremely high level, and made their presence felt.

The most successful was Kane Burns who raced his favoured KTM 85SX. He achieved a third place podium finish in the final of the 11 to under 13 years, 85cc 2stroke/150cc 4 stroke standard wheel class.

The finals line up included no less than nine past and present Australian title holders and podium finishers and the racing was always going to be fast and competitive.

Qualifying in ninth position for the finals and with the best race gates already taken by the higher qualifiers, Kane had to settle for the less competitive gate four to launch his assault on the title.

This proved to be no handicap with the start gate dropped Kane managed to get a blistering start and hit the entry to the first left hand corner in second position behind Kurri Kurri’s Josh Pickering.

Despite an onslaught from riders on the faster outside race line Kane held his second place position and began his pursuit of Pickering.

Three laps of the five done and the current Australian Title holder Joshua ‘Chunky’ McDonald was in third place and made his move through the corner one and passed Burns, only to have Burns immediately adjust his race line to place himself bar to bar with McDonald.

Another lap down and still bar to bar with the Aussie champ, McDonalds race skill and experience prevailed to take second place. Pickering came first.

In addition Kane also contested and managed to obtain a third place podium finish in the 80 to 160cc Standard 4 stroke Class aboard the Mark and Heather Jordan supplied YamahaTTR 125.

The Yamaha performed superbly against the larger capacity 150cc contenders. Kane is grateful to the Jordan’s for the loan of the bike.