The City of Penrith Motorcycle Club will stage its 16th Classic Dirt Track Charity meeting at the Nepean Raceway this weekend, August 5 and 6. A major feature of the weekend will be the 2023 New South Wales Classic and Post Classic Dirt Track Championships – an event that has attracted over 220 machines across various classes of competition.
An eclectic mix of old bikes, old riders, along with a few younger riders taking over bikes previously ridden by their fathers or uncles are expected to take centre stage at the Nepean Raceway.
Track action will commence at 10 am on both days with similar programs of seven championship classes and seven support classes on both Saturday and Sunday. While the latter is for those categories with smaller entry lists which were insufficient to warrant championship status, it does not in any way dampen the intensity of competition in those classes.
All classes will be decided over five rounds.
On both days, the racing will wrap up with a 25-lap race – with Saturday featuring the Post Classic Pre ’90 and Period 20 machines, while Sunday will have All Powers Pre’75 and Evolution class machines.
Classic classes feature machines as old as Pre 1960, while Post Classic is for machines in Pre’85, Pre ’90 and Pre ’95 categories.
Two big names jump out among the entries with former superbike star Shawn Giles and multiple Australian Dirt Track champion Luke Gough sure to attract plenty of attention.
Modern-day speedway sidecar rider Jackson Bond has dusted off one of his family’s old dirt track sidecars for the meeting, while the versatile Jack Passfield will be one of a number of busy riders on the weekend.
A number of competitors have been regularly involved in this meeting in the past and treat the weekend as a ‘must-do’ event.
Special mention must be made of a number of long-distance travelers who are heading to Nepean for this weekend. Queensland clubs Ayr, Whitsunday, Brisbane, North Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast are represented while riders from the Mud’n’Tars club in Adelaide and the Harley Club of Victoria are also making their presence felt this weekend.
A canteen will be operating and spectator entry is $10.00 per vehicle which is a tax-deductible donation to this year’s chosen charity. Funds raised from the weekend will be donated to the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation (SCHF) and will be directed to the Newborn & Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS).