The weather was as hot as the on-track action at the Loxford Park Raceway last weekend, as Kurri Kurri Junior Motor Cycle Club staged this year’s Casey Stoner Cup.
Harry Ryan took the honours in the Senior Casey Stoner Cup, while Lachlan Russell emerged as the newest winner of the Junior Cup.
Earlier in the meeting, Ryan had a fall in a round of both the Pro 450 and Pro Open classes which kept him out of the overall placings in the same. But when it came to the one-off six-lap Senior Cup final, he dominated from the start to take the honours, also making it two years in a row.
Cody Lewis, also a former Junior Cup winner, finished second in the Senior Cup while 2020’s winner Boyd Hollis followed at third, ahead of Over 35s winner Danny Anderson who beat a number of younger riders home. Consistency rewarded the same trio of riders with a spot on the rostrum for both the Pro 450 and Pro Open classes, albeit with a different finishing order.
Jake Richardson topped Cody Lewis in the Pro 450, the positions were reversed in the Pro Open with Boyd Hollis third in both classes.
Danny Anderson winning the Over 35s was no surprise, but he did have a tough battle with Josh McCosker in several rounds.
The other senior class was for Pre-1995 machines – where a small group of older riders enjoyed themselves and Ross Merrick finished as the most successful.
Unfortunately, numbers in the oldest age bracket for the juniors fell away leaving Lachlan Russell of Penrith and Jayden Holder of Kempsey to match-race each other. Both took a class win before Russell was awarded the victory after an extremely close finish in the one-off Junior Cup race.
The other junior classes also featured some impressive performers, beyond just the class winners.
Despite being a newcomer to dirt track with a motocross background, Max Earl ended up dominating his class with an unbeaten run, including several rounds where he had to come from behind.
Albury-Wodonga duo Cooper Antone and Jed Fyffe stood out in the 9 – U/13s where Antone won four of the five rounds to take the 65cc class. Antone looked set to make it a double in the final of the 85cc 2str / 150cc 4str Big Wheel class as well, until Fyffe passed him within metres of the finish line.
Other junior winners were Danny Anderson’s son Brax Anderson, Cohen McCosker and Lockie Duggan.
Full Winners List
1st 2nd 3rd
SENIOR CASEY STONER CUP Harry Ryan Cody Lewis Boyd Hollis
PRO 450 Jake Richardson Cody Lewis Boyd Hollis
PRO OPEN Cody Lewis Jake Richardson Boyd Hollis
OVER 35 Danny Anderson Anthony Farrell Josh McCosker
PRE ‘95s Ross Merrick Greg Dale Eric Smaller
JUNIOR CASEY STONER CUP Lachlan Russell Jayden Holder
50cc Auto Div.2 7 – U/9 Brax Anderson Quade Pringle Flynn Beard
65cc 7 – U/9 Cohen McCosker Brax Anderson Quade Pringle
65cc 9 – U/13 Cooper Antone Jed Fyffe Will Wiggins
80cc 4-str Modified 7- U/12 Lochie Duggan Tahj Edwards Jed Louis
85cc 2str / 150cc 4str BW 9 – U/13 Jed Fyffe Cooper Antone Preston Craft
85cc 2str / 150cc 4str BW 12 – /16 Max Earl Nate Jaeger Zac Brady
200-250 4-str 13 – U/16 Lachlan Russell Jayden Holder
Combined 13 – U/16 Jayden Holder Lachlan Russell
Press Release prepared by Peter Baker 0409 903196; bakerp@westnet.com.au
On behalf of Kurri Kurri Junior Motorcycle Club