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

                                                                                1^st                                                         2^nd                                                              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

 

Kurri Kurri Junior Motor Cycle Club is all set to host this year’s Casey Stoner Cup dirt track meeting this weekend (March 18 and 19) at the Loxford Park track. Named after the Moto GP world champion who was also a member of the club in his junior days, the event is sure to leave fans wondering if any of this weekend’s racers could go progress to featuring in a world championship competition like Stoner. 

Even in its relatively short history, the Casey Cup has boasted of an illustrious list of winners across both the senior and more recently initiated junior divisions, with Harry Ryan being among favourites to make it back-to-back victories in the senior cup, on the back of featuring in the recent Bathurst Long Track Masters. Boyd Hollis, four-time runner-up as well as winner back in 2020, is also in the line-up.

This year’s Casey Stoner Cup is no short of young guns, with the likes of Cody Lewis, Wade O’Keefe, Jake Richardson, Jayden Rodgers, Brayden Gay and the Hutchinson brothers Rory and Angus – all with good credentials.

The Junior Cup for the 13 to 16-year-olds may have attracted only a small entry, but a close battle is anticipated between Jayden Holder of Kempsey, Jett Carter of Bathurst and Alex Adamson of Penrith. The other junior classes will see some already talented youngsters in action as they move through the age brackets.

At the other end of the age scale, there is an Over 35s class which also promises and produces good racing, featuring former motocross star Danny Anderson among the starters.

Practice will get underway at 9.45 am on Saturday, with the first of five rounds of competition for all classes of seniors and juniors starting straight after practice.

 

Sunday morning kicks off at 9.30 am with the 70-event programme expected to wrap up around lunchtime, followed by presentations.

 

An entry fee of $5 per vehicle will get fans in to catch all the action.

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Press Release prepared by Peter Baker 0409 903196; bakerp@westnet.com.au

On behalf of Kurri Kurri Junior Motor Cycle Club