Motolites SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals

The defending Motolite Sava Tyres Bucket Nationals title holder Newcastle rider #6 Jason Dunn (Honda RS85cr) had no intention of handing over the prize. Jason dominated  qualifying and racing winning all three races and scoring maximum points.

NCRR club rider #76 Damien Coppola on a BBE Honda RS 150 put in a determined effort finishing an impressive second overall on the booming four stroke. 

 Lindsay McKay (#81 Honda RS85cr) back out of retirement was stylish and fast as ever and despite a slight top end misfire clinched third place holding off a racy John Olip (#94) riding his aging Moriwaki 85. Michael Child (#170 Supermono197) came home fifth.

Motolite Results for SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals

Superlites SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals

Tim Smith (#65 Honda CB150) was in devastating form winning 2 races and with his hands on the prize settled for third place in race Three.

Tim won races one and two but had to fight tooth and nail to get the wins. A back in form Ken Lindsay  (#2 Honda RCB150) was proving very difficult to pass and defending title holder Junior Murphy (#38 BBE Honda CB150) wasn't going to hand it over without a fight.

These three riders battled and swapped places continuously during the first 2 races. However in race three the King got the holeshot and was never headed. The battle raged behind until Junior broke free of Tim and started to hunt down Ken and with Ken running wide at the hairpin allowed Junior to close but the immaculate #2 bike wasn't to be denied.

Jim Murphy (#62  Jianshe150) finished fourth and John Olip (#94 Suzuki 100) fifth. 

Superlites Results for SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals

Commuterlites SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals

The CommuterLites once again put on a great show of close racing with strong support from the North Coast Road Racers club who put it up to the regular Sydney hotshots on the Sydney siders home track. Once again the popular bike choice is the Honda CBR125.

 Nicholas Miller (#555 Honda CBR125) started the day with an incredible qualifying lap of 1:13.491 and went on to win races one and two after some close attention from North Coast racers David Buckton (#45 CBR125) Kyam Buckton (#44 CBR125) Nathan Pither(#47 CBR125) and PCRA rider Luke Rhodes.

These five riders swapped places continuously in the three races. In races one and two Nicholas had a slight edge but race three was a different story.

First time around in race three it looked like business as usual with Nicholas leading #45 David Buckton #18 Luke Rhodes third #47 Nathan Pither fourth and Kyam Buckton fifth. Lap two #45 David Buckton took the lead with everyone else holding station. Big change on lap three Luke Rhodes goes to second and #44 Kyam Buckton moves up two places to third with Nicholas now at the back of the pack. Kyam continues his forward drive and passes David on the last lap to be in front when it counts at the chequered flag.

Nicholas recovers to get back to third pushing past Luke who was also passed by Nathan on the last lap. Great ride by Kyam as he was at the tail end of the bunch for two laps but found the pace to win a very exciting close fought race.

Down the field the dicing was no less ferocious with newcomer #73 Andrew Lewer mixing it up more seasoned campaigners.

Commuterlites Results for SAVA Tyres Bucket Nationals