The Vintage Motocross Club of Western Australia

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Narrogin Hosts Champions

The Australian Vintage Motocross Championships were successfully held over the weekend of the 15^th and 16^th of July at Dandaloo Park motocross circuit, Narrogin. Along with visiting international and national riders, Narrogin had it’s own local riders competing. Frank Baron and son Terry were amongst 120 riders who enjoying racing on the challenging Dandaloo Park circuit. “It is one of the biggest crowds I have ever seen at the track”, Frank said. “The local supporters of this event would have to be happy about that”. The support from local businesses and council had been fantastic and went a long way to ensuring the event was a success.

The Vintage Motocross Club of WA, who have Dandaloo Park as their home track, invested a lot of time and money to run the event and to attract International competitors. 2 times world 500cc Motocross Champion, Jeff Smith, along with works CCM rider Jimmy Aird accepted invitations to come to Perth and race, a fairly expensive exercise for the club. “This event was the culmination of a hard years work by our dedicated committee and everything went off without a hitch” said club president Peter Lawson. “We’re happy with the support from the local businesses for this event and are happy to maintain our base at the Narrogin track for many years to come.

Jeff Smith, 65, won the World 500cc Motocross Championship in 1964 and 1965, and was a member of the winning Motocross Des Nations or Trophee Des Nations team no less than 11 times and also competed in Trials winning many British titles in the 50’s and 60’s. Jeff has never stopped racing and is currently a very active Vintage MX, Trials and Hare Scrambles rider winning many events and three USA AHRMA Championship in 2000. He has now added the Australian over 60yrs Championship to his trophy collection. Jeff Smith rode a BSA 500cc Goldstar and  500cc BSA B50 over the weekend. “The Goldie is about 100 pounds too heavy these days” Jeff said. “But it is a hell of a lot of fun”.

In addition to Jeff, well known Scottish MX Champion, World Vintage MX Champion and Factory CCM racing legend Jimmy Aird travelled from England with his own mechanic to show the locals how to ride a vintage four stroke. Jimmy won the over 50yrs Championship as well as coming 3^rd in the pre’75 Open Championship. The USA was represented by 1970’s AMA pro rider Bill Davis who had a ball.

This event also celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the Narrogin Motocross Club and the timing of the event marks exactly 40 years to the inaugural Motocross meeting at that track. The track remains almost identical to the original layout and machine eligibility rules ensure that the bikes raced over the weekend were near to being exactly as they were 40 years ago. All of the famous marques from a bygone era were there including Triumph, BSA, CZ, Husqvarna, OSSA, Bultaco and all of the popular and not-so popular Japanese brands.