Hughie Hoare Endurance Report

Berry and Simonson take out the Over 500cc Hughie Hoare Endurance at Broadford | by Russell Colvin

The pairing of Peter Berry and Paul Simonson have taken out this year’s Over 500cc Hughie Hoare Endurance race yesterday at Broadford.

Berry who held the reign’s on his ZX-10R and Simonson on his Aprilia RSV4 completed the race in a total time of 46min03.534, 6.794sec clear of the Jones brothers, Nathan and Tyson.

It was a testing day for Nathan after he slipped off his #84 3JJJ ZX10R machine while in the lead. Nathan came off after trying to avoid a crashed rider that went down in the early stages of the race, which meant it was all down to bother Tyson to push his way through the field and up to second.

Picking up the final spot on the podium was the pairing of Dean Archbold and the evergreen, Steve Tozer, who finished 19.152sec behind the race winners.

Fourth place went to Darren ‘Super Daz’ Sciberras on the RC10 Superbike who paired up with Ben ‘Dingo’ Meade, who was also the first 600 rider across the line. Meade did have to do most of the race as Sciberras forgot to have his cup of concrete before the race!

Rounding out the top five was the pairing of Tim Reinen and Hayden Graham who completed the race in 47min09.368.

One lap behind the top five in sixth position, was Stephen Mion (Bulleen Health and Fitness) and Scott McGregor. “Thanks to the gun start of Scott [McGregor], it gave me an awesome second leg to hold onto. However, I’m not sure how keen I am to do twenty-five laps around Broadford again in one hit at race pace.” said Mion.

David Barker/Anthony Nicola, John Kendall/Jonny Taylor, Paul Van Der Heiden and Kieran Maher completed the top ten.

Snaring the Formula 2 & Up to 500cc Hughie Hoare Endurance win was young gun Ted Collins and Alessandro Malatesta. Not only did the pair win by 25.018sec, but they also posted the fastest lap time by posting a 1min03.519 on lap twenty-six.

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Take your hat off to Matty Barton (NZi/Morris Oils/ETS RaceFuels/GP FastLine) who wrapped up second place all on his own aboard a Honda NSF 250 Moto3 machine. Barton finished 14.953sec clear of Tozer and Paul Cassingham.

Fourth place went to Natahlia Johnson and Ben Reid. The 2014 Formula 2 and 250 Production Sprint and TT champion, Tom Bramich (Ron Angel Classic Racing) rounded out the top five.

Taking out the Junior Hughie Hoare Endurance was Jacob Whitehouse, with Joel Kelso and Scott Nicholson joining him on the podium.

In conjunction with the final round of the Pirelli Road Racing Series saw the second last round of the Oz BEARS. Winning the F1 class with a 100 percent strike rate was Phil Czaj on his 4SR Australia/CRC Aprilia RSV4.

Phillip Cloros (Mongrel Boots) was second on his Ducati 1199 Panigale who scored a 2-3-2-3 result. Rick Fitzsimmons was third, also on a Ducati 1199.

Just like Czaj, Anthony Villella wrapped up the F2 class with a clean sweep on his FIIVE/Mobil 1/Triumph Daytona 675. What makes it even more impressive is tha fact it was the first ever time that Villella had raced at the Broadford complex. Villella finished ahead of Philip Bartush and Craig Leech.

Other BEARS class winners were David James in the F4 class, Richard Spottswood in the F5 and Scott Rinaldis in the F3.

The final round of the Oz BEARS will take place on November 8-9 at Sydney Motorsport Park.