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Thank you for your help Bavarian. Was there/is there a similar series for the 2018/2019 season. Thank you.

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2019 SOUTHERN CROSS SIDECAR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS - AUSTRALIA v NEW ZEALAND (Select)

Just so everyone is aware, the Australian team to take on the Kiwis this year in a two round ECSR Australia v New Zealand (Select)Test Match Series, will be results based for the majority of the team, with two wild card selections making up the balance of the Australian team.

To be eligible for selection in the Australian (Select) team, including as a ‘wild card’, you must have competed in a minimum of three ECSR events since the start of our series in 2015. This is for obvious reasons and our way of saying ‘thank you’ for supporting the ECSR series.

The inaugural running of the ECSR Southern X Sidecar Championships in 2019, will be two DOUBLE HEADERS (Friday & Saturday nights at the same venue) consisting of .....
• a two round individual championship run on the Friday night of each double header,
• a two round Australia v New Zealand (Select) teams championships run on the Saturday night of each double header

So the ‘Southern X' Sidecar Individual Championship will be run over two rounds.
The 'Southern X' Sidecar Teams Championship will also be run over two rounds.

It is anticipated that each double header will be 4 to 8 weeks apart with dates and venues to be announced once we have confirmed them, but one venue is definitely Tamworth, the other we are still negotiating.

Remember you must have raced in 3 ECSR events to be in the running for the Aussie team!!

For the Kiwis, obviously you are all invited to compete in the Friday night individual Southern X Sidecar Championships. The Kiwi team will also be selected from results and if we are lucky enough to have more than 8 Kiwi teams competing, results and ECSR support will also form part of the selection process.
If there are any Kiwi teams in NZ that would be interested in racing in Oz in this championship, please contact either Aiden Thwaites or myself. We know there is a fair number already racing in Oz but would like a minimum of 8 Kiwi outfits if that is possible & would certainly welcome more if you want to compete.

We will be trying to include some other race meets while the Kiwi teams are in Aussie, like an indoor sidecar meeting, but will have more on that in due course, assuming we can get the venue etc.

 

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ECSR Southern X Sidecar Teams Championship 

Australia V New Zealand (select)
Plus Speedway Sidecar Support
Oakburn Park Speedway, Tamworth
Friday Night 11th October 2019

 

ECSR Southern X Sidecar Individual Championship

This will also double as RD2 of the 2019 ECSR series.
ALL NOMINATIONS ACCEPTED
Oakburn Park Speedway, Tamworth
Saturday 12th October 2019

 

The ECSR Southern X Sidecar Championships was originally going to be run over two rounds, however due to a number of factors, 2019 Championships will be run over one round for each, “teams” & “individual” at Tamworth, on the dates as listed above.

There will be a HUGE tow money/prize money pool of $12,000 on offer for the ECSR Southern X Sidecar Championships double header on the Friday & Saturday nights of racing!

CALLING ALL KIWI TEAMS!!!
We would like to invite any New Zealand Sidecar Teams that are interested in racing in Australia in our series & the ECSR Southern X Sidecar Championships in 2019, to put forward their EOI to me via email ... garnhams@bigpond.com
or phone +61 412858666.

A rough timetable is to have you here in Oz by September or even earlier, and have your bike loaded some time after the Indoor race meeting on 30th November, ready for shipping back to NZ.

At this stage we don’t have a limit on the bikes to come over, but are hoping for at least 8 Kiwi teams in total will compete in our series and in the ECSR Southern X Sidecar Teams Championships against the Aussies!

Initial thoughts are that the NZ bikes will be based out of Newcastle, where we have free storage available & only 3.5 hours from Tamworth. Newcastle is about 2 hrs drive or 3 hrs on the train from Sydney, 9 hrs drive from Brisbane, or about 1 hour flight from Brisbane or Melbourne.

Costs.....
Each Kiwi bike that we are transporting across the ditch, will contribute $1,000 to that freight cost, with the ECSR & hopefully some sponsors, picking up the balance.
As we did when the Aussie team went across the ditch in 2017, we encourage the sidecar teams to do a bit of fundraising or maybe arrange a fundraising race meeting to help us make this happen & keep it happening.

As we are a not-for-profit entity, we would love to have sponsors from both countries help us fund this task and make it all happen, so feel free to get in touch and donate some coin, remembering that tax Invoices are supplied for all sponsorship donations.

The 2019 series is looking exciting and once again, has a few unique pieces in the puzzle, just to give the racers & new challenge!!

Keep an ear to the ground for some fundraising to bring the Kiwis to Oz!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1658284211101515/permalink/2140781266185138/

 

 

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THE scheduled for October 11, 2019, Australia v New Zealand sidecar teams event at Tamworth unfortunately had to be called off, due to not enough Kiwis being available to form a complete test team.

 

 

 

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