Perth Motorplex
USA vs AUS on March 27 In Perth Western Australia
Line Up
Samson - Clive
Raptors Rampage - Peter Duffy (switched places with Troy)
Outback Thunda - Troy Wilson (a local footballer guest driving)
vs
Scooby Doo - Kreg
Avenger - Corey Clarke
Taz - David Brown
The Racing Track
A spiral coarse so drivers start together, make a hook turn, over some small dirt bumps, another hook turn, over a car stack, finish.
Qualifying
Peter Duffy took first place in Raptor with a very clean lap for the slippery track which took other drivers by surprise.
Qualifying was split to make match ups in round 1 USA vs AUS.
Aussie order was
Raptors Rampage
Samson
Outback Thunda
US order was
Avenger
Taz
Scooby Doo (Kreg spun)
Racing
Avenger > Raptors Rampage
Samson > Taz
Scooby > Outback Thunda
Scooby > Raptors Rampage (fast looser)
Avenger > Taz (Samson DQ for missing the Car stack last race)
Scooby > Avenger
Exhibition
A special promotional thing saw Local Footballer Troy Wilson get to jump a car stack with a small caravan on the end.
Thunda took some damage and talking with Clive he said Troy skipped across the cars to slowly and as a result smashed the drive train right on the caravan, this was the last for Thunda tonight.
The Freestyle Track
Biggest perth had ever seen, 2 double car stacks with large dirt ramps, a bus stack, the two racing stacks and additional dirt jumps.
Freestyle
David Brown came out swinging first making good use of the two double stacks then the bus stack, a good all round freestyle. I missed a bit of this freestyle so I cant go into to much detail.
Corey then came out in Avenger, took on one of the racing stacks and got immense air I did have my camera at that point so the only way to describe it was the DVD cover of Monster Jam World Finals 7, sideways and all. Avenger came down hard and broke the rear steering, Corey then did some reverse donuts to try and fill some time but the truck had nothing else in it.
Clive was out next in Samson, making good air off the stacks before coming off one all out of shape, Clive was driving 90 degrees at one stage but pulled it right back onto all fours, Samson then was setting up for the finale when the engine noise cut out. Clive said he though it was an RII cutout but strangely nobody had the second controller anymore.
Kreg and scooby were last out, kreg wasted little time going for the double stacks straight away getting the dog nice and airborne, Kreg then cleared the entire bus stack before shocking everybody when he got big air using the Freestyle Motocross's Massive Dirt landing ramp.
Kreg parked it along side the crowd after that fantastic big air freestyle and took his score of 30 out of a possible 30.
Thanks to Fastmotion for his review
Team Australia Troy Wilson, Clive Featherby and Peter Duffy
Team USA Kreg Christensen, Corey Clark and David Brown
More great photos from the show, are in the gallery.
Photos supplied by
Bruce Russell
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