NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: p.NC2 AUSTRALASIA
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- "Champion of Champions"
- State Champions
- N. & S. Island Champions
- Australasian Champions
- Au & NZ U21 & Youth Champions see U21/Youth page
AUSTRALIA
Jack Holder 3rd, Rohan Tungate 1st, Max Fricke 2nd
AUSTRALIA
This multiplicity of champions led in 1950 to the ASCB initiating an annual competition for those holders to race for the ultimate accolade of Australian “Champion of Champions.” Aub Lawson, (below table,) made this title his own !
Ray Duckett Reg West, 1930 2-mile Aust. Champ Vic Duggan
1929 3-lap Aust. Champ & GH holder (Adelaide) 1948 2-lap Aust. Champ (Sydney Show-), & 3-lap (Sydney Sports-)
& GH holder (Melbourne)
Aub Lawson, Champ of Champs, 1950, '52, '53, '54.
Sydney 1927 Brisbane 1948 Melbourne 1960 Adelaide 1992
Australian STATE Championship Winners
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Victoria
- Tasmania
- ACT (Canberra)
Jack Scott, 2x SA, & 2x Vict. Champ, Aust.Champ 1967,
Leigh Adams, 6x Vict Champ, 10x Aust.Champ.
Northern Territory State Chmpshp, Darwin 1984 Western Aust. State Chmpshp 2003
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For Australian and New Zealand JUNIOR champions see U21 & Youth Champions page
For Australian GOLDEN HELMET winners see GH page and GH Supplement
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NEW ZEALAND
A full list of all
NZ national champions is given on the preceding page of 'major
speedway nations', included in which is Jack Hunt, (seen left,) the first post-war NZ champion, with successes in both 1945 and '48.
Below are listed the winners of the NZ Grand Prix, (introduced in the '80s,) and the two islands' championships. On South Island Larry Ross dominated the event in the '70s/'80s with 12 wins, and in the North, where a wider range of venues has been used, Mich Shirra has the most wins with 5. Both have been multiple New Zealand national champions and had a NZ Long Track championship success each.
New Zealand Golden
Helmet holders, between 1929 and the present 21st century, are to be
found in the GH Supplement , sheet 5.
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AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP /
" OCEANIA" SOLO CHAMPIONSHIP
A speedway title
that's been brought out of wraps a few times in the last 50 years,
the 'Man of the Millennium', Mr. Mauger featured prominently as a Australasian champ.
Following on from an Oceania Sidecar Speedway Championship, in 2019
FIMO introduced an 'Oceania' Solo Championship, the first winner being
Jack Holder before Covid restrictions came in. This winner enters the
SGP qualifier route and becomes an Australian championship participant.
n.b. There is known to
have been ambiguity in some of the years, re. the title, - 'Australian'
or 'Australasian' Championship.
Below: Jaimon Lidsey, 2024 Oceania Champion
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Chris Watson,
6x Aussie
Long Track champ,
plus N.Z. LgTrk,Champ,
N.Z. LgTrk GP winner,
Aus. LgTrk GP winner.
Canberra 1995 Tamworth (NSW) 1998 Shepparton (Vic) 1999. NZ Lg.Trk GP Ch'ch 1996