National Side Car Champions!

26 October 2011

Awatapu dominates sidecar class at the National Secondary Schools Mini Moto Grand Prix

The sidecars became a bit of a major group undertaking in the latter parts of term 2 and through term 3  at Awatapu College with most of the Trades Students involved.   The majority of the work was done by Antony Ladd, Ari Christensen and Angus Pearson, who  put in a lot of weekends and evenings as well a large part of their holidays.  Their efforts did not go to waste.

The three were joined by Jaden Hardy who was the swinger for Antony at the National Secondary Schools Mini Moto Grand Prix held at Manfield in the second week of the term 3 holidays where the four totally dominated the sidecar class.

They were on pole after practice and never relinquished 1^st and 2^nd place with a dominant display of superior speed and manoeuvrability. The starts did not always go well but superior speed and engineering always got them back to the front of the field.  They won the points competition held over three races and finished 1, 2 in the final. Awatapu College’s Antony Ladd and Jaden Hardy are now the holders of the Sidecar Shield for 2011, the first school to wrestle the trophy from FAHS in the history of the event.