AUSTRALIAN SIDECAR CHAMPIONS AT GILLMAN SPEEDWAY MARCH 29

Gillman Speedway media release.

Feature photo by: Judy Mackay…Darrin Treloar and passenger Blake Cox.

The only riders to win the Australian Speedway Sidecar Championship over the last twelve years, and the four finalists last season — Darrin Treloar, Justin Plaisted, Mark Plaisted and Trent Headland — will go head-to-head in the final meeting of the season — the Paintmaster SA FIM Oceania Sidecar Championship — at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway this Saturday night (29 March).

Darrin Treloar’s, whose record in the sport is known by everyone, has been the most successful rider of all-time, winning the Australian Championship twelve times, including four with current passenger Blake Cox. Among Treloar’s other huge list of championship wins are also three FIM Oceania Championships.

Mark Plaisted and Ben Pitt have also won the Oceania Championship three times and won three Australian Championships in a row before Treloar/Cox regained the title last season.

Trent Headland and Justin Plaisted are both former Australian champions who have been in good form again this season. Headland finished third behind Mark Plaisted and Treloar in the Oceania Championship twelve months ago, and this season has won the New South Wales Championship and the Jim Irwin Cup, and finished second (behind Mark Plaisted) in the Gillman Sidecar Spectacular and the South Australian Championship.

Justin Plaisted won the Gillman Sidecar Masters back in October but missed a large part of the season with injury before returning at the last meeting to win the Bob White Cup.

With Treloar, Headland and both Plaisteds regarded as the top four riders in Australia today, it is hard to imagine they won’t all make it through to a block-buster final, and probably a preview of this season’s Australian Championship to be held in Bowen, Queensland next month, but behind them the field is wide open with riders ready to take advantage if any of the top four should falter.

Amongst the leading challengers are current Queensland Champions Tyler Moon and Adam Lovell, who have been regular finalists in their appearances at Gillman this season, Rick Stephens (with Jeremy Sherwood this meeting) who was runner-up to Headland in the NSW Championship, and to Justin Plaisted in the Bob White Cup a fortnight ago, and Kym Menadue/Shane Dolan who were finalists in the Oceania Championship last season.

Others in the line-up are the first three from the recent Bowes Family Sidecar Cup, Thomas Adams/Campbell Stafford, Shane Rudloff/Damian Egan and Malcolm German/Cameron White, current WA#2 Jonah Sita/Jamie Forrest, Josh Pascoe/Ayrton Canning, Byron Mordaunt/Kate Barnes, Brian Silvy/Glen Zaworski, Stephen Saunders/Isaac Mitchell and William Walker/Liam Sherwood.

Gates will open at 4pm, and the meeting will start at 7 pm with the Paintmaster SA $1000 One Lap Flying Dash for Cash before the Oceania heats. There will also be support events for the Sidecar reserves and 125cc Junior Solos.

The 24/25 Speedway Riders Association raffle, with a first prize of $2500 worth of travel vouchers (ideal to cover a trip to Bowen for the Australian Sidecar Championship) will also be drawn during the evening.

For those who can’t attend, the meeting will be livestreamed through the website link [https://www.spacequakesports.com/ppv] for a cost of $30. As always this is the only official livestreaming link. Any others touted on facebook sites are scams and should be ignored.

Everything You Need To Know:

Meeting Date: Saturday, 29 March 2025

Venue: Gillman Speedway Stadium, 65 Wilkins Road, Gillman – near the Port Adelaide area.

Parking and entrance: Patrons can enter via gates at the western and eastern ends of the venue. There are free off-street parking areas near both gates.

Gates open: at 4 pm.

Pit access for spectators: Free spectator access to the pits until approximately 6 pm.

Racing starts: at 7 pm. Paintmaster SA $1000 Dash for Cash at 7 pm, then Oceania Championship heats.

Competitors:

2025 FIM Oceania Sidecar Championship: Thomas Adams/Campbell Stafford (SA)…Malcolm German/Cameron White (Vic/SA)…Trent Headland/Jaxon Rayner (SA)…Kym Menadue/Shane Dolan (SA)… Tyler Moon/Adam Lovell (Qld)…Byron Mordaunt/Kate Barnes (SA/Vic)…Josh Pascoe/Ayrton Canning (SA)…Justin Plaisted/Brian Anthony (SA)…Mark Plaisted/Ben Pitt (SA/Vic)…Shane Rudloff/Damian Egan (SA)…Stephen Saunders/Isaac Mitchell (NSW)…Brian Silvy/Glen Zaworski (SA)… Jonah Sita/Jamie Forrest (WA)…Rick Stephens/Jeremy Sherwood (NSW/SA)…Darrin Treloar/Blake Cox (NSW)…William Walker/Liam Sherwood (SA). Reserves: 1. Simon Cohrs/Cameron Diwell (Vic)… 2. Darcy Risstrom/Jake Doyle (Vic)… 3. Matthew Binns/Jake Armstrong (Vic)… 4. Joshua Kerr/Scott Cameron (Vic).

Admission: Adults $30, Age Pension and Student Concession $25, Children Under 16 free. Parking free. Programme $5-includes two chances to win $50 fuel vouchers. EFTPOS available at both entrances, the canteen, bar and souvenir shop.

Concession is limited to holders of the Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card and Student Concession card holders only.

Livestreaming: This meeting will be livestreamed on [https://www.spacequakesports.com/ppv]. The cost is $30 Australian. Any other claimed links to livestreaming are scams and should be ignored.